Herman by Jim Unger for December 05, 2021

I’ve quit. It is easy. I’ve done it thousands of times.

Hold on!

Sitting by that ashtray doesn’t help.

One time I was 12 minutes old. I’m pretty sure Herman is in the chair, but where are his hermits?

I walked her home and she held my hand

I knew it wouldn’t be just a one night stand

I asked to see her next week and she told me I could

Something tells me I’m into something good.

Addicts are a hoot

I have always been impressed by what my parents did. They were both regular, though I wouldn’t say frequent, smokers. When I was about ten, they both decided to stop — so as not to give me any ideas, I guess. Never saw a cigarette around the house again.

Wonder how many folks just quit because of loss of interest in smoking?Myy wife and I separately reached that same conclusion some time back in the 1960’s and just never bothered with it again. Nothing to do with health fears, or cost. Just added nothing of value to our lives.

I tried quitting many times. Even had a collapsed lung and that didn’t stop me. Then one day the government increased the price to three dollars a pack. I had five cigarettes left and they were the last ones I ever smoked. That was 34 years ago.

Eleven minutes…that’s longer than I’ve lasted on a diet.

I quit when the price went from 50¢ to 55¢ in the cigarette vending machines. After that, I threw 50¢ a day into a jar. I used the money I saved to buy my first computer (a Heathkit H-8).

Downside? I gained 40 pounds over the next 6 months…

Cigareets and whusky and wild, wild women.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJmR3DVKsSI

Cigarettes are a blight on the whole human race

A man is a monkey with one in his face;

Take warning dear friend, take warning dear brother

A fire’s on one end, a fools on the t’other.

And the worst part is – 12 minutes in and he has already chewed an entire pack of Nicolette

I tried to stop eating ashtrays once. Couldn’t do it.

I quit “cold turkey”,as they say. HARDEST thing I’ve ever done but still smoke-free 34 years later…..

Twenty years for me being off. It is said that quitting heroin is not as bad as tobacco.

I found out who always bummed cigarettes off me when I quit. They were not happy about it. Haha! All you need to do to quit is, not smoke the next cigarette. It only takes that one.

I tried smoking once. Couldn’t inhale. Have unusual sinus issues* and got nothing out of it so never really got started

*had sinus operations when I was a pre-teen and have no external sense of smell but can taste things/differences I shouldn’t be able to so either something adapted or there’s some residual subliminal smellability.

I quit using hypnotism. The first 3 days were the hardest. I could still taste the cigarettes up to then.

I had two motivational events that helped me through to quit: 1) my then 3 year old son asked me for a drag. 2) I had no cigarettes with me one morning at work, and I went around to all the ashtrays in the store looking for butts I could light up. At that moment, I realized what I was doing and how dependent I had become. I quit there and then. It’s been 51 years since those incidents occurred.

I quit on November 22, 2000. I got hypnotized. The whole time I was thinking I wasted my money. Walked out, lit a ciggy and it was horrible. I couldn’t finish. Got home and tried again. Same thing. Put them down and been smoke free ever since.

Eleven minutes?!?! Why, I could do that in my sleep!

Some of my early days trying to quite smoking, finally did it after a heart attack.

My dad smoked unfiltered Camels, pipes, and cigars. He did stop smoking the Camels at some point, but continued the pipe and cigar smoking. Interestingly enough, when he died at age 88, he had no cancer at all in his body. My mom also smoked unfiltered Camels, she died at age 49 of lymphoma, which I do not think was related to her smoking.