Need Motivation to Stay Off Cigs?

[jmalone]

We all know it's beneficial to quit smoking, otherwise we wouldn't be here. But no matter how determined we are to stay off the smokes, there are days when even the strongest of us need a little reinforcement when those evil death sticks are beckoning "come baaaack...!".

Quitting Smoking By Age 40 Makes A Significant Difference In Life Expectancy [Study]

Smokers who fail to ever quit lose about a decade of life expectancy...The Washington Post reports smokers who quit by around age 40 can stave off an early death. Those who quit between ages 35 and 44 gained back nine of the potential years otherwise lost to smoking. Smokers who quit between 45 and 54 gain back six years, and those who quit between 55 and 64 gained four years. Quitting young, before age 35, erased the entire decade of lost life expectancy. It is never too late to quit.

Stay strong and vape on!

 

[Dana A]

Just keep pushing those voices outta your head and vaping threw them. Even if you do slip up and have an analog you just go right back to vaping. Lots of people will keep a higher nic liquid locked and loaded for those times when analogs won't stop calling their name. Also if your having a lot of those times you may just want to raise your nic level.Those times will get farther and farther apart. We have all been there. Good luck

 

[akatina]

Woohoo, I quit before my 35th birthday! Barely before, but still... NPR covered the same story this morning, the study base is HUGE.

 

[Kopfstimmen]

I saw that story, too. Another big motivator is the amount of time I've been off cigs. No way I'm breaking down now. I don't want to go through that first month again...

 

[MorpheusPA]

So I got back 9 of the 10 years I gave up. Not bad, and that last year mostly stinks anyway.

 

[kimbo55]

Smoked from 12yrs old til 35. Quit for 22yrs. Started vaping as a hobby and I missed the plumes of smoke/vapor. Try googling some mouth cancer images. That'll help. Good luck.

 

[tmoore]

That study was big news yesterday. I saw it mentioned on NBC nightly news.
I quit at 46. I'm going to call that 'almost' 35-44.

 

[Uno mas]

Nice positive read, hadn't seen it prior to today

What is really motivation for us (wife and I) besides the biggies, is that we added up what we'd spend on analogs annually and...

It would cover the cost of a suite on a 7 day Alaskan cruise with roundtrip airfare and a couple additional nights in Seattle to enjoy the city. I printed a picture of a cruise ship in one of the Alaskan ports, nice motivator for us, it's something we have wanted to be able to do for many-many years, going to happen if we stick it out

 

[tsbrewers]

I heard the "by 35" thing many years ago. So that was my aiming point for quite a few years. Well about the time I turned 37 or so, I knew I had to do something, thus I started vaping. Will be 2 years in about 2 weeks. I'll let you know in 50 years if it worked or not.

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