I miss my lovely cigarettes

[Mizmoon]

The smooth, silky paper ...
The sweet smell of unburned tobacco ...
Putting it in my mouth and lighting up ...
inhale that nicotine - woohoo!

I'm one week away from being quit for a whole year and I still miss it a lot (sniff)

[KitchenWitch]

1. Congratulations!

I quit over 16 years ago and sometimes I still miss it too.

[Angry Girl]

12. I miss it too sometimes

It has been a while but I still sometimes like to stand downwind of tobacco smokers. But think of all the money you're saving!

URGENT! Timing is critical to save earthquake victims before winter!

[tk2kewl]

2. Stop that!

I'm only on day 10.

[KitchenWitch]

4. Be strong!

[tk2kewl]

5. last year i lasted for about 6 weeks

the real problem is when i get to the point where i feel like i can have "just one"

[KitchenWitch]

7. resist the "just one"

I have quit several times, and the lure of "just one" is what got me started again every time.

[LaraMN]

14. That's exactly what I'm afraid of. I can hear it running through my brain

and no one can lie better to me than myself. It's all or nothing for me and I know it.

[tk2kewl]

17. yep... way too easy

for me "just one" turns into, "only when i drink" and then it's just a matter of time before it's back to a pack a day.

Hang in there

[Angry Girl]

16. Don't do it!

My husband and I quit smoking cigarettes about, oh, 15, no, 20 times? Yes, at least. One time we even quit for 2 years and had one single puff.... Took us another year to quit all over again.

Set up a piggy bank with all the money you save on smokes. Think of all the gas you can buy!

URGENT! Timing is critical to save earthquake victims before winter!

[swimboy]

6. For donating members, there's a DU group for quitters.

It's been quiet in there, but it's a good way to help and be helped by others.

[LaraMN]

8. I'm on day 16. Sucks, doesn't it?

We're doing a good thing, though!

[Shell Beau]

3. That is good for you that it's almost been a year.

I am not sure that feeling ever goes away though. I know a woman who hasn't smoked in 7 years and she still misses exactly what you described. But stay strong!!! You are a much healthier person today than you were a year ago!! Now, it is my turn to quit.

[LaraMN]

9. I don't think I'll ever stop missing them, either.

My Dad quit for five years and still wanted one like crazy.

[Divameow77]

10. I haven't had a cigarette in months

and I still miss it. Just remember how hard it was at first and you made it through that, do you want to have to go through that again?

[underpants]

11. Day 97 here

and knock it off!!

Actually on Saturday I went golfing with the guys. Then spent the night watching football with the guys-many beers and they smoke when they drink....me? nothing. Not one.

[Deep13]

13. You have to get away from the idea that you have "given up" anything.

When I was in 5th grade in the 1970s, my teacher was rabidly anti-smoking. His father had died of a heart attack at age 50 and his brother from lung cancer.

One day in class to demonstrate a point, he lit up, took a drag and blew it through a white handkercheif before coughing his lungs out. The cloth was passed around so we could see the brown spot made by ONE PUFF. He of course made the point that a deposit like gets deposited on a smokers throat and lungs every single time he takes a drag.

Smoking is a horrible, disgusting habit. It stinks and makes you a social pariah because of it. It is expensive. My sister smokes and every time I see her she reeks because it is on her clothes. I've watched people die from emphysema, and it is a lingering, horrible death,

[LynneSin]

15. Yes, but we would all miss you if you died from tobacco related issues

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

18. Quitter!! You'll never get ahead in life if you just quit everything!

No, seriously though, you should be most proud of yourself for keeping it up for a year. Congratulations!!!!

[Tikki]

19. 8 and 10 weeks away from...

....ONE YEAR, here.

Tikki and oldest son.
Mr. Tikki and younger son never smoked.

Honestly, I do not miss it one bit. Yucky, sucky habit...


Tikki

[Callalily]

20. Congrats to those that

have quite smoking and kudos to those that are in transition. To all of you I'm sending strength.

[MissMillie]

21. You'll never regret quitting

I'm proud of you. I've been quit for 7+ years and I know how hard it is at the beginning (even up to one year). Years and years of conditioned response (lighting up w/ coffee, lighting up in the car, lighting up after dinner, lighting up w/ a cocktail, etc) don't erase easily. But you're doing it, and you should be very proud.

[politicat]

22. Oh, I know how you feel....

We just drove from Colorado to Indiana and back for a funeral... and smoking always made the miles go by faster, it seemed. (DH was a pipe and cigar smoker, I'm a year quit (about - I don't remember the precise day) from American Spirits.)

I wanted a smoke all the way there, and all the time I was there - because I think the national Tobacco industry would collapse of the state of Indiana stopped smoking - and all the way back.

I'm better now, but it's amazing how that little molecule gets bound up so tightly in your brain...

[Taverner]

23. Oh I miss them too

How I miss the fresh taste of American Spirit Mediums in the morning, with my coffee...that first bite when the smoke hits the back of your lungs...that dizzy feeling you get from the first smoke...mmmmmmmmmmm

[swimboy]

24. Ground Control to Taverner--you are headed into dangerous reverie

Pull out! Pull out!

[LaraMN]

25. AUGHH! Bitchslap!!!

[Taverner]

26. What did the five fingers say to the face

SLAP!

I'M RICK JAMES BEEEEEEYOTCH!!!!