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Keith Molden

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Some of you may (or not) remember when I tried to quit smoking after being in the hospital. I asked for your prayers as I had been smoking for 55 years. Well, it must have done some good and someone must have said a word or two for me. As of today, it's been 4 years since I've had either a smoke or chewed tobacco, and have no desire to start again. Thanks to whomever it was that said those words for me. Keith
 
Good for you all. It has been 83 years for me as I never tried it and I was never tempted to. A lot of my friends and relatives did smoke and they are mostly all dead now.
 
Will be 4 years for me too come Feb.
As for the desire, well I still want a smoke from time to time.
 

It has been 41 for me. I had a good motivating reason. First I cut back to no smokes before noon, Then after awhile I quit altogether except for cigars which I never, inhaled, then after maybe five years I quit them too in order to save money on life insurance.
 
Got my hands on a pack of smokes when I was around 16 or 17, tried them and gagged and coughed and now I have been smoke free for 54 years.
 
smoked occasionally ,. mostly swisher sweets ,,.. now about twice a month I chew on one ,,. they are better that way ,..
 
A fellow told me quitting smoking was the easiest thing he had ever done, he said he quit five times in one day one time lol.
 
Never smoked but three years without a Beer. After my stroke Doc gave me a choice. Keep drinking and die or quit drinking and live.Not much choice there.
 
I quit once for 4 years and then again for 5 years . this time I haven't smoked since 1991 . hope it will last forever .
 
Started smoking when I was 16. By the time I was 27 I was smoking 3 packs of Marlboros and a pack of Winchesters a day. Woke up one morning and thought, I'm gonna cut back. In the next year I think I smoked about 2 packs not a day but that year. Next year I bummed one every once in a while. Haven't had one since. That's 37 years ago. I never say I quit. I just say I cut back.
 
Congratulations!! I have been smoke free since 1999. For many years I craved a smoke quite often. All I had to do was get close to a ask tray or someone who smoked and I sooned lost that urge.
 
I haven't smoked in about 5 years now. I know that not smoking is better for me but I have not enjoyed the smoke free experience. After being a heavy smoker for 20 years and a light smoker for the last 5 before I had to give it up not smoking still seems unnatural.
 
I like the reply,..keep drinking and die, ect. well the reality is even if you stop yer still gonna die !!!!! LOL
 
Did you put aside the money you saved by not smoking and buy a tractor? A gun? Or something else neat you always wanted?
 

Started when I was 15, quit in 02 at age 47, 14 years and counting with no desire to go back to smoking.
Haven't drank a beer since 1985, no other alcohol since 01, when I quit drinking the desire to smoke when with it, just took another year to stop.

Been looking at wine as they say it helps lower cholesterol but I never really cared for wine.
 
(quoted from post at 07:44:14 12/10/16) My MIL once asked me what I was doing as far as planning for retirement.
Told her smoking; eating fried chicken; and taking to many chances.

I quit this past Labor Day.
Still do not know if I am going to make it though.
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Stay strong! and think of what you can do with the $5 a pack your saving.
 
I just quit May 15h 2016, smoked 40 plus years. Got up one morning said to myself Self im tied of this crap and havnt had one sense WHOOHOO and dont even want one. So i am Proud for you also Keith
 
Congratulations! My father smoked for 50 years and was a heavy smoker up until the last 7 or 8 years of his smoking habit. He quit 10 1/2 years ago, a few months before he had an accident involving some bone breakage. He was on crutches for 4 months. His doctor said he was going to heal up a lot quicker and better without his smoking habit. My dad did try one cigarette a few months after quitting. He did so again about 4 months after that. He ended up with an incredible headache and sick to his stomach. That cured him! He has no inkling whatsoever to have another. That last one he smoked and got sick from fixed him for good! As an aside.........................he was the very last of his siblings, their spouses, and circle of friends to quit the habit.
 
