I'm about to smoke my last cigarette.

Good Luck and may the Great Cosmic Intelligence bless you and smile upon you.

I quit smoking over 13 years ago and never went back. Hope you can say the same some day!

[quote]I'm about to smoke my last cigarette. Ever.

I cant be round no one who smokes. Looks so lame and says the person is not well....

good for u. life is better without them

DO IT

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Make the most of that last one, OP!

Thanks, R1 and R3! My mind's made up this time. I'm finally truly disgusted by smoking and am determined to be successful. Good luck to anyone else out there thinking of quitting too.

Take my advice and find you a good support group. I joined a group on about.com and they all were so much help. It was a bitch to quit. In fact, perhaps my greatest accomplishment. good luck OP.

You haven't heard the last of me, op.

You'll be back. They always come back.

I'm sure you'll be fine OP.

Good luck OP!

Just remember you’ll be grouchy for a few days and you will likely gain 10 lbs. it’s worth it though. I quit smoking when I was sick with bronchitis and didn’t feel like smoking. Gave me a few day head start.

you are already done. great job!!!

no more stinking clothes, hair, car, home.....no more lighting paper on fire and inhaling burnt crap.

you are stronger than a fucking cigarette

you don't need the expense and risk anymore.

keep it up. you are doing GREAT,

and you don't smell no' 'mo !!

I’m glad I never tried one - I always thought it was gross.

Good for you. Please don’t become a vape douche instead either.

ur lungs will thank u

my bro has emphasema and is on oxygen cause he smoked for 25 yrs.

he is only 49

It'll put a damper on your social life, OP.

Well my grandfather has smoked since he was in his teens R14, and he's 86.

What's your point?

I quit two years ago, OP. My advice is to change up your routines. If you smoke when you drink, stop drinking for at least a while; if you sit in a certain chair to smoke, rearrange the furniture, etc.

I have terrible willpower, if I can quit so can you! Good luck.

Something to help OP in moments of weakness and temptation.

i quit 3 years ago. Use the patch and rub the patch whenever you get a craving.

the worst is when a cigarette sticks to your lips and your fingers slide down to the cherry and you burn your fingers and / or lose the cherry of the cig and burn a hole in your clothes or interior of your car.

i wish i would have never started smoking. i quit too late. i have breathing issues. most of the time i am fine but there are days i can walk outside to do something, walk back in and i have to sit down and catch my breath....is is awful..... then again, i also resin'd the shit out of my lungs with all the pot i smoked over those years.....

now? edibles only.....

nothing has ever scared me more than not being able to breath... guess what?

cigarettes are nasty.,... just keep thinking about how awful the whole mess is.....not to mention expensive..

Yul Brynner Anti-Smoking Ad - 1985

Awesome, OP. Hang in there!

I tried quitting several different times.. My final time was when my lighter was on its last leg(barely would flame) and I had one cig left in my pack. Just figured that was a good sign. It's been 4 years. I used to get really mad at myself on how much money I wasted on smoking.. Several thousand for sure.. Keep it up...

Hilarious and true...

OP in a few days I go into the hospital to have a large portion of my tongue removed. I have cancer, probably from years of smoking. There will be microvascular free flap reconstruction using tissue from my arm (leaving it hideously disfigured) but it's not clear I'll ever speak again properly, perhaps not even swallow.

Forget kissing or oral sex.

If you crave a cigarette, think of me.

Im sorry for you R25,but theres NO WAY in hell Id go through that. Id be off to the beach,a nice hotel room,a hot hustler to fuck me one last time,some good liquor and a couple of bottle of pills,and its arrevaderce . Im way too vain to be disfigured,even at my advanced age.

Good luck OP. It's not easy but totally worth it. You'll breath better in just a few months. It really is amazing. I quit 6 years ago.

Don’t smoke it. Throw it out and quit immediately. Having one more won’t make it any easier. Watch the1971 movie [italic] Cold Turkey [/italic] for some laughs.

I'm two weeks smoke free.

My dark mother beckons but I must hereby refuse.

R26 I'm keeping my options open, depending on how things turn out. The problem is obtaining pills strong enough. Benzodiazepines aren't really very reliable for suicide and barbiturates are hard to come by. Enough Seconal to kill you is $4,000 [bold]at a pharmacy[/bold], and that's only if you're lucky enough to live in a state with physician assisted suicide, which I don't.

I quit 13 years ago, and I was a heavy smoker. I used just the patches, then nothing. Do not kid yourself you can have 'just the one', once you give in you will be on the slippery slope again. There's a website called whyquit.com which should give you all the motivation you need. (warning, this is very graphic). Good luck, OP.

Good luck R25. Please keep us posted. You will kiss again.

