I was sitting out at my patio table smoking one after another talking to my oldest and best friend on the phone (we met each other in the 1st grade) well, we started smoking together and she had quit about a year ago and she's like "honey if only you could hear yourself you really are weezing and you cough all the time" She then continued to tell me how intelligent I am how beautiful I am and encouraged me to please quit. I called my Doc' the next day and asked for a script for Chantix! End of story, beginning of LIFE, breathing deep & clean for 80 days!

You are blessed to have such a wonderful friend! Congrats on the 80 days! I am on day 5!

Mine was kind of different, I had a chest X-Ray to check on a rib my eldest lad had broken during some martial arts practice, 3 years ago. I then decided if my chest was clear after 27 years of abuse, then I owed it to myself to pack up this terrible demon. I have also been aware this year that my fitness had indeed slipped quite dramatically and I want to return to feeling good and looking good!

I had been having asthma attacks in my sleep. I had a very bad one one night where it took me about fives minutes before I could catch a breath. It's very scary being woken up because you can't breathe! My mother had also recently had a heart attack, due to smoking. The day after my asthma attack I was having a REALLY hard time breathing, so I bought some books online and found this site, and three months later, I don't wake up in the middle of the night searching for air!

Let's see now...diabetes, stroke and raising my wonderful 6 year-old grandson. Any questions? I've been smoke free for 72 days. YAHOO!!!

Wheezing bad, coughing hard and spit out blood. That DID IT.

My company instituted a policy effective July 1 that we could not smoke ANYWHERE on the grounds -- and that included our cars on the grounds.

I'd also calculated the money I was spending on both cigarettes (smoked at home) and Nicorette (used at work), and I was really spending a chunk of change.

I wasn't having any physical problems (yet) from the smoking.

103 days -- and I'm glad I quit!

A week ago I discovered I had high blood pressure and high colesteral. Mother and her brother and sister died of strokes. Father and his sister died of heart attacks. Im on day 3 of quit !

My other half decided to quit and had an appointment with a councellor and I just went along for 'moral support'. I got to work afterwards and my manager told me that a medical test showed that he had two dark shadows on his lungs. He's been smoking for 30 years and that really kicked it home to me. The pack in my pocket got scrunched up and binned.

i went to the doctor twice within 5 or 6 months because of lung problems. the doc said 'you have athsma'. my heart sank and i realized that smoking caused this. i continued to smoke and i continued to have breathing problems. i would wake up in the middle of the night coughing, wheezing, and with a very tight chest. i would reach for the inhaler like a sick baby would reach for his mother 2 rooms down. i couldnt get to it fast enough. i knew i had a problem, i knew i had to do something to do about it, i just didnt think i had the power or the smarts to quit. then i kept seeing these "stop smoking" pamphlets in the school and i kept picking them up, not sure if i would read them. i knew that i couldnt do it alone, i knew i coudlnt do it cold turkey. i just didnt know how to get a grip on this addiction. this sucks, but i have a quit date, i am looking for a support group, and i plan to write down the benifits of being smoke free. all i need is that extra push. if anyone would like to talk, please reply me back. it would be much appreciated. thank you.

Poor circulation, chronic coughing, and using an inhaler in my mom when I went to visit her. I know that she smoked more because I was there. I knew that wouldl be me if I don't quit.
I was hoping maybe she would quit if I did first.
And a few periods of not getting enough oxygen that scared me...like I was going to suffocate.
So here I am 45 days smoke free!!! :)

Two friends and I were going to quit on the same day. So far I have made it (8 months) - they did not. My husband and I run around with about 12 people (a lot) When we all started hanging out with each other 6 of us were smokers - now we are down to 2.

I had very low energy which my 'gut' told me was due to smoking. Smoked most of my life and decided it was time to stop tempting providence. Also, I just hated being a slave to it & decided to give it the shoulder. Had my last smoke 75 days ago & quit!

Two years prior to my quit I had some physical issues that had me convinced I had lung cancer and it had spread (no medical reasons, just how I felt). That wasn't enough to make me quit, but it did get me to examining my smoking. Two years later I was totally fed up with it.

I wanted to be able to run a dog agility course without danger of collapsing, and I wanted to break that slavery to cigarettes I discovered within me. I had decided that Zyban was worth a try and during a search for side effects of it I found an online support group. That was the last straw. Within 15 minutes I'd made a doctor's appointment for the prescription, and told my (ex)wife and boss I was quitting.

Keep up the great quits, everyone.
Peace and blessings,
Shevie