Keep the good work up mate,5 days already and things can only get better when not smoking.personally i dont know how hard it is to quit coz im not a smoker,but my mum is a light smoker and she found it hard tryin to quit so i can only imagine how hard it is

but keep it goin day by day and im sure you can kick the habbit outta your life
if u feel the need to smoke,come on here and tell us,use JW like a nicotine (sp?) patch,lol

i have never smoked in my life, not even tried it, i just dont find it "cool", and everyone that smokes says it suks and they want to quit, likes omeone in this thread eh emm... ;)
so i woudnt know, but i say tell ur friends that may also smoke that u r tryin to quit and instead of u smoking tell them to take them away from you, or just make it for yourself, if you really wanna quit and u propose it to yourself i trully think you can overcome it.
u can do it if u put ur mind into it...
oha and everyone elses ideas r good too :)

All the more reason to keep going!

There you go substituting one life threatening addiction for another . :D ..

Best of luck to you and your wife in your initiative.

I get a headache from being near smoke so I never became a smoker myself.

I also have never smoked in my life.

Some people I know used to be heavy smokers (2 packs a day) and have succeded in kicking the habbit :). But there are also numerous friends of mine who can't force themselfs to stop :( ... a cigaret free week seems to be their record :).

Good luck mate.

Every day that you go without a smoke brings you one day closer to the day when you can look down your nose at your wife and say "you started smoking, I still haven't touched one yet".

Now if thats not an incentive I don't know what is. :D

Not much to add, so I'll just wish you good luck! :D

All the best sir. It can be done, im sure you know that, just think how nice it would be to add another number to the statistics!

Almost two weeks!!! Yay!!!

Although I have spent as much on nicotine therapy products as I would have on cigs at $2.75 a pack...

...much more incentive in the UK where the nicorette stuff is considerably cheaper than ciggys...

...anyway, it wasn't about the cost, it's more to ensure that I don't work all my life and drop dead before I get to put my feet up for my retirement!! :shock:

now that you only have your daily nicotine dose via nicorette, try not to use it so often
have you tried eating a carrot? :mrgreen: it helped a friend of mine

Glad to see you are still keeping away from the cigs transam! I have been known to have a smoke or two while out on the town...but when I started dating my new GF she would have none of it, even just one smoke in a week, So i dont anymore. I still have one here and there, but now I dont even like it, so basically I dont touch em anymore. I never found myself addicted, tho I would never smoke at worst more than 2-3 cigs in a day.. so I dunno how much you need to be addicted, but sometimes I feel like one when I see others smoking. So my addiction to them was a small one, and I am sure yours is a strong one. Im glad ur still on track, keep up the good work, save money, your body , and trade in that Trans am for a Ferrari 355 in no time!

now why did i just come across this?

way to go TransAm. i've seen people try to quit before so i know it can be rough. Best of luck to you and vicky :D

You want words of encouragement
Clean lung
http://www.co.san-juan.wa.us/health/...an_lung_hr.jpg
Emphysema riddled lung

http://www.lungusa.org/atf/cf/%7B7A8...y_lung2_hr.jpg

My mom tried to quit many times some 30 odd years ago. Finally, while still smoking, she noticed that her throat was feeling really sore. The doctor told her point-blank that if she does not quit now, her throat is going to get worse and she will die. She finally quit and is still here today, 75 years young. My grandfather died of emphysema when I was 6 years old, he struggled for his last breath and died in the cellar. Up to that point he was still smoking.

I should really not have even started - my Grandma (who never smoked) has very bad lungs, she uses a nebuliser and the steroids she has to take have made her back arch. Her husband (my grandad of course) died of heart disease. My other grandma died at age 67 (I was too young to remember her) from lung cancer caused by smoking.

My dad is an ex-smoker and was forever telling me to give up over the years.

Thanks for the pics Foxfour, if I get tempted I will come back here and look.

It was funny today, I was packing my DVD player into its box which has sat under the stairs for 2 years - what did I find in the box? A single camel cigarette. Needless to say I ripped it up and threw it away :mrgreen:

I'm sure it's reallt rough. My mom had the urge to smoke for many years after she quit. I thank the doctor because he scared my mom really bad that day. She was crying days after she spoke to the doctor, but he really drove his point home.
Good luck.