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Randomly popped into my mind and figured I would put it out for discussion.

I recently quit smoking. I have been smoke free for two months now. I took Champix for about a month but stopped after that due to extreme aggression issues. (Not sure if this due to Champix or just quitting)

I have tried to quit 3 times before. This time was much easier since I took a pill and really was not as hard as I expected to be.

If anyone has a story to tell please do.

sooverdebt said:

I've tried about a zillion times – patches, gum, pills, electronic cigarettes, cold turkey, gradually cutting down… So far I've completely failed. Hoping to get there someday!

I've got a stun gun and a whole trunk full of stalker skills.  I think you just need some negative reinforcement when you light up.  :)

I quit 4 1/2 years ago when, just before baby #2 turned 1, we found out baby #3 was on its way.   She was planned, but as it turns out, I am surprisingly efficient at certain things.  :)

That was the turning point for us, financially.  We clearly couldn't afford our lifestyle plus another baby.  Cigarettes were the first thing to go when we became financially responsible.

It wasn't quite cold turkey, but it was close.  http://liverealnow.net/quit-sm…..move-ever/

I quit and then I started and then I quit again. Then I had finals in college and started but then I quit. Then I started performing and started again but thankfully I quit until I got married but then I finally quit… and haven't started again even though I have 2 little ones that drive me up the wall.  

I quit about 5 years ago I guess though I do occasionally have one or two when I'm at a party or something.

For me, it was psychological. I starting having trouble sleeping and couldn't get it out of my head that I was going to die early and leave my wife behind. Eventually, I just couldn't take it any more and quit cold turkey.

Whatever it takes, it's one of the best decisions you can make!

Sometimes I feel the same way. I think that if I smoke that one smoke I will end up smoking a pack-a-day again.

Hopefully this does not happen. As I like having the free cash.

YES – after 20 years.  I used the nicorete gum – for much longer than I should have – don't do that cause it ruins your teeth!  But I've been smoke free for a decade or more now.

From a different perspective, my father smoked from when he was 15 until he was 52. He passed away at 54 from aggressive lung cancer. I was with him, and it wasn't pretty. But that's not the point of the story.

I spent a lot of time with my Dad. I used to sit out with him on the patio while he smoke and we'd just talk. I'm 30 years old, have never had a cigarette a day in my life, but I crave them. The years of secondhand smoke, I guess. Two years after he died I almost started smoking. I really think it was only remembering what he went through that got me to put the carton back. (When I go, I go big.)

I quit in 2009. That was after smoking about a year and a half (during the months leading up to my divorce and then throughout the process) but prior to that I had smoked in my 20s. The first time I quit, in my 20s is was because I had started taking Wellbutrin and it made the cigarettes taste really gross. When I quit in 2009, I had wanted to but was having trouble accomplishing it until I caught bronchitis pretty badly.

Since then I have smoked a few times when I'm with a friend who smokes but usually it's just a couple and I feel like such crap the next day that I don't go back.

My kids would kill me if I went back to smoking. They still talk about when mommy was an idiot and smoked.