Did you used to smoke?

Yes, I smoked for maybe years almost 30, then quit.

Was it hard? Yes.
SeveraL attempts, no chance of quitting. I tried, cutting down, e-cigs, Gum, all three simultaneously, nothing was working.
It was the easiest thing to do once I prayed and asked GOD to take this way for me. It was like the cravings never happened.

I had conditional behaviours I fought against like (after dinner, while driving) urges once in while but they soon disappeared too.

Yes. I began smoking when I was 18. I was still married to the 1st ex. I had befriended an au paire girl from France, who worked for friends of my parents, and I thought she looked SO cool when she smoked her Gitanes! They had gold filters, and the way she held the cigarette was hard to describe, backwards.

Naturally, because I was just 18, I wanted to copy her, and I begged a cig from her every time we went to play tennis. Then I ended up buying my own, because she said her cigs were very hard to find. I bought Eve's 100's, because the filters were pretty.

I smoked until I was 36 years old...chain smoked for about 5 years...lit one off the other, practically.

I quit cold turkey. It was the hardest thing I had ever done, but my 3rd ex had quit, and then decided he didn't want to kiss me anymore, and told me so. VERY painful. I can't tell you how much I resented him for saying that to me. I WANTED to quit...felt like I was chained to an ashtray...but I hadn't wanted anger with the third ex to be part of the equation.

The only way I could quit was using the substitution method. Cigarette smoking is an oral fixation, and a HABIT...because you want a cigarette LONG after all the nicotine has exited your body...so every time I wanted a cigarette I popped a breath savers breath mint into my mouth.

I realized quite early that I could not even pick up ONE cigarette and smoke it...because it was SOOO Hard to quit that even one would have collapsed that house of cards.

Perhaps most shocking to me was what happened 10 YEARS LATER!!! I was working at the Homeless Shelter, and one of the residents had left a package of cigarettes on top of the pay phone. I [i]wanted [/i] one!!! I picked up the package, SO tempted I can't describe it, thinking to myself, "No one would ever know!" And fought with myself and won. Because you can't sneak them. You can't have just one because your entire effort would have been for nothing.

I did. I started when I was a kid, and stopped when I was 18.. I stopped in one day.

4 years. And I just stopped one day and 43 years later I never miss it

I started when I was around 10 and quit when I was 28. It was tough and I had to use self-discipline which I wasn't used to. Once the the nicotine was completely out of my body the cravings started to calm down. Then I had to break the hand to mouth addiction. I didn't break it. I started eating but theres probably better options.

At 9 yrs old I remember sneaking away to smoke from a stolen pack of non-filter cigarettes behind the back of the house. At 20, I smoked Marlboro 100 Lights in a box for 14 years total and quit - 14 times. Tried everything from behavior modification, smelling cigarette butts saved in a jar filled with water, and self-hypnosis. The only thing to work was cold turkey in my mid-thirties.

Major cigarette companies know they're addictive and can hook you for life and got away with it for decades. Reminds me of a line of Seven Corporate Dwarfs of Big Tobacco liars swearing that cigarettes are not addictive to cover their asses.

yes and still have bronchial effects.
I started at about 16 and truly finished around 29, weaning myself off slowly

Like a coal fired steam train..

Yes I smoked when I was younger, started about 17, gave it up at 25. What helped was I went on vacation with non smokers, so I stopped since around them. Never picked it up again.

I never smoked cigarettes, but in my late 20's I would occasionally smoke a cigar. I liked the smell of cigars but never really enjoyed smoking them so that didn't last long.

No never picked up the habit, but if it's anything like trying to quit coffee than i sympathize with you.

Thank you for BC.

10 years. No. Only first week and a half. I used atomic fireball candy to quit. Each time I wanted a cigarette I ate a fireball and the burn took the cravings away

9 years - quit when i was 27 yo. not hard. 3rd try quit for good. used nicorette