Stories and experiences by: jwb33

Been a long time since I visited. Heavy smoker for more than 35 years. According to this site I've saved $27,200. A few more figures I've come up with. Since I gave up the price of a carton of my smokes at the supermarket has increased by 46.4% which is enormous. When I first started a slab of beer was $6 and is now about 7 times more expensive; a litre of petrol was 11 cents and is now about 13 ...

Well it has been 100 days since I had a cigarette. I was 40 a day for over 35 years. Started the quit process by being in hospital for 3 days where one cannot smoke and continued it cold turkey from then on. Not at all easy but I never thought it would be. Like this site says, there is no one way to do it. Figure out what is best for YOU and do it that way. As I said cold turkey was best for...

I was hospitalised with a chest infection that was made a whole lot worse by some pills recently prescribed and now stopped. Being in hospital for 3 days I couldn't smoke. On day 2 I was feeling antsy so I asked for a patch (which took 7 hours to get). On release I used the patches for 3 days but they kept falling off and I got so annoyed I just stopped them. I was 40 a day for 35 years and ...