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[Birdmaster]

Your Quit Date is:
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 at 7:10:00 PM

Test Time Smoke-Free:
188 days, 9 hours, 47 minutes and 11 seconds

Cigarettes NOT smoked:
3768


Is
this still yourQuit Date?
YesNo


Lifetime
Saved:
28 days, 18 hours

Money
Saved:
£661.50

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[Thinker]

Your Quit Date is:
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 at 7:10:00 PM

Test Time Smoke-Free:
188 days, 9 hours, 47 minutes and 11 seconds

Cigarettes NOT smoked:
3768


Is
this still yourQuit Date?
YesNo


Lifetime
Saved:
28 days, 18 hours

Money
Saved:
£661.50

Open Gadget

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All This For Free?Enjoy the freedom of being a non-smoker by finding new, fun things to do. Look in the newspaper for activities happening in your community and beyond. Many of these are free of charge. In summer especially, there are outdoor concerts, street fairs, and even free movie screenings.
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you know, i thought i would quit smoking, but i didn't really. I may have cut back a little, though. I was smoking about 6 cigarettes a day and I'm only smoking maybe 4 now.

i started the budeprion SR 3 weeks ago for other reasons - the smoking cessation was just going to be an added benefit.

[RVQueen57]

Anyone want to share this experience with me? Join in! :;):
I want to do this so badly..
I had one cigarette yesterday morning and not any today!

Okay I do think Wellbutrin is a big help. I am on generic Bupropion (Teva). Right now I take 100mg 2x daily and think I will ramp up this week to 100mg 3x daily...perhaps tomorrow.
I still have some urges, but they are not terribly intense and the taste was becoming awful!

Join in and participate in my quit!


~Lindsay, FA

You can count me in in for sure!! I know it's my time to quit and To have the support of someone else ready to do the same would be great!!

[Birdmaster]

Your Quit Date is:
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 at 7:10:00 PM

Test Time Smoke-Free:
336 days, 10 hours, 47 minutes and 15 seconds

Cigarettes NOT smoked:
6729

Lifetime
Saved:
1 month, 21 days, 9 hours

Money
Saved:
£1,179.50




Hi all, I've nearly hit the one year without a ciggie day. At times it's been hard, I dream I am smoking and I wake up with a nasty taste in my mouth. Giving up a 20 (40 when on vacation) habit is very difficult after 40 years. Smoke for 40 years and then you try it. It's actually very easy if you have a reason. In my case it was a mouth cancer scare. By the time I'd realised that it was a false alarm I'd already stopped smoking. So I stayed stopped.

Good luck to all in your attempt.

If you live in the UK there is plenty of help to hand from the NHS and Nicotine Repacement Therapy which does work if you are determined to stop.

Cutting down first can help. I spent two years (2006 and 2007) cutting down from 20 to 13 cigs a day on average. Everyday I wrote on the calendar how many I smoked. It became an obsession to reduce and eventually to stop. On January 1st 2008 I reduced my daily smoking to an average of 9 per day which lasted five weeks then I stopped. Even though I thought that I may have mouth cancer (I had been warned back in 2002 by my doctor and dentist that I should stop but I ignored it) I carried on smoking an average of 2 per day for 26 days. After a stressfull day of smoking 8 cigarettes on Tuesday 4th March 2008....I stopped and I haven't smoked since.

And all this without taking Wellbutrin.

[Lindsay]

I think that is wonderful Birdmaster!!

I have been Quit for more than 4 years now. I detest the smell of second hand smoke..I have turned into one of those!

[ISeeBluePeople]

I have quit for 2 weeks today!

[Lindsay]

I have quit for 2 weeks today!

(((((((((Blue))))))))))((((Birdmaster))))((((RVQUEEN))))))

Are you still Quit, Blue?

[Birdmaster]

On the 15th December I'll be 93 weeks smoke free. At times it's been hard but I know I have finally done it. The smell of cigarettes is awful even though I do crave one now and again.

With New Years Day coming up, give it a try it's pretty easy if you're determined. There are plenty of things you can take available on the market. If you fail just try again. If I can do it anyone can.

[Birdmaster]

Welcome back, Whicker!
You've been Quit 794 days. £5,161.00 and 4 months, 1 day, 7 hours of your life saved!
Open Q-Gadget for details.

I'm known as Whicker on Quitnet, USA.

[Ronnie]

WoW, I was looking at my post back from March 5, 2009. I smoked back then and was able to quit with help from Wellbutrin.

I started up again and heavily, a pack or so a day. My doc put me back on Wellbutrin XL (generic). Day 3 and don't notice any difference and still smoking. I really want to quit.

How long did it take for some of you for the Wellbutrin to kick in and the urges to go away with this new generic version by Actavis?

[T on C]

So is making a set date ok for quitting or are you better off just stopping and saying no more?
I have 3 packs left, and no way I'm paying over $70 for a carton ( I pay $20 while working at sea ) Figure I can spend the bucks on something a lot healthier.
It's time, heard that inner voice prodding me quite a bit lately...
Advice appreciated, thanks!

[Forum Admin]

Anyone want to share this experience with me? Join in! :;):
I want to do this so badly..
I had one cigarette yesterday morning and not any today!

Okay I do think Wellbutrin is a big help. I am on generic Bupropion (Teva). Right now I take 100mg 2x daily and think I will ramp up this week to 100mg 3x daily...perhaps tomorrow.
I still have some urges, but they are not terribly intense and the taste was becoming awful!

Join in and participate in my quit!


~Lindsay, FA

It's been five and a half years quit and I am thrilled! No weight gain..no craving. I love it and do not miss it at all. I have been off of WB for years now. I detest the smell and look of someone who does smoke.....It really disgusts me, unfortunately I have become one of those people. Unfortunately, it happens to the best of us over time.
Please look at the free Quit website I have given as it is a tremendous help and encouragement.
I wish everyone who is trying to quit, the very best, my heartfelt best wishes as I know how difficult the first two weeks can be. ღ ~Lindsay

[Birdmaster]

My Quit
My Stats:
Your Quit Date is: 3/4/2008 7:10:00 PM
Time Smoke-Free: 1473 days, 6 minutes Is this still your
Med Plan? Yes No Cigarettes NOT smoked: 29460 Lifetime Saved: 7 months, 15 days, 1 hour Money Saved: £9,574.50
Open Gadget My Med Plan:
Nicotine Inhaler

I am still not smoking after four years and twelve days.

[Birdmaster]

Your Quit Date is:  3/4/2008 7:10:00 PM
Time Smoke-Free: 1896 days, 20 hours, 18 minutes and 13 seconds       Cigarettes NOT smoked: 37937 Lifetime Saved:  9 months, 19 days, 19 hours Money Saved: £12,330.50

 

It's now been five years, ten weeks, one day and eighty minutes to be precise. I've had a few cravings but I'm still smoke free. Good luck to all who try.