If you have quit smoking or are trying to quit, what is your biggest challenge?

If you have quit smoking or are trying to quit, what is your biggest challenge?I quit smoking in 1971. Except for a few cigars I haven't smoked since and my last cigar was in 1977. Have you quit or are you trying to kick the habit? I quit cold turkey without a support group or any kind of medicine or other aid. Once I firmly decided to quit I had no trouble staying quit, but I did backslide several times on the way to successfully quitting. I never doubted I could kick the habit, though it was not easy to quit after years as a smoker.
Between my first serious attempt to quit smoking and my final successful attempt there was a span of six years and probably four or five tries to quit. It was not easy, and the hardest part was being around other people who smoked. In one of those tries I was smoke-free for nearly three years before I backslid into the habit. So I respect anyone who has tried--failed or succeeded--and I fully sympathize with those who have the habit and want to quit.

Great answers, everyone. Thanks for participating. If you've quit, congratulations. If you've tried and failed, I respect your efforts and wish you the best.

The cost is one factor that helps me stay quit. When I last smoked cigarettes cost about 40 cents a pack.

MissL
Ive been smoking for 5 years, and i have tried to stop many times but its hard being in a social environment where there are smokers. And sometimes i enjoy a smoke whether i am bored, out for coffee, drinking...thats where i will find it hard....i know i shud stop cas i can feel the effects but it is VERY hard...i know that in a month or so they are putting cigarettes up to $ 20 a packet...that mite influence me not to! I kno its going to take a few goes before i really stick to it..

Joan
its seeing a cigar in a store and knowing Ive got my drivers license in my purse. But it helps not to take youre drivers license to the store so u cant buy em

Alberich
I am indeed impressed. I salute you, congratulate you, and no one could possibly bestow enough accolades that you so richly deserve: I am dead serious - "scouts honor".

I'm only about 7 yrs. your senior, and I've given up totally trying to quit. My last attempt was about 2 mos. ago, when I tried Chantrix I think it was called: a medication program that is designed if I recall correctly, to take approximately 8 wks. or so to be effective - results were supposed to have been noticeable after the 2nd wk.

I had begun the 3rd wk., but I began to feel so strange and really rather ill, that I had to quit.

As an adolescent(child-?) around 11 yrs. old, my brother and I were persuaded by our farm friends, peers - lived in rural Arkansas - to try a cigarette. Become hooked good, shortly thereafter, and have smoked around 2 + pks. a day, ever since. Stopped once for 6 mos., and another time for maybe a week or two; but for never as long as you have.

And guess what? Even though I have COPD, I have no signs of lung cancer. So I've just forgotten about my smoking, and decided to try and live life at it's fullest during the time I have left - and you know who, only knows how long that will be.

Cheers,

Alberich

Lesley
Sex...we used to always enjoy a cigarette after sex.
So since we quit smoking...we don't have as much sex.
But we eat a lot of ice cream.....

john r
Hi warren..

congrats on that time its impressive.. i have been free for over 5 years now.. after smoking for more than 40 years.. the thing that worked for me was a support group..

the biggest challenge, was to become convinced, i couldent smoke just one..


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