Next month, January will be the sixteenth year since I quit smoking. I smoked cigarettes for 21 years. My wife convinced me to quit. My wife is a radiologist and specializes in oncology. She showed me lungs of smokers and when she fellowed at the City of Hope Medical Center here in California she showed me photos of folks who used chewing tobacco and lost everything from their upper pallet down to their adams apple.
I quit cold turkey and today I'm happy that I put up with the uncomfortable withdrawals. It is always my advice to anyone to quit now. In my opinion cold turkey is the only way, you cannot "try" to quit, if you only "try" you are setting yourself up for failure, I know, I 'tried' a number of times and failed. When I simply quit and determined that I would never have another smoke I succeeded.
My advice is of course is to never start but quit NOW if you're a smoker, the horrors that await you are much worse than any discomfort that you will experience by quitting.
Originally Posted by dragoninterrupted
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