Anyone Here Quit Smoking?

I quit for a year many years ago. On the 4th of July I was helping set off fireworks for a pretty cool show. Someone handed me a big cigar to use. Game over, I bought cigs the next day.
I'm 58 and when I gained 30 pounds from meds I was now overweight and a smoker. I have shortness of breath, bronchitis, wheezing...I'm a heavy smoker. With family history I'll be dead before 65. After battling mental illness for 30 years, dying young is almost a relief. I hate to be so grim about it but it is the way I feel.

I remember how difficult it was to stop. Try stopping with someone competing with you. I worked on it competing with my sister, and both of us stopped rather than give in to the other! I look back on it as fun. Each day we would call to see if the other one had slipped and smoked! I used hard candy, too, to stop the cravings--which lasted only about one week when substituting the candy. (Then, I had to learn to stop the candy!)

Now, when I have reason to have a chest X-ray done, my lungs are clear with no
evidence of emphysema there. Thank goodness we stopped. (And that was years ago.)

For encouragement read the 1963 Attorney General's Report on the long-term effects of smoking. That will make your hair stand on end practically! I have a family friend who died from emphysema; the last time I saw him he was propped up on
pillows in the intensive care unit at a hospital with face mask on to get oxygen.

Please strive to end your smoking; it's worth every pain you experience in breaking the addiction.

Thanks for continuing to work at stopping. You'll never regret it.

genetic

i quit by getting on suboxone for opiate addiction. i tried to smoke but i threw up every time. sucked but glad i quit.

i quit last summer, i've been on and off for over 20 years. my kids were my inspiration and i think it smells horrible. but i still worry i might relapse again and it will take over my life again. but so far so good!

They won't let me quit.