JonGuirl

The best part is how terribel you feel for doing it, and caving in, smoking .... then you slowly wake up felling so bad about it and then realize you really DIDN'T do that and your quit is solid - nicotine gets such a strong grip on your mind and body but once you make up your mind that is it. But these things happen and I remember being so devistated and sad but then slowly woke up and realized what happened LOL Commit and never look back, and laugh at the smoking dreams from your old nicotine junkie brain trying to take over!

Good for you! Stay with the commitment and never look back - it can be difficult at times but gets easier and easier and then down the road will come a day when you see someone standing out in the cold and rain getting their fix and you will think 'holy cow I can't believe I used to do that!'

Just keep on and never look back. If you can think of one good reason to ever puff again let us know because nobody ever has LOL Keep your quit and never look back~! Pity and offer help to the people trying but know it is up to them, and know you will never do it again.

I don't think I ever did, I tried the gums and the patches but what worked for me was the whyquit.com reading, and Allen Carr's book. I honestly read that 10 YEARS before I quit and put it down because I KNEW I would never be able to smoke again if I finished it and I guess I was not really ready. Dumbass me LOL The bottom line is the fact that you are motivated and are going to eliminate nicotine, tar, and all the other poisons one way or another and once you make your mind up to do it then you will. It may be easy and it may not but once you truly commit and take your last puff then every day or even hour is a step in a positive direction. Never look back and never get lured back to it for any reason. I know a couple that quit, were happy after 8 years of no smoking, ran into some old friends who smoked and thought "ah what the hell, one or two won't hurt" and had beers and some smokes with them and the CURSE that day because they had it whipped and now after 8 YEARS they are just as hooked as they were when the quit. Once you get your freedom keep it at all costs - do never cave to any kind of temptation. I still have this on my bulletin board: If I have one cigarette I will be back where I started. WHERE I STARTED WAS DESPERATELY WISHING I WAS WHERE I AM TODAY

It seems like there was quite a little group when we were going thru it back in the QSMB days. Maybe not as many trying to quit as there used to be?

I remember one of my weird dreams when I was early in the quit .... I was in some big exhibition hall, big crowds milling past, and I was standing there with a table full of cigarette cartons. I was like 'well I don't smoke anymore and I don't want to smoke' so I tore one open and was walking around passing them out to people LOL I wonder if that was my mind throwing the addiction away

Keep rockin' and never take another puff ever again for any reason. I know of too many that quit for 5, 8 years and tempted fate and had a smoke and went right back down the rabbit hole and had to start over. Don't be that person! Remember - If you have once cigarette you will be back where you started. WHERE YOU STARTED WAS DESPERATELY WISHING YOU WERE WHERE YOU ARE TODAY! Remember that when you get tempted.

Look how nasty that is, and how it smells, and how they make YOU smell LOL I was a hard case chainsmoker when I quit and didn't care. But I understand now for sure, what people said to me and thought about me!

Never ever again

For sure, KEL - it is from Whyquit and a quote from Joel - it is timeless and essential information that anyone who wants to break free needs to ingrain into themselves. I know one couple who had quit for 6 and 8 years, ran into some old friends who were smokers and tempted fate and had a cig with them and they now cuss that day because they KNOW THEY THREW IT AWAY and have to go through that quit process again. Aww hell naw, don't ever go there. Once a prisoner is free they usually don't want to go back but for some reason nicotine lures us. DON'T FALL FOR IT. Keep your freedom at all costs!!

ROCK ON and DON'T LOOK BACK!! That first 3 days, then 3 weeks was jumping some hurdles for me. But once I made my mind up I knew I could master them even if it hurt a litte. You got it now just never EVER entertain the notion of tempting it 'just one' or any of that ..... YOU ARE FREE!!

It still applies and I still live by it Even after 9 years with not a single puff I know it is still true.

My Father and Grandfather both suffered and died from it. I remember Grandfather would take us somewhere he would walk from the house to the car, have to take a break leaning on the fender of the car to catch his breath, then get in and get it started, spend another minute catching his breath, then fire up a Salem and put it in gear and off we went! At the end he could only sit up for 20 minutes before he was completely winded and out of energy. Same end for my dad. A big quit motivator for me!

I think I remember ya - it's been a while! I for sure remember Cristobal, he was a big inspiration to me. I had to look back thru old Email to remember who I was there - I was 'TennesseeFree' LOL

I was basically an out of control chainsmoker, 2-3 packs a day, and started really thinking about it when I turned 50. Figured it was now or never! Found the old QSMB (quitsmokingmessageboard, now gone) and whyquit.com and they were both enormous resources. Between those two and the Allen Carr Easyway book I was able to beat my addiction. whyquit is a great resource to learn and understand WHY nicotine has such a grip on people. Lots of reading and understanding helped me defeat it for sure, and Easyway helped a ton too. It really helped me 'flip the switch' in my mind and break free. January 29 2013 I put out the last one, blew the smoke out the window and said "THATS IT - NO MORE!" And have been free every since. I was hopelessly addicted and never thought I was going to do it, so anyone struggling with it just believe you can do it because YOU CAN! Use this board and all the other stuff and you WILL! Good luck! Jon

I remember @Cristóbal from the defunct 'QuitSmokingMessageBoard'! He quit before me and I remember him being 3 months in and me thinking how awesome that was and hoping I would be able to do it LOL! Good to see ya, man!

Will do!

Phillip Morris is nothing but EVIL. Nicotine in tobacco products can be found in a free-base or protonated (“salt”) form, depending on the pH of the product. In internal tobacco industry documents, nicotine form has been long recognized as central to the sensory experience of tobacco use, particularly in what is known as “impact”1. In the 1960s, Philip Morris began manipulating the ratio of free-base to protonated nicotine in cigarette smoke, a factor that is described as key to the ascension of the Marlboro brand to the status of the world’s top-selling cigarette1. 1. Stevenson, T. & Proctor, R. N. The SECRET and SOUL of Marlboro: Phillip Morris and the origins, spread, and denial of nicotine freebasing. Am. J. Public Health 98, 1184–1194. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2007.121657 (2008). https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2007.121657 Marlboro was an obscure brand marketed for ladies in the 40's and 50's and exploded into the #1 brand practically overnight when they basically freebased the nicotine and made it like 'crack nicotine' to enhance the addiction. It took a few years for most other brands to figure it out but by then PM and Marlboro left them all eating dust.

Nope means NOPE! You can throw it all away with one cig.

Coming up on 9 years. Not one puff. NOPE