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G’day NOPE .....Not One Puff Ever.... (replace Ever with Min Hour Day as required!)

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Confession: Came here to confess and forgot AGAIN what I was confessing to

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I have probably spent about $50,000 on cigaratted and nicotine products during my 34-year nicotine-addiction career. Plus dental costs, extra dry cleaning bills, fights with the family over smoking, lost opportunities at work. Turned down by eligible men who don't want a smoking girl. Praying I don't get heart or lung disease or anything else terrible. What has smoking cost you?

Tomatoes tomatos, you call it sin I call it living

G’day you had that other beer didn’t you......

Everything listed above and more. I believe that smoking is by far the worst thing I have done in my life. However, with that said, I choose to look forward instead of back. We can't change the past so there is no sense dwelling on it. I look forward to a brighter future!

I think they've already done that (better, early education) but not only that, today's general environment that kids grow up in is totally different to what it was when I was a kid. As you said yourself, parents smoked and I know when I was young, even my Dr. smoked right in front of us! "They" could have told me the very worst of everything that smoking could do to me (if in fact they knew it back then) and it still wouldn't have made me stop. Why? I was addicted and young - invincible! Plus, everyone I actually knew and respected smoked around me night and day. Those are the people I took my life messages from, not some stranger on the radio or TV. Nope! Don't think it would have changed a thing for me.

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In school, they warned us about lung cancer and heart disease to try to deter us kids from smoking. I was already smoking by the time that messaging started, plus I grew up in a smoking family. But they didn't tell us smoking could make your teeth fall out, and that new teeth cost $80,000 dollars; that it ruins your kidneys, causes loss of limbs, blindness, COPD, and all the terrible stuff I have since learned about. Had they told me those things when I was a kid, I wonder if it would have made any difference? Do you think better and earlier education would deter kids from starting?

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If you are not an addict, why do you keep sneaking out to smoke? Why do you continue to feed yourself nicotine if it is ruining your sleep patterns and making yourself a mess at work and a zombie at home? I think you know the answer. It is that you are an addict. Its that simple. It is best to get nicotine out of your life once and for all. A non-smoker and a non-nicotine addict does not let nicotine control them. It is time to quit smoking and nicotine for good now.

Your smoking friends are addicts H ....and you are too.... Whether you smoke 40 a day or 4.... Your sneaking out of bed to smoke ...that's junkie thinking and junkie behaviour.... You need to stay on the Train a while ...read all you can,watch all the video,s.... Quit while your young ...I smoked 52 years ....because I was addicted ....I don't advise this at all....

Thank you Mona , Mac#23 , Doreensfree , c9jane29 , johnny5 , Angeleek , JohnQ Without the help of this forum , I would not have been free from cigarettes Thank you all for all the support

Hesteralumni, of course you're addicted otherwise you wouldn't crave them everyday. Why you are listening to smokers tell you its not an addiction I don't know. You know smokers, and I'm speaking from experience, are never going to admit they're addicted to nicotine until they're ready to quit and see the addiction for what it is. I would give anything to rewind the clock and quit when I was your age but I continued to smoke until I was 52 years old and only quit because of breathing issues. BREATHING ISSUES hester, in case you didn't read it the first time. It doesn't matter if its 4 or 40, smoking does irreparable damage................................

nicotine: a poisonous alkaloid C10H14N2 that is the chief active principle of tobacco and is used as an insecticide happiness: (a) a state of well being and contentment (b) a pleasurable or satisfying experience It took some mental gymnastics for us to ever draw a connection between those two definitions. Self-delusion is a major component of addiction.

Hello everyone , Thanks for the thread jillar !!!! I was going to post a thread about this , but there it was already ... Yes , i am still smoke free and it feels good . Cigarettes are out of my life and i don't even like the smell of it these days when anyone smokes near me . Going through a tough time here because of the Covid 19 issues . Other than that everything is good .

G’day NOPE .....Not One Puff Ever.... (replace Ever with Min Hour Day as required!)

I'm home. Hopefully the last evacuation of the season and Mother Nature will be sending nice early rains to CA. Is 2020 over yet ? (asking for a friend)

I thought so ...until I quit .... And then I found out what happiness really is ....Freedom ....that's were happiness is ....

Fingers crossed.

I was from the age group ..that were taught nothing at school......about life .... Like Reci said ...everyone smoked then ...a ash tray was already waiting by my bed ,when I had just given birth . My reward .... I started smoking at 11...I was with the older kids ... trying to be like them .... Would I have listened.....Not a chance .... The kids today are given a chance to learn and understand about life in general....that's a great thing ... My two grandkids don't smoke ..and hopefully they wont .... I was a addict at thier age ....

They did tell us those thing in school. We even had a teacher that brought in a fake lung with cotton filling and would let us pump this foot pump to suck smoke inside so we could see it turn yellow. But, I lived with smokers. Everyone in my family smoked, all the people I was around as a kid smoked so it didn't matter what anyone said. I started stealing cigarettes as soon as I could get away with it, my dad bought me a pack when I was 14. It starts at home...my kids are young and I'm already talking to them about it. They see my mom and my sister smoking and they need to hear it from me. I make them change clothes/wash hands as soon as we get home from my mom's house. They ask why and we talk about it on terms they understand. I hope I can give them the power I never had to make better decisions.

Every. Single. Thing. I loved the quitting process, learning about my addiction, how to recover from it, how to over come it...how to live again. I finally love me! My life completely changed; my husband too... quitting will always be the best thing I've ever done.

Way cool, Jim! Hopefully that means you have no lasting damage!

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I was just reading a thread about flu shots and now I have this song in my head...

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Eventually, you'll wake up one day and realize you haven't thought about a cigarette for a week (or more). You'll smell it and be ashamed that you ever put that junk in your lungs. When you come across a situation where you see someone smoking like that, take a super deep breath (deeper than you ever could when you smoked) and know that you made the right choice. Maybe use that opportunity to brag (or even preach a little bit) to the guy about quitting. I also used to wonder if I'd ever stop thinking about them. Now, it's such a distant memory that I can hardly believe I ever smoked and sometimes even forget that I did. Stick with it. You're doing it right!

Way to go Sunshine! Never look back! Well done!

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