Here's how I wound up quitting.

I had realized I was smoking about once every hour, and it began to bother me that it had been nearly ten years since I graduated high school , and was still doing the same crap I did then, so I decided to do something about it.

After realizing the frequency of how often, I made the decision to smoke a cigarette every 1:15 minutes, rather than once an hour. A week or so later, and then 1:15 became 1:30. !:30 turned into 2 hours, and so on. After a month or two I noticed that I had the same pack of smokes for the last week. At that point I took the final plunge and stopped entirely.

I still hadn't quite broken the hand to mouth thing yet, so I wound up carrying around a handful of change. The same amount every day. The same amount of quarters, dimes, and nickels every day. Back and forth from one hand to another for months on end. I was still drinking at the time, but opted for a different tactic while drinking. A bar napkin torn to shreds, and rolled up into little miniature balls and neatly placed in a line in front of me.

After a while of doing this, it no longer became necessary to carry around a pocket full of change, or tear up those napkins. I believed then, as I do now, that breaking the hand to mouth motion every single (regular) smoker does every day of their lives is the most important and most difficult part of quitting. Once the nicotine is out of your system, it's all about beating the mental aspect of it. Keep your mind and hands busy, and it becomes more manageable. I still wanted to choke the living [censored] out of people at the time, but it could've been alot worse had I not kept busy.

I legally smoke Marijuana. It is legal here.

I do. About a pack a day. And society really pisses me off about this. Smoking "directly kills" less people than drinking does, yet it gets to be the cause of all things evil and terrible.

People tell me, "You'll lose 10 off of your life!" Well, it is the last 10 years

PS: GRATZ! to those who quit! I don't encourage smoking, but neither do I try to make people feel bad about it

I use to smoke a pack a day, then I moved to oral snuff for health reasons. I'm not a doctor, but there's enough medical literature that says snuff is better than cigarettes, although both are terribly addicting and awful for your health.


I'm moving to nicotine lozenges soon. First, I quit the smoking habit with the snuff, now time to replace that and ultimately quit for good.


Let me say, don't ever try it. It's very hard to kick.

Well, that's fine and all.

..or, you could snap back into reality and realize that not only does smoking increase the chance significantly of lung, throat, lip, cheek, tongue, gum, esophageal, stomach, intestinal, and colon cancer in yourself (and it does, regardless of how ignorant you choose to be about this issue, because there is flaming evidence literally at the tip of your fingers, or hey, look at my many relatives who have DIED of smoke related cancer), but also second hand smoking (which also causes cancer) that effects those around you.

You also stink. So, there's that. But yeah, so sorry people irritate you by trying to get you to stop doing something that is a proven fact to take years off your life. I know, we're just [censored]s.

OK...

Insulting, eh? Skin like tissue paper has you, if that truly insulted you. Listen, there's no forum rule against stating that you're wrong. Your'e on the internet, on a discussion forum. No offense but you shouldn't be slinging your opinions around on the internet if you can't take the heat of rebuttal.

Relax, many people smoke for many reasons. You don't know his story either.

This we had over here this side of the pond (u.s same time) not only the typical candy cigg's (well like sort of a crappy chalky mint stick) but also bubblegum ones with Paper round the outside that had sugar powder to boot (so if you blew it would make smoke)

Those insidious bastards....

But I made the choice and yes I smoke......

Not so much Vap. I did try one just not for me, And I kept thinking the whole time isn't this how miners get black lung (breathing in dust and moister) . Ehh I suppose if I really cared about my lungs I would quit.

I have a cigar every once in a while on special occasion but I dont inhale them.


I also stopped smoking cannabis over a year ago: I vape it for medical reasons.

Careful Batman (how cool is it I got to say that)

It is a long fall of a high horse take it from me.

And where would the world be If hitler did not give up smoking and we took 10 years off his life..... MMMMM

I smoke 1 1/2 - 2 packs a day. I have since I was 14 or 15 years old. That's been 20 years. I don't enjoy it anymore but I'm not ready to give it up. I gave up much harder stuff and this is my crutch. Total harm reduction trip.

I don't get how vaping isn't horrible for you. I guess compared to having several thousand chemicals enter you it's a slight step up, but you still have this wet sticky poison filling your lungs... Pretty sure that isn't a great thing. I also can't see vaping in public spaces. This kid who works for me was vaping inside one of the stores we work at, I shut it down quick but I can't even imagine what's in his mind that he would just start puffing in the aisles.

Maaaan, I have dumped out the smokers' urn before, that tar is adhesive as you can get!

I find chronic diseases caused by lifestyle choices such as smoking are classified as death by attrition, if you don't immediately die from some kind of cardiovascular disease.