Good for you, Kieth! My parents both did forever. It's hard for us "never smoked" people to even fathom the addiction of it so I don't even profess to know how it happens or why it's so hard to quit so I will just say good for you ...and your body...don't let your guard down.
 
Hooray, good for you. I have been through that also...took about 3 years before I completely did not want a smoke. I just lost a slightly younger friend because he couldn't/wouldn't quit, practically smoked when on oxygen! Leo
 
Congratulations on your achievement.

Well I'll toss my hat in the ring too: Smoked for 40+ years and abruptly quit. Reason was that I bought a new 1988 Ford F150 with velour captain's chair and lots of cloth in the upholstery. I didn't want to stink it up.

Consumed alcoholic beverages for most of my life and on Feb. 17, 2015 quit. Reason was that I had a Dr.'s appointment that day and my doctor said that my blood sugar had moved out of the normal range and was 6 points into the start of the Type 2 Diabetes range. I didn't want that scourging mess and that was enough motivation to quit that bad habit.

Now I'm down to cussin. That too is at a minimum.

Geez, I'm getting so pure I don't know if I can stand myself. But I can and will and will not revert back to either habit which I enjoyed immensely for many, many, years. Those times have come and gone forever.

Was I lucky? Probably not. Just adequately motivated.
 
One of my main summertime enjoyments was to have a beer in the beverage compartment of my lawn mowers. Sipping beers and mowing grass was just the thing for me (besides sipping while working on projects). So, I too wondered if I could stick it out once mowing season came into being. Well I just told my "id" (like in id, ego, and super ego) that I could look to something else. So I did and seldom did or didn't even think about it. I was amazed at how easy it was since I was committed to not going back. Now, even through the holidays' merry making, football games and popcorn and all, I just don't need it any more.

John, it's mind over matter. You can do it; just put your mind to it. Tell yourself, you're stronger than that.
 
I quit 4 or 5 years ago when for a pack it went to $4 each. Did the patch and did not even use it the full 30 days and have not looked back since.
 
As an over the road truck driver, I would buy two cartons on Sunday going out of town, and I would hope to be in Kentucky on Wednesday to buy more. I quit in 1985 for the last time(I had quit before,a few times)My wife stopped the day after I did,the Doc said after her heart attack she would have died if she had not quit when she did.Age was 39.
For years I would dream I was smoking,but now I can barely stand the smell of someone smoking.
Congratulations to anyone who has tried to quit,(you have to try before you succeed) and to those who have done it.
 
1985 for me too.
No patch, no gum, but I chewed lots of sunflower seeds (spits) for a while.

No longer miss it now.
Can't stand the smell now also.
 
I quit in March of 1964.

I was smoking a pack and a half a day when I met my wife. On our second date, she admitted she's allergic to tobacco smoke. I took a pack of cigarettes out of my shirt pocket, threw it in a trash can, and haven't touched one since.

Pardon me for being a bit rude, but when I hear someone say they want to quit but they can't, I tell them they're lying. They really don't want to quit.
 
28 years this year since I quit. I was terrible 3 packs a day, menthols to boot.
Watched a good friend pass from emphysema scared me. You really can't quit unless you really want to. Quit cold turkey and have never smoked one since. I'm glad I couldn't afford 3 packs a day today.
 
The old saying about quitting smoking, "The hardest part about quitting is not bragging about it" seems to fit here rather well. I can say that because I never smoked but I admire anyone who quits. TDF
 
I smoked 43 years. Quit cold turkey bit over two years ago. I still fight it every single day.
 
Congratulations. I quit 25 years ago. Saw a loved one die a horrible death from smoking and decided I didn't want to die that way.
 
Pat yerself on the back for me.

Last smoke I had was 1990, Around 1995 chewed some baccer and have been addicted ever since.
 
Smoked for over 40 years...any kind of tobacco, but nothing else. Quit cold turkey a little over 23 years ago about a year after I had quit drinking. I'm 82 1/2 now and still eat too much, but it hasn't killed me. I'm sure the drinking and/or drinking would have.
 
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