Survey for people who have quit smoking?If you have quit smoking for more than 3 months (CONGRATULATIONS) could you please answer these questions for a school project of mine?
1. How old were you when you started smoking? How old were you when you quit?
2.What were your family members' smoking habits and your own feelings about their choices in that regard?
3. What/who prompted you to smoke your first cigarette?
4. After your first smoke did you personally plan on using cigarettes again or was it a physical desire to use again?
5. When you started smoking, did you plan on becoming addicted?
6. How did you get your cigarettes?
7. How did you feel physically the first time you smoked?
8. When you first started smoking, how much did you smoke?
9. When you first started smoking, when or in what situations did you typically smoke?
10.What prompted you to continue smoking?
11. Did you smoke about the same amount later as you did when you started, less, or more?
12. At what point did you begin to smoke more frequently, and why do you think you did?
13. What particular things did you like about your smoking habit?
14. What particular things did you dislike about your smoking habit?
15. How did others feel about your smoking?
16. Have you ever had any medical problems related to smoking?
17. What do you know about the risks of smoking?
18. What quitting techniques did you use when you finally quit smoking?
19. Why did you finally quit smoking?
20. Had you ever tried to quit smoking before?
21. When you quit smoking, what were your physical and emotional experiences?
22. what was the hardest part?
23. What ave the positive benefits of quitting been?
24. Did food taste better after you quit?
25. Did you smell food/things better after you quit?
Thank you very much, and again, congratulations on your magnificent achievement.
please, anybody. I know they are a lot of questions, but they're pretty basic and short to answer.
rowlfe
Too many questions...
I started occasionally at age 18. I did not smoke routinely until after I joined the Navy at age 20. When I started, no one called it an addiction. At my worst, probably when I was in my late 20's, early 30's, I might have peaked at a pack a day. Most times, a pack would last me several days. I don't think I ever "chain" smoked. 4 years ago, I suddenly quit. Cold turkey, as they say. I remember the week it happened. I live in WA state, 25 miles west of Seattle on the west side of Puget Sound. It rarely snows here. I was out at a local pizza bar watching Monday night football. Afterwards, when I got home I continued with the beers and got totally blitzed while catching up on video tapes from the Sunday games I had taped. I am retired and live alone so there was no need to get up early the next day, so it was really late that night I stumbled off to bed. Unknown to me, it had started snowing some time after I arrived at my house. I tossed out the empty pack of cigarettes when I made the coffee and set the timer for the morning. Tuesday dawned clear and sunny, but with a foot of snow on the ground. I was snowed in. That evening when I looked for my cigarettes, I discovered I was out. The carton I thought still had some was in fact empty. So, I was faced with the choice, walk into town, 2 miles away, or do without. With the snow, I wasn't going to be driving anywhere for several days. It always takes 3 or 4 days for a snow plow to make it's way out to the rural area where I live. At this point, my smoking was down to a pack in a week. I had been cutting back for quite some time, about a year I think. That morning, when I discovered I actually had NO cigarettes, I simply cleaned everything up. Emptied the two ashtrays I had and washed them, took the garbage outside and lit some incense. And then, I was done. I simply stopped. I did not do anything special. I did not use any aids like the patch or gum. It was cold turkey and I did not find it hard or difficult. I never suffered from what other people call withdrawal. I DID think about smoking from time to time, but I never took any action to do anything to start smoking again. It has been 4 years next month, December. I think what has helped me the most to NOT start again was my friends who all seemed to stop right around the same time as I did. Based on other people I've talked with about this, I have had it remarkably easy. Apparently I am quite the rare exception. I am 62. I smoked on and off, more or less for about 40 years. Last Friday, I was in line at the supermarket with my groceries. The man in front of me bought a pack of cigarettes and paid $ 6.25. The last time I bought cigarettes, I seem to remember I paid $ 32.00 for a carton. It had been over a year before that Tuesday in December that I had last bought a carton. Like I said, for the year prior to the snow day, I was running through a pack in 3 to 7 or more days with several days in a row of not smoking at all. I guess I really sort of eased my way off cigarettes. I do not recall consciously deciding to quit. It just sort of happened.
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