Stories and experiences by: trish k

I just heard the *Icanquit* ad on the radio and thought to myself, hey, I use to go in there everyday when I first tried to give up smoking...well that was 2240 days ago just over 6 years and I'm still as strong if not stronger in my determination to stay quit. I've had a few tests along the way but I never gave in. To everyone trying, try not to focus on the cigarettes, each time you do, get up ...

Hi, Well I haven't come in here for what seems like forever, and bascially it has been forever. Four Years and ten months since I gave up the horrible habit and still striving along without one. I don't even think about smoking, but I know how proud I am that I achieved something that I had wanted to do for so long. To all of you who are really finding days hard...just take a day at a time, then ...

900 days today since I made that decision to quit for life...the best thing I have ever done in my life, and for a person who thought they would die a smoker it is the greatest feeling to now say...NO, I DON'T SMOKE and still feel excited that I have a life. When I initially gave up smoking I thought, my god what am I going to do! thats how much of a hold cigarettes have on you, you think you ca...

Hi..... I'm a non-smoker, 578 days without one and I feel FANTASTIC. I thought i'd just pop in and see what people are up too and offer maybe some encouragement. Don't let anyone say it's easy, hey it's not.....but take each day as it comes and work through that, don't get ahead of yourself and have that little voice in your head say things like.....what are you going to do when you go out with...

Today is my 469th day without a cigarette and this is the best thing I have done for myself in my life. I started smoking when I was 16, in those days we thought it was so cool and looking back now it was probably the worse thing i ever did. Many times I thought about stopping and that was it....I just thought about it, I never really tried until 469 days ago and it was tough in the begining. Eve...

Well today is six months since I gave up smoking and I'm very proud of myself. It was hard at first and every now and then the little thought enters my head but thats all it does, I don't get tempted. I must admit, I thought it would be alot harder than it has been..... well maybe it has been hard, but everyday that willpower gets stronger and stronger and sitting back now I wished I had done thi...

Well the long road to positive health results continues.....but I still haven't been tempted. My stress test results were a toss up, not positive & not negitive.....so its onto a stress echo-cardigraph....I'm understanding why they call them stress tests now! especially when it takes 3 long weeks to get an appointment for one....I guess by the time you finally go for the test again your so s...

Well I guess this is part of the way that i'll de-stress.....why not put it into words instead of it going round in my head. Had the stress test 3days ago and the results I got yesterday arvo....oh yeah! Dr. in his charming little calming voice late on friday afternoon says...Trish the test is borderline so we'll need to do some more testing......hmmmmm, so what did I do? No, I didn't reach fo...

Well today I'm finding out whats it's like to feel alittle stressed and not have the cigs for support. On my way for a stress test at the hospital after having a chest pain one morning last week, funny how when your puffing away for all those years you think your invincible, how you look at the nasty photos on the cigarette packets and think *oh yeah!* or you go and light up as soon as the stop ...

You know reading everyones stories makes me feel so determined. I have posted a couple of times but never told my story. I'm 55 years old and have been smoking since I was 16 thats a lifetime. My dad died of lung cancer at 52 when I was 18 years old and I still kept on smoking without a thought of what I would be like at his age, and did it really matter I was only 18 anyway. By 23 yrs of age I ...

 Like my fellow non-smokers I am over the moon to now say I'm a non-smoker, 33 days today and I feel great. I even think my life has changed so much. As a smoker I found I'd let things get to me and I'd stress, and of course one little smoke seemed to cure everything.....or so I thought at the time, now I seem to say oh well and its over and done with....seems I've become more laid-back sinc...

Hi Everyone, I am so glad I took the steps to give up smoking. A little over two weeks now and I am really proud of myself after 39 yrs of smoking and have found life is still out there even though I don't smoke. I was one of those people who thought I could never give up, that I would go insane and kill those around me in the process, BUT...I'm completely the opposite and I can't believe it. A...