To all the ex-smokers or smokers trying to give up..?

I like to smoke. But when my uncle passed (3rd heart attack) I realized that chain smoking wasn't worth it. For me that was the turning point --- the "click." I don't think I'll ever gave it up completely.

It has its place in moderation. It's good in certain social situations. I get drunk: I smoke. I don't want to piss every 2 minutes. If I go back to the States, I'll smoke pot.

I think I realized the real danger / bad thing is putting hot smoke into my lungs. I stopped looking at lung cancer as the "acceptable risk." and realized that smoking all the time was not a very nice thing to do to my body. Usually not worth it.

Wow! Did I EVER think I'd be answering this question?

I stopped two months ago, November 14th on my birthday, and like that last poster, I'm wondering what all the fuss was about quitting.

I used the Chantrix method and it worked for me! Took away the cravings and made me forget about cigarrettes literally.

After the first week (or ten days) you are kinda not wanting to smoke because the urge just kinda goes away and you don't think that much about smoking, but you still do (or might).

Then as you go on smoking, the taste seems kind of funny and you don't like the things as much, then around the fourth week you almost forget about smoking... you might still, but it's not as pleasurable as you once thought. These things ARE nasty, you start to think.

One day you forget to smoke. no really, and you're surprised you haven't had a cigarrette in hours. You smoke one just because you still have some. But it's not the same and it gets worse.

They taste like ****!

I mean they are starting to taste nasty to you and you put off smoking and put them out half way or light one and put it straight out, cause you look at the thing and ask yourself why are you still doing this?

Why are you still doing it when you're trying to quit?

The illogic begins to hit you and you go for longer periods of non smoking, till one morning you don't light up and you just don't want to do it anymore. You feel you don't even like it anymore. You just start thinking the whole thing is stupid.

If fyou've picked a date to stop like I did, you know that is going to be the last day you will ever smoke, and the day before, you smoke or don't, but afterwards, the day after not having any cigarrettes, you feel refreshed and wonder why did you ever start that filthy habit in the first place?

Now you laugh at yourself because you've joined the other crowd and now you can go about telling others how bad they look with a cigarrette in their hands and how fonky they smell.

You know, the whole non smoker routine.

Don't you feel better now? You can finally talk about those people who always talked about you smoking and now you can talk about other people's smoking? Don't it feel good?

On the negative side, yes you will go through depressions while on the Chantrix, but do not be disheartened, know that they only last a moment and if you remember your are on the drug and it is supposed to have these affects, you will get through it.

If they become overwhelming, see your physiscian and maybe ease off the dosage a bit but don't stop it.

You WILL be happy that you continued and those who love you will be too!

Good Luck non smoker, you can make it too!

I have gone 3 whole months now, after a heavy habit spanning 15 years.

I did it with help from my local practice smoking-cessation nurse, who gave me an inhalator which I used for 3 weeks, then patches for a further 3 weeks. I felt like a non- (well, ex-) smoker at about day 3. Don't miss it at all now, one of the best things I've ever done.

I find it hard to see what all the fuss is about, to be honest.