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Re: Who's happy they kicked? How long now. [Re: Brian Spagnola] #14101326 08/19/21 09:52 PM
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Its proven smokers get COVID less. Covid obviously doesn't like Tar and other goodies from Cigs..


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Re: Who's happy they kicked? How long now. [Re: otay michael] #14125441 09/10/21 05:05 PM
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Five months, don't like the weight gain (25 pounds) and there are days I'd still chew my arm off for a smoke.

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Re: Who's happy they kicked? How long now. [Re: otay michael] #14125991 09/11/21 02:41 AM
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12 years tonight I threw away a 1/2 pack and swore them off. Yes, I would love to have a smoke now and again but the urge passes.

12 years tonight - I recognized the sacrifice our brothers and sisters made on that fateful day and I dedicated my quit to them and their survivors.

If their survivors had to live without their heroes I could certainly live without cigarettes.

Quit NOW . . . . . Tobacco is doing you no good.


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Re: Who's happy they kicked? How long now. [Re: Topwater2] #14138518 09/23/21 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Topwater2
Cold turkey 11/8/94 after three packs a day for 25 years. Craved them for over a year afterwards but can't stand the smell of them today. It was Gods will that got me through it. Thank God I never developed any type of cancer. I stuck to my other addiction.........fishing. Cost more but healthier results.



The above is me to just change date to 1999 instead of 94

I think I am allergic to the smoke now. I get sick and can't breath if I get in a room now.

Re: Who's happy they kicked? How long now. [Re: otay michael] #14156612 10/10/21 06:42 PM
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Dipped for 40years+ 76 days quit. Like pulling teeth to stay quit but so far so good.


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Re: Who's happy they kicked? How long now. [Re: otay michael] #14207988 12/01/21 02:58 PM
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Re: Who's happy they kicked? How long now. [Re: n2ratfishin] #14231507 12/27/21 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by n2ratfishin
Five months, don't like the weight gain (25 pounds) and there are days I'd still chew my arm off for a smoke.


Still glad I quit, but dang this extra weight is just as bad.

Re: Who's happy they kicked? How long now. [Re: otay michael] #14241275 01/06/22 05:23 PM
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October 10th 1984. Very glad I quit. I can't remember the last time I not had a craving to light up.

Re: Who's happy they kicked? How long now. [Re: otay michael] #14247822 01/13/22 02:40 PM
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I can't remember the exact date, but it was in 2006 for cigs. Then did cigars for a year and weaned off of them. Seemed pointless. So about 15 years ago. I used to love a dip or chew while hunting. I don't even think about it anymore. Now if I can get off the juice, that would be nice. Not ready for that though.

Re: Who's happy they kicked? How long now. [Re: otay michael] #14392625 06/13/22 05:37 PM
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Guess I'll add my name to this.

Started Copenhagen in the 80's in high school. By the late 90's, I ate 4 cans a day, would have ate 5 if I had the money. Quit Cop in mid 2000's, but picked up Levi Garrett till it got too expensive. Found the Skoal Snus in 2012 and have been using about 2 cans a day since.

Brings me to today. 3 Weeks ago had my regular doctor visit, doc told me I was going to be diabetic if I didn't loose some weight, change what I'm eating, quit dipping and quit drinking. So I went home, dumped about $200 dollars in tobacco in the trash can and quit Cold Turkey. Told the Doc I would lay off the beer, which I have, but I'm a whiskey drinker and I'm not giving that up, other than no drinking during the week.

So in 3 weeks, I went from eating and drinking anything I wanted to cutting almost everything out of my diet. Down 20 pounds now and got a long ways to go! I was 340 pounds 3 weeks ago, my goal is below 300 for my November Doc visit.

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Re: Who's happy they kicked? How long now. [Re: otay michael] #14394571 06/15/22 02:17 PM
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Best of luck to you bigrebar!


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Re: Who's happy they kicked? How long now. [Re: skeeter22] #14472671 09/09/22 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by skeeter22
I quit Copenhagen in 1983. Best decision I ever made.


That right there is one of the hardest things to break....well done skeeter!


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Re: Who's happy they kicked? How long now. [Re: COFF] #14478704 09/15/22 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by COFF
I smoked about a pack a day for 4 years while in the Air Force. Towards the very end of my enlistment, I was shipped out to Kuwait for Operation Enduring Freedom which turned into Iraqi Freedom. We worked long hours with activity levels that went from 100% frenzy to 0% dead with nothing in between. In the dead times all we did was sit around in the desert and smoke; cranked it up to maybe 3-4 packs a day for those several months.

After an open ended extension of my deployment, we finally got word we were rotating back home in a week. I remember looking down at a lit cig and saying to myself I don't want to take this [censored] home with me. I had just opened a carton of cigarettes that day, so I took them all and gave them to my buddy and gave them to him. Went cold turkey right then and there.

That was in May of 2003 and I've never looked back. The hardest part for me was just the habits. It felt weird not lighting up after a meal, or when I jumped in the car. I had to keep toothpicks or gum just to have something to stick in my mouth and to do with my hands.


congrats and Thank you for your service

Re: Who's happy they kicked? How long now. [Re: otay michael] #14478720 09/15/22 07:30 PM
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I was 11 , a neighbor kid and I stole some cigs from my mom ( unfiltered Pall Malls ) . We smoked them ( puffed them , didn't inhale ) in the garage . Mom comes home , smells the cigs in the garage and confronts us . She walks the neighbor kid home , tells his mom . Comes back , walks me to the backyard and says --- "so you wanna smoke ?" ---I look up dumbfounded , shrug my shoulders . She sits me down and breaks out a package of cigs and hands me one and herself one . She lights me up , herself also ---- then starts telling me how to smoke , how to really inhale the smoke , take deep breaths ---really enjoy that smoke in my lungs.
I am coughing like crazy -- she brings out another , and another ---keeps making me inhale deep . Before I know it , I am puking like crazy , sick as a dog . I tell her no more . She says no way --- you wanna smoke --then smoke --lights another one , I keep puking ----never touched another cig and can't stand the smell 50 years later .

Re: Who's happy they kicked? How long now. [Re: otay michael] #14480670 09/17/22 11:51 PM
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Over 4 years since I quit smoking cigarettes. Supposed to improve your health, right? Since then I've developed atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure, been hospitalized 4 times in the past year. Had a couple of heart procedures, temporary improvement, then right back. Another heart procedure next month.

Current condition probably unrelated to past smoking, says the cardiologist.


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