One year today!!!!!!!!!

Thanks everybody. It has not been easy but not as hard as I thought it was going to be. Besides, I am a stubborn old fart and I don't like to lose.

To answer the request for info on how I did it. Here goes. In June of 2012 I decide it was time to quit smoking after 44 years of puffing. Being the realist that I am I thought about how I was best going to be able to complete the task with the best chance for success. I decided that my best chance for success was to wait until after hunting season as there would be lots of beer drinking and smoking going on at my yearly 2 week deer hunt. I talked to my doctor about it and she thought my plan was sound. So in late November she gave me a prescription for Champix, the U.S. equivlant is Chantix. I took it for a week and on December 5th I had my last smoke at approximately 5:30 am. Another thing I did was stop drinking beer for the first month to help beat the cravings. The Champix seemed to do what it was supposed to do. The side effects I had from it were weird dreams. As long as you can convince yourself they are just dreams they aren't to bad. Other people have had other side effects. I finished the Champix in early March 2013. That was just plain cruel. By that time the craving for nicotine has subsided somewhat but then you have a whole new problem. You are craving Champix. It turned me into a bear for a week. The wife was ready to divorce me and this was on our vacation to Florida. That went over real good. By the time we were leaving Florida I was back to being myself and from there it was just a matter of fighting off the cravings every 6 or 7 hours that they occured. That got easier with time and now I only get a craving about once a day and it's not as bad as they used to be. So, that's the short story on how I did it. Good luck to anybody that try's. The one thing I will say about trying to quit is, do anything except pick up another smoke when you get a craving.

Oh and as far as how I feel, I don't feel any different really. My wallet is a little fatter and I don't smell like smoke. I don't know if that is a good thing or not. LOL

Jack