Who managed to quit smoking? or is trying to quit?

[farouk]

8 hours ago, DeighAnn said:

I tried that and found vaping WAY more addicting than regular cigs. And that was hard to quit.  Thank God I still smoked at the time.  

I decided to quit and so I prayed that for my birthday the Lord would see to it.  I figured it would last at least the day, maybe a week but I wasn't going to put any of my own 'effort' into it, I loved smoking.  So not really 'mentally' prepared at all,  the day of my birthday comes and no smoking. And no withdrawls.  Not really even thinking about it much.  Then 3 days later I am thinking, this is weird, NOT EVEN A CRAVING.  I am thinking it will hit me hard soon and I will fall.  Weeks months years and still to this day, hardly EVER crosses my mind and seriously, never did I have a withdrawal.  It is one of the strangest things ever because I had quit many times for a day or three or a week or 3 etc and it was a fight and there were monkeys hanging off of me like I was a jungle gym. 

It's like I never smoked.  

I highly suggest it.  

@DeighAnn Thanks for that contrib. Shows what can be done with the Lord's help.

If ppl can quit, great! (I don't get the taboo / guilt manipulation stuff, though, that sometimes goes on...)

[farouk]

22 hours ago, Henry_iain said:

Some former addicts need to smoke because it helps prevent relapses. 

 

@Henry_iain Interesting insight there.......

[farouk]

On 12/22/2022 at 11:56 AM, Justin Adams said:

I just quit cold turkey.

@Justin Adams PS: A bit like @DeighAnn did.

[JohnD]

I smoked like a chimney by the time I was 25. I started when I was 11.  At 25 I felt pain in my left arm and took it as a sign it was time to quit.

For the next several years I fought the craving vigilant only by the thought that all that suffering would be for nothing if I took just one puff.

Eventually the cravings subsided. Years later than I had hoped. But they did.

I quit in September 1986. Never took another puff.

I also did intense praying (especially at first).

Cold turkey is the only way to go (if nothing else to heighten that suffering I mentioned to help discourage you from going back to the cancer sticks).

God be with you. 

[farouk]

Just now, JohnD said:

I smoked like a chimney by the time I was 25. I started when I was 11.  At 25 I felt pain in my left arm and took it as a sign it was time to quit.

For the next several years I fought the craving vigilant only by the thought that all that suffering would be for nothing if I took just one puff.

Eventually the cravings subsided. Years later than I had hoped. But they did.

I quit in September 1986. Never took another puff.

I also did intense praying (especially at first).

Cold turkey is the only way to go (if nothing else to heighten that suffering I mentioned to help discourage you from going back to the cancer sticks).

God be with you. 

Thanks for the contrib.!

[farouk]

@Rosie1jack2pauline3 FYI..........any wisdom for us here?

[farouk]

@JohnD Sounds like you are really grateful to have been clear now for decades.........

[farouk]

PS: I think it's often forgotten that before the American Civil War it was in some areas widely customary for women to smoke after church services. The wife of President Andrew Jackson - she died before she could become First Lady - was a noted smoker.

The whole thing of what is customary and what is not, is something that can greatly change over the decades and centuries.

[farouk]

@David1701 FYI...........thread I started.........(any wisdom?)

[farouk]

Hi @Rosie1jack2pauline3 ; so I reckon you are now very grateful to be smoke free (assuming you are), with your atrial fibrillation developments.............