Check in with how long you have been smoke free.

[Speck Tater]

19 whole days here.

[MrSlayer]

1. Less than a minute.

Just put one out.

[mcctatas]

2. 20 minutes?

[KitchenWitch]

3. Almost 19 years.

[MilesColtrane]

4. 43 days.

And still, every cigarette I see looks like it was made by God, rolled by Jesus, and moistened shut with Scarlett Johansson's....

[Lost in CT]

11. Your not making this easier Miles.... nt

[Critters2]

5. 50 years. nt

[ccharles000]

6. 19 years

I have never smoked and never will it is bad for you.

[Iggo]

7. About 6 years.

It gets easier after year 2...lol.

[BarbaRosa]

8. 36 years

[Brother Buzz]

9. Eighteen months clean after forty years of smoking.

Damn, I smell someone smoking and I think to myself......then I hear the merchants of death addressing me, "Oh No You Didn't".

Oh no, Oh no, Oh no
Yo Yo Yo
Oh no you didn't
Sucker tried to play me
But you never paid me, Neva
Oh no you didn't
Payback is a' coming
You will be runnin', foreva
Oh no you didn't
Until i get me vengeance
I will never end this mayhem
Oh no you didn't
I'm a mercenary
You ain't got a prayer, you owe MEEEEEE

[Lost in CT]

10. 6 fucking days.....

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. 23 years

Every now and then I'll have a cigarette, just to remind myself why I quit...but I wouldn't recommend doing that until you're several years smoke-free.

The cigarette itself is kind of nice. But when it's done I remember the nasty stale smoke stench and that heavy feeling swimming around in my lungs.

Breathing is so much nicer than cigarettes.

Congrats to you! I hope you stick it out.

[BikeWriter]

13. About 1973. That saved my life in my heart attack, too.

[LeftyMom]

14. Ten years, give or take a few months.

I only smoked socially anyhow.

[Lilith Velkor]

15. About an hour.

[emilyg]

16. 5 minutes.

[enigmatic]

17. 30 years

I had to quit when I was 15 so I could play on my High School football team; my coach wouldn't let me dress otherwise. I've thanked him ever since.

[gblady]

18. 23 years!

[Lil Missy]

19. about 5 minutes now

[DFW]

20. 57 years yesterday

My dad smoked for a while, and I always hated it, so I never got started.

[Road Scholar]

21. 24 years. nt

[Roon]

22. 4 years eom

[SecularMotion]

23. Almost 14 yrs.

I quit smoking cigarettes in the summer of 1995.

[Spacemom]

24. 13 1/2 years

I quit when I found out I was pregnant with my first child. After he was born, it didn't seem very wise to start back up, so I never did. :D

[Callalily]

25. Oh, I'm guessing

around seventeen years. Can't stand the smell of smoke now.

[RebelOne]

26. All of about 15 minutes. n/t

[lunatica]

27. 13 years and a day never goes by that I'm not glad about it

[HopeHoops]

28. 24 years

[dropkickpa]

29. 45 minutes

[leftofthedial]

30. since the dawn of time.

[Marrah_G]

31. 110 days.

It is still a struggle.

[backtoblue]

55. 3 mos

I have yet to quit dreaming about smoking and it makes me sick when I wake up. The intense urges have ceased to about once a day now.

[Starry Messenger]

32. Almost 11 months.

It will be a year April 24th. Woot! Congrats on holding out. The first few months are a challenge.

[mwooldri]

33. I last smoked at the age of 14, when my hair caught on fire.

Leaning over a Bunsen burner at school did the trick.

As for smoking cigarettes: actively I have smoked exactly two and a bit cigarettes in my life, one at a very young age (my dad let me have a drag on his cigarette - it instantly put me off) and another time when I was completely drunk at the age of 20 - I smoked four half-cigarettes, completely going green in the process. Passive-smoking, well every time I visit my father-in-laws that happens. He smokes like an old fashioned freight train in motion and he really should quit.

[LostinVA]

34. 13 years on April 1 -- I smoked 2+ packs a day of Salem Light 100's

[DevonRex]

50. Salem did menthol better than anybody else. nt

[LostinVA]

51. Definitely -- a nice cooling, mentholy taste

Not mediciney or weird tasting like Newport, etc. ICK!!! I would smoke a Marlboro Light or Winston Light before a Newport.

[DevonRex]

54. My son smokes Newport. I'm gonna get him an e-cig pretty soon

and he can use it whenever he's ready to quit and until then he can just tuck it away somewhere. I don't know how he smokes those Newports but there has GOT to be something really bad about anything that tastes that awful.

[JackBeck]

35. Today is my 2 month anniversary.

The second week was pretty bad, but now I don't think much about wanting one any more.

[raccoon]

36. Since 1983. Everybody, hang in there! Quitting is a mofo, but you WILL survive it. nt

[Rambis]

37. Will be three years

May bank holiday weekend- Can't believe I ever started!

[old mark]

38. Going on 20 years.

Just went over 21 years free of alcohol on the 10th of March, stopped using tobacco a year or so after that.

Quitting smoking was the hardest thing I ever gave up, and the thing I am most proud of giving up. They really suck, and so do those people who make and sell them.

mark

[kwassa]

39. 25 years

smoked 2.5 packs of Marlboros every day for 14 years before that.

[mulsh]

40. July 25,1982 was my first smoke free day haven't even

wanted a smoke in all these years. I had been smoking at least a pack a day for around 16 years. it wasn't even a decision on my part. one day I didn't smoke anything and that lead to another day & on & on.

