After 24 years of smoking my wife and I are throwing in the towel and not smoking anymore.

Tips, hints would be nice. Any warnings about spouces doing it together would be interesting.

If we could go it without sugar and white processed and make our lives LC than we will be able to get this nicotine out of our lives.

Thanks

Tip: Stay away from each other and everyone else.

Been together to long to allow this challange to interfere. We already set up clue in words so if one becomes an ass we will know. But thanks for the heads up

Hi there,
I dont know if either of you know how to crochet, knit, cross stitch or such but thats how I quit. Crocheting keeps my hands busy.Dont know if it helps but I tried

No I don't but my wife is going to pick it up again - thanks for the hint. For me it will be getting outside and doing more to get my mind off things- so far so good

Go to the doctors and get some help like Ziban(i think) on the nicotine patch. It will help ease you off the weed and will help control some of the emotional stuff. I watched a co-worker use these and it was a lot better than her going cold turkey.

But , did we take a sugar, startch substitute when we started low carb - I think I can beat this devil by accepting the cravings for what they are.

Thanks - if it becomes to much we will get some alternative but I am pretty stubborn.
Thanks

for some people it's best to quit without having the patch, etc. for me it was. I got the flu one day and POOF! It hurt too much to leave my place to get smokes, and that was the day I just quit. It's been 9 months smokefree now! Woo hoo!

I used the Nikorette gum when the cravings got too bad. Bleh! that stuff is wicked bad but it did work. That and I took up knitting, keeping my fingers busy.

Quit in 1990 and wouldn't dream of paying the $10. they want for a pack of the death sticks around here, mind you I'm not richer having quit but at least I don't stink anymore, my teeth don't get grungy looking and I don't have to pass up on buying a book or candles because I need the bux to buy the damn smokes. That's the freedom I appreciate most I think.

Congrats MissKimbee - 9 months - way to go - I know after almost 24 hours I am well on my way. Thanks

Nikotyme - thanks for the suggestion. Agree with you on the price and so far feeling pretty good about it - family is very supportive so this will be the end for me on tobacco products.

1 day behind us as we venture into this smokefree life. Be interested in hearing about the pitfalls that we will encounter as time goes on.

Carvings have been up and down and if the neighbors saw me talking to them oh well - it worked so far.

Going strong on day two -

stopped smoking for 1 days, 14 hours, 53 minutes, 29 seconds. That translates into 32 cigarettes NOT smoked, for a savings of $8.4! I have increased my life expectancy by 2 hours, 42 minutes, 2 seconds.

I have now stopped smoking for 2 days, 22 hours, 51 minutes, 12 seconds. That translates into 59 cigarettes NOT smoked, for a savings of $15.48! I have increased my life expectancy by 4 hours, 55 minutes, 13 seconds.

I have now stopped smoking for 4 days, 15 hours, 13 minutes, 23 seconds. That translates into 92 cigarettes NOT smoked, for a savings of $24.15! I have increased my life expectancy by 7 hours, 43 minutes, 25 seconds.