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UglyGreed

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10. The way I quit

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 12:30 PM

Mar 2014

I started smoking light cigarettes like Marlboro lights and then Merit ultra lights. Then I switched to Indian brand light cigarettes due to the fact they did not have the other addictive additives that brand cigarettes had. After a couples of months I stopped cold turkey on my daughter's fourth birthday 10 years ago and never looked back. Good luck and wish you the best. Nothing like waking up in the morning and not hacking up half a lung.

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Smoking - how did you quit? [View all] polihood Mar 2014 OP

Took a helicopter ride to OSU Medical Center UncleYoder Mar 2014 #1

That's one way N/T polihood Mar 2014 #2

Picked a date, got the patch, used it for six weeks, kept my mouth CurtEastPoint Mar 2014 #3

Ditto Boom Sound 416 Mar 2014 #21

Good luck dr.strangelove Mar 2014 #4

^^This is how I did it^^ Callmecrazy Mar 2014 #27

Spent two days in the hospital with a respiratory infection after calling and ambulance Arkansas Granny Mar 2014 #5

A combination of the patch and online support. denverbill Mar 2014 #6

After years of struggling to quit and using the one-step-at-a-time filter/holders Glorfindel Mar 2014 #7

Chantix + E-cigarette Earth_First Mar 2014 #8

I took Chantix for 4 days MissMillie Mar 2014 #26

I used the patch sharp_stick Mar 2014 #9

The way I quit UglyGreed Mar 2014 #10

Tonsilitis... Wounded Bear Mar 2014 #11

I took my last drag and a cig, and put it out warrior1 Mar 2014 #12

Anger at cig companies worked for me dixiegrrrrl Mar 2014 #13

^^ THIS ^^ Auggie Mar 2014 #14

"It works if you work it" dixiegrrrrl Mar 2014 #15

Yes -- the money! Close to $10,000 by now! Auggie Mar 2014 #16

Couldn't afford American Spirits Scruffy Rumbler Mar 2014 #17

I never started. Aristus Mar 2014 #18

Picked a date Sweet Freedom Mar 2014 #19

Got pregnant. Stopped for two.. Demoiselle Mar 2014 #20

Stopped one day and never went back. hobbit709 Mar 2014 #22

Has anyone tried the lozenges? DebJ Mar 2014 #23

i'm on day 11 of the vapor pen fizzgig Mar 2014 #24

When it finally worked, here's what I did: Gidney N Cloyd Mar 2014 #25

Cold turkey. Me and my then boyfriend quit together, which helped a lot. raccoon Mar 2014 #28

Cold turkey - on the millionth attempt... truebrit71 Mar 2014 #29

every time I failed I made note of what did it, what made me start again Skittles Mar 2014 #30

Smoked three packs in one night til I got sick on them graywarrior Mar 2014 #31

Pregnancy. Doesn't work for everyone, though! femmocrat Mar 2014 #32

Talked myself into believing they gave me splitting headaches and made me sick to my stomach LiberalEsto Mar 2014 #33

Tapered down. madamesilverspurs Mar 2014 #34

I did Champix/Chantix. Then once I was off of that pill with a three month quit under my applegrove Mar 2014 #35

about 10 deep breaths when I had the urge rurallib Mar 2014 #36

Easy...Cold turkey...ran out of British Cigs.. HipChick Mar 2014 #37

Quit cold turkey after 6 months of chronic tonsillitis distantearlywarning Mar 2014 #38

The scared crapless method Generic Brad Mar 2014 #39

Same as you: Squinch Mar 2014 #40

I never was much of a smoker HeiressofBickworth Mar 2014 #41

Today I'm using the vapor pen. LiberalAndProud Mar 2014 #42

I felt certain I would be the last smoker on earth Mira Mar 2014 #43

Quitting is easy, I've done it hundreds of times. kwassa Mar 2014 #44

Just stopped because I wanted to. PeteSelman Mar 2014 #45

The hard way. pablo_marmol Mar 2014 #46

Cold turkey is the best way in my view. Tobin S. Mar 2014 #47

I bought a pack of cigarettes when I was 16... Tom_Foolery Mar 2014 #48

I was in a double blind study group for what is now Chantix lunatica Mar 2014 #49

Day 9 for me Boom Sound 416 Mar 2014 #50

I didn't. Turbineguy Mar 2014 #51

Fortunately I never started mvd Mar 2014 #52