Remember this about the hellish cravings: They go away. They go if you smoke and they go if you DON'T smoke. Let them go away. It may not seem possible now, but if you stay quit, you actually get to the point where you stop thinking about smoking. That's freedom! Don't give up! You're going to pass through hell. Just focus on what's on the other side.

Good luck. Remember that all your friends hate it when they are around you. I quit mainly for the smell on my clothes. You can do it. Remember, water and more water. Try to stay to a healthy diet when you get those damn cravings. You can do it.

I’m sorry for your troubles, R25. I hope your recovery is not too bad. Hang in there.

I smoked for 35 years. I quit 8 years ago in May. I had quit many times before that and barely lasted a day. Something about the morning I quit was different. I had one cigarette left in the pack, smoked it outside and thought, this is so dumb. The weather was nice, cigs were already at least $4.00 a pack, there was a looming threat of smoking being banned in my building, with fines being imposed if you were caught and I was known around the building for always smoking. I wasn’t going to stand on the street to smoke. I just stopped. I used lozenges, gum. It was unpleasant to say the least. But I rode it out. You can too. If you gain a little weight, you can always lose it. You’ll feel better in a few months.

R36 makes a good point. It can take a few months before you really start to feel better. I struggled for about 4 months and then one day it just clicked and I suddenly started to feel healthier and positive about being a non smoker. So hang in there, it can take time, even the initial withdrawal is over quite quickly.

Coming up to 25 years of not smoking. That first smoke in the morning started to make me feel ill rather than better.

After quitting, the physical cravings only last about 3 days. After a week you are already breathing better. Your body will start to heal the damage. Five years ago my lungs were assessed by a specialist and he couldn't believe I'd ever smoked.

You will get to a point where you will know you are now a non-smoker and this fact will make you happy. You can and will drink coffee without wanting to smoke, and you will savour the taste of food. Gaining weight is not necessarily a given. You can do it.

OP, smoking again?

OP, get an app. I used one when I quit and something about being able to see it really helped me.

And as of this moment I have not had a smoke in 2years, 3 months, 11 days, 15 hours and 45 minutes.

Good for you OP! Keep at it!

R40 Well done!

OP, I gave up smoking over 30 years ago. Cold turkey. I had found myself out of breath walking up 3 flights of stairs while exiting the subway station on my way to work. That never happened to me before. I decided it was the cigarette smoking, and threw the pack I had on me in the corner trash can. I never touched a cigarette again. In retrospect I realized that since I was getting over a bad chest cold, the breathelessness was probably due to my cold and not the smoking. However it was the best impuslive decision of I ever made, and I'm grateful that I did it. I still have a couple of smoker friends who have been saying for years they intend to quit, but still have not done so.

Do the right thing for you health and quit.

Don’t give up. You can beat this. Cigs suck.

I smoked for 25 years. When I quit 8 years ago I was smoking 2-3 packs a day.

I went on Chantix. Easiest thing I've ever done! Best decision I ever made. A year later I gave up soda.

My only vice is coffee, and that's only a few cups a day.

R44 2 cups of coffee is not a vice, it's beneficial, keep it up.

I gave up for the first time nine years ago but didn't tell anyone. A few weeks later my dad got ill (cancer of the esophagus, caused by smoking obviously) and while we were at the hospital my mum kept offering me cigarettes, which I gratefully took and started again. I then spent the next seven years smoking a lot more heavily than I had before, and feeling guilty about every single one.

This stopped last year. My mother had respiratory failure as a result of undiagnosed emphysema and very nearly died. When she decided to give up, I leapt at the chance to support her by doing the same.

And I absolutely don't miss it at all. No yellow walls, no yellow fingers, no yellow clothes, no horrible smell, no coughing and spluttering and throat clearing all the time (although it does happen sometimes), and more money in my pocket. My only regret is I ever started in the first place.

I miss smoking. I smoked Marlboro reds for 30 years. In 2011, a cold turned into pleuritis, which is one of the most painful diseases one can have. The tiniest cough felt like a million ginsu knives jabbing your chest and sides. But I smoked through the whole ordeal, which lasted about 18 months. About three years ago, I got really winded walking up three flights at work and nearly passed out. I thought to myself, what the fuck is wrong with you?! On my way home that day, I smoked the last of a pack and pulled into a Vape shop. I started with a very high nicotine content (24 mg) and 2 years and ten months later, I am down to 6 mg. Next step is 3 mg, then I'll put the box mod away and be done with it.

I had tried gum and patches before, but the gum made me sweaty and anxious and the patches irritated my skin. I also missed the physical sensation of inhaling. It took about a week before I got used to the vape device. But I have not had a cigarette since.

