What Was Your Quit Smoking Goal?

[beacon]

We all know that mine is to get pregnant... That hadn't happened yet, but there have been SO MANY other great life changing improvements that make me so glad that I quit! Plus, I met all of you wonderful people - my second family :)

Listen Ross, maybe it's time we tell you that you getting pregnant may be slightly complicated.

 

 

 

:)

[beacon]

My reason was anger and stubbornness. I passed out one day and ended up in the cardiac ward because I was a smoker. Even though I was ok and it was not heart related, thank God, being in the hospital and not in control infuriated me. I decided that I must remain as healthy and in control for as long as possible. I also felt like a fraud, a smoker who ran and dieted and lifted weights.

[Apeezy]

My 5 year old can hold her breath longer than me. Seriously. She can!!

[giopetro]

I think my tipping point was losing a pack of cigarettes on my brothers beach house. Store was miles away. The whole family was there having a blast, and I was walking around like a madman trying to find my cigarettes. When my niece asked what I was looking for I told her a stupid lie. 

 

Its right there when I realized how foolish these things are making me.

[beacon]

I think my tipping point was losing a pack of cigarettes on my brothers beach house. Store was miles away. The whole family was there having a blast, and I was walking around like a madman trying to find my cigarettes. When my niece asked what I was looking for I told her a stupid lie. 

 

Its right there when I realized how foolish these things are making me.

Yes! You don't have to live like this any more. We are no longer a slave to a product

[Colleen]

To be completely honest, I had no goal.  Didn't even expect to make it one day.  I did though and so can all you newbies and lurkers.  It wasn't nearly as hard as I made it out to be either.  Quitting really can change your life in more ways than you expect.  I couldn't walk up a flight of stairs without wheezing.  The doctor said, not only do you have asthma, but stage one COPD, quit now.  I'm not ready, I said as I breathed in medicine with a nebulizer.  Long story short, I quit without losing my mind.  Stopped COPD dead in it's tracks and gained the ability to breathe back.  I traded smoking for spinning.  I push my lungs every day intentionally and they are getting stronger.  Proven with spirometry tests.  The only thing I lost was that horrible cough that never went away.  If I can do it, anyone can :)  Smoking?  What WAS I thinking?!

[SanDar]

To be completely honest, I had no goal.  Didn't even expect to make it one day.  I did though and so can all you newbies and lurkers.  It wasn't nearly as hard as I made it out to be either.  Quitting really can change your life in more ways than you expect.  I couldn't walk up a flight of stairs without wheezing.  The doctor said, not only do you have asthma, but stage one COPD, quit now.  I'm not ready, I said as I breathed in medicine with a nebulizer.  Long story short, I quit without losing my mind.  Stopped COPD dead in it's tracks and gained the ability to breathe back.  I traded smoking for spinning.  I push my lungs every day intentionally and they are getting stronger.  Proven with spirometry tests.  The only thing I lost was that horrible cough that never went away.  If I can do it, anyone can :)  Smoking?  What WAS I thinking?!

Same here Colleen. Dr didn't exactly tell me I was stage 1, but he did say I had damaged my lungs. I quit about 2 weeks before the breathing test and lung xray. When I saw dr. he said if I remain smoke free I could not only stop damage from getting worse, but maybe even improve my breathing. 

I quit, with a couple bumps in the road, and never want to look back. I see the pulmonary dr again next month. Keeping my fingers crossed and no smoking :)

[queen greenlover]

For me I was told "quit or else" when I had a heart attack over 5 yrs ago & I sooooooooooooooooooooooo resented having to give up my only "friend" that I was the relaspe queen my first few yrs of "trying" to quit & then after throwing away a 10+ month quit I finally accepted the fact that either I need to quit for good or keep puffing till the arteries get all fat clogged & have a 2nd heart attack. I'm so excited that here I am almost 3 yrs cig free. :biggrin:  :biggrin: 

[Still winning]

I can't put my finger on one thing.  A series of events came within the space of a year and money was also at breaking point.  Initially prompted by my oldest being terrified of my Mums cough (copd) and that mine sounded bad. Then she refused to kiss me goodbye and someone took the mickey out of her coat smelling (was kept in the kitchen where we smoked).

