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[ttk57]

I would just like to say that i stopped smoking 3 years ago, i was supprised how easy it was!

[Puffthemagicdragon]

For some of us it was easy. I feel for the ones who find it a struggle though.

[Hidden]

I can empathise with all those who are struggling. It can be easy, or really difficult to stop. It depends on many things - why you smoke, whether it is habit or addiction, personality, others smoking around you, etc. Anyone determined enough CAN do it though.

[libby7827]

Me to! 3rd anniversary in 2 weeks. And although I tried many times before, the last time was a doddle. Maybe because it was my last chance? Good luck to all of you giving up at the moment, don't worry if you slip, just keep trying. I lit up half a dozen in the first few weeks but always put them out after a couple of puffs and the longer you go the less they hold their magic! Libby x

[libbygood]

I couldn't give up, tried many times then 12 years ago I was in hospital for 3 weeks with a collapsed lung etc. never wanted a ciggie again, in fact when I got home found a pack in the drawer and put them in the bin. But all in all bit of a desperate way to give up !

Lib x

[KingoftheCocktails in reply to libbygood]

Snap!

[Hidden]

Addiction is a strange thing and some find giving up their vice harder than other people. It took me many years and many try's to give up smoking but I managed it in the end.

[KingoftheCocktails]

I think you must of met my friend WILL POWER

Richard

[SOB45]

For the people who are addicted to smoking it is not about will power it is about overcoming a mental ilness

[jemash]

Sorry SOB45, i do not agree with you, as it being a mental ilness giving up, is mind over matter though! & the mind plays tricks!! but smoking is not an illness.

[Ozzygirl64]

When I was first diagnosed(Oct 2011) i stopped on the spot through shock for the first ten weeks and then I started again. I am now struggling badly to quit altogether. I have a few puffs here and there, normally every other day or so. I know this is still bad but better than smoking 30 a day. But I know the lungs cannot differentiate between s little smoking and a lot of smoking, they just know they are being posoned. I am so pleased you gave up and who knows, may one day I can come onhere and say I quit altogether and have something to be proud of to xxxxx