Last Cigarette?

[AlanS]

Mine was twentyone and one half years ago and I dont miss them at all. Gained fifty plus pounds but I can work with that. I was smoking several packs (more than that) per day. At the time they were a litte over $2 a pack, now they’re $6 to $8

[Brimy]

AlanS
That's great Alan!
I've quit and started again several times. Making up my mind to quit again for good. I find it difficult because they're so quick. Love my cigars but you need at least 45 min to an hour to smoke and enjoy them. Maybe picking up the pipe may help with that. Plus I'm going to get my ass back in the gym so that I can prevent the weight gain.
But again congrats on giving up and maintaining not smoking cigarettes any more. You've got it beat 21yrs strong and continuing!!

[FidelCastro]

Never really got into the cigarette habit even though I used to smoke cloves for a year or two. Cigars and pipes just do "it" for me and make me feel better when I just sit and contemplate life. I bet I've saved thousands of dollars in non-therapy as 2 hours with a good cigar and whisky tends to make life easier to deal with.

[Brimy]

Never really got into the cigarette habit even though I used to smoke cloves for a year or two. Cigars and pipes just do "it" for me and make me feel better when I just sit and contemplate life. I bet I've saved thousands of dollars in non-therapy as 2 hours with a good cigar and whisky tends to make life easier to deal with.

Amen!!

And AlanS
Cigarettes are going for $13/pack here in lovely NYC!

[bluenoser]

Pretty sure up here in the land of taxes they're somewhere in the mid to high teens. I quit about 10 years ago and it was 12-13 a pack then. I was only ever about half a pack a day at my worst. Though I have to admit, while I don't get much cravings for them, getting in the car for a long drive I find myself thinking how great a pack would be. Something about a road trip and a pack of smokes...

[WNYTONY]

Congrats to all you quitters. I never got into cigs, but the dreaded chew is another subject all together.......

[FidelCastro]

Congrats to all you quitters. I never got into cigs, but the dreaded chew is another subject all together.......

I used to chew on long trips but when I went around a sharp curve and spilled the contents of my travel spittoon ....that pretty much did it for me. Now I occasionally chew but only outside. My longest "launch" is 23 feet with no wind.

[Scott W.]

18 minutes ago was my last cig

[Old Smokey]

Congrats to those who have quit. Nasty nasty addiction and I have been its bitch for about 50 years. At this stage of my life there likely wouldn't be a benefit to quitting. My cigs are $22 a carton which includes taxes.

[rodwha]

I quit about 7 years ago. Didn’t want my daughter picking it up from me, and was tired of the addiction. I smoked 2-3 packs a day and would sometimes light a cigarette from the last one.

Back in 1999 20/20 or 60 Minutes did a show on how the government caught various companies using chemicals that weren’t necessary for tobacco that were addictive. I believe they are using new ones that do the same thing as when I switched from Marlboros to American Spirits I didn’t get the fix I needed. Took 3 days of will power I’m not known for when it came to cigarettes and after that my intake was cut in half! I finally quit within a year of that and haven’t looked back. I often am reminded how glad I am that I quit when it’s cold or raining or too damn hot, especially in the truck.

Karmen was skeptical of me picking up cigars again (wasn’t really in to them before) feeling I’d just become a chimney again. Sometimes I go a month without a stick and sometimes I might smoke 3 in a week, but usually it’s one to three times a month.

[Brimy]

Congrats to those who have quit. Nasty nasty addiction and I have been its bitch for about 50 years. At this stage of my life there likely wouldn't be a benefit to quitting. My cigs are $22 a carton which includes taxes.

$22/CARTON?!?!
INCLUDING TAXES?!?!

Wow.

But quitting would have its benefits.

[Cool Breeze]

Congrats to all you quitters. I never got into cigs, but the dreaded chew is another subject all together.......

I have never tried chew, mainly because I'm almost certain I would like it.
I sometimes chew on my cigar for a while before lighting (never with a high end cigar). I think I would probably enjoy it, and I don't half-ass anything so I'd end up doing it more and more.
Then the wife wouldn't want to smooch on me and we can't be having that.

[projectsunfire]

After smoking cigs for roughly 20 years I quit cold turkey about 4 years ago. I tried quitting so may times and actually quit for a year twice but always went back to the habit. Then I just woke up one morning and tossed the pack out and said I don't ever want to have one again. For some reason it clicked this time and I don't even think about it anymore. Now I smoke a cigar almost daily but I like to think that its not the same since I dont inhale hahaha.

[Brimy]

After smoking cigs for roughly 20 years I quit cold turkey about 4 years ago. I tried quitting so may times and actually quit for a year twice but always went back to the habit. Then I just woke up one morning and tossed the pack out and said I don't ever want to have one again. For some reason it clicked this time and I don't even think about it anymore. Now I smoke a cigar almost daily but I like to think that its not the same since I dont inhale hahaha.

Congrats!
Personally I think the success or lack of success in quitting is 95% mental! Once you make up your mind that you truly want to quit you can, despite the physical addiction to the nicotine and other crap that they put in cigarettes. So once YOU (whomever it is) says "I don't want/need this anymore" and stop making excuses for wanting/needing a cigarette, you've won the battle.
Now I've got to stop making those same excuses! :D

[CentralTimeSmoke]

I smoked a lot during high school and college--I was a social smoker and did so when I drank (which was a lot back then lol). Once I grew up a bit and wasn't sitting on a porch drinking cheap beer until the sun came up , I pretty much stopped all together. Then my brother introduced me to cigars, and the rest is history. Now that I understand the quality of premium cigar tobacco, I shudder to think what's rolled up in cigarettes. It's just not the same product, and I can't stand that the laymen (and the FDA) lumps them together.


