Quitting smoking...

[PhL0aTeR]

as been said, you gotta want to quit... i started pretty young, thankfully i quit rather young as well. But that was quit time #5 or 6.... what really made me stop is the fact that i had to walk thro-ugh a trash compacter room where people smoked right outside of, so the combination of the smoke and nasty trash did it for me..... but i also found that not hanging around people that smoke a lot works wonders.... out of sight, out of mind.

[kwando]

calculate how much it costs... cigarettes, doctor bills, etc.

i just started again but i can quit cold turkey if i wanted to. just a rough time at work lately.

[bjl913]

Thanx for all the advise guys! It really is encouraging to see so many people that have either done it, or helped a loved one through it! My goal is graduation day from the police academy(dec 12th)!

[kwando]

what academy are you in? thinking myself about becoming a LEO.

[bjl913]

I am over at arapahoe community college getting my post. Full time program doesnt allow really any time for work since your in school 6-7 days a week, but if you pass everything you get your post, plus 40 semester hours in 1 semester!

[kwando]

paid training??

[bjl913]

unfortunately not, i wasnt lucky enough to find an agency to sponser me through, so i actualy paid close to 5 grand to go... i had to move back in /w mom and dad while im in school because i just cant afford to live on my own without working! Its not too bad of a gig. Financial aid covered most all of the tuition, and i had about another 3500 in loans to live off of from august to december. most of that money is dried up now, but it definately made things easier!

[centrarchidae]

The time that I quit that it actually worked, I used the patch.

The way I saw it, the addiction had two parts. There's the habit and then there's the chemical itself. Going onto a patch and then tapering off (by switching to a lower-dose patch every few weeks) knocked down the chemical part of the addiction. Or at least most of it.

Missing the habit, I wish I had a good idea. I chewed a lot of gum and got anxious a lot but it got better after about the second month.

FWIW.

[cowxguy]

Its very HARD to quit. I have been smoking less and less every day. I am down to 10 cigs a day!

[bjl913]

ive gone from 20-30 down to about 5-15 a day over the last 3 months. im getting better!