Posted on Jun 10, 2014
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Just trying to see what people do!? Especially if you have quit, please share your success story.

Did you know that tobacco cessation can be used on the 2166-8-1 NCO counseling form?
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SSG Maurice P.
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I quit SMOKING CIGARETTES AND THEM ONES WITH NO NAME ON IT HEHEHEHEHEHE 4 nov 1980...I also quit drinking alcohol in 1985...
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CW5 Sam R. Baker
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The inhaling stopped in 1988 only to come back with lead flying in 2002 to be permanently quit in 2007 in Bangor, Maine retrograding out of Iraq. However, 2011 the cigar (no inhaling) had become a once a month tradition with fellow warrants on the porch of the BIG GREEN MONSTER in the NO SMOKING area on Kandahar. So when there is a functional WOPD session with a cigar, I attend and submit to the cigar.
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SSG Aircraft Mechanic
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I don't know that this is an accurate reflection. Everywhere that I've been in the Army, tobacco users have outnumbered non-users.
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Apparently they are not here on RallyPoint! Must be at the "smoke pit"?!
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1SG Company First Sergeant
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Lot's of great success stories thus far! Thanks for sharing your story and let's hope that maybe it will motivate others to do the same.
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MSG(P) Michael Warrick
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Never smoked or chewed !
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I am very impressed with the amount of people that we have on here that have quit and want to tell you all congratulations. I too use to smoke and know that it is a hard habit to kick.

For any that want to quit please use this thread as an inspiration, and ask some of us that have quit for tips that might help you.
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PO1 Machinist Mate
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I smoke occasionally, mostly when I drink. I try not to.
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A good stress relief now, but prolonged smoking can cause stress later in life by means of terminal illness.
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Absolutely, and I have seen that in my Dad, which is why I am trying harder not to do it. Have only had 2 in the last 4 months, at least.
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That's how I started smoking, in Bahrain too...only when I drank...then I drank all the time...so smoking all the time, but I quit smoking 2 years ago. I don't know if you call it addicted or not, but I quit one day when I realized my running was being hindered because of the tar in my lungs, but I liked doing because it gave me a 5 minute break to calm down.
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MSG(P) Michael Warrick
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No I do not smoke
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SFC Timothy Riser
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Cigars
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SFC Unnacompanied Housing Ncoic
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Ya Unfortuatly a bad habbit but I could die of lead poisoning too...... just hasards of the proffesion ;)
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There are worse things in the world to die form I suppose. When I use to smoke I always said that we all have to die sometime, and I want to be happy when I go. I have since quit, but I don't down anybody that does smoke, does not make one any worse in my opinion.
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SSG Chris Cherry
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I chew, but I still smoke when I drink which is probably a little too often (recently was counseled for having too much booze in the bees
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SFC Clinic Ncoic
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Copenhagen and I have been together for over 20 years. You have to have a vice, especially in this line of work.
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