HI Firefly here i am a smoker .I have been smoking since i was twelve and i am now twenty eight.
I have really tried my best to quit but on every occation i have failed .I would like to here from any of you who have suceded.
Thank god i never tryed any drugs as a teenager as i probabaly would be hooked on them to.
I am not using ADD as an excuese as i was only diagnoised last year,But at least it makes a little bit of sence now and i wount let my failures eat away at my confidence any more,In fact i feel stronger now just knowing more about ADD,than i ever did in my life.

hi firefly, let me preface this be saying that im using tobacco again.
that is my choice at this time.

now, that said the last time i quit & stayed quit for over 5 years i used a combination of the patch & group meetings (this was before my dx--i dunno if this has anything to do with anything but it seemed like the thing to say)

the patch ( i used the step-down version) kept things down to a low roar
& the group meetings gave me a place to pace, mumble, blow off steam, &
watch films reinforcing our reasons why we were quitting.
anything like that in your part of the world? :)

this is a noble undertaking & i wish you the very best of luck.

Hi, Firefly, welcome! Nicotine is harder to kick than heroin, and sugar is the worst than any substance you can name. You are still young, so if you try to quit smoking it's easier now while your body is youthful than when you are in your 50's/60's & beyond. There are other sections on this website that deal with addictions as part of ADD/ADHD, as well as counselling, drug info, co-disorders, etc. You are stronger than you think! :)

Welcome to the forums firefly.

I must have quite smoking a million times before it stuck. I quit for two years once and still found myself back on that dope. I hate it. Like PW said before, it's one of the tougher addictions to kick.

I read once where the industry that profits from those cancer sticks laces the stuff with more nicotine so it's even more addictive than it would be naturally. I don't know if it's true but it was one more reason to hate and that was one more way to want to quit.

I've been off now for several years. I don't know exactly when because I had really given up hope that I could do it. I had heard that ones chances of quitting increased with the number of times you tried to quit so that was another reason to just keep plugging away at it.

Eventually I guess something cracked. I still vaguely remember my last smoke and it was wretched. I could not imagine anything more disgusting or self destructive.

I always found that if I was physically active smoking was harder to do. If my lungs and heart were having demands made on them smoking was just in the way of making it easy to breathe. Many times I stopped running or whatever I happened to be into at the time so I could go back smoking full time. It sounds so lame now.

I tried various aids but they never really cut it for me. I'd be ok well past the time when the crap was out of my system but then wham! I'd just pick it up again out of the blue.

I've had trouble with all kinds of substance abuse in the past. I've spent a lot of time building my self esteem to the point that I can care for myself a bit better. Now that I'm not so likely to take pleasure in over eating, getting drunk, or whatever, I'm enjoying things I never thought I'd ever see.

Being a better model for my kids brings me pleasure every day!

Keep us posted and if you need to rant about it you now have found a place to hammer out the details! Fight!
Ian.