The quit smoking thread!

Well I smoked a good few years of my life. I have asthma that hasn't really bothered me since I was a kid, but after smoking a few years it bothers me now more than ever.

In September of 2011, I purchased an Ecigarette from tim thumb, the cheap one with disposable cartridges. I have not since touched a cigarette. I only puffed on the Ecigarette for about 4 or 5 months after that, then I forgot I even had the dang thing lol.

But, I can say that no matter what some say about the Ecigarette not working, I know it works!! I haven't smoke one in over a year now, and been nicotine free for almost the same. It feels so good to not buy a pack every day!!!


Ball Pythons
0.3 Normals (Coilette, Athena and Mary Jane)
1.0 Pastel (De Sol)
1.0 Spider (Zeus)
1.0 Mojave (Prometheus)

Boa Constrictors
0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Stella)
0.1 BCI (Kiyoko)
0.1 Dumerils Boa (Gloria)

Ya one day ill stop chewing too it don't help everyone in the fire school chews too haha a couple smoke but we run too much for that least for me that is

I just quit smoking almost four weeks ago. I have done it cold turkey this time around. I am so sick of smelling like a stinky cigarette and also of hacking up portions of my lungs. I feel so much better already and I am saving a decent amount of money too. I will be rewarding myself with a new snake addition this coming spring or summer if I stick with it. I also just joined a gym yesterday. I think that working out will help in my fight to kick the nasty habit.

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Originally Posted by ballpythonluvr

I will be rewarding myself with a new snake addition this coming spring or summer if I stick with it.

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that's my plan as well. swap out one addiction for another ;) lol

day 3.. here we go.

I switched back and forth from cigarettes to the www.smoke51.com E-cig for months. When I decided to quit it only took me 4 days on the E-cig. I wasn't trying to quit nicotine, it just happened. After about 4 days I was over the addicting chemicals in the cigarettes that I wasn't getting in the E-cig. That is the hard part. Not being rid of the nicotine, but the other 1000's of addictive stuff in cigarettes. At the end of that 4th day I just didn't want it anymore. So my last cigarette was around halloween 2011. I've had a couple desires since then but resisting is easy.

For those trying to quit. . . .YOU CAN DO IT!

Good luck! I was supposed to quit on the first, but I forgot :) Ha HA!
I'll be starting Sunday. I work with smokers, so I thought a non-workday would be a good first day. After I get a smoke free day or two in, it should be a little easier to resist the temptation when others do it.

I'm excited! I'm going to have so much money when I combine what I'll be saving daily with my nest egg that I've been lovingly referring to as my "oxygen tank fund". Of course, I'd have to be a seven pack a day smoker to save as much money as I've spent in my head, but it'll all work itself out.

Again, good luck to anyone who's going for it. Quitting is an unpleasant experience, but it feels really good to be able to say you've succeeded.

Man... I've been considering quitting for a couple months now. I started smoking when I was 18 and just turned 22, but I live with a pack a day smoker who has no intentions of quitting (especially since he cut down on drinking). My mom keeps asking if I'll quit if she grabs an e-cig kit for me and I think that might help me out (I also bite my nails, and I think it would be good to occupy the oral fixation part of the habit or I might lose my whole fingertips)

i quit 3 years ago..i smoked sence i was 12 and im 27 now...i stole my dads cig growing up...when i found out i was prego with my daughter i tried and i couldnt do it for the first 3 months than i helped my dad clean his walls in his house and as we were taking downt he pictures in the living room you could see all the nasty crap left behind from 2 smokers in the house and i didnt pick another one up after that...it was hard for the first year i wantte one soooooooooooooo bad..but i found twizzlers and became addictted to them instead..but now after 3 years...i find it harder to quit bitting my nails and to stop using curse words than it was to quit smoking..you can do it....make a list of reason you want too and keep it with you in your wallet and when you have that craving...read it...or if you have kids look at there picture every time you want one and think you never want your kids to go through what you are trying to quit....

Stick with it man, I quit about 6 years ago after smoking for about 14 years, and it is totally worth it. I have even run a full marathon recently :) Every day that you don't buy a pack, put $5 in a snake project can. When you are still smoking you found a way to spend 5 a day so why not do the same thing for something positive. Best of luck man!

hearing from people who have actually succeeded and quit years ago is actually making this a LOT easier. givin me more and more hope. lol and if i can stay nicotine free until march when repticon rolls through my town i'm definitely treatin myself to a new addition. lol savin up now.