Can cost you a finger but will set you free. Never smoked in my whole life. My sister is a chain smoker. 'Sorry for your habit. Always said I was too lazy to carry a master around on my back.

I was a smoker for 25 years and tried everything to give up with no success. I eventually managed it with a e-cig - they're not perfect and you're still absorbing nicotine but you're not getting the tar and so many toxins, plus you can gradually wean yourself off the nicotine by switching to weaker liquids. Best of all, you still have the actual "act" of smoking, so feel the same satisfaction a cigarette gives you. Much cheaper, too - recommended!

I've never smoked a day in my life.

Quit a couple decades ago (after about a hundred practice runs).

I tried to quit for years. I could never make stick. It nearly killed me.

Then one day, I just lost the urge. I think mostly I was tired of the way it made me stink. I don't know, can't really explain it. Now, I can have a smoke once or twice a month at the bar or whatever and have no desire to pick it back up as a habit. It's weird.

That was five years ago or more. Shoot, it was at least ten.

Good Luck.

I smoke, and I like it. I ain't no quitter.
No matter what you do, you're still gonna die.
I know lots of people with lots worse habits.

I tried smoking a time or two, but couldn't handle how it made me feel, it bothers my allergies. I don't even like to be around smokers. Well, tobacco smoke anyway.

I went to Vaping. seems to help a lot and I don't wake up with that tight chest or hacking and coughing anymore.

I started irregularly smoking at nine, but I started smoking in earnest at 14. I quit cold turkey at 24. Of course, when I started smoking cigarettes cost $0.25 per pack. They had increased by 300% when I quit. I felt that I was being robbed by the tobacco companies,and with the probably negative effect to me health, I just quit in disgust. I’ve never gone back. Within two weeks of quitting smoking, my senses returned to their pre-smoking state, I was disgusted by the smell of cigarette smoke on my hands and clothes. Trust me,it’s not worth it.

I quit over 20 years ago and it was hard to do. Tried and failed over and over. Finally I just started limiting the times and places I allowed myself to smoke. I got down to 1 cigarette a day for over a year and I was finally able to quit. Even after I quit, I kept a pack in a drawer for a couple of years - I eventually threw that out. A guy from Europe once told me that he viewed smoking as an ‘occasional’ treat only, not something to do all the time.

I smoke and it really sucks ass. I think about quitting all the time, not just for my health or cost but because my daughter really hates it, she's 10. When I'm stressed it's like candy heaven for my soul, lol. If I know I can't have a cig, like being in the hospital for days or in someone else's car, it doesn't bother me. But if I know I can smoke, I do because my brain screams "Do it right now". Mind over matter is the cure, which eventually I hope to figure it out.

Cigarettes-never smoked. Weed-still enjoy

I smoked for 10 years (in between my two kids). That was 12 years ago. I know what you mean about it consuming you. Just don’t give up, ok? I quit by using the patch for a full year and ripping the old one off and putting a new one on whenever I had a craving.

I quit like 10 years ago it took 6 tries to quit. I started smoking in the Navy (Marlboro Menthol lights) The rule was to be in the smoking square underway or at sea you need to be smoking or you did not belong there. I did learn something important about nicitione a few years ago. They now theorize that nicotine releases massive doses of dopamine from our brain making it difficult to quit.That woman are equipped with more dopamine to aid in the agony of childbirth and that could be one of the reasons it is harder for women to quit smoking.

I smoke a pipe myself. Yes it is irrational and destructive but it is the social circle that is most compelling. I counted it up once that I have 3 times more gay friends than non-smokers. It is even worse now we (in the UK) have to smoke outside as thats where I meet everyone. As for addiction tales. My favorite is from "South with Shackleton". If you dont know the story Shackleton and his crew were trapped in the ice in the Antarctic in 1914. It took 3 months before Shackleton could effect a rescue. Here (as best as I can recall) is his account.."It was the smokers felt most sorry for. They had already broken up all their pipes but one to smoke in the remaining pipe and they were reduced to smoking seal skins. As I approached I threw a pouch onto the shore. They dived upon it as if they were street urchins, diving for pennies".

I quit in 95, but even if I ever got the urge again, I'm way to cheap to pay what they cost now....

I find it funny all those people in California, lining up to buy marijuana. What Hippocrates! If anyone lit up a cigarette they'd all scream bloody murder. All those people rejoicing about legal pot have no business complaining about someone else's tobacco.
Cigarettes have been made a murder weapon, yet marijuana is a healthy cure-all? It's this sort of mental gymnastics and hypocrisy which turns people off of religion.
We've traded one smell for another. I suppose one day they'll throw you in jail for tobacco and marijuana will be perfectly legal.
There's a whole cottage industry built around getting government grants to fund bogus smoking studies.
Did you know there has never been a single study to statistically show second-hand smoke causes any harm to anyone? No matter what all the lies you've seen on TV.
But no, marijuana cures cancer,marajuana cures ADHD, marajuana cures PTSD.
Marijuana cures everything. Pot taxes will balance the budget and crime will be no more.
" Oh no officer, I'm not smoking, this is weed"!

I vape. It's much less expensive and it may or may not be healthier.

lol i gave up nearly 13 years ago after many tries.

Smoker for almost 40 years. Quit 7 years ago when I saw my husband suffer and die from COPD. Cold turkey. Still have urges. Still have dreams that I started smoking again. I haven't but I always joke and say that if I am terminally ill from some nasty disease, I'm buying a pack and smoking like a chimney!

I went from cigarettes to pipe and now it's been a year, my mind still strays to cigarettes now and then but so far I've been well behaved.

Quite simply your addicted, have you tried vaping? It. worked for several of my friends.

Quite simply your addicted, have you tried vaping? It. worked for several of my friends.

Hey first post on here. Anyway.
So, for Christmas my dad got me a vape pen. And I have officially gone 34 hours without a cigarette. I hated that I couldn't breathe and also the lack of control over my own actions. I started smoking 14 years ago and I'm only 26. It's a journey all right but with a little will power and huge hits of nicotine I think ive got it maybe consider trying that?

Also, after vaping for half a month, the smell of cigarettes disgust me. So, it's a win win. I can breathe better after cutting down to 1-2 cigarettes a day, I get to stay inside, I can breathe. And honest to glob it smells and tastes awesome so there's that