RallyPoint Survey: Tobacco Use

I quit! It was hard but the price and long term effects are not worth the 10 minute euphoria. I had tried before with all kinds of gum, patches and e-cigs but in the end it was all about focusing on the benefits of quitting. My kids hated it and I'm always on them about their education, health, and general kindness and courtesy to people despite differnces and a lack of cultural understanding. My quitting gave them a great example of making a choice to make myself better and showed them their young opinions matter to me and validated the value of their thought process. 

Started smoking about a pack a day when I was about 16 (1984) because it was "cool". Smoked cigars occasionally up till about 2007, then I got into them seriously. In late 2011 my father (smoked a pack a day from when HE was 16 or so) was diagnosed with throat cancer. On 4 Nov 2011 my wife and I quit cold turkey. Haven't had any tobacco since, although the cravings hit occasionally. Quitting can only be done when YOU want to quit. Now that my father is cancer free, he picked cigarettes up again. The only person who can make you quit is you.

I used Chantrix but it made me so sick, I just quit on my own. A promise I made to my grandson.

I dipped for about 3 years and the one thing that finally ended it was when I went to Kuwait, when its 125 outside I was always dehydrated no how much water you drink and I hated always going outside.

I quit when I found out I was pregnant. It's officially been a year since I've quit!

I quit smoking 7 months ago after smoking for 17 years

Cigars, cigarettes, & e-cigs don't fit in the same category

Cigars are typically not smoked daily, more often a social activitiy. Plus preiunm hand rolled cigars are natural

Cigarettes are smoked daily, made up of variable items of the tobacco plant, including stems and 599 additives the goverment approved chemicals which can be added

AS CWO2 Shannon stated YOU, If you are not on board 110%, then you will not succeed. As in most things......

I've been an on and off smoker for 10 yrs. I had recently quit for 5 months but started smoking again a week ago (not full time just here and there at work). It's a terribly addictive and stupid habit. I quit once for two years but picked it back up in Afghanistan. Even after two years I still craved them to some degree (everyone is different though). Working in a maintenance unit doesn't help either. Everyone smokes at the damn motor pool! I used an E-cig for about a month last time I quit and it helped but there are more chemicals in cigarettes than just nicotine that your body craves. I plan to quit again soon, hopefully for good this time. It's a dumb habit and I'm sure my wife and kids would like me alive and healthy, not dying of emphysema at 50. 

Happy to say I quit cold turkey about 3 months ago.

I did wait until I was in between jobs to take away temptation; the former coworkers weren't there to corrupt me, and most of the new coworkers didn't know I smoked (so didn't corrupt me) until I'd been there a while.

It seems to become a summertime thing for me. I quit two years before I joined and stayed clean until summer comes around. Quit before labor day but usually the week after Memorial Day I pick it up again. Usually only one or two cigarettes a day.