38 years free of my addiction today.
I quit smoking and have never had the urge to start up again. In fact, I really can't stand to be anywhere near a smoker
Joe
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Good for you, congrats.
I quit 12yrs. ago
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Congrats!
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Congratulations.....That is a tough one.
I still like the smell of a Marlboro.....
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CONGRATS> 😀😀😀 Keep up the GOOD work.
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I quit smoking when cigarettes went to 50 cents a pack.Saved enough to buy a new Remington 1100.
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Congratulations it has been 14 years for me
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Still miss em when having a beer or cup of coffee in the morning🙄
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Damm, now I want a nice virginia slim,,,
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Congrats to anyone who has quit. I quit 1-15-73 no regrets here.
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Congrats wonderful achievement
I never smoked (cigarettes) but many family and friends did I know how difficult it is to give up just watching them trying to give it up
My dad stopped smoking since was old enought to light one or at at least 50 some years I remembe when $ 6.00 a carton was enoght to get him mad
RIP dad
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I quit about 10 years ago. HATE to even smell smoke these days
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The late Sunshine was a light smoker. No one in my family smoked but most of hers did. We dated nearly a month before I saw her smoke a cigarette. The more time we spent together the less she smoked, finally down to just bumming one or two at parties, etc. when others were smoking.
Then when we decided to start a family she quit totally.
Must be a genetic component to nicotine addiction/ tolerance because both of our boys tried smoking but quit.
I remember when the Attorney General's report on cancer came out -- I was in middle school and several of the teachers smoked; it was enlightening watching them try to quit "cold turkey".
I wonder what will happen when "legal marijuana" smokers start developing cancers.
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Congratulations 🎉
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17 years for me. I am a slow learner. I am relieved to see you have not yet beat your addiction to guns.
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March 1984. But I have to admit when I'm around a smoker, I tend to linger..................
Copenhagen was the hardest to quit. But I did it in '95.
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Congratulations.....That is a tough one.
I still like the smell of a Marlboro.....
That was what I was hooked on for years, then I gravitated to a pipe, smoking Captain Black Gold.
I started out smoking a cigar at the age of 15. Dad smoked starting in high school and finally gave up after I showed him it could be done.
Joe
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Congratulations Sir.
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27 years for me. Congrats to you!
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I'm envious. Have quit a few times over the years and once made it for 2 years. It only took one cigarette and I was hooked again. Has been a family tradition for generations.
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Congrats.
When I was a kid my mom smoked and I hated it so much that I actually ordered the "stink pills" from the back of a comic book that could be "surreptitiously" placed in the end of the cig and cause an awful smell. Needless to say, after I placed them on the ends of a full pack and waited for her to light up.............she found them. Gave me a talking to. She quit shortly after though. This was the mid 70s.
Fast forward to the mid 80s..........my best friend and I thought it was cool to sneak a smoke as adolescents........man we were cool......we enjoyed menthols. I joined the Army and that was no help. I dont know how many pack years I have in my lungs.....but I quit several times in my 20s.......30s.......and 40s...........and then started again after each effort.
I don't know my exact quit date........but about 10 or eleven years ago I was camping at a lake with some of my friends for a birthday party and I realized that those things were killing me. I quit on the spot and have never looked back. Like most former smokers.........now I can't be around it because I find it repulsive.
What I also find kind of repulsive is how pervasive weed has become.............seems like everywhere I go...........I smell the devil's cabbage
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Quitting wasn't too hard for me. As my wife can attest, I'm more stubborn than a mule. Once I set my mind to do something, it gets done. Maybe not today or next week or next year, but eventually it will happen. 😁
Joe
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Right at 30 years for me .................................... sure don't miss it .
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Congrats on not only the 38 years, but also not desiring another one. It's been 23 years for me and I still crave them daily.
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Rarely do I get a craving. Thankful for that too.
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Great job Bubba jr. Your pulmonologist thanks you too. I stole a couple of cigarettes from mom back in '57 when in 7th grade and smoked with a pal in the woods. I never smoked again. I don't know why as later many of my friends in HS smoked.
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I quit about nine years ago. The bad part is I had about 40 really nice cigars in my humidor at the time. IT hurt but, I had to give them away.
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Good for you keep it up. I'm only going on 8 years
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Never lit up on 1-1-10 and that was it. Unplanned and think a post here tipped the scale.
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I'm a smokeless guy myself. I don't use the top shelf stuff either. I need to quit but wow, what an addiction. First thing in the morning the snuff goes in and straight to my bloodstream goes the nicotine. All day long and every day. My wife smoked but she didn't have a job so I had to buy them for her. In the past, she suffered the loss of a kidney and is diabetic. Smoking was not a good idea for her. I pointed out my moral and ethical reservations about buying her cigarettes. She understood but didn't stop till the day she came down with pleurisy. That's what it took.
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I hope all of you guys who still use tobacco can/will quit.
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