I gotta quit smoking !!!!! - United Bimmer Community

**jybute** · 09-05-2006, 06:55 PM

Anyone on here a former smoker? Im gonna be 30 on the 19th of sept. And I would love to be able to call myself a former smoker by then.

Any tips, or suggestions? Drug free though if possible. Im anti- anti-depresant. (no zyban)

witeshark · 09-05-2006, 07:03 PM

Tons of luck!

**Cartony** · 09-05-2006, 08:06 PM

Hey nobody likes a Quitter!

**jybute** · 09-05-2006, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Cartony

Hey nobody likes a Quitter!

HA HA... nice. Also.... anyone can quite smoking once. But it takes a real man to quite several times.

**Cartony** · 09-05-2006, 08:21 PM

How many times for you? Several?

**Cartony** · 09-05-2006, 08:25 PM

How much for a pack of 25 in Edmonton?

**jybute** · 09-05-2006, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Cartony

How much for a pack of 25 in Edmonton?

Between 8 and 11 dollars. Is it still cheaper in ont.?

**jybute** · 09-05-2006, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Cartony

How many times for you? Several?

I quite for 6 months a few years back. But My wife and I went our seperate ways for about a month, so I needed something to balance out the heavy drinking.

**TerryY** · 09-05-2006, 08:58 PM

I quit in '94 after 35 years of 2 to 3 packs a day. Still smoke free 12 years later!! So it can be done.

BTW nide birthday date- I think I will celebrate that day too

**Cartony** · 09-05-2006, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by jybute

Between 8 and 11 dollars. Is it still cheaper in ont.?

7 - 8 bucks

**jybute** · 09-05-2006, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by TerryY

I quit in '94 after 35 years of 2 to 3 packs a day. Still smoke free 12 years later!! So it can be done.

BTW nide birthday date- I think I will celebrate that day too

That makes 4 people I know of with the same Birthday as me.

Only one of them though, my buddy Randy, was born the same year.

**RSF5** · 09-05-2006, 09:13 PM

Get some nicotine gum or the nicotine patch, and throw away all the cigarettes. Then just use those aids till you don't need to anymore. Then celebrate with excessive drinking.

**Cuse330Ci** · 09-05-2006, 10:58 PM

I'm in the same boat...going to be 30 in January. I have half a carton left, when I'm out I'm quiting. I had some success in the past with the patch. The gum made me nauseous.

Oddly enough i did quit cold turkey and made it 9 weeks without a cigarette. But I don't think you really want to go through Army basic training.....

**Bimmer_5er** · 09-05-2006, 10:59 PM

Damn good luck jybute I wish i had the will power to quit smoking right now. But between all the stress of school and the excesive drinking on the weekends its not looking very likely

**TerryY** · 09-05-2006, 11:58 PM

I found that you have to have a sufficient reason to quit and stay that way.

Just wanting to quit is one thing but having a reason to Stay Quit is more important.

I quit once and decided that I didn't have enough reason to stay that way so I started again. I was over 2 packs a day within a week in spite of my plans of moderation

When I was sure that my reason was good enough to be permanent I quit and never lit up again. But it took about a year after the Stroke to get to that point

The hardest part for me was the group of physical habits that I had to break. Like when walking thru a door to outside I would have my first puff no later than the third step.

Breaking my hands of reaching for the pack took the most time. A pang of "Need Nicotine NOW" usually comes with that motion.

About 32,000 packs smoked will ingrain things like that