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.

Five months, don't like the weight gain (25 pounds) and there are days I'd still chew my arm off for a smoke.

I quit Copenhagen in 1983. Best decision I ever made.

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.