Quitting smoking, how you did it or how you failed

[TORONTONY 10]

When I was young, everybody smoked, or just about everybody. and one could smoke just about anywhere. As we all know it is a whole different world today and smoking anywhere but at home or in your car, is not allowed. Would love to hear how people did stop or failed to stop. It took me 50 years and many failed attempts to finally beat the habit.

[beezerboy 12]

When I was young, everybody smoked, or just about everybody. and one could smoke just about anywhere. As we all know it is a whole different world today and smoking anywhere but at home or in your car, is not allowed. Would love to hear how people did stop or failed to stop. It took me 50 years and many failed attempts to finally beat the habit.

 

Managed to do it a couple of times in my 20'2 and 30's both times for a year or more. Finally stopped smoking about May 1994, never been tempted since.

At that time I couldn't walk a 100yds before my left leg locked up solid. The specialist I saw had a few words of advice, lose weight ,walk 2 miles a day and definitely stop smoking, or I'll be cutting off your leg. Worked for me, I've still got it and still walking them miles.

[puddinghead 10]

When I was young, everybody smoked, or just about everybody. and one could smoke just about anywhere. As we all know it is a whole different world today and smoking anywhere but at home or in your car, is not allowed. Would love to hear how people did stop or failed to stop. It took me 50 years and many failed attempts to finally beat the habit.

smoke free for 35 years cold turkey and iron resolve:rolleyes:

[ukdobby 223]

Had an older mate at work who lost his dad and sister to cancer in the space of a month,he said thats it I'm stopping smoking so I replied if he can so can I,its now 20 years since I stopped(they'd just hit £2 a pack)he started again after about 10 months,he died last year of cancer RIP mate.

[pitsmoorboy 17]

Stopping smoking is easy, I've done it lots of times.

[sharrovian 10]

My wife and I, both 20-a-day, stopped together many years ago when they hit £1 a packet. I was working at the time and a secret was that I had an empty packet and my lighter on my side at all times so nobody at work knew I had stopped, so no leg pulling or tormenting took place, even my best mate when I told him some 3 months later couldn't believe it. These days when there are all kinds of things on sale to help you stop it makes me laugh because all you need is the desire to stop and the willpower, trust me, if we could do it then anyone can.

[lazarus 68]

When I was young, everybody smoked, or just about everybody. and one could smoke just about anywhere. As we all know it is a whole different world today and smoking anywhere but at home or in your car, is not allowed. Would love to hear how people did stop or failed to stop. It took me 50 years and many failed attempts to finally beat the habit.

I smoked for over thirty years, then one day the price went up to circa 75pence for twenty, I put the packet in my pocket, smoked the few I had from the day before. I gave the unopened packet to my wife when I returned home from work. The next day I bought a packet of Polo mints and very time I felt like a smoke I had a mint, after seven days I was over cigarettes and I've never had one since and I used to smoke thirty a day and around fifty a day at the weekend when I was out with friends. I got my sense of taste back and my Clothes never stunk like an old ash tray again.

Edited May 10, 2015 by lazarus

[chumpy 10]

Zyban did it for me but it seems there are some questions about it now.

[darra 10]

Met my girlfriend now wife and she asked me to stop smoking so I did that was 27 years ago. Smoked one cigar since when I was very drunk and couldn't work out why I ever started

[jstarr 10]

I stopped when "stop smoking with Nationwide" was an initiative on the television. "Nationwide" was an early evening news programme and they ran this around 1976 -7. I was teaching at the time,so instead of going into the staffroom at breaks and lunchtimes - trust me, the staffrooms in most schools in the 1970s were thick with smoke !- I stayed in my classroom, virtuously marking books and putting up displays(obviously smoking wasn't allowed in classrooms ,though I did know colleagues who nipped into the stockroom for a quick drag between lessons !)Result - no more cigarettes and no doubt better lessons!

[willybite 10]

Met my girlfriend now wife and she asked me to stop smoking so I did that was 27 years ago. Smoked one cigar since when I was very drunk and couldn't work out why I ever started

 

hiya there has been a post like this some time ago, well here's the way i gave up,it was 30th april 1976,why do i remember, it was my wife's birthday i was doing about 30 cigs a day no 6 i remember.i said if i could stop for two days that would do it for me. day one i got up put kettle on for a cup of coffee,while it was boiling got a fag out, then decided to see how long i could go without a cig, went all that day, day two, same again woke up kettle on waited for it to boil,went to cig packet thought to myself i'll see if i can go two days cig free, i've never had a cig to my lips again.

i remember a workmate asking me how i packed cup smoking and for a laugh told him this tale,i woke up at 6am put kettle on for a cup of tea it went on like this after breakfast and later i fancied a smoke, but i'll have an early lunch instead, later i fancied a cig but decided to have an early dinner, leter i fancied a cig so i though i'll have an early supper instead,then i looked at the clock and it was only 11 am.

[mort 10]

Existing thread here.

 

 

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