Stories and experiences by: DAB57

Today I sit at 18 months and 2 days Quit. Thanks to all on this wonderful site. I hope you all find the success you so deserve. May your holidays be filled with love and happiness and your new year continue to be smoke free and full of love and cheer.

A big thanks to penelopejane, Happiness, softly40 and SteveJ. It is always great to hear from my fellow ex smokers. May your Journeys be filled with love and health and happiness. In case I don't call in during the holidays, I would like to wish everyone the best for the holidays. Stay safe.

I received the friendly email from the iCanQuit Team for an update, so I thought i would just like to say hello to my quit friends and to offer encouragement and support. Today I am 17 months quit and have not looked back. Personally I found my quit (cold turkey) withdrawals to be mild and short lived so I was a lucky quitter. If anyone is really struggling, just know that in the scheme of things...

Stay strong and fight the fight. We the addicted smokers can and will always beat the addiction, we just need to maintain focus and ignore the side effects which are always very short lived in the scheme of things. On the 22nd June I will have met my biggest milestone yet and that is my one year anniversary of being quit (cold turkey). I want to offer each and everyone on this wonderful communit...

Hi my wonderful forum friends. I am happy to say that today is my 8th month without a cigarette hanging out of my mouth. 8 months since I stopped being a slave to the nicotine demon. Weight gain, yes I have that but I can deal with and work on that. I feel like I have made such an accomplishment and I would shout it from the roofs if I could but I can't so I would like to shout it on this wonderf...

Hi @Happiness and all of my post friends. At my 5th month posting I said I would post on the 22nd December as it marked my 6 month anniversary of quitting the disgusting cancer sticks. I was unable to post due to the busy period leading up to Christmas but I am very happy to say that I achieved goal. Actually as I write this, I am now 6 months and 1 week, or 189.5 days free, and so very happy th...

As a now proud to say nonsmoker, my advice is to stay focused and committed. We all have the strength inside of us to stop harmful habits and self-defeat. I know that when we fight the fight and remain determined and view the cancer-causing sticks as the enemy, we win the war. I have not thought of smoking since I stopped abruptly, cold turkey, after making myself consciously hate the disgusting...

I am now two months, two weeks and four days free from the disgusting cancer sticks. As a 61 year old female I started smoking at 14 because at the time it was a cool thing to do. I never ever, thought I would be able to get out of the clutches of the evil that had consumed and controlled me, from the moment I woke til I went to bed. In health and sickness, if nicotine had continued on it's dest...