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[Keepongoing]

Just curious what was most difficult  when you stopped!

[thepeel]

I quit about 14 months ago now. The first week sucked, and then it wasn't so bad. But when I was out at the pub, it was really tough. For about 6 months, I hardly went out at all.

Now, I will permit myself to have a few cigs when at the pub.

Just stick with it. It isn't that hard to quit.

[as-ian]

I never had a hard time quitting until 8 months after my last one. Then, suddenly, i just had massive cravings for one. Never figured that one out... x_x

[Keepongoing]

[thepeel]

[nautilus]

[Natalie]

[Positive Realist]

I quit 6 days ago and am just wondering, is the first week really the hardest? Please tell me this will pass and I will return to my pre-homicidal self any day now, please...

[mole]

I'm still a smoker, but the times I've quit for weeks or even months, I gotta say
I missed that first one upon waking up. Easy to beat, though.
Just don't keep cigs at home!

[IncognitoHFX]

When I quit in the past I always thought it was difficult not to smoke when I was stressed out, however it was easy not to smoke the other 95% of the time.

Hmm. I don't think I'm going to quit as long as I'm in Korea.

[SPINOZA]

I voted "while drinking" because it's now the only time I light-up. I do intend to quit that eventually too, but it's just so easy to not do, because, like BJWD said, it's prolly not gonna do any harm. Consequently, my cigarette intake is a maximum of 20 per week.

I urge anyone with delusions of how addictive nicotine is to grow a pair and quit. Nicotine's actual addictiveness is exaggerated by social factors such as (a) other drugs (with which nicotine's addictiveness is compared) are illegal, expensive, risky, inconvenient, and almost universally condemned, (b) nicotine's psychoactive effects are easy to reconcile with everyday tasks and requirements, (c) smokers are so used to smoking in so many different settings nicotine is harder to give up than a drug only done with certain people in secret.

[Fresh Prince]

The hardest part when I quit, was the first three days. After three days of not smoking I felt great though: Lot's of energy, more positive attitude, no nasty stinky smell eminating from clothes and hair. For me, the hardest part was being around other people that smoked. It was just too easy to ask someone if you can have one. It helps to get into a more health conscious environment where people aren't smoking all the time. Join a gym and meet non-smoker/drinker friends.

[mrsquirrel]

Tis easy.

Quit before you go to bed.

Wake up in the morning. Get up and get going. DOn't stop to think about it.

12pm lunchtime your chest will start to burn and you will want one badly. Ride it out and it's easy after that.

Day 3 or 4 can be hard as well.

[thepeel]

[Privateer]

The hardest part was the first two weeks, when the craving was like a continual nagging pain (except when focused on work).

The next two months were also quite a battle at times but not constantly. I lapsed a few times when out drinking but didn't quit quitting because of it.

After 6 months it was almost easy and I started to believe I really would quit this time, despite occasional lapses at the pub. I'd still have to remind myself it wasn't worth giving in to the urge.

Now cigarettes virtually never cross my mind except when drinking, which isn't often, and even then I resist the craving 90% of the time. Cigarettes don't disgust me the way they do some ex-smokers, although smoke-filled rooms bother me now.

I am no longer hooked, I quit, and I'm proud of that fact because no way in hell was it "easy".