quitting smoking

Well Mark back when I quit there wasn't anything available to help you. I had tried tapering off of them. Cutting down the number of cigs I smoked every day. But that didn't work very well. I done the hard candy and all that, but nothing really worked. Finally after many many unsuccessful tries, I just decided to go cold turkey! Took it one day at a time, but I told myself I would hot say I stopped smoking or consider myself a non smoker until I went a full year without every having a cig touch my lips. My incentive was we ( wife and I) wanted to have children and I didn't want them to be exposed to smoking. My then wife did not smoke so that was my motivation to quit that was back in 1975 I was in the Air Force in Anchorage Alaska. Our first child was born in Dec 1976. Neither of my daughters ever new I ever smoked.

So it can be done! It is not easy, and you never really do completely lose the urge to smoke, especially if your around somebody smoking! But to be successful you just want to have to want to do it bad enough and then quit!!!

Good luck to you and I wish success on your endeavour!

White Beard

thanks white beard. yep i to have tried cutting back on cigarettes but i was still smoking and it didn't last to long ethier. my doctor had mentioned chantixs. i'm kinda ife about that plus i beileve it would cost me around $300. i thinking the best (well maybe not the best)way is gonna be cold turkey. now was it vickie who quit with chantix. somebody mentioned it. i''l look back on prior post but was wondering how it worked for ya.i still have a hard time beileveing my insurance wouldn't cover something like the patches. oh well. back to the drawing board...LOL

More power to you!

Whatever works for you. Hang tight.

You never know until you try, so at least you're not giving up. That's the important part.



M.