I'd love to be able to smoke a good cigar, but it would ruin me. I either smoke or don't smoke. Cigars would lead right back to cigarettes, I'm afraid. And I've been off the damn things far too long now to go back.

I inhale shisha and beedi's but not cigars. I can't inhale much I still compete in jiu-jitsu tournaments and that would make me wind.

Exactly, it is second nature to inhale if you are a smoker like we were.

I'm not going to do that to my lungs. I have watched someone die from suffocation due to smoking and it isn't pretty. No way I am dying that way.

That would really suck. What are shisha and beedi's?

I'd sometimes smoke beedis in college when we were at Dennys and people would think I was smoking a joint, lol

Beedi is a tobacco leaf rolled up. Wikipedia it. Shisha is smoked through a hookah and it is really light. It comes in different flavors. Grape rules. My sister is going to bring me a hookah back from the ME on her next tour. I will probably smoke it a couple times a month when I get one. Now I only have it when I go to hookah bars.

16 days and not one smoke for me. The problems with this ice storm have really tugged on my cravings for a cig but my will power has won in the end. I'm feeling so much better. Smells, tastes and breathing are so improved over these days. Not many of you may care about my progress but I'm really proud of myself. Here's to many more smoke free days :toast:

rep.

I'm always nagging on one of my good friends to give up the smokes.

Chantix has really worked for me.

Awesome glad to hear it's working for you. I went with the Commit Lozenges. I used them for 4 days and havn't since.

Good for you! Hang in there! :thumb:

I am a Former Smoker as well =)
 

About the time I first saw this post back in August I started my master plan.

I decided that I was going to quit smoking on my birthday (10/14)

So starting in August, everytime I lit up that Camel Wide I told myself that I was going to quit on my B-day

Fast forward to 10/14 had a great night, went to see George Carlin, got rip roarin drunk and prolly smoked a whole pack in just a couple hours.

Woke up the next moring feelin great reached over to the night stand to grab my pack like every other morning for what seems like forever, but this time I thought to myself, hmmmm I don't smoke anymore, and I hav'nt had a smoke since.

The wierd thing is that I hav''nt had any cravings, did'nt turn into an asshole and I know I'm never going to F**K up and get addicted to the shiat again.

Now all I have to do is drop the 20 pounds I've packed on since lol.

a~

wish me luck, tomorrow is my quit day

Good luck. Do you think you're ready?