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Message started by kimchris1 on 06/09/10 at 05:48:28

Title: smoke free 2 years
Post by kimchris1 on 06/09/10 at 05:48:28

2 Years and still not smoking...WhoooHoooo..I do believe I have earned bragging rights.
Don't get me wrong, I don't begrudge the ones of you that smoke.
I just am happy with myself for the will power I have had to draw on especially since the accident. Believe me their have been times when I thought I was going to go completly crazy. I thouht of smoking a cigarette and knew that would only bring on breathing problems and more Dr's..
I also realized that today is the 9th and I quit on June 7, 2008. So now I have started my 3rd year being smoke free... ;)

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by Stimpy on 06/09/10 at 06:05:18

Rock n' roll kim! 8-)

Currently I'm at 7 months and counting and all is going
well, no cravings at all; I guess all this is something only
an ex-smoker can understand, these things are nasty
but at the time oh so enjoyable and socially accepted
so it's pretty tough to quit. I had actually already quit
about 10 years ago for a good 2 years and then tragedy
struck, bummer. Either way this was a small step for
stimpy, but a great leap for stimpy's future. Good luck.

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by mick on 06/09/10 at 07:48:09

Congratulations Kim, 10 months for me and I still crave one at least once a day.
My three kids quite the same day I did. I don't want to ruin it for them,or I suspect them for me.

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by drharveys on 06/09/10 at 08:41:25

I smoked a pipe in college -- gave it up during basic training 1970. I really don't miss it, but every now and then I get a whiff of some fresh, moist pipe tobacco, or maybe one of the better blends alight and the memory is darned near visceral!

Keep on fighting the good fight -- your body will thank you down the road!

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by kimchris1 on 06/09/10 at 10:13:55

Thanks guys. I also have to thank our Wa.State Governor. She signed in effect to raise the cigarette tax another $1.00 per pack. Some brands are between $8 and $9 per pack now. I would rather put that money into my bike :)

Keep up the good work yourselves. I await to read your 1 year free post... ;) Kim

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by Tanker2Biker on 06/09/10 at 11:01:37

Congratulations!! Keep it up!

You have my admiration, I know how tough it is, I watched both my parents struggle with it. They were smart and tough enough to keep me & my brother from ever starting, so we wouldn't have that problem. It is just one of the many things I thank their memories for every day.

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by mick on 06/09/10 at 11:30:32

7E4B44414F581A1C2A0 wrote:

thanks tanker,both my parents smoked My mum smoked until she died age 56, my Dad still smoking age 95 he has out lived my mum and his second wife,and working on his 3rd ,he still drinks a little JD as well, we have all stopped asking him to quit,even his doctor says "Heck at his age who cares",he is down to 10 smokes a day now.
A poor example ,but he is still a great Dad.

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by BurnPgh on 06/09/10 at 11:39:35

YOur dad smokes non-filters right? I cant help but notice that the only people that smoke non-filters (excluding myself) are the same guys that seem to love talking about the great depression.

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by mick on 06/09/10 at 13:05:50

1324233F013639510 wrote:

YOur dad smokes non-filters right? I cant help but notice that the only people that smoke non-filters (excluding myself) are the same guys that seem to love talking about the great depression.

he lived in England until he was 40, if the great depression affected England he has never mentioned it,he smokes pall mall red,non filter.
has for 70 years ,before that he smoked woodbines also non filter.

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by John_D FSO on 06/09/10 at 14:47:31

Woohoo, congratulations! [smiley=vrolijk_26.gif] You have definitely earned bragging rights.

I've been tobacco free for a little over a month now. I only picked it up again last fall, been on and off a couple times over the years. This time, quitting was pretty easy; I didn't find myself wanting to chew peoples heads off at work! ;D The temptation is still there, but like you said, I just think of what the money will buy for the bike. Even the $6 a week or so I spent adds up after a while. ;)

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by Paladin. on 06/09/10 at 14:52:53

696B6F616A706B7133020 wrote:

2 Years and still not smoking...WhoooHoooo..I do believe I have earned bragging rights.
Don't get me wrong, I don't begrudge the ones of you that smoke. ...

My brother from AA say "The best of everything is getting well", and that Alcoholics Anonymous claim that once a person is an alcoholic, he always is an alcoholic. After 20 years sober he still keeps antabuse.

Likewise I tell that I am not a ex-smoker, I am just not smoking for a while. Since 22 Sept 1986. I do like the aroma of a good cigar.

