I wanna know how many of you have quit smoking, why/how you quit smoking, and why you started smoking. Maybe other smokers can come here to read about it?
I believe that no smoker actually enjoys smoking. I started smoking at 18, after an ex broke up with me. I wanted to commit suicide but was too chicken to commit suicide so just went to smoking instead lol
Ironically, after doing research about how you actually die from smoking, suicide would have been a lot less painful...
But back on topic, this lead to my first pack that I never finished. I smoked it twice, hated it, and shoved it away for a good year. Two years later I started hanging out with smokers and that's when the chain smoking started. Prior to this I had started running long distances and was very careful with how much I smoked so that my timings and distances would not go down. I still remember standing outside Pacific Mall and having a competition with another idiot (that makes two of us) with who could hold tobacco smoke in their lungs the longest. Obviously, I won because I was capable of long distance running...but what exactly did I win? The retard award?
Fast forward 5 years later, I was 24 and had gone into weight lifting but COMPLETELY cut off my cardio training. I kept telling myself "Don't worry, you won't smoke forever, just keep smoking till you hate it". Last year I got my motorcycle, and while I loved the sport position that my modified GS500F gave me, the position also made me hack out tar while I was riding. I could feel the tar come out from my neck due to the position I was in. Trying to sleep at night started coughing fits due to "itches" in my throat and eventually coughing out phlegm. And all this was from smoking 5-8 cigs a day for 3ish years. My girl friend, who couldn't out run me when she first started training with me 3 years ago, could now do multiple laps around me. I felt embarrassed, pathetic, and above all, regretful. Smoking wasn't like what I thought it was in high school, something cool to do, something that the war hero does before he dies in combat, something that Wolverine does after he gets hacked up and wants to chill out.
Twenty days ago I decided to Google "why should I quit smoking". It brought me here http://whyquit.com/whyquit/A_Deborah.html. After reading the entire thing I realized something: I don't have to be like that. I don't need to play chance with Death every time I unleash hundreds of free radicals into my body. And honestly, it would be more fun dying from reckless riding than how that article described a cancer related death.
It's been twenty days now, unlike my previous attempts at quitting, I know this one is different because I literally hate cigarettes. I see people who smoke now as people who were just as stupid as I was twenty days ago. I don't see smoking as a sign of being a rebel or badass anymore. My only concern now is that a lot of my close friends still smoke: hopefully they can stop because we all started around the same time.
So, why'd you guys start and how'd you guys quit?
I believe that no smoker actually enjoys smoking. I started smoking at 18, after an ex broke up with me. I wanted to commit suicide but was too chicken to commit suicide so just went to smoking instead lol
Ironically, after doing research about how you actually die from smoking, suicide would have been a lot less painful...
But back on topic, this lead to my first pack that I never finished. I smoked it twice, hated it, and shoved it away for a good year. Two years later I started hanging out with smokers and that's when the chain smoking started. Prior to this I had started running long distances and was very careful with how much I smoked so that my timings and distances would not go down. I still remember standing outside Pacific Mall and having a competition with another idiot (that makes two of us) with who could hold tobacco smoke in their lungs the longest. Obviously, I won because I was capable of long distance running...but what exactly did I win? The retard award?
Fast forward 5 years later, I was 24 and had gone into weight lifting but COMPLETELY cut off my cardio training. I kept telling myself "Don't worry, you won't smoke forever, just keep smoking till you hate it". Last year I got my motorcycle, and while I loved the sport position that my modified GS500F gave me, the position also made me hack out tar while I was riding. I could feel the tar come out from my neck due to the position I was in. Trying to sleep at night started coughing fits due to "itches" in my throat and eventually coughing out phlegm. And all this was from smoking 5-8 cigs a day for 3ish years. My girl friend, who couldn't out run me when she first started training with me 3 years ago, could now do multiple laps around me. I felt embarrassed, pathetic, and above all, regretful. Smoking wasn't like what I thought it was in high school, something cool to do, something that the war hero does before he dies in combat, something that Wolverine does after he gets hacked up and wants to chill out.
Twenty days ago I decided to Google "why should I quit smoking". It brought me here http://whyquit.com/whyquit/A_Deborah.html. After reading the entire thing I realized something: I don't have to be like that. I don't need to play chance with Death every time I unleash hundreds of free radicals into my body. And honestly, it would be more fun dying from reckless riding than how that article described a cancer related death.
It's been twenty days now, unlike my previous attempts at quitting, I know this one is different because I literally hate cigarettes. I see people who smoke now as people who were just as stupid as I was twenty days ago. I don't see smoking as a sign of being a rebel or badass anymore. My only concern now is that a lot of my close friends still smoke: hopefully they can stop because we all started around the same time.
So, why'd you guys start and how'd you guys quit?
