What is your reason for choosing to quit?

[deborahk]

What is your reason for choosing to quit?

[daynaw28]

I'm quitting so I can be a better role model to my 3 yr old daughter. I want to be healthier and not be a slave to chemicals anymore. Also I work in an acute care hospital where a lot of people are on ventilators because they have had complications from smoking, I don't want that to be my life EVER! 

[natasha_sc]

My overall health is the biggest motivator. My daughter and son, of course. Then there's the fact that I'm sick of cigarettes having this much power over me.

[a-little-bit-stronger]

My husband & my kids. My life was being controlled by the cigarettes.  I needed to hang out with my smoker friends and seemed to never have time for the non smokers.  I choose to go places where I could always smoke freely, like the casino...which we all know is just a waste of time and money.  I had been running half marathons up until about three months asgo when I shoose to spend my time I usually spenbt running hanging out and smoking with friends.   Myt family was just completed sick of me going outside and spending hours on the back porch chain smoking.  They had so much control over my day and what I did with it.  I have sooooo much more free time and have started running again. I smell better, my car smells better and my long hair smells better.  I have more money.  That pack a day actually was alot of money.  I have now bought make up, and hair products, things for me with the extra money.  I am LOVING being free! 

[txblaquegold]

To feel better since I have found out I have asthma and would like to live longer and healthier again.

[xIndix]

Money! Eight days of smoking was equal to one week of my daughter's tution. Yikes!

[candylance]

To feel better and breathe better. I have COPD and still haven't quit. My next quit date is Nov. 11. Please help me stay strong. I'm smoking way less but that doesn't count. I want to QUIT!! I also want to quit for my two grandchildren , ages 4 and2. Another on the way. I want to be a good role model.

[ma2bug]

I will quit smoking so that I can live longer to care for my special needs son, make my husband proud, & save money.

[cindy-davis]

i hack with every drag i puff..i get sick once a year from smoking..i would like to live a long life

[adriane_barnes]

I quit because I was just plain tired. Tired of not being able to walk up a flight of stairs without being out of breath. Tired of smelling like an ashtray. Tired of being a slave to the habit. I want to be around for myself and my son and smoking was killing me and the chance of that happening.

[candylance]

COPD  I have chronic bronchitis, asthma and emphysema. Why quit? I have been a member of this website since 2010. This time I'm doing it their way. I have read, tracked blogged made some good friends and my quit date is Nov, 11th.

I want to be a role model for my grandsons, ages 2 and 4 and whomevver is coming next. We think it's a girl. I'm so excited. When I visit my daughter and open my suitcase, it smells like smoke. EMBARASSING!!!!

My main reason,PLUS the money, is that I want to live a bette,r more heallthy lifestyle. I've lost 40 pounds and I don't want to gain it back. Good luck, FALL NEWBIES!!!