After about three months, the shortness of breath was completely gone. I had bought a pulse oximeter when we had our baby and my pulse ox was regularly in the low 90's, except first thing in the morning when it was 99.x. Now it is always above 99.

Because I smoked for so many years, I get a low-dose CT of my lungs every year. So far, so good. The energy level I have now is amazing. But I miss smoking, each and every day.

Good luck, OP and R25.

r44 - You mean soda as in pop drinks, right?

r46 - You reminded me of this famous advertisement.

R46, meet R21.

Rather, R49, meet R21

Buy yourself a new pillow, you will notice the nasty smell that you didn't while smoking.

I quit smoking 14 years ago but am developing asthma now.

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r30: it is NOT too expensive to die. on the contrary....:

How Does Cessation of Food and Water Compare to Doctor Assisted Suicide?

When death by voluntarily stopping of eating and drinking was compared with death resulting from physician-assisted suicide (actions, which an individual helps another person who is terminally ill die upon their wanting to do so) nurses reported that patients in the former group had less suffering, less pain, and were more at peace than the latter group. Nurses reported that both groups had a high quality of death, which sounds strange but means that their deaths proceeded with lower levels of pain and struggle.

How Long After Does Death Occur?

Once a person stops eating and drinking, death usually occurs within two weeks. He may continue to take small amounts of water to swallow pills or moisten his mouth, and these small sips of fluids may prolong the dying process by a couple of days.

The decision to stop drinking and obtaining food is clearly a serious decision which must involve the individual, relatives, and care providers. In making that decision one must consider religious, moral, ethical, and medical issues. The best solution to making the decision is to have a discussion of long before one is nearing the end of life. For that reason, people state their preference in their advance directive following discussion with their family members, religious representatives, and physicians.

OP, did you stick with it or are you smoking again?

Don't put too much pressure on yourself, don't overthink it.

Cravings come, they are a bitch, but they go.

Just keep telling yourself you do not NEED a cigarette you just WANT a cigarette.

Remember those who work for the tobacco companies and who can sleep at night knowing what they are selling do not smoke. They are legalized drug dealers.

Truly wishing you the best OP.

If you can do this you will feel so much better. You will wonder why you didn't quit sooner. All my best to you.

OP, I hope you stick to it and quit.

I'm still alive but the operation has changed my life so drastically I wonder daily if it's worth living. The answer is Yes, for now, but I go tomorrow to the radiologist to get fitted for some sort of mask they'll use during the treatments.

On the bright side, though the tongue cancer had spread to the adjacent lymph nodes - thus the radiation - the doctors said chemotherapy isn't necessary. The cancer apparently wasn't considered an especially aggressive type.

So it's one day at a time but I definitely wish I'd never smoked. Or had quit earlier.

Good luck, R25. Hey God! Give this guy a break!

I stopped smoking a month ago. I could not quit on my own, so I went to a hypnotist. One session, I left and did not smoke. Incredible. I didn't trust myself, so I had made a second appt. One week went by without a smoke. I attended the next session anyway, glad I did. I spent the next several weeks listening to the hypnotist, who had recorded the session and emailed the wave file.

As others have said, it two weeks and I realized how much better I felt - I was no longer coughing up mucous, my chest actually felt lighter, my posture improved. Now? My breathing is so quiet and easy.

I am getting accustomed to how I feel, which is really good. I've told just one person; a co-worker who smokes.

Oh but I still want to smoke... multiple times a day. I want to light up, lean against a wall, take a deep drag and let it out slowly. I have a mantra I recite silently that seems to keep me from buying a pack or bumming 'just one', but am surprised at how I still have moments where my body seems to suddenly have a need for nicotine.

Congratulations everyone who quit. It was 8 years in March since I truly quit (a pack a day for 20 years). Honestly, I've smoked since...but only when I go drinking and that's until the person I'm meeting gets there (anxiety sitting by myself). Then I toss them or give them away. It's been almost two years since my last one.

No cravings. I do pause for a second if I'm about to walk into a store and someone is smoking outside-- just to get a whiff and say "Good Times."

Cold turkey was the only way that I could quit. I didn't want to try the gum. The patch would burn my skin. That pill that's supposed to make the cigarette taster bitter was fucking useless because I didn't smoke for the taste and those e-cigarettes didn't give me that lung expansion feeling I craved whenever I inhaled. So I just said fuck it. I'm not going anywhere social for a month and I chewed lots of gum. I mean...if I was awake, I was chewing on something. Still do to this day actually.

Also the ostracism REALLY helped. I mean...people HATE smokers. HATE them. And I noticed at work, our smoking section got smaller and further away until we were relagated to smoke under these trees that were a haven for birds with obivious digestion issues.

Don't give up on me, OP!