 

I spent from last July to this March trying on a variety of non quits - social smoker, weekend smoker etc. In a nutshell I didn't believe I could quit. My fella was trying to quit but then would smoke with me. My really poorly and in terrible health through smoking mum, kept telling me, we must quit, we'd congratulate each other on only smoking 5 or whatever non quit we had acheived. I became fearful of my continued inability to quit, my daughter continued to ask hard questions like "will you get sick like Nan when I'm older", the kicker was "will I have to look after you too". Broke my heart and I swore no she wouldn't.

 

As luck would have it I put myself on a healing course as it was recognised by insurance companies and I want to add it to future business plans, a course previously I've done but years ago and it wouldn't be good for insurance. The tutor said something about all healers seem to smoke, it's like a way of refuelling ourself - I thought that was really dumb, then went to smoke. Next day I woke and thought how will I put my stinky smoking hands on people to heal them. Spent 3 weeks fighting the NHS to get a champix prescription. Had to prove by using them that I am allergic to patches and it was all very frustrating but I got there.

 

I decided to throw everything at it :)  Champix, dalmation jasper crystal, 21 days of self healing before I quit and a quit in alignment with a full moon lol, day before my quit I joined a forum as I knew I would need support where I was living with a heavy smoker and a still smoking partner who'd long since given up that we could quit...embraced all my weird and wonderful and champix/forum as a crutch. I quit the champix 5 days after I quit, I had every side effect, didn't care, just knew it was now or never.

 

Long winded way of saying it was a series of events. My goals were to protect my children finally, financial and poisoning myself was not aligned with the rest of my lifestyle.... but I always like to say all I can think of, in case something there helps someone reading. x

[Gemzee]

I just wanted to stop leaving places/people...restaurants, conversations, bars, my apartment....I just truly wanted to be free of the addiction! Although I know I'll always be an addict I do feel free at last!

[comrade simba]

Didn't want to have a heart attack, bwahahaha!

[Paul723]

Didn't want to have a FATAL heart attack, bwahahaha!

[Susana]

Well, I have no family to see grow up, I have no retirement pension to enjoy after I´m too infirm to work, I´m generally healthy so even if I smoked two packs a day I´m not very likely to die of smoking before I die of liver failure or... boredom, really.

 

I just want to quit smoking because it costs a lot of money, because it stinks, and because it enslaves me. If I had a 30 y.o. stallion toyboy who stank, cost a lot of money and tried to tell me what to do... I´d send him packing too.

 

Maybe my flimsy goals are a reason why I relapse so much.... :-(

[Nicole Diver]

Well, I have no family to see grow up, I have no retirement pension to enjoy after I´m too infirm to work, I´m generally healthy so even if I smoked two packs a day I´m not very likely to die of smoking before I die of liver failure or... boredom, really.

 

I just want to quit smoking because it costs a lot of money, because it stinks, and because it enslaves me. If I had a 30 y.o. stallion toyboy who stank, cost a lot of money and tried to tell me what to do... I´d send him packing too.

 

Maybe my flimsy goals are a reason why I relapse so much.... :-(

Susana I don't have any family either.  If I live a long enough, I will very likely be put in a state run nursing home.

My goal was never to live longer...there are many reasons I quit but it really wasn't for anyone else.

The first day I quit, my smoker's cough went away, and that was a boost in the right direction.

And I hated always having to be worried about smelling like stale smoke.

 

It's nice feeling completely healthy.  (Which of course I may find out later there were complications), but not to have to wonder if whatever slight pain I felt inside at the time was cancer.  Now there is no pain, and no wondering.

[Sarah]

I had no problems smoking, I just knew it wasn't good for me! Also I had it kinda associated with my ex (who I dumped and quit the same day) so felt like a new chapter.

 

My goal now is not to smoke tomorrow, I already know I won't smoke today.