Quit 7 1/2 years ago Christmas Eve. Had my last cigarette that morning and none since ... after maybe 30-35 years of smoking. I'd had a bit of a scare a month or so before thinking maybe I'd had a heart attack. Ended up I hadn't, but decided then to try and quit. Asked our family doc and prescribed Wellbuton for me to take. Took two a day and continued to smoke (finishing up what I had left of a carton). Ran out on Christmas Eve. Continued taking one Wellbuton a day for a week or two after I quit ... then nothing. Never had withdrawals or anything else. Made it seem easy.

In fairness, I've talked to others that said they weren't that successful, and so, I feel rather lucky that for me ... it worked.

We do too DB.

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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.

I quit in 90 so that I could have a healthy baby. I've had relapses during times of extraordinary stress but it has only been a couple times, and usually to go with mass quantities of alcohol

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See now, I think girls smoking cigars is hot too. Vanessa Williams had one on the red carpet at some awards show several years ago - it was smoking (hahaha, pun intended)

But cigars don't bother me as much as cigerettes. I kind of like the smell, even though i've never smoked one.

P.S. 200 posts, beeyotches! :jump:

CONGRATULATIONS
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ON YOUR 200 POSTS!

You've been a great addition to our Pixie family!

Congrats LAW!

aw, thanks! you like me, you really like me!!

I do enjoy the occasional cigar but that is all.

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I never even tried cigarettes. Have had a few cigars but the last one was 8 years ago. Mrs. Sama doesn't like them and I didn't enjoy it enough to continue.

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I smoke now and don't plan on stopping unless I am forced to by a lung removal or one of my little ones asks me to.

For all of you that have quit send your last packs to me so I can save some cash! LOL!

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DAM THE MAN!

I'm the same way. Which is likely to be soon since a friend just brought me back some cubans. ummm...no...I mean...some perfectly legal cigars not at all from cuba. That he certainly didn't bring back from china with bootlegged dvds and a pair of nunchucks. How the hell he got through customs is anybody's guess.

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"A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself." - Guildenstern, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”

Cobalt and I are quitting. I have a feeling that it is going to be easier for him than me because I am so dependent on that quick calm I get when I first light up. I am worried because I really get bitchy and weepy - almost like I am going thru severe PMS when I quit. I have tried most everything as an aid to quiting - patches, inhalers, pills, gum - without luck. I have never tried cold turkey because mentally I feel so dependent on that nicotine and I am leary of the withdrawls. But, since the other stuff didn't really help me, I think that cold turkey is going to be what I have to do.

Any suggestions as to how to get over the "waves of destruction" that I know will happen? Should I warn my children? Is it good that Cobalt and I are going to quit at the same time?

All I know is that I am sick of being "chained" to the damn things, and they are way to expensive anymore...

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((((Chey)))) and ((((Cobalt)))) ~~ I have no advise, just well wishes

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Chey, mayhaps replace the habit with something that is as close to as calming as the puff was. I became a gum chewer and use that in times of high stress.

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What Did You Do Today? Self Defense Class ~Short Sweet Snippets~ § Summer Spin § Story Challenge Submission Pajamas

I know that a lot of people have used gum/hard candy as a backup. I have never really been a gum chewer but I think I will try that and ONLY pop a piece in my mouth when I feel the need to have a cig. It is worth a try! Thanks ((((( osuche ))))) and (((((Lil)))))

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