One Year Today

Good job FD!! Now put the kush down also LOL JK

Excellent job First Down!

Good job FD, keep it up.

Nice job FD. One of my best friends has been a pack-a-day smoker since he was 16 (turns 33 this year). I wish so badly he'd quit, but he gets pretty defensive when I bring it up.

Nice job FD. One of my best friends has been a pack-a-day smoker since he was 16 (turns 33 this year). I wish so badly he'd quit, but he gets pretty defensive when I bring it up.

The only way a person will quit is when they have made up their mind to quit. I told my wife I would quit when our daughter was born and she was 3 when I finally quit. I have friends who smoke and I hade to stay away from them for months so I would not be tempted from their smoking. Now two of them are 6 months smoke free.

Good Job FirstDown! I myself consider myself to be an ex-smoker, although through the past year since I first quit completley, last January, i have had a few slip ups. I think its common for people trying to quit to experience the occasional falling off the wagon.

You have my respect for making it a whole year. I hope that i can quit again and stay off it too. Tomorrow is planned to be my first smoke free day, starting the process over again. I fell off the wagon hard over the last 2 weeks, but I am going to give it my best shot going forward.

Congrats, FD. Way to stick to it.

If I can quit I know you can SS. I used Chanix for about two months which seemed to curve my desire to smoke some. You have to change your daily life that has to do with smoking. I did little things like not stopping in the morning for coffee because I get my coffee and fire up a smoke. I would go to lunch then right back to the office so I'd not smoke. I put down drinking for a few weeks and when I did start drinking I went with vodka because it does not make me want to smoke as much. I still have not drank Bourbon sense I put down the smokes because it really make me crave a sig. Its all those little things that make quitting a little easier. The main thing to do is just not smoke and remember that craving will go away as fast as they come. I also changed my thinking about smoking. Instead of seeing someone smoking and thinking boy that must taste good I would think man thats gross. Every time you see some smoking think that way and it does help. Also throw away everthing you have that is related to smoking and with them at over $5 a pack should help some.Good luck.

Hope this doesn't cause you to start again FD, but it looks like you and Pres. Obama have one thing in common:

Obama has kicked smoking habit, first lady says - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110208/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_smoking)

^ Ha, I don't believe it.

Maybe he's quit smoking around HER.