Did you quit?I hope so! :)

My mum who is 55 gave up last year. She had been smoking since she was 18. She had an asthma attack and was really in a bad way and ended up hospitilized for a week. From then on she has not touched another cigarrette. She is too scared to touch another one!

I hope you find the will to give up, it is hard, I have been told but don't give up.

Maggie

Yea, we all know about heart disease, cancer, asthma and emphysema and yet we still smoke? The scares, real as they are, are still not enough to finally quit. Neither is the baggering we get from well meaning loved ones.
What will finally do it?To say to ourselves, "enough is enough!".......For me it's my age.........In the range for heart attacks and can feel it acting up. When it hits home and the true reality is right in front of your face...........I'm going to quit and it will be this year!!!!!!!!

Is that vague enough???Thanks maggie. :)

Thanks, i'll check out the website later.........Gotta go to work.

Undertaker............Yikes, hows that for a username...........Gave me the heebiejeebies!Lol. Welcome to this site. :)

Hey nathalie, what happened? Good or bad, i'd like to hear from you. Keep trying, just having the desire to quit is the first big step. :)

Never give up! I know alot of people in my family have tried the patch and the gum and say its horrible. Maybe if you find something else like some other type of gum to chew something sweet maybe to take your mind off smoking. :!:

The patch or nicotene gum is not the answer. Getting rid of your need for nicotene is the answer. Patches or gums just prolong the need. It actually causes you to suffer more. You cant smoke, but yet the need for nicotene continues longer than it would just by not smoking at all.

Cirgarettes, chewing tabbaco, patches, gums, are only different ways to deliever nicotene. It is the nicotene that you need to give up,not just the cigarettes.

I just can't seem to quit either. I have all the reasons in the world to quit....but like alot of others I smoke on. I've lost 2 grandfathers to lung cancer, my dad have a massive stroke then cancer, he passed away this past Dec, he was diagnoised with cancer after the stroke first bladder then bone. My own health is soooooo bad and still... sometimes I think I have my own death wish. It's selfish to continue to smoke when you know it is killing you right? I have a beautiful son 20 yrs old and he had begged me to stop smoking since he was old enough to realize it was a "bad" thing. I did quit one time for 2 weeks after my dad's stroke, it was a really bad stroke, took his speech right side paralzes, it was terrible he had been a smoker before the stroke and he used to grab for my cigarettes and try to break them, that's when I call my doc. got a prescription for Chantix and actually quit for 2 weeks. Then one afternoon I got the call that my dad's cancer had spread to his bones and we needed to take him home and put him back in bed and keep him comfortable, immediately after I hung up the phone I almost broke my neck trying to get to the store to buy some cigerattes and have been smoking every since again.
My personal health issues as I stated cancer runs in my family both sides all four grandparents and now my dad. I am 39 years old, I have a bad heart, aortic insufficency from mild to moderate in one years time; the other 3 valves also started leaking in that years time. I currently take 5 pills a day for right sided heart failure. I have digestive problems, ischemic colits ( stoke in colon), diverticulitis it just goes on and on. I also suffer with back problems, and extra vertebre in lumbar region, arthrtis, bulging disk laying on a nerve root, stenosis. I also have a cyst in my brain (arachnoid cyst), massive miagraines. As I am sure if you've read this far you can see I have EVERY reason in the world to quit, but why don't I???????? You know sometimes I amaze myself as to just how stupid and selfish I am. I know it's a crutch for me and sometimes when I think of how I feel from day to day with all the health issues, I just think I'm doomed anyway, which I know is a cop out, but I don't know what to even think of myself anymore.

I just can't seem to quit either. I have all the reasons in the world to quit....but like alot of others I smoke on. I've lost 2 grandfathers to lung cancer, my dad have a massive stroke then cancer, he passed away this past Dec, he was diagnoised with cancer after the stroke first bladder then bone. My own health is soooooo bad and still... sometimes I think I have my own death wish. It's selfish to continue to smoke when you know it is killing you right? I have a beautiful son 20 yrs old and he had begged me to stop smoking since he was old enough to realize it was a "bad" thing. I did quit one time for 2 weeks after my dad's stroke, it was a really bad stroke, took his speech right side paralzes, it was terrible he had been a smoker before the stroke and he used to grab for my cigarettes and try to break them, that's when I call my doc. got a prescription for Chantix and actually quit for 2 weeks. Then one afternoon I got the call that my dad's cancer had spread to his bones and we needed to take him home and put him back in bed and keep him comfortable, immediately after I hung up the phone I almost broke my neck trying to get to the store to buy some cigerattes and have been smoking every since again.
My personal health issues as I stated cancer runs in my family both sides all four grandparents and now my dad. I am 39 years old, I have a bad heart, aortic insufficency from mild to moderate in one years time; the other 3 valves also started leaking in that years time. I currently take 5 pills a day for right sided heart failure. I have digestive problems, ischemic colits ( stoke in colon), diverticulitis it just goes on and on. I also suffer with back problems, and extra vertebre in lumbar region, arthrtis, bulging disk laying on a nerve root, stenosis. I also have a cyst in my brain (arachnoid cyst), massive miagraines. As I am sure if you've read this far you can see I have EVERY reason in the world to quit, but why don't I???????? You know sometimes I amaze myself as to just how stupid and selfish I am. I know it's a crutch for me and sometimes when I think of how I feel from day to day with all the health issues, I just think I'm doomed anyway, which I know is a cop out, but I don't know what to even think of myself anymore.

Quitting smoking is very very hard. I know. It took me about 4 tries before i quit all together. I am going on 7 months smoke free. I didn't use any gums, or patches. I just quit. It didn't help that smokes were going up to 5 a pack, and 20 a carton. I had been smoking for almost 10 years, and it was tough. But i had to do it for my family, and for my baby. I am not 18 weeks pregnant, and i got pregnant soon after i stopped smoking. I'm not sure if that had anything to do iwth it, but who knows! There are a lot of help lines out there, and i agree the gums suck. But if you put your mind to it, and you WANT to quit you will. I wish you the best of luck~!