Anyway, I know how addicting they can be. My dad was an on and off again smoker for his entire life until he started vaping. Now he's content with that. My gf just quit cold turkey and is doing really well. But it took a few tries.

[droy1958]

I've smoked for around 45 years, but the good thing is I know I can quit cigs as I've done it around 10 times. Never was a chewer even though I tried it a few times. I just enjoy tobacco and smoke what's appropriate for me at the time.....

[Bruck]

Cigarettes are going for $13/pack here in lovely NYC!

That right there is reason enough to quit!

My last cigarette was Saturday. I smoke about one cigarette a month :)

Mrs. Bruck likes my hand-rolled pipe tobacco fags - she usually has one in the evening. I'll have one once in a while. They're quite good, and not subject to rapacious taxation.

[projectsunfire]

Congrats!
Personally I think the success or lack of success in quitting is 95% mental! Once you make up your mind that you truly want to quit you can, despite the physical addiction to the nicotine and other crap that they put in cigarettes. So once YOU (whomever it is) says "I don't want/need this anymore" and stop making excuses for wanting/needing a cigarette, you've won the battle.
Now I've got to stop making those same excuses! :D

Thanks. Yes I definitely think a lot of it is mental. Its like most things...if you really put your mind to it you can do it. I always loved to smoke when going out and drinking and I thought that would be the hardest part of quitting for me. As a result I ended up not going to bars anymore which also helped me cut WAY back on drinking. So its been a double positive!

[Sir Lancerolot]

Mine was 55 years ago, when I was 6 ...

It was also my first cigarette ...

[Emperor Zurg]

Mine was 55 years ago, when I was 6 ...

It was also my first cigarette ...

Hahaha! Same here, although not as long ago and I wasn't 6. I imagine I was in my late teens / early 20's
I didn't even make it thru half the thing before deciding 'these things taste like sh!t'
The fact that the sh!tty taste didn't leave my mouth for the next 2 days just reinforced the point.

[FireTom]

January 20th. From almost a pack a day to zero. Still have moments when I'm pretty sure that I could pick them back up but I know I'm better off without.

[chain_gang]

Quit smoking cigs probably 4-5 years ago...maybe more or less. Honestly, it's been a while, and I forget.
Had a friend who used Camel Snus, and he got my going on that right when I was quitting. My appetite for cigs went to zero pretty much, since the pouches were a nice source of nicotine.
I would have a cig here and there, but they ended up being very gross to me after I quit the habit. Can't stand the smell of them now.
Dipped my toes into dip pouches shortly into the snus phase. Then I went all in with long cut. Did that regularly for a year or two. Wanted to cut back drastically, so the vice is now nicotine pouches and cigars. Still throw in a dip every once in awhile.

[Cigarer]

I chew, quit for a couple years. everyone I talked to said the first week was the worst. I went through a break up of a 10 year relationship and for stupid reason started back up. First bit of quitting sucked, but years after urge was still there. Wish I hadn't picked it back up

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[chain_gang]

I chew, quit for a couple years. everyone I talked to said the first week was the worst. I went through a break up of a 10 year relationship and for stupid reason started back up. First bit of quitting sucked, but years after urge was still there. Wish I hadn't picked it back up

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[Sir Lancerolot]

I was about 6 when I smoked my last cigarette ...

[Cool Breeze]

I'm glad you all quit. Those things are awful.
I never was a cigarette smoker. I probably haven't smoked 3 packs total in my life.

My brother said quitting is easy. He's done it dozens of times.

[Emperor Zurg]

I was about 6 when I smoked my last cigarette ...

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[chain_gang]

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https://i.imgur.com/44chyyq.jpgI'd imagine every kid with cigarette smoking parents has had that same experience. Maybe not the parent giving a cigarette, but I know I sneaked a puff once and that quickly cured my curiousity!

[Sir Lancerolot]

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Many years ago I wrote a little piece about how I gave up smoking and why I took it up again. It started like this:

"I gave up smoking the summer between first and second grades. One of the neighbor kids pilfered a pack of cigarettes and a book of matches from her parents' stash and several of us gave them a try. It took a few attempts to overcome the challenge of lighting a paper match. None of us had ever actually done it, but we had all seen our parents and other adults applying the head of the match to the scratchy part of the cover. So, eventually we got the hang of it, and went to work applying our newly-created flames to the ends of a few cigarettes. Naturally it took a few matches to actually get the little white cylinders burning.

I drew a tentative breath through my specimen. It tasted awful. Thinking maybe quality and quantity were directly proportionate, I inhaled for all I was worth. If I had known the names of my internal organs, I would have tried to identify each of them as I coughed them past my lips. I decided on the spot that the only thing worse than secondhand cigarette smoke was firsthand cigarette smoke."

[Emperor Zurg]

Many years ago I wrote a little piece about how I gave up smoking and why I took it up again.
I first read that post back on Puff :) It's on CB somewhere, I've seen it. Figured you'd appreciate this C&H comic.