Smoking

[Avante]

I will make one exception, she is the only one who looked cool with a cig.

[cantthinkofanything]

I will make one exception, she is the only one who looked cool with a cig.

nothing cool looking about that.
Look at the toll it too on her.
This is her at age 40. YUCK!

[Avante]

nothing cool looking about that.
Look at the toll it too on her.
This is her at age 40. YUCK!

You don't have to sell...OH YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...to me. I would never date a girl who smoked, my friends who do learned a long time ago to keep it away from me. It's ing gross!

[Viva Las Espuelas]

I smoked off and on for about 6 years. One thing that definitely made me start to quit was smoking while I got a bad cold once. Boy did it make the cig really taste like crap. I just quit cold turkey one day. I believe my last cig was on january 1st of '00 or '01.

[Drachen]

thanks for the input. i feel much better about it now. pretty much the only time i smoke now is for a peace offering...like if someone i meet gives me a cig. that's about it.

at first the moment id stress out id buy a pack immediately without thinking about it. after about 3 months i stopped have that reaction when happens, which is nice.

This is similar to what happened to me during my 2nd most successful attempt at quitting. I quit the day before my daughter was born (5 years ago yesterday), and it lasted only about 6 months. I tried to do the whole "I will only smoke when I go out" which I didn't do often, so I thought that would work. I would go out, get a pack, then I would come home with 3/4 of a pack and stick it in the freezer. Then my step daughter started getting really bad, so I started poaching those cigs, and before I knew it, I was back to a pack a day.

At first it was hard to tell all my smoking buddies at work "no, you go on, I am trying to quit", but they were honestly my biggest cheerleaders as they understand better than anyone the desire to quit.

With all that being said, my two cents that you didnt ask for is this: I would stop altogether. It works so much better. I noticed passing "milestones" so much faster this time than the last time (by milestones I mean stuff like not thinking about cigs at certain times/situations, etc). Psychologically, if you open yourself to allowing yourself to smoke in certain situations, then you can very easily wedge other situations into those permissions. knowing this, I told my wife that this time I am going to go at least a year before I try to do the whole social smoking thing. I did, and it turns out, I don't have the urge to do that anymore (just so you know, the more I drank on the river, the worse of an idea a cigarette sounded like). This is how it has been since april 7, 2011 since I last had even a drag off a cigarette.

Maybe things will be different with you, but I just wanted to relate my experience