does smoking menthol smokes make you unfertile???

as of today it has been THREE YEARS since I had my last cigarette. THREE!!!!! 36 months! 1095 days!!!!

hell yes - I am awesome

granted, right now I feel like I just smoke 2 packs with this cough I have but that is getting better (why the hell every time I get sick out here it goes straight to my chest?)

but this is just to tell you all that it CAN be done - I tried many times but I finally got it right (with the help of a couple tools like the e-cig) and I have been tobacco free for all this time and I never want to go back to that.

So today is my 2 year anniversary of having my last cigarette!

ya know, there was a time when I thought I would never be able to say that..

but go me!

*FLEX*

I quit smoking using an electronic cigarette by NJOY. my last regular cigarette was Oct 20, 2008. I stopped using the e-cigarette a couple months later.

some may poo poo the idea of using it saying that you are not quitting, but I used it as a security blanket so that I wouldn't go back to a regular cigarette

http://shop.njoy.com/

the coupon code to get %25 off is NJOYOPEN and it is good through monday

Hi All.  I wanted to put in a post to let everyone know how I am doing with quitting.  I was a smoker for 15 years, I had a 2 pack a day habit.  I found Envy Electronic Cigarettes and have never looked back.  I am stepping my way down on the nicotine level but have not had a traditional cigarette since January.  For those of you that do not know what an electronic cigarette is, it is a battery operated device that has the battery, an atomizer which is the part that turns the liquid nicotine into a vapor, and the cartridge that has the water based nicotine solution in it.  It works by the battery activating the atomizer which in turn produces a vapor with nicotine in it that you inhale.  The nicotine strengths from Envy come in 18mg, 14mg and no nicotine.  I use the 14mg now and have been experimenting with the no nicotine.  I am hoping to be at the no nicotine within the next few months then I can quit the habit all together.  Electronic cigarettes do not contain all the harmful chemicals that traditional cigarettes carry.  Since I started using them I can breath better, there is no smell so I do not smell like an ashtray, my taste is coming back and overall I feel a lot better.  Quitting cigarettes is a hard thing to do, but with the right tools you can do it if you really want to.  Try Envy Electronic Cigarettes.  Their website is www.EnvyCIG.com.

We have this quit helpline in Florida that is just wonderful. Whenever I feel the craving, I call and talk to a cute sounding person and they help me find ways to ignore the craving.
I got some free patches from them, and they make me have insane dreams.
Has anyone else ever had this experience?

It's day 5. I'm doing well.
The only thing I have to learn to deal with is being around groups of people smoking. It's the only time I feel weak.

Hello,
  I have been smoke-free for over a  year now, after smoking for 25 years! I would like to become involved with this community, offer advice when I can, and get support from fellow quitters. Don't be shy, say hello, I won't turn anyone away. I know how hard it is to quit, and sometimes it's just nice to have someone to talk to. So stop by and say hi!

I have been smoke free for over 10 months, and in May I will be celebrating my first year of being smoke free! Words can't describe how fantastically proud I am of myself! :D It was very difficult to begin with, the first few months of turning into a complete and utter monster, the varying illnesses that cropped up, but it just got easier and easier and now I can't imagine my life being any other way!

The secrets of my success was literally that I was literally 'mentally ready' to give up. Without this, I would never have been so successful. The other major contribution was my cast iron willpower. I literally told myself that I was simply not going to touch a cigarette ever again. I was not going to have a drag, the occasional one, absolutely NOTHING to do with smoking.

And it worked! I still believe my mind has a mental addiction and should I ever let down my cast iron guard, I would be hooked again from the first drag. However it is easier than ever before to maintain this now that nothing in my life is associated with smoking.


And now I need to deal with my next vice - alcohol. Time to apply the same mentally, if it worked the first time, I bet it can again! :D

I stopped smoking in December. Around that time I started running. I love running. It's fun and I have a long term goal of one day running a marathon. Right now I can't run a mile yet so it will be a while before I'm able to run 26 miles! lol But it's a goal that I have for maybe another 2 or 3 years at the least (5 years at the most).

Last weekend we partied. We had so much fun!

Well, since it was a weekend of indulgence, I smoked. I hate that. Mostly because I haven't stopped smoking since.

Today I went back to running (didn't work out Monday or yesterday). I couldn't do it! I kept on feeling like I was suffocating. My body was ready for it. My lungs said "Hell no!"

Also I noticed that since the weekend I really don't have much energy. I am having trouble sleeping and when I wake up I feel drained. I hadn't felt that way since December really. I mean some days I was too tired but for the most part I felt pretty good. I believe it's because my body isn't getting enough oxygen because my lungs are filled with smoke. And I'm not sleeping well because of the nicotine.

I have a few cigarettes left but I'm not going to smoke them. My step-father smokes the same brand. So I think I'll just give the few I have left to him. From this moment on I'm going to make an effort not to smoke ever again. Party or not.

Hi, everyone.

I'm new...I quit smoking on the first and thought I'd been doing okay with it, but I think I'm starting to go a little nuts. I keep exploding in a rage on all of my friends. I can't stand my family. Noises that wouldnt have bothered me two weeks ago (e.g, annoying music in the cartoons my daughter watches) feel like torture now. I feel like everyone in the world is trying to annoy or upset me on purpose, and I just want to scream at them until they stop. Today, I can't stop crying. And I don't understand it, because it's only been, like, these last few days where it's been like this- when I first went cold turkey, I was fine. Desperate to smoke, but fine. Now I'm a mess and I feel like I can't deal with anything.

Is this normal? Just suddenly becoming a raw emotional mass of nerves wiating to be set off nearly three weeks into quitting? I thought that I'd be getting better now, but I seem to be getting worse. Much, much worse. I don't feel like I can talk to my friends and family about it, not after the way I've been exploding all over them for the past three days. It feels like anything I say now will just come off as an excuse for me just being a bitch.

I feel so miserable. Should I still feel this way now? Will I go on feeling this way for a long time? What should I do?