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by tldk1678 on 06/09/10 at 14:53:34

I quit when packs went from $1.00 to $1.25. I was going to quit at $1.00 a pack but i didn't "have my mind right".

It's been a while.

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by bill67 on 06/09/10 at 15:02:29

My wife smoked her last cigarettes july 23,1987 the day she died.I've haven't smoked my last yet.

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by ALfromN.H. on 06/09/10 at 15:35:16

a couple days before the tail of the dragon trip will make 9 years for me. I still get a craving every now and then, but then someone will light one up and the smell makes me wonder what i was thinking. I don't preach to anyone about smoking except my daughter. i give her heII every time I see her.

Congratulations to all of you quitters.

AL

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by Trippah on 06/09/10 at 16:25:25

Congratulations - I know you can do it. Having worked with an ENT for 10 years, I can tell you throat, mouth and tongue cancers are not nice. (Which for Dr. Harvys and i are the great risk for pipe smokers), ciggies also get lung cancer to work with.
If tobacco wan't one of the earliest wealth producers here in the US, it probably wouldn't be so intrenched.

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by Skid Mark on 06/09/10 at 17:35:47

Way to go Kim!!! Aged 2 years there is no reason whAt so ever to lite up again. Nonsmoking since 1992 myself.

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by Southpaw on 06/09/10 at 18:19:49

Well done! I quit just after high school and was stupid enough to start again in '88 for a few of years. Being a Commercial Salamander for 14 years, I had to pass a pulmonary function exam yearly to wear my respirator. Watching the older journeymen fight for breath and have to try several times just to pass the basic test was an eye opener. It's amazing the change the first year after you quit! Congratulations!!! You've added time to your life and life to your time!!!

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by jef.savage on 06/09/10 at 19:14:05

woohoo!!!

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by mick on 06/10/10 at 06:18:38

576B71706C746573040 wrote:

you are right southpaw just 7 months after I quit I went to see my lung doctor two weeks later I got a report back ,on two occasions it said "lungs clear" I past all the tests with flying colors. as we say in England "I was chuffed"

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by kimchris1 on 06/10/10 at 09:25:33

That is great to hear Mick..

Great work everyone..

It is easy to quit. The hard part is staying quit. I don't know what lies ahead as none of us do. I just feel now that whatever happens I can handle without cigarettes. :)

Yet without friends and my bike, now that would be impossible.. ;)

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by babyhog on 06/10/10 at 12:42:19

Kimmy, you know I've been helping my mother get moved. Thank goodness, its now over... she absolutely loves her new apartment, by the way. But anyway, she had some pollups removed from her vocal chords many years ago, and quit smoking cold turkey. Her 2nd husband smoked like a freight train and died 5 years ago of lung cancer. All the while he is smoking, she never picked one up, to my knowledge. Now all these years later, she is smoking again. Don't know why she started, and I scolded her, as we sat on the swing and smoked together... But as you said, you never know.... I never thought I'd see her smoke again.

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by kimchris1 on 06/10/10 at 15:12:23

Well bless her heart. My Mother is soon to be 77 years old and still smokes. She never started till she was 40. She also has a beer from time to time. Her health is very very good.
When I was there and spent the 2 weeks with her the latter part of April, I had hoped I could persuade her to quit. Yet she is not ready to and who I to preach right or wrong to her?
O yeah I am her daughter that wants her around forever.
Whether she smokes or not isn't going to let me have her here forever, yet it might give her a few more years than if she continues to smoke.
Again she will either continue or quit. I love her all the same.

Now if I can get the weight off I gained when I quit then all will be well.. ;) It appears I have an addicitve personality. So I gave up cigarettes and am trying to lose the weight.. Hmmm wonder what the next addiction will be? O yeah... My Bike.. :'( :D :D :D

Title: Re: smoke free 2 years
Post by WD on 06/10/10 at 20:32:47

Lisa and I have tomorrow as our quit date. I started giving away my lighters and junk this afternoon. We'll be out of tubes, out of rolling tobacco, and neither the reservation smoke shop or "Queen Christine" (governor of Watchertongue the Never Mean State) need any more of my money.

I'm tired of everything I eat or drink tasting like burnt metal. Can't blame welding slag/fumes anymore, haven't popped a bead in a couple years. I can't even kickstart an Ironhead Sportster anymore, get winded too easily. And forget walking around my semi... Sad, when I first started smoking for real I could run up Mt St Helens, hike 50 miles in a weekend, swim over a mile.