SMOKE FREE - 6 Months!

[Montana Jim]

Back in October '07 I started a topic for the Great Treasure Net Smoke Out which started on the 1st of November 2007. It was an opportunity for a bunch of us to get together and quit smoking, and support each other.

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,115601.0.html

Anyways... I'm a few days late in posting, but have now reached 6 months as an ex-smoker!

I'm pretty excited about it, and struggle all the time with staying stopped because I really miss it and enjoyed it... but am much better off without it! I feel better, Nicky's recipies taste beter, I smell better, and - there was this girl I was trying to impress who is impressed! It's a win-win!

Here are my statistics:

Smoke Free: 6 months / 2 days / 11 hours / 27 minutes
Money Saved: $830.15
Not Smoked: 3,689 ciggys
Life earned back: 1 week / 5 days / 19 hours / 25 minutes

I'm not sure how the rest of my friends who tried to quit have done, but I've made it this far! I encourage everyone who wants to stop tobacco to keep trying... it'll happen eventually!

I sure do miss it though...

 

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[Sky_Warrior]

GREAT!!! I'm happy you could quit and all the money you saved you could buy better detecting stuff. Also you have more time to detect with that extra year.

SEMPER FI :sunny

 

[Cynangyl]

Congrats!! That is quite a feat and you have every reason to celebrate!

 

[Kentucky Kache]

Congrats, and welcome to the clean air club.

 

[Mona Lisa]

Congratulations on not being a butthead anymore, Jim!! I know I'm impressed!

Keep up the amazing willpower and, hopefully soon, you won't miss it anymore. 8)

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[bootybay]

big time CONGRATS JIM...

 

[aa battery]

Congrats Jim...... You wont end up like this guy

 

[Pepper2004]

Congrats Jim, and Gibbsium!!!!

 

[Mainedigger]

Jim...CONGRATS!!!!!!...I am impressed...you;re a better ( and smarter!) man than I am...I haven;t been stubborn or willing enough to give the nasty rotten things up as of yet...GREAT JOB!!!!

 

[trikikiwi]

Congrat's Jim.
I would just like to thank You and the rest of the contributors to that post, for that post. For me, the time was right and it needed to be done. I passed my six months 'smoke free ' on the 3rd and I reckon I've saved NZ$1691.73 - or thereabouts - about US$1350 , so far.
In another 6 months, I can expect to save another $1,000 a year on my insurance, as a non-smoker.
Then total savings on a full year should be at least $4,000

What I have found significant is the new FREEDOM from not smoking.
I mean for example,

I don't need to plan my day around getting my fixes.
I can go anywhere without having to suss out -where can I smoke? legally AND without offending anyone else, especially my family.
I can take my wife 5,500 kms around our South Island just this March, on our Triumph Trophy, without stopping once for a cigarette

I always enjoyed my smoking, I wouldn't mind one right now
I always rolled my own so it was almost part ceremony, but then so are Funerals and I'm going to avoid attending mine, as long as possible.

Cheers to all, Mike

 

[WV Hillbilly]

I quit in 1991 . Smoked heavy for years . It is hard & takes time but I'm ( LIVING ) proof it can be
done . Believe it or not , eventually , you'll find them downright disgusting . I had been wanting to quit
for quite some time but the straw that broke the camels back for me was going hiking with my father-in-
law who has about 20 years on me . He took off up the side of a hill & it wasn't long before I was losing
my breath . I was to hard headed or ashamed to stop till he did & by the time he stopped I must have been blue & he wasn't even breathing hard . It was probably 15 minutes before I could breath normally again .
He did'nt say anything but he patiently waited until I could see straight again . I made up my mind right then & there I was done smoking . I've never once regretted quiting .

 

[Burdie]

WTG Jim
Burdie

 

[Montana Jim]

Still not smoking here, but I still want one every once and awhile.

For me, the time was right and it needed to be done. I passed my six months 'smoke free ' on the 3rd and I reckon I've saved NZ$1691.73 - or thereabouts - about US$1350 , so far.

Way to go Gibbsium and Mike!

Thanks everyone... you encouraging remarks have helped me a great deal.

 

[ramjet2187]

Jim, GOOD for YOU!!!

I have no statistics to quote, other than my Dad, who smoked 3 packs of Pall Mall a day, for 35 years, quit after about (actually, during ) a two week stay in Intensive Care due to a heart attack, in 1991. He lived another 15 years. How many did he 'earn' by quitting? No way to tell, but he lived to be 70, and that's a lot longer than normal for his side of the family.

I don't want to make this about him, as this is your thread, but I just am trying to point out that by quitting as young as you are, you have added decades to your life expectancy, I'm sure.

Congrats to you and all the 'quitters' out there!!

Roger

 

[mark.]

Keep it up! It's a useless expensive hobby. The $$ saved can allow you........

..........to buy some new detecting equipment someday...........see ya mark

 

[Yarrum]

Good on ya mate keep it up.

 

[trish76642]

Proud for you Jim!
I need to stop, yes im a smoker, I now have high blood pressure, severe, and i didnt even think i was old enough to get high blood pressure. The doctor gave me a prescription for Chantex, they say its a wonder drug, has anyone ever tried it?
I do want to stop, i have a new grandbaby now, and about to have another next month, if i dont stop i want live to see them hit their teenage years, im real sure of it. So if you have any advise my ears are open.

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I quit in 1991 . Smoked heavy for years . It is hard & takes time but I'm ( LIVING ) proof it can be
done . Believe it or not , eventually , you'll find them downright disgusting . I had been wanting to quit
for quite some time but the straw that broke the camels back for me was going hiking with my father-in-
law who has about 20 years on me . He took off up the side of a hill & it wasn't long before I was losing
my breath . I was to hard headed or ashamed to stop till he did & by the time he stopped I must have been blue & he wasn't even breathing hard . It was probably 15 minutes before I could breath normally again .
He did'nt say anything but he patiently waited until I could see straight again . I made up my mind right then & there I was done smoking . I've never once regretted quiting .

I had a similar experience. Not walking but running, or, ah, trying to run lol. That was the beginning of the end of my smoking. It does catch up to you and often irreversable lung damage.

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Many congratulations Jimmy.....

 

[Montana Jim]

Proud for you Jim!
I need to stop, yes im a smoker, I now have high blood pressure, severe, and i didnt even think i was old enough to get high blood pressure. The doctor gave me a prescription for Chantex, they say its a wonder drug, has anyone ever tried it?
I do want to stop, i have a new grandbaby now, and about to have another next month, if i dont stop i want live to see them hit their teenage years, im real sure of it. So if you have any advise my ears are open.

Chantex has been THE blessing for almost everyone who has used it... there are a few threads here, including the one I linked to above where folks talk about using it.

Get the Chantex Trish...