It can be done.

[madamesilverspurs]

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[demtenjeep]

1. its been 8 years for me

so glad.

The last carton of cigs I bought were 78 bucks a carton. I was going through a carton and a half a week

[elleng]

2. Great news!

Congrats, and thanks for encouragement.

[Hoyt]

3. Congratulations. Quit almost 30 years ago. One of best things I've done.

[Squinch]

4. I'll celebrate 20 years on June 10. Took me a thousand tries. Totally worth every one of them.

[MLAA]

5. Yeah!

I think I am somewhere in the 12 to 15 year range 🙂

[Rver]

6. Right on!

I made it to 25 years last month. My uncle had a stroke back then. He was an over the road trucker so he sat a lot and smoked cigarettes. I told myself that I don't want to be like that when I'm 50. So far so good.
I remember during the 1st few weeks I was struggling, a guy at work called me a (fill in the blank) and I said "eff you! I'll show you!" I guess I'm still showing him
Good luck to all that have made it and to those that are trying.
Btw $5 /day×25 years = $45,625
That doesn't include inflation or the cost of health issues

[gblady]

7. 35 years for me

When got pregnant with first son. So glad I did.

[Duppers]

22. Same here!

I've a 34yo son, my only offspring.

(The bfd is that he was born when I was almost 40 & had been a smoker for yrs. I've not lit up since that pregnancy test. )

[padfun]

8. 18 years for me. No drink either.

Nt

[WVreaper]

9. Twelve years ago!

St. Paddy's day twelve years ago, I had a heart attack. Obviously, i survived. At least a pack a day smoker. I tried various methods quitting smoking, it took the heart attack. Still it was a struggle. Actually did a double dose of the nicotine patch, two months instead of one on each level, to finally get weened of the nicotine addiction. Haven't looked back. In my dreams I will smoke cigarettes, and then wake up in the morning, what the fuck! Only to realize it was a dream. No desire to ever light up again, I'll just smoke them in my dreams.

[Rver]

10. Glad I'm

Not the only one that dreams about that. There's been many of mornings with me thinking "what the hell did you do??? " Then I realize that I'm just waking up. Wow

[Solomon]

36. Lol. Me too sometimes.

[Timewas]

11. It will be

30 years June 5th at 5:30 PM...

[CrackityJones75]

12. I think 24 for me

I quite in 97 right round my birthday.


I was pack and a half when I quit. I didnt have much money ad not a ot of food and I knew if I could find money I would buy smokes. I decided to quit right then. I realized just how evil those things are and took a paper towel and cleaned out all my ash trays and put the paper towels in a big glass jar. If I wanted one I would look at that jar and imagine that's what my lungs looked like. And if I really was craving I would open up the jar and force myself to take a big whiff of it.

YOuwill quit after that.

[niyad]

16. Welcome to our DU family.

[CrackityJones75]

35. Thanks Niyad.

[littlemissmartypants]

30. Welcome to DU, CrackityJones75. ❤ nt

[CrackityJones75]

34. Thanks Smarty!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

13. What a buncha quitters

[Stinky The Clown]

14. 17 years for me

My only bad breath now comes from a few flavors of Triscuits that I just can't resist!

LOL

[Chautauquas]

15. I smoked for over 40 years

and quit 4 years ago.

[dflprincess]

17. I quit September 2, 2007

Chantx was a miracle drug for me. Never had a craving but I did miss the habit for a while.

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. Yes, it can.

38 years for me. I once smoked a pretty strong brand, and, at one time, I was up to 50 a day.

I feel compelled to give you this caveat, though. Once you give it up for good, you can never let your guard down. You might feel like you have it beat and would never go back, but it is like other addictions. It will grab you again, given half a chance.

[KPN]

19. Happy Anniversary! 42 years here. Yes, it can be done. Took me several years

of trying but finally stuck with it. Haven’t had a single smoke since April Fools Day 1979. If I could do it, so can anyone else.

[Gore1FL]

20. I'm a month away from 12.

[Matt Finnish]

21. June 3 I will be 20 years smober.

[Tikki]

23. 16 years here...

This is such an awesome thing I did for me.


Tikki

[James48]

24. July 28, 2015.

After 40 years of smoking, I had a heart attack and wound up in the VA Hospital in Washington DC. A week latter had triple bypass surgery.

I have not smoked since that day. It took four days to get rid of the enormous nicotine craving of a pack and a half a day smoker for 40 years- but a week later I felt like a new man.

[soldierant]

25. My last was Memorial Day 1976.

What is that, 44 years going on 45? I only think of it when someone brings the subject up in some way.

[Hulk]

26. No...it wasn't easy!!!

...and I quit several times before I finally quit. Numerous relapses...but after numerous attempts, I beat it. And I am nothing special when it comes to self discipline.

If you are trying or wanting to quit...keep quitting. Eventually you will quit. It doesn't come easy, but if I did it...YOU CAN TOO!

It's been 30+ years ago now. But I still remember how hard it was to quit.

[Historic NY]

27. 16 yrs don't miss them

[Jimvanhise]

28. It is an addiction

It is never stressed enough that cigarettes are a drug addiction, but the smoker is not addicted to tobacco, they are addicted to the drug additives in cigarettes. I had a friend who quit and he said that ten years later if he walked into a room where people were smoking, the craving would come alive in his brain. In 1971 I attended a talk given by Rod Serling who held up his cigarette and said he'd tried to quit but that "it's a monkey on my back," which is old drug addiction parlance. He died of a heart attack when he was only 50. Such a loss.

[ailsagirl]

29. .....

[MontanaMama]

31. Wow! Congratulations to all of you.

I’ve never smoked....but my dad did....almost my whole childhood. He moved us to Montana the summer before my 13th birthday. I hated it here at first...I didn’t have a friend in the world. For my birthday I asked my dad to quit smoking...I told him I was afraid he would die and I would have no one if he did. He quit smoking that day. It was the greatest gift.

[littlemissmartypants]

32. Excellent, madamesilverspurs!

I smoked 40 years and quit cold turkey ten years ago. I still don't have a clue how I did it so effortlessly after three prior attempts, that in one instance, made me think I was going to kill my mother. That's how agitated I became.

One day I took a look at the last cig in the pack I had and through it all away. I didn't gain any weight and haven't had a craving. I have had a couple of vivid smoking dreams though.

Congratulations on your milestone. It's a laudable event for sure!

❤

[judesedit]

33. June 1st, 1980 at 10 a.m. I had my last cigarette. Best and hardest thing I ever did for myself.

It'll be 41 years this year. Congrats to you!

[BComplex]

37. Yes!! Congratulations, mandamesilverspurs!

You're damned right it can be done!

After smoking from age 16 to 31, I quit for 19 years.

Then I came upon a really emotionally stressful period in my life at the age of 50, and was STUPID enough to ask for a cigarette....which hooked me right back. After that cigarette, I smoked for 8 more years, about 4 packs a day.

I quit again in 2008, and I'll never make that stupid mistake again.

The idea that we can't quit is only the addiction speaking.

When you're really ready, you CAN quit.