To All The Ex Smokers Here On Ab

[sandyRoe]

Congratulations! Must be the best thing for your health that you've ever done.

http://www.exsmokers.eu/dayoftheexsmokers

[hc4361]

It certainly is! 20 years next year and if I and my wife were still smoking it would cost us £11860 a year. Unbelievable.

[Baldric]

Best part of 30 non-smoking years between us,
one of the best things we've done!

(not preaching, just saying)

[horseshoes]

Well done me!

[AB Editor]

Well done to any non smokers on here :-)

[coccinelle]

One thing I don't miss is having to go and find a tobacconist's on a Sunday or bank holiday open. I could drive for miles.... that added to the bill!! Best thing I did health wise too.

[leahbee]

Sandy, I stopped smoking 14 months ago after smoking 20 a day for sixty years.
I still can't believed it because I tried so many times before. It's a bit late for me health wise
as I already have COPD caused by smoking .At least I am not letting it get worse.
Where I am really feeling the benefit if financial. I was spending almost £50 a week which is quite substantial coming from a pension.
I would say to any smoker you CAN stop. If I can do it anyone can.

[sandyRoe]

True, it's not a cheap vice anymore. 20 cigarettes cost over £8 now. £56 a week would make a big hole in anyone's finances.

[mccfluff]

you can get them cheaper....

but as im fast approaching 7 months ciggie free i'm not bothered what they cost anymore

[WELSHYORKIE]

Coming up to 13 years and 5 months since I gave them up - should have done it 20 years before that.

[B00]

18 months fag free for me too

[divegirl]

19 months and counting for me :0)

[craft1948]

Smug barstards............

[paddywak]

Nearly 40 years for me. Non smoker I'm really proud of is my sister,who after spending nearly fifty years smoking like a chimney announced on the birth of her great grand daughter four years ago that "nobody is smoking any where near that baby and that incudes me" and literally stopped overnight.

[leahbee]

Ha Ha
Its great feeling smug though.

[McMouse]

Not smoked for 25 years. Mind you, it was the 35 years of smoking before I stopped that has bu99ered my health.

[yogasun]

30 plus years for both myself and Mr YS.
Not smug just pleased we did it then for financial, health and social reasons.

[craft1948]

I bet you're all virulent anti-smokers as well............

[daffy654]

In 4 days time it will be one year since my last cigarette. I gave up for 'Stoptober' last year :)

[ChillDoubt]

Thanks sandyroe.

I even did it cold turkey too, some 21 years ago.

And yes craft, I am. My son even more so, having seen his Nan and Grandad die of lung cancer within 5 years of each other.
Me? I'd make smoking whilst pregnant an offence!