What motivates you to keep going with your quit?

[nsd_user663_26699]

We all quit for one or several reasons but we also need something to keep us going. What motivates you?

[Dippy_Egg]

Nothing motivates me. These days you really couldn't pay me to smoke. I don't smoke and it's great that it takes no effort. I can smell a fag a mile off and even the smell repulses me. Can't believe I ever did that.

[nsd_user663_27255]

To live longer for my family knowing that nothing I'm doing can make that happen quicker!

[nsd_user663_63484]

Keeping healthy,living longer, and to keep youthful im approaching 40 next year

[lefoy123]

Like Dippy Egg nothing actually motivates me I just don't smoke period; more than that I cannot say.

[nsd_user663_54305]

Nothing motivates me. These days you really couldn't pay me to smoke. I don't smoke and it's great that it takes no effort. I can smell a fag a mile off and even the smell repulses me. Can't believe I ever did that.

Agreed - double egg

[nsd_user663_60964]

I'm with Kat- the thought of going through it all again is too awful to contemplate.

Also, and perhaps more fundamentally, I feel a million dollars these days in just about every possible way (all thanks to quitting). I'd be truly bonkers to chuck that away.

[nsd_user663_63402]

The money saved,

Health

and a baby on the way. That's motivation in its self. I Want to be around as long as possible for my boy/ or girl.

[nsd_user663_57918]

Health all the way

[nsd_user663_26699]

Thanks every much everyone for all your replies. I thought Dippy's reply was particularly interesting as it shows a total disconnect from her (I think her?) smoking past. Kat73's answer strikes a chord too, not wanting to have to repeat the process of regaining freedom. Health, money saved, great answers too. Sadly tractorgirl, my 16-year old daughter who has seen both me and her mother struggle with quitting decided to start smoking. Grrr!!

[AngryBear]

I don't tend to need to maintain my quit as such, I just don't think about cigarettes at all these days, even when things go wrong in life, it's a gift really.....good to hear from you Alex!

[nsd_user663_20558]

Mostly I'm with DippyEgg, it's yucky and I just don't want to do it and so no motivation is required.

If I ever have a fleeting thought at moments of great stress (this happens maybe once or twice a year now) I just have to remind myself of how it felt just before I quit, that scary suffocating feeling of not being able to breathe properly, and I imagine actually inhaling smoke and - boom. Fleeting thought gone, and I'm back firmly in the 'not if you gave me a million quid to do it' mindset.

Four years on, and so much happier as a non smoker. Shame I couldn't see that reality during the twenty odd years I kept up the habit. Ah well, you live and learn!

[nsd_user663_42220]

I'm in the "I don't need motivating anymore" camp too.

Smoking is something I used to do, but I've realised I can live my life without it, so why would I waste money and jeopardise my health when I don't have to?

You really can get through anything life throws at you without having to reach for a fag, hell, people who have never smoked do it all the time

I just want anyone considering a quit, in the early stages of a quit, or struggling at present with a quit, to know that. You really can function normally without smoking

[nsd_user663_63529]

My 2 year old daughter and my lovely wife.. I love spending every none working minute I have with them, and my daughter worships the ground i walk on. If I took that away from them, what kind of husband and daddy am I?

[nsd_user663_54554]

Great views. For me a mix of what others have written, I still think I fancy it very occasionally but that's just nostalgia and easily dealt with. So I don't feel like I'm quitting any more, smoking is just something I used to do and don't do any more. It's an amazing feeling knowing that I'm in control of something that used to control me and as long as I choose never to take another puff then I'll happily remain smoke free forever. That's about it really.

Oh yeah, and if I did smoke then in the battle of man v plant, plant wins. We can't have that now can we??

[nsd_user663_63114]

All of the above, my kids, money and not having to drive out to a garage at night as running low on fags. Today I have a sore throat and the relief of not trying to smoke is amazing.