'I'm with ya Scotty, I've been smoke free for 6 years and I barely remember what it's like to be a smoker.
Took me one full year/season before the cravings/triggers stopped. I found that everytime I did something I haven't done for awhile,and that something was part of the yearly routine, it was a trigger/habit and I would actually reach for me smokes .I don't have as much "clean time" as some of you guys but I've been smoke free since Jan. 1. I had some BAD cravings about a month and a half ago which is probably why I got kicked off this forum for a month for a "verbal exchange" I had with another forum member.
Anywhoo...Im still smoke free and at this point its like TopRamen said, after enough time..one wont even care about them and cant see why one eevr started in the first place.
Thats where Im at..I cant imagin me-self smoking..CRAZY POOP!
I now feel pitty for the poor soles who are slaves to "the smoke Me too. I had a talk with a man the other day. I did NOT preach, I just talked to him and mentioned the ole clesha...If I can do it,you can.I dreamed about smoking for a while... But the first time I realized how nasty the smell of 2nd hand smoke was, or just how smelly plain smoke drift from the cigarrette was, I knew I had made it. I now feel pitty for the poor soles who are slaves to "the smoke" because they are tied down due to the habit... I am coming up on 13-years now, and have zero regrets. Congrats on your progress... it will be conforting to know, that at about the 10-year mark of being smoke free, most the damage done by smoking will have been reversed or healed.
It's been a couple of weeks now - but when I can, I'll be off to the doctor to get the Zyban again. That worked for me last time.
I will be smoke-free again!
Good for you !!!! :wave:
I have a 20yr anniversary for dropping a dif type of vice coming up in May.
HM,,,,,,,Forgot about this thread.....
.......UPDATE!!!!!!
Still smoke free baby!!!!!!! :wave: 3yrs
Bought me some hockey skates,elbow pads ,shin pads, helmet and stick over this last week. College has a pond they clear the snow off and keep the ice maintained.
Well ,this ole man (57 this March, not too old) has been skating and pushing a puck around after work.
TODAY I did a classic..A Charlie Brown where me feet came write OUT and UP from under me . I was horizontal :eyepop: I landed on me left elbow that compresses up me whole left arm into me side till me s left hip hits the ice and pust a real sudden stop to me discent.....UUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ill say "I thought for a moment, it might be a 911 call"!!
Well, I didnt break anything, and ended up skating for another 1/2 hr or so.
Very sore left arm and hip tonight...but it a good sore..RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol:
Yes,that would be cool. If your are ever in the area. Shoot me a PM and Ill shoot you my home info. You are more than most welcome at our place.You are my hero.
"Still smoke free" for one thing, which is just SO dang cool. Congrats and keep it up!! I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE cigarettes.
And the old-man-getting-out-and-playing-hockey thing. Yup, I hear you on that one! Born and raised playing pond-hockey like a good Canadian/Vermonter-boy myself. I had been away from it for a LONG time though, and then just a couple years ago (now that I'm in my 50s) said "screw it", went out and got myself some skates/stick/puck and started tooling around making a fool of myself on the ice. And loving every minute of it. But when I go down, it sure seems to hurt a lot more than it did 30 or 40 years ago!
I'd love to meet you some day on the ice and push a puck or two around wit'ya,
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Whatever works..good for you.I always envied the people in this thread. Now I can join all the quitters. I quit conventional cigs last new years and started vaping. Every month when I went to get juice refills I would tell them to add less nicotine to the mix. 6 months later I was down to 0% nicotine and I was done. So I guess technically you could say I am one year cigarette free, but just 6 months nicotine free. I feel soooo much better now!
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