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I do smoke on occasion, mostly when I feel really bad for a long time.
For me it was always just cigarettes, but always when I quit I have the worst week and that is why I am very
reluctant to start again.
I started in high school and always had these times of smoking a lot or not smoking at all. The longest I smoked regularly
was about 6 months a few years back. Woke up one day and I have had enough of it so I quit. It wasn't easy but I managed.
Haven't smoked at all for about 10 months now. But I have also dealt with some things that were bothering me in the past
so I find it easier not to smoke. In addition I have other obsessions that make smoking something at the back of my to do list.
Also congratulations on not smoking for ten years 
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Great for a smoker, Everyday is "quit smoking today" day..
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Suraj Sahoo Mindfiresolutions wrote: Everyday is "quit smoking today tomorrow" day
FTFY!
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Very True..
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Never smoked - so when I got into office with my first job I just got sick...Everyone were smoking and you barely could breath...
But I was fortunate - on the next month I joined the boss decided to pay everyone a guru to help quit smoking...It was successful and we are a no smoking area since...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Just finished rolling a cigarette and decided to click on the thread before grabbing the lighter.
Then I realized the topic.
Hope your curiosity is satisfied now.
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I used to walk away, and not smoke by my computer - mostly because the companies I worked for wouldn't let you - and I found it helpful as it broke my "concentration" and let me come at problems from a different direction. Now I come here instead... 
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You may get back to cigarettes - less problems in long run
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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no smoking for me.
Watched my brother die of a heart attack at 35 from smoking, I was 15. It was not pretty.
Watched my parents cough up a lung each morning. From age 0 on.
Wondered why when I went outside I immediately felt better. Would spend hours outside in -15(f) just so I could breath.
Watched my dad die at 70 from heart disease, Watched mom die at 76 from lung cancer.
No thank you.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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My sincere condolences - my mother and father both died of cancers, Mum's at least was smoking related. And I'm losing count of the friends I've lost to tumours; I'm pretty sure it's higher than the number that have died as a result of motorcycles... 
Weird bit was Mum's funeral: we all knew exactly what killed her but the number of people who lit up immediately on leaving the service... 
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yes on the funeral bit.
And my Sister inlaw. She is a Nurse, really good one. She 'knows' it is bad for her. Yet she does nothing to stop. It really is addictive.
Oh well more caffeine. My addiction.
Oh and congrats and welcome back Griff
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Congrats I know how hard it is. Smoked for 40 some odd year and quit myself about 5 years ago.
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Wishing you ten more years; nay, twenty more, thirty, forty, fifty ... more years of non-smoking, healthy life.
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Thank you!
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I smoked for more than 30 years, gave up nearly 5 years ago. One day I just stopped, I didn't want any more and that was it. I was a bad tempered get for about six weeks but that was the only downside.
What had worked was that I used to buy my cigarettes by the carton and when I had opened the last carton I just decided that I would smoke them until I'd run out. Got through them and that was it.
The only thing I have wavered for is good cigars. Really good cigars. The ones I could never, and still can't afford.
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Congrats! For me, it has been since Nov. 23,1996, had my last one at about 11am. I still dream about those f'n things.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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I never smoked, didn't even try. The reason is mostly that my parents both don't smoke, but my grandfather did. I wasn't used to the smoke from home and when we visited my grandparents I couldn't stand the smell. Because of this "contrast program" I could never bring myself to even try a single cigarette.
The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.
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Congratulations, OG! I quit cold turkey on 27 July 1992. I used to smoke one or two cigs a day after dinner or a cup of coffee. Haven't touched one in 22 years and have no desire to light up.
Again, my hearty congratulations!
/ravi
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I gave up around 20 years ago.
Walked out of the tube station, got into my car and got the pack out ready to light up. I don't know what happened, but I looked at the packet, rolled down the window and threw the packet and lighter out. I have not smoked since nor did I ever miss it or have any cravings and I was a heavy smoker. Must have been ready.
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I gave up cigarettes about 35 years ago when I was seriously ill. Started again 4 or 5 years later (bloody fool that I amwas), then gave up a few years after that. Then started on cigars and eventually gave those up about 18 years ago. In each case I stopped cold turkey and did not use patches, ecigs, gum or any other alternative.
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Congrats  .
I never smoked and living in Southern California, I rarely see people smoking. Sometimes a week or two can go by where I don't see a smoker.
It is a completely different story when I go back to Denmark for a visit. I guess I am much more sensitive to the smoke now and I have a hard time being in the room when one of my friends starts smoking.
The company I work does not hire smokers. I think that is pretty awesome.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Congrats on your victory over cigs and good to have you back!  Also, thanks for sharing this. I have smoked for about 24 years now and really need to quit. I have tried the ecig but it hasn't caught on yet. My goal is to quit by the end of this year.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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If my experience is anything to go by, if you really want to quit, you will. If you are quitting "because you should" or because someone else wants you to, the chances are you won't, or you will go back to it. In my case I was fed up of being "controlled" by cigarettes instead of my controlling my smoking - so I stopped. The patches worked for me - with some side effects - but I think the two important things are to want to stop, and to have support from friends / family, and in that order.
One thing that was suggested by the stop smoking clinic my doctor runs was to take the cash you would have spent on cigarettes each day and put it in a jar. And the end of the first month, take it and spend the lot on some nice luxury for yourself. Then keep going and do the same at the end of six months - only it's a much bigger luxury! 
Helps to drive home the "how much money have I wasted on trying to kill myself?" point very firmly.
Good luck - and if you do decide to stop, let us know: I'm sure we will be supportive.
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Sage advice! Thanks for the support!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I quit 2 years ago next month, and still miss it terribly; I really enjoyed it, and never had any ill health effects. But I prefer to stay away from them simply to avoid the eventual health problems it would have caused. Curiously, I know have far more trouble with minor irritations like coughing, stopping for a breath on an uphill hike, and such. I never once experienced such difficulties while I was smoking, which really annoyed the self-righteous non-smokers I hiked with. They invariably wound up falling behind. I still maintain that smoking challenges one's breathing and heart in the same way that weight lifting challenges muscles, and some level of smoking increases the body's resistance to outside irritants. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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