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Those of you who have smoked (especially heavily) know what I'm sayin'.......

Living where I do, they practically implanted a cigarette in your hand before you left the delivery room. Things have changed quite a bit for the better locally since then, although this part of the country's still fighting it hard on waaaay too many fronts.

I know it's really good for my health and I've needed to for many a year previous to this one....but that doesn't make the withdrawl suck any less........

Day two gone.......OK....Pissin' & Moanin's over

I smoked for 22 years and quit cold turkey. Quit smoking, drugs and drinking at the same time. almost 4 years now. I had no problem quiting. Now smoke makes me sick. It stinks.

My secret.......
Just have a heart attack.

Quit all that shit on 4th of July, 1999 after I saw a guy have a heart attack and die, right in front of me, while driving his car. He was 48 years old, had a wife and 3 kids, and was going out for... a pack of cigarettes. Watched him turn gray and piss his shorts while he was being given CPR on the roadside. I've seen some pretty messed up things (aftermath of an airplane crash, 9/11 practically happened in my backyard, etc) but this guy dying in front of me just changed the way I thought about things.

tonejones

'Best of luck...you've got nothing to lose & everything to gain. You *can* do it!

Stick with it bro!!!!!



- WOT

Thanks guys,

This is the big day here. Everytime I've attempted quitting before it always seems like day 3 is the biggie (have no idea why).

If I can make it thru today then it starts going downhill.

BTW, if anyone out there also has their mind on quitting, the new drug Chantix (I'm takin' it) does help. Notice I said help, it doesn't do it for ya!!!!! It's not cheap (about $100 a month), but if you smoked as much as me it's about the same price as the cigs.

Visited the doc a couple of weeks ago where he offered me a free 1st week of it. He came back with a free first month (guess the drug reps were feeling generous that week)!!!!!

guitar007 wrote:tonejones

'Best of luck...you've got nothing to lose & everything to gain. You *can* do it!

"You can do it Nickie, kick him in his hairy balls"

Hang in there!

Just don't do like my former boss and walk around with a pack in your pocket "just in case"... didn't work for him - twice.

My dad smoked for 50 years - mulitple packs a day. Just decided to quit one day and never smoked again. No patches, no gums - just put them down and never picked them up again. He said it was no problem at all because he wanted to quit and knew he needed to.

He still paid the price though with a quadruple bypass with mitral valve replacement. So, he has a heart valve from a cow that is supposed to be good for about 15 years, etc., that also came with a 118 day hospital stay. By all rights he should be dead based on the level of "care" he recieved post op, but that's another story. Often times the surgery isn't what kills you, it's what happens after.

The moral is, keep at it. You don't need them, and you probably still have time to make a full or major recovery from whatever damage has occured. Good luck.

I had a grandmother who smoked 5 packs a day she fell and broke her hip and while she was in the hospital she couldnt smoke and after she never done it again. She was 81 years Old. I smoke 3 paks a day and every night i tell my self I need to stop it killing me but i cant I have tried before and almost done it but i got to drinking and ond one falls with the other needless to say.. The doctor gets in my case about it all the time but it is what it is and i while no dought die with one hanging out of my mouth..

Just a small thought, tonejones--a guy I used to work with had an "oral fixation" like no one I've ever seen--he smoked 4 packs a day, weighed around 350 pounds (about 6'3") and practically LIVED on deaths doorstep. His doctor gave him the "if you dont" scare, and he quit the butts cold turkey (4 packs a day to no packs a day literally overnight) and then proceeded to lose over 100 pounds. He never picked up cigarettes again, and STILL weighs around 220 pounds. If HE can do that, anybody can. Its just (monumental, sometimes) willpower, my friend. Keep up the fight. Its do-able, and is the best thing you can do for yourself, and the people that care about you. Ciao.

tonejones wrote:Thanks guys,

BTW, if anyone out there also has their mind on quitting, the new drug Chantix (I'm takin' it) does help. Notice I said help, it doesn't do it for ya!!!!! It's not cheap (about $100 a month), but if you smoked as much as me it's about the same price as the cigs.

'Makes you wonder if Phillps Morris owns these companies too. "If they don't get your money from the cause of the illness...they'll get it from the treatment."

Visited the doc a couple of weeks ago where he offered me a free 1st week of it. He came back with a free first month (guess the drug reps were feeling generous that week)!!!!!

Your Doc sounds like a street pusher! The first one's free...but ...

Notice whats in common here... heart disease.

I was only 34 and had a severe heart attack. Angioplasty and a stent. Scared me BIG TIME! I'm lucky to be alive. Now I live with permanent heart damage and a bottle of nitro in my pocket.

Stick with it. I don't miss it a bit. Smokers stink and their homes smell like shit.

I did it by hypnosis. Group no less. The guy behind me sounded like he was gonna hack up a lung. I couldn't concentrate for shit. thought to myself "well this is more BS. I "ain't" hypnotized". The hypnotist asked us to smoke on the way home and give him the benefit of the doubt. "If you still smoke tomorrow I'll refund your $40.00" he said. I woke up the nxt morning and never smoked or even had the urge again. That was '94.

God's honest truth. It worked foe me.

no shit Chief? how would i find something like this?

Always glad to hear about someone else that quit those portable lung pollutants, chief, especially another transplanted NY'er. I lived in SoCal myself for a while, outside of El Cajon, north of San Diego. I worked in Point Loma at the docks. I was a kid at the time, but I "shur had me some fun" there!! I'm back in NYC now, and looking to move south (Fla ?) in about 5 or 6 years. I dont want to wish the time away, but I've lived in NY long enough at this point. Anyway, just glad to hear about everyone successfully giving butts the boot, or at least trying.