I forgot to mention I did buy a vaporizer a few months back. I used it for about a month intermittently while smoking. I then read about "popcorn lung", and gave it all to my friend to replace a tank of his I had accidentally broke. I had borrowed his vaporizer to try before I bought mine. (I know not all juices have diacetyl, the cause of "popcorn lung" but it was still enough to turn me off the idea.)

I decided then I'd either smoke, or I'd quit. No gum, patches, vaporizers, nothing! I know when I am ready to quit, it's actually quite easy, and sure enough the most recent attempt has been pretty darn easy!

I'm not against using aids, I just have come to the conclusion they are not for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_4pXusde8s

Tried it, don't like it.

Hmm, maybe I have that. My phlegm has been quite lush and buttery lately.

Not too easy for me. I will make everyone around me miserable and I'll gain about 15 pounds because I'll have to eat packages of lunchmeat to keep me from exploding in a ball of rage.

No. But people do it everywhere at my university, even though they're not supposed to. I've had to develop paths through the campus that have the least likelihood of encountering smokers. Problem is, the kinder smokers who smoke out back and not in the front of the buildings often witness me holding my breath and darting past them, and I still catch their fumes here and there.


Smoking is very dangerous to one's health and it endangers many of the students here due to a few selfish people. It's really rather unfortunate. And people with respiratory problems must face it day to day.


Sorry, it just bothers me a lot. No one does a thing.

When you watch someone close to you die or be seriously harmed because of unhealthy habits, "it's the last 10 years!" suddenly doesn't sound so funny anymore.

Never have and never will. Watched a loved one waste away from cancer because of her 50+ year habbit.

I know your joking at some level but as someone who watched a loved one die from it I can attest it's no laughing matter.


Think of everything that happened to you over the last 10 years. Any new kids or grandkids? Any new loved ones enter your life? Any trips or adventures you went on? Any pleasant memories that you hold dear? Now imagine 10 years ago cancer popped up and killed you within the year. Those memories and people never would have happened. You would have been dead.


Would you be willing to give up the last 10 years? If not, then why would you be willing to give up the next 10?

Yeah there's that.

Never smoked, never will. Coffee though <3

'Vaping' (god I hate that word and all it's connotations...) is healthier than smoking because it does without many of the chemicals cigarettes have. Also, that 'sticky poison' when heated up becomes nothing more than water vaper with nicotine (if you want any) and flavourings. It's less harsh on your lungs and throat because of the lack of chemicals and also because as water vaper it does not heat to high temperatures. I'm smoking my e cig right now, and when I blow the smoke on to my hand it actually feels rather cool.

As for vaping in public spaces, yeah people shouldn't do that. Not inside, at least. Some places I find it okay, like old pubs and large, well-ventilated areas. Just because there's no risk from second-hand smoke, doesn't mean people should have to put up with someone's douchebaggery and having clouds of redbull-smelling water vaper blown in their faces. It's just rude

The problem with the last ten years of your life not really mattering a whole lot because...well...it is the last ten years of your life is simply that you will never ever know exactly when those last ten years will begin (yes I'm aware it is tongue in cheek). They could begin today, tomorrow, or fifty years from now. My grandmother just celebrated her 100 birthday this past summer, just when should she have started counting the last ten years? (Yes, she was a smoker when she was younger, but eventually quit)

If my grandfather didn't have ten years of his life taken away by cancer he would have seen my little brother and sister. If my uncle didn't have cancer he would have seen my go to university. If my grandma hadn't died of cancer from smoking she would have read the birthday card I made her when I was six.

How can you make jokes like that?

I've seen people die of lung cancer who never smoked a day in their life, and likewise I've seen someone smoke all their life and live completely healthy to 95 years old.


Smoking isn't a guaranteed cancer ticket, and people are more then educated in the risks it causes. If someone still wants to smoke, let them, don't look down on them or blame their cancer on their smoking when there's a chance they would have got that cancer anyway.


Most of my family smokes, both my great grandma and grandpa lived older than 95 and they both smoked a pack a day at least. I've also seen members of my family die of lung cancer at 65 who didn't smoke or only smoked a couple years in their life.


In Canada the 1000% sin taxes we have on our smokes pays for a good portion of our "free" healthcare, and statistically, smokers are less of a drain on the healthcare system because when they get sick, they die much quicker than non smokers and therefore use less healthcare resources.


Our healthcare in Canada uses over 50% of all the tax revenues added up, without the tax on smokes and the smokers who buy them, our healthcare would take up more like 75% of all the taxes to operate.

In a big way, smokers subsidize the healthcare in Canada.


So if you're for socialist healthcare, but against smoking and smokers, you're basically a hypocrite. At least here in Canada, where we need a serious restructure of health care, as the only other nations in the world who have our model is Cuba and north korea, neither of which has good healthcare for the regular Joe (the elites fare well though).