Okay folks.
I quit smoking 4 and a half months ago.
If I can quit, then so can you!
I also gave up coffee drinking.
I smoked a minimum of a Carton a week for over 18 years.
The first three years I "chainsmoked" about 3 packs a day.
A lot of money + no brains= A Chainsmoking fool!

52 weeks x 1 carton per week = 52 Cartons.

18 Years x 52 weeks per year = 936 Cartons of Cigarettes.
(Damn! I should have kept smoking! I was so close to 1,000 Cartons! )

936 Cartons x 10 (packs per carton) = 9,360 packs of Cigarettes.

9,360 Packs x 20 (cigarettes per pack) = 187,200 Cigarettes.

187,200 Cigarettes x 5 minutes each = 936,000 MINUTES

936,000 Minutes / 60 minutes = 15,600 HOURS.

I spent 15,600 Hours of my life smoking cigarettes.
That's 650 Days!
if you average this to a 30 Day month, I spent 21.666666 months of my life smoking cigarettes.


I don't even want to get into the expense of it!

That's so depressing it isn't funny.


Just keep telling yourself "I can do this!"
Because if I can, then you surely can!

Tim

That was great to hear Tim.. Wonderful quit ya got there.

Heres mine..Your Quit Date is: 5/21/2004 10:00:00 AM

Time Smoke-Free: 127 days, 4 hours, 47 minutes and 14 seconds
Cigarettes NOT smoked: 4706
Lifetime Saved: 1 month, 5 days, 22 hours
Money Saved: $1,026.73

I was a 2 pk a day, quit drinking,smoking and coffee. Talk about hard work.. Congrats and well done.Keep the quit

Angel

Couldn't agree more lc and smoke-free DO go together. Need good reasons to quit? Take a look at:

www.whyquit.com

It sure helped me.

Peter - Free and Healing for One Month, Two Days, 21 Hours and 21 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 2 Days and 6 Hours, by avoiding the consumption of 658 cigarettes that would have cost me £158.09.

ditto.

heres my stats

Your Quit Date is: 9/12/2004 9:00:00 PM

Time Smoke-Free: 24 days, 11 hours, 3 minutes and 56 seconds

Cigarettes NOT smoked: 489

Lifetime Saved: 3 days, 17 hours

Money Saved: $127.00

Cyberskive:

Thanks for the website info. I am sitting here almost in tears thinking about how stupid I am and how I started smoking at the age of 9....and am still smoking. I've just started Wellbutrin but am waiting 3-4 weeks before quitting entirely. My doc says it will take 3-4 weeks before the Wellbutrin really starts working.

jaimejo,

Good on you! Withdrawal is hard going, but it gets better, one day at a time. Unlike with food where we have to re-learn our relationship to get a healthy balance, quitting smoking is a simple case of Never Taking Another Puff.

Nicotine is very addictive, there's no denying that and every smoker who's ever tried to quit once, but didn't make it, knows it in their heart of hearts.

There is a forum very much like this one that offers help and support to quitters. It may be a road (like lc) that we have to walk on our own, but there are a heck of a lot of people on the same path. Some a way ahead and some just behind...

Without my membership at this site:

http://groups.msn.com/FreedomFromTo...sageboards.msnw

I would probably not now be approaching 2 months without having touched a cigarette. And the lie I used to tell myself about needing cigarettes in order to be able to commit to the lc woe? A lie, like all the others I told myself because deep down I didn't believe I could quit. Lose weight? You can quit smoking. Quit smoking? You can lose weight. Yin & Yang.......

Peter - Free and Healing for One Month, Eighteen Days

Congrats!
Damn I would like to have your strenngth...

I am trying to quit smoking for ever, but I always go back.
Quit drinking coffee is a good one, I may try that too.

Regards

Congratulations!

My Quit Stats:

62 days, 13 hours, 28 minutes and 48 seconds smoke free.

2190 cigarettes not smoked.
$434.00 and 16 days, 17 hours of your life saved.

Your quit date: 8/5/2008 8:20:00 AM

I think you are all great people with amazing maturity. If I had your attitude I would have quit carbs years ago