Smoking-Part #2

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A year ago I posted that I quit smoking and I am proud to say that I have not started back and I think I have it whipped. Thanks, Ron

J Spencer

Ron P wrote:

A year ago I posted that I quit smoking and I am proud to say that I have not started back and I think I have it whipped. Thanks, Ron

CONGRADULATIONS!! Keep up the good work. You have made it this far,so you should be able to stay the course.



I quit on Oct 29th 1969 at about 5pm. I was leaving work, reach in my shirt pocket for the smokes, all that was there was an empty pack so I litered the road with the empty pack and I haven't had one since. Now if I only had all the money in one lump sum that I saved by not smoking I could get the interior of my 51 Pacemaker coupe done.



Hudsonly



Jim Spencer

RL Chilton

Ron-



That's SUPER!! Congratulations!



I remember the thread, although I don't remember what method you used. Do share, as I really need to quit and have thus far not found a reasonable, workable solution.

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RL Chilton wrote:

Ron-



That's SUPER!! Congratulations!



I remember the thread, although I don't remember what method you used. Do share, as I really need to quit and have thus far not found a reasonable, workable solution.

I did it cold turkey Russell. I was just tiered of coughing and all the other crap that goes with it. I have smoked since I was about 16 and I am now 55 so I know it is not easy you just have to want it. A friend and I rode our Harleys on a ride to Palm Springs last year and stayed at a place and we could not smoke in the rooms (He smokes also) so we would go outside in the morning and cough between drags and I said this is crazy lets quit. Well He tried and did not do it. This weekend we went on a ride up to lake Isabelle (spell?) and I can say a year later he still coughs between drags. Just have to want it. Good luck, Ron

rambos_ride

Ron P wrote:

A year ago I posted that I quit smoking and I am proud to say that I have not started back and I think I have it whipped. Thanks, Ron

Great News! Way to go.

I never got into the smoking of cigarettes so don't know how hard it is to quit - I do smoke a cigar from time to time...probably no more than 1-2 in a years time total though.

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Ron P wrote:

I did it cold turkey Russell. I was just tiered of coughing and all the other crap that goes with it. I have smoked since I was about 16 and I am now 55 so I know it is not easy you just have to want it. A friend and I rode our Harleys on a ride to Palm Springs last year and stayed at a place and we could not smoke in the rooms (He smokes also) so we would go outside in the morning and cough between drags and I said this is crazy lets quit. Well He tried and did not do it. This weekend we went on a ride up to lake Isabelle (spell?) and I can say a year later he still coughs between drags. Just have to want it. Good luck, Ron

As I told you when you first posted... U are the owner of your future. U have avoided the cigarettes for a year and that is SUPER! I add my congratulations to the rest. You have every right to be proud of yourself. I am a reformed smoker and have a rough time when someone smokes near me. No desire to start again, but get real sick to my stomach when I smell second hand smoke. Russell is a friend and he has witnessed first hand my aversion to smoke. You are absolutely right... cold turkey works because U have to want the freedom from smoking and when U do the cigarettes become something you will not touch.



Happy Breathing !



Cheers from HOT

bartibog1

congrats to all that have quit including me, a three packer a day and cold turkey as well.. you really have to say to yourself thats it. feb 28th 1978

amd have never turned back. a night out at places where it is still allowed and the smell of smoke next day reminds me of what i must have smelled like back then. dont miss it at all!!!!!

clean smelling and no cough

[Deleted User]

Great to hear Ron! Keep it up. Like was said YOU have to want to quit, or you can't do it. It took a heart attack and about 3 months in the hospital, for me to quit,( I don't recommend that method ) but I have been smokless since November 1989. Now if I could convince the wife to quit!!
Bob

RL Chilton

Was looking through some former threads from years back and came across this one, which I remember quite well.

And, six years later, I'm happy to report that as of January 1, 2012, I quit (finally) and have stayed that way. Can't believe I spent what I did on cigarettes. 40 years of smoking is flat out stupid. But, I just couldn't get off of them, nor find anything that helped. Eventually, I used Chantix and sheer will power. Don't recommend the Chantix to anyone still breathing. Bad, bad stuff.

Now I'm just fat and hungry . . .

J Spencer

Congratulations!!! keep up the good work. I tried to figure out one day awhile back about what I 'saved' by not smoking from 1969 trying to find an average price per pack($5.00 ) X average packs 1&1/2 to 2 packs a day and it figures to be about 90 grand. Sure would like to have that in my bank account now.

Jim Spencer
WNY/ONTARIO CHAPTER

[Deleted User]

I quit smoking when I retired about 3 years ago. It was a matter of looking at the $55.00 box of cigars and my coming drop in income. I just quit buying them ,
Roger