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Back when I was 16 years old, roughly some 47 years ago, I smoked my first cigarette.  Yesterday I smoked my last.  It has to be this way and I know if but God I love those things.  It is sad I know but unless you have ever really enjoyed smoking you can't realize what it is to give them up.  They are with you every hour of every day sometimes even during the night I will get up and have one.  I am not sure how hard this will be but I'm guessing it will be awful.  I'm going cold turkey.  I think all the stuff that they have to help you have so many side effects that it would be better to continue smoking! I never had the side effects of smoking.  No cough, no chest pains, no raspy voice so it was easy for me to continue and not think I was doing myself any harm.  A doctor visit proved me wrong when a high cholestrol rating was directly associated with  smoking and I mean this was a dangerously high rating.  I have put it off before knowing I should quit but the doctor told me to prepare yourself and make a stop date.  So that is what I did...January 1, 2012.  The new beginning date....... Wish me luck my friends as I enter this journey. 

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jamamom I'm pretty sure that smoking cut years from my parents' lives. Those who need you will be blessed by this difficult change you are making!
Fri Feb 3, 2012, 7:24:41 AM EST

AnnML Maureen - Good luck to you. I did it 7 years ago and I'm so proud of myself and I'd never go back to it. You can do it, too!
Fri Feb 3, 2012, 7:47:01 AM EST

boomerme My husband and I both have smoked since age 16. He is 72 and I am 64. Last Jan. he was diagnosed as having cancer of the vocal cord. He quit smoking with the patch and I quit (for him) cold turkey. It was not as hard as expected. Of course I still think of smoking one now and then when the right moment hits me but over all I don't miss it at all. Neither does he. If you know you have to do it you can.
Fri Feb 3, 2012, 8:29:09 AM EST

carolzonie good for you!!! one day at a time!!! My sweetheart smoked since we first dated each other in high school. After we reconnected 35 years later, I asked the dreaded question: do you still smoke? and he said "nope, it has no redeeming value, i quit years ago." I found out later he had JUST quit the month before (although he had wanted to for years!) and tease him about this, because that would have been a MAJOR dealbreaker for me, and my response would have been, "well have a nice life" if he was still smoking! He has quit for 3 years now, still has the craving, but fights it because he knows he would regret caving in and be filled with self loathing. I admire him tremendously for this strength, which also shows in other areas. It makes me so sad when I learn of others who smoke, particularly women, to keep weight off because of the other health trade offs they take by smoking. My greatest sadness: my daughter and a good friend, as well as my teenage stepson all smoke. I never miss a chance to urge them to quit, but I also know I can't live their lives. I still try. GOOD LUCK!
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 8:16:11 AM EST

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