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Hi, this is a bit of a brag thread and intended for support for any smokers who are thinking of quitting or who've tried and failed and convinced themselves they can't.
On Saturday it will be 200 days since my last cigarette (my wife too). I calculated that between us we've saved nearly $8000 in that time in cigs alone (the weed also added up but she never touched that). We quit cold turkey and never wavered apart from the odd urge. I now run 15km per week and am gearing up to start upper body training once this f**king cold goes away.
Since I was 17 I was an on-again-off-again smoker. I stopped for years when my first kid was born but somehow, somewhere took it up again, put it down, took it up etc.
The thing I worry about is the Xmas party period but thankfully there just aren't that many smokers left in my orbit to tempt me and besides, I think this year I would have been able to resist anyway.
You can do it if you want to. I don't know anything about any nicotine replacement stuff because I've never used anything. Think of the money if nothing else. Just stop smoking. Yeah you will be a grumpy merkin for about a month, and probably a bit depressed for another 2 months after that. But really the only hard period is the first day, the first 2 days, the first week, and the first 2 weeks. If you make it to 2 weeks cold turkey, you've done it.
Just quit!
On Saturday it will be 200 days since my last cigarette (my wife too). I calculated that between us we've saved nearly $8000 in that time in cigs alone (the weed also added up but she never touched that). We quit cold turkey and never wavered apart from the odd urge. I now run 15km per week and am gearing up to start upper body training once this f**king cold goes away.
Since I was 17 I was an on-again-off-again smoker. I stopped for years when my first kid was born but somehow, somewhere took it up again, put it down, took it up etc.
The thing I worry about is the Xmas party period but thankfully there just aren't that many smokers left in my orbit to tempt me and besides, I think this year I would have been able to resist anyway.
You can do it if you want to. I don't know anything about any nicotine replacement stuff because I've never used anything. Think of the money if nothing else. Just stop smoking. Yeah you will be a grumpy merkin for about a month, and probably a bit depressed for another 2 months after that. But really the only hard period is the first day, the first 2 days, the first week, and the first 2 weeks. If you make it to 2 weeks cold turkey, you've done it.
Just quit!