[Droopy]

41. It will be one year on 4/6/09

Just keep putting that distance between yourself and that last cigarette and it will get easier and easier.

[bigwillq]

42. 30 minutes

:(

I really need to quit. It's so difficult, though. I guess I will when I am ready.

[DevonRex]

52. Yeah, you will. When you do, and you're successful, take it and run with it.

Remember to NEVER pick up a cigarette again. For me it was harder to quit after I started back, having been cigarette free for 5 years. For some reason I thought it would be as easy to quit again as it was the first time. Nope.

[Lady President]

43. 3 1/2 Years

It's been over 3 years. However, if I ever hear that the planet is going to be destroyed in a week, the first thing I would do is buy a pack.

[ogneopasno]

44. More than 11 years. Still smoke a pipe once in awhile, though.

And that's a regular pipe.

[Angel]

45. Almost 2 months

Smoked for close to 30 years. Using the lozenges, I never would have made it cold turkey. I've tried that before.

[graywarrior]

46. 32

years

Fuck I'm old.

[applegrove]

47. 8 months. And loving it!

[Bennyboy]

48. 11 daze

For me tobacco is weird. I have spent more time as an adult as a non smoker than a smoker. but every few years for some idiotic reason, I pick it up again. This time it was three years. fter quitting for four.

Smoking is just a little self loathing excersise, if you ask me.

[DevonRex]

49. Since Christmas when I got my e-cigarette. I'm on low nicotine now

and my next cartridges will be zero nicotine. I'm SO happy.

I had quit for 5 years and stupidly started again. I tried many times to quit after that and always started back again whenever life got stressful, like elections and stuff.

So, I realized that I had to have something to mimic smoking and got the e-cig. It works. It really works. You start with high nicotine and gradually decrease to zero.

[backtoblue]

53. 3 months and counting

Hardest addiction I've ever broken. Best of luck to you and everyone else, keep it up - Thanks for creating a thread so that we can support one another...:pals:

[One_Life_To_Give]

56. Approx. 9Y, 4M, 9D, 3hr, 22min nt

[Gidney N Cloyd]

57. 7 years next month.

[redqueen]

58. 11 years. (nt)

[Tikki]

59. 5 Years +.......

And I like it this way.....WAY BETTER than when I was a smoker. Tons of reasons why.


Tikki

[BurtWorm]

60. Five years on Feb 14.

PS: Congrats. The next 19 will be a piece of cake by comparison.

[angel823]

61. oh, let's see

about 10 years...?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

62. 3 days

[tigereye]

63. 15 years!

:woohoo:

[Mad_Dem_X]

64. 42 years.

I grew up with a mom who smoked. Neither me nor my younger sister had any desire to take it up.

[foxfeet]

65. Today's my first day, this time around.

I'd successfully stopped for many years, then relapsed about 18 months ago. I'm tired of it and I know how to quit. It is a mofo, but I will get through it.

[limit18]

74. I quit for 4 years and relapsed last month.

With todays price,MAY quit after this carton is gone.

[lukasahero]

66. 1 year, 2 months, 14 days and 6 hours. :)

I had my last cigarette on 1/5/08 at 9 am. This time around it was the easiest thing to do.

[taterguy]

67. About 20 minutes

[Speck Tater]

68. Update: 20 days now.

I'm finding it a LOT easier this time around. My best friend was just diagnosed with lung cancer and driving her to chemo every morning and sitting with her as they pump her full of chemicals, and sitting with her when the doctor gave her a 20% chance had a very sobering effect on me. If someone I've known for 45 years can suddenly have lung cancer, it could happen to me tomorrow.

It's not some abstract threat in a distant fantasy future. It's real, and it's right now. If you're a smoker the cancer might already be growing inside your lungs. For real! Quit now.

There's no question in my mind. I will never smoke again. Ever.

[Justyce]

69. About 8 years. Congratulations to you!

:applause:

[Deep13]

70. Since the indoor smoking ban in mid-2007.

I have never actively smoked, but I kind of did when I lived with my mother who smoked (until she quit) and later when I ran into smoking in restaurants or job locations.

[woofless]

71. No tobacco in nearly four years,

but certainly not smoke free. Perish the thought.

Woof

[hellbound-liberal]

72. Congratulations, Speck Tater! That's a real acomplishment!

Remember, you have already been through the hardest part. It gets easier from now on. I became a nonsmoker 13 years ago March 16. Unfortunately, I had to watch someone die from cancer a couple of years ago. It's a terrible way to go. One day he started spitting up blood and he went to the doctor who told him he had Stage 4 lung cancer. He was gone within 3 weeks. I can't help but think what was going through his mind knowing that he should have had many more years of life but had caused his own early death. It's great that you made the change. Stay strong!:applause:

[cordelia]

73. 8 years March 26

I still smoke in my dreams.

[dkofos]

75. 30 minutes

[MajorChode]

76. All my life

My parents both smoked like chimneys when I was growing up. I'm not sure if that counts.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

77. 25 years? n/t

[Gabi Hayes]

78. what kind of smoke?

[NYRider]

79. 19 years.

And I only gained 3 or 50 lbs.:7

[rurallib]

80. Around 34 or 35 years. And I was a heavy smoker

My little at the time sister in law hit me with some big dewy eyes and gave me a real 'please quit' talk. Now she is a heavy smoker. It's a shame too.

[Turbineguy]

81. I haven't smoked free

for a long time. But I used to get cigs at 13 cents a pack. Is that close?

Oh- wait, now I get it: 25 years.