Don’t know if it’s technically a New year’s resolution as I got a week’s head start and put out my last ciggy last Sunday but still mad proud I’ve got this far. Best of luck to anyone quitting in 2023.

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  7. I quit 2 years ago, best thing I’ve ever done, once you are over the first month you are home free, all in the head after that so I had a little list on my phone of the reasons I quit, read once or twice…

  11. Don’t smoke for a year and you’ll save 5 grand. Impressive!

    Best of luck pal, one of the best decisions you’ll ever make in your life. Stick with it, you’re over the hard part (first 24 hrs) at this stage, but don’t fall back into smoking if you can avoid it (stress related incident/drunk/etc). Happy new year to ya.

  13. You will manage 😊 and trust me, having been there, it may be hard some days but you will feel so much better on the long run and you will end up having no regrets and wondering why you ever smoked in the first place! Keep it up and feel free to ping me if you ever have any difficulties, I’ll gladly try and help.

  17. Well done you!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

    I also used a tracker and it worked a treat. I was given the advice to transfer the money saved weekly to another account (credit union/revolute/etc) and watching my savings grow made me realise how much cash I’d literally burned over the years….

    Stopping smoking is the best present you can give yourself and the second best present is one you can buy yourself with all the saved money!

  19. Good luck. I quit on January 7th 2020 and it definitely gets easier. There’s still occasional times when I’ll smell one and I’ll want to rip it out if the person’s hand and have a drag, but 99% of the time it smells awful and I can’t remember why I liked it.

  21. I gave up smoking when my son was born – he turns 18 tomorrow – after being a pack a day smoker for 16 years. More recently I found out I have a genetic predisposition to heart disease. I can’t imagine how shit my health would be if I had never given up and spent the last 18 puffing away.

    What I remember helped me the most was just to drink a glass of water whenever I felt like smoking.

  23. I was in hospital for a week with gallstones, and didn’t smoke for that week. When I came out I thought this is my chance to properly give it a go. That was 6 months ago and haven’t smoked since.

    Silver linings and all that…

    Good luck!

  24. My killer was not smoking for like a week, then going drinking, buying a packet at the end of the night, waking up next day and thinking “fuck”.

    When that happened I created a habit of lighting one up straight away the next morning, felt disgusted at myself, then took the half-full packet and immediately rinsed it under the tap. If I didn’t do that I would have just smoked the rest of the packet and then would have got back into it. That ended up having more impact than any of the quitting techniques I used.

  25. How does it know how often you would have smoked? Like 134.6 is very precise

    Also, thats insane how much 1 week is! Imagine the years of smoking for some…

  26. HOLY SHIT. OVER ONE HUNDRED QUID FROM JUST AVOIDING A BAD HABIT? I dunno what you’re into mate, but 5 more of those weeks and you can buy yourself a PS5. Only 2 more and you could buy a nintendo switch.

    Maybe you’re into football? Premier league tickets are like 400 quid, seems like a lot but in 4 weeks you’d be healthier AND could afford a ticket?

    Jesus, even one week you could get yourself 9 or 10 decent fuckin takeaways and probably still come away healthier!

    Enjoy it friend!

  27. Well done! I’m once again stopping vaping tomorrow lol. Down to 3 m/g of nicotine but ready to just stop.

  28. Mate whatever you need to call it to keep motivated do it, ut is still a new years resolution if u make a promise that in 23 you’ll be cigarette free

  29. Hi there, keep it up, you will not regret it.

    For like minded company and support head over to /r/stopsmoking you will be warmly welcomed.

    For the record, I quit more than 10 years ago and that sub really helped.

  30. Pro tip: set up a savings account you can’t touch for a year. Deposit the amount you’d spend on cigs every week on a Monday. I did this when I was spending AU$250 a week and at the end of that year, I had $13k saved. I spent it backpacking my way back to Ireland.

  31. What’s that app? My wife is a pack a day habit. We just argue whenever we’ve talked about it. It’s a shame and I do worry constantly it’s gonna end with her getting sick but there’s just no easy way to help with someone in addiction to something that slowly hurts them. The money alone would inspire me. It’s a fucking holiday now a year. Mad.

  32. Good on ya – it’s definitely not cheating to get a head start!10 yrs ago I quit after 30 yrs of slavery which I always resented as ‘paying a voluntary tax’.

    Smoking itself was OK but I hated being an involuntary smoker. After the initial few weeks, the reward and freedom of not doing that anymore just grows and grows. Defer each craving, even by one minute, and as time goes on the joy of being free more and more outweighs the craving. Never give in – not even for just one puff.

    Beat the slavery and quit paying that voluntary tax. I’m on your side and rooting for you!

  35. Congratulations! Keep it up! I smoked 30 years and watched my mom die of lung cancer. It took a few tries across about 2 months but I have now been smoke free for 10 and a half years. Wonderful to be free of the addiction!

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