Friends and Family Success Stories

   I had smoked for 15 years. I started being a social smoker and soon worked up to a one pack a day smoker.  The more stress in my life, the more I smoked. 

    I suffered from chronic sinus infections.  In my heart I new it was the smoking,  ... (More)

    I was always defiant in my smoking habit, pointing out that it made me different from the Utah norm and that it sometimes helped me find like-minded people.  I felt like I was destined to be addicted to cigarettes; my parents smoked in the home when I was younger, both of my grandfathers smoked in ... (More)

My father and 8 year old daughter are my biggest supporters. My quit date was September 30, 2007 and i am still smoke free! Yea!

My dad calls me everyday just to ask how i am doing (he has only done that in the past if my mom tells him too). I can talk about my struggles and positive changes ... (More)

My husband had smoked for 30 + years.  He smoked at least 2 packs a day and when he couldn't smoke he chewed nicorette gum (I know, how could anyone stand that stuff!)When he decided to quit we scheduled a family trip to Yellowstone to get him out of his usual environment and provide a place that was serene and ... (More)

My smoking created a network of friends, beginning with high school, smoking always placed me and others around the ash tray.

Although smoking began as a cool thing and created an ever widening circle of friends, it quickly became a tool of separation. I did not want anything to do with organized religion and smoking kept the &... (More)

My husband started smoking about 12 years ago when he changed jobs. He always said he would quit, but he’s never been truly successful when it came to quitting. I always told him that I didn’t like it when he smoked. His clothes always smelled and I know it sounds cliché, but I couldn’... (More)

I started smoking at age 12. My good friend and I would take 1/2 smoked butts from his moms ash tray and rellish them. When I was an adolecent my friends and I were very resourseful. We smoked most any thing from butts we'd find, to stolen smokes from kmart or seven eleven, to ... (More)

I started smoking when i was 20.  I started because i was hanging out with people that smoked all the time, and they seemed to have everything together. I was missing things in my life, and decided that that void in my soul could be filled with smoking. SO, i started smoking. I smoked every second i had that ... (More)

My buddy, Tom, and I have been friends for the past 10 years and he finally quit. Though I used some of the tips on this site to encourage Tom’s quit, this is his quit. I am just happy that I knew how to help without stepping on his toes.

I’ve seen him try ... (More)

    I was always defiant in my smoking habit, pointing out that it made me different from the Utah norm and that it sometimes helped me find like-minded people.  I felt like I was destined to be addicted to cigarettes; my parents smoked in the home when I was younger, both of my grandfathers smoked in ... (More)

I have tried several times to quit my nasty addiction.  I was able to quit initially, and keep my quit for several months, sometimes a couple years, then fall back to smoking; thinking that I was never going to get hooked on them again.

I joined the quitnet, for my last attempt ... (More)

   I began puffing on a ciggie at the young age of 12.  I never liked the way it made my father gag, cough, and sputter, but nevertheless, I liked that once in awhile smoke.

   By the time I realized what was going on with the daily ciggies it was too late...I found ... (More)

I started to smoke when I turned 4 years old. My sisters and I and my sister's boyfriend used to live out in colorado and we went out in the fields with long weeds. my sister's have always stolen my mothers ciggerates and we always passed them around when we were in the long weeds.

I stopped smoking ... (More)

I started smoking when i was 20.  I started because i was hanging out with people that smoked all the time, and they seemed to have everything together. I was missing things in my life, and decided that that void in my soul could be filled with smoking. SO, i started smoking. I smoked every second i had that ... (More)

   I had smoked for 15 years. I started being a social smoker and soon worked up to a one pack a day smoker.  The more stress in my life, the more I smoked. 

    I suffered from chronic sinus infections.  In my heart I new it was the smoking,  ... (More)

    I was always defiant in my smoking habit, pointing out that it made me different from the Utah norm and that it sometimes helped me find like-minded people.  I felt like I was destined to be addicted to cigarettes; my parents smoked in the home when I was younger, both of my grandfathers smoked in ... (More)

In June of 1998, I had just made several major changes in my life.  I had retired, divorced the year prior, and moved three hundred miles from my home town.  With all these changes in my life I was still "sick and tired of being sick and tired".  Cigarettes were taking their toll on my ... (More)

 I am a 49 year old woman and breast cancer survivor that USED to smoke a pack to two, sometimes three packs a day.  I smoked for 30 years.  That was then, this is now...freedom, finally! I quit using the Quitnet site (actually Living on the quitnet site) and created a cancer survivor club there and although ... (More)

I have tried several times to quit my nasty addiction.  I was able to quit initially, and keep my quit for several months, sometimes a couple years, then fall back to smoking; thinking that I was never going to get hooked on them again.

I joined the quitnet, for my last attempt ... (More)

I was a slave to nicotine. I started smoking when I was 16 years old to prove a point to my husband.(stupid reason)

Over the years I became more and more addicted to the Nico demon. My kids used to beg me to quit and tell me how it was going to make me die young. I ... (More)

   I began puffing on a ciggie at the young age of 12.  I never liked the way it made my father gag, cough, and sputter, but nevertheless, I liked that once in awhile smoke.

   By the time I realized what was going on with the daily ciggies it was too late...I found ... (More)

I had never tried to quit, untill the day I seen my Doctor. He gave me a prescription for Zyban. My insurance didnt cover it and it was very expensive. I just said to heck with it and bought my first month of pills. The instructions for the prescription said to keep smoking for the first week of taking ... (More)

My smoking created a network of friends, beginning with high school, smoking always placed me and others around the ash tray.

Although smoking began as a cool thing and created an ever widening circle of friends, it quickly became a tool of separation. I did not want anything to do with organized religion and smoking kept the &... (More)

I smoked for 5 years and I decided that I did not want to be addicted to nicotine anymore and decided I wanted to quit. I came up with a pattented method to quit. The first step is to stop smoking one day. The first day is easiest, because it is almost as if you are delaying your nicotine intake ... (More)

     I started smoking at the age of 15.  I was looking for, fun and excitement; and I wanted to be a unique individual, different from 'the mold'.  In my immature thinking, I believed cigarettes, alcohol and drugs could provide those for me.  Though I wasn't dependent on drugs and alcohol, it didn't ... (More)

I started smoking at age 12. My good friend and I would take 1/2 smoked butts from his moms ash tray and rellish them. When I was an adolecent my friends and I were very resourseful. We smoked most any thing from butts we'd find, to stolen smokes from kmart or seven eleven, to ... (More)

I started to smoke when I turned 4 years old. My sisters and I and my sister's boyfriend used to live out in colorado and we went out in the fields with long weeds. my sister's have always stolen my mothers ciggerates and we always passed them around when we were in the long weeds.

I stopped smoking ... (More)

I started smoking when i was 20.  I started because i was hanging out with people that smoked all the time, and they seemed to have everything together. I was missing things in my life, and decided that that void in my soul could be filled with smoking. SO, i started smoking. I smoked every second i had that ... (More)