Stories and experiences by: manchild

I normally smoke about 40 cigarettes a day. I guess each cigarette takes about 5 minutes of my time. That means that I normally take 200 minutes per day to smoke. 200 minutes is over 3 hours. This means I am engaged with the smoking for a large percentage of my waking day. If I stay awake 12 hours a day, then smoking takes up about 1/4 of my day. I've now been off cigarettes for 65 days which mea...

There have been times over the last few decades where certain ex-smokers have told me about the fact they've quit. To be honest, I don't have good memories of those "quitters" I've always felt that most of these quitters were self righteous and had no empathy for me as a smoker. The advice was always cold and clinical. No-one said things to me like "I know how hard it is to be a smoker etc" It w...

After more than 2 months smoke free I made it through one more day again. I'm alone right now. Its later evening and this is one of the most difficult times for me. I've written here quite often but I won't apologise for it because thats what we are here for. We are different from others by the fact we are addicts. We are here to share our quit experiences. I want to increase my weaponry so comin...

Tomorrow I'm going to be 60 days smoke free. I must say I am humbly proud that I've managed to stay off the puffs and any form of nicotene. As for eating, that is another topic altogether. I need comfort food now and again. I also need comfort in general but I guess that is a basic human need which I somehow tied to smoking in the past. Recently I've managed to hold back the weight gain a bit by ...

This morning I woke up then found myself walking around the front room thinking to myself what to do. Normally at this time I light up and smoke. I felt the urge to fill something, so I ate breakfast but then still felt some nagging need. I decided to take my own advice so I got on my son's bike and went around the block for about half an hour. During the ride something incredible happened. I w...

Today I'm really on the nicodemon rampage and have the positive energy to write after a nicotine free 55 days. I guess I am being powered by righteous anger and want to do something to help my fellow man who has helped me. This is a quit smoking forum but I've learned so much recently about what my real problem is. What is my problem? Is my problem really just smoking itself? I learned this word...

OK, I am on day 55 now. I'm not getting serious withdrawals anymore and believe I can resist one day at a time but I still crave for a cigarette now and again. I'm hoping these cravings leave me completely after 3 months. How are some of you others doing who have more days behind you? Let me/us know. I did a search on google and found the text below this paragraph which encouraged me to keep o...

I am going to be 50 years old this year. I've spent most of my life smoking. I starting smoking when I was 14. I gave up smoking for a few years in my late teens and once or twice in my 30's for a while but overall, I've smoked for about 30 years. This means that I know more about a life filled with smoke than a life without it. My whole life has been surrounded by cigarette smoke. Its my smoke, ...

I've received a lot of help from this blog as well as i-quitsmoking(dotcom) who has a lot to say in the first 30 days and no more after that. After 30 days, I started coming here more often because I wanted to see how people were feeling. I want to help someone if I can because its only right that we give back to others since others have given to us. I want to remember the first day I recentl...

Today I am on day 51 without a cigarette and I am glad I have not smoked for this time. I drank too much booze a few days ago and lost control a bit and feel fragile now. I am feeling guilty at the moment because sometimes I do things I regret (don't we all?) when I drink but I am happy I can breathe and am not smoking a pack of cigarettes in the hope that nicotene will cure my guilty feelings....