Serious about quitting this time. Hi, everybody.

I'm Andrew.

I'm 26, 5'11", and 228 (down from 245 a little over three weeks ago.)

I used to be pretty active and in good shape, until about 5 years ago. My job as a television director kinda kicked me off on a very sedintary lifestyle. Plus the 2nd shift hours led to sleeping late, going to bars way too often, and often grabbing my dinner from some fast food joint, and getting up to about a pack of cigarettes a day. I went from 180 to probably around 260 at my highest in five years. Yikes.

Well, in the last few months I've had a lifestyle overhaul. I'm eating almost entirely all-natural and organic, I've cut out fast food, junkfood, processed foods, and soda altogether, I'm back at they gym five times a week, I'm drinking only a couple times a month (instead of going out 3 or 4 times a week like before), and I've even decided to quit smoking.  Losing the cigarettes is by far the hardest part of this whole change, and the only part I don't enjoy. My girlfriend is doing the whole thing with me (but she already quit smoking several months ago.)

Already I feel better that I have in years.

I joined the calorie count website as a tool to log my intake and burning and figured I'd join a few groups.  I guess I'm just looking for all the support and advice I can get.

What a wonderful decision to become healthy!!! CONGRATS!!! I quit the cigs about a month ago, and even though I had people on here tell me that I am wrong (strange considering that they do not even know me) I will tell you that I found quitting to be quite easy.  I read Allen Carr's the easy method, and I think I have a pretty good understanding of his method. It is brainwashing...making you re-think how you look at cigarettes.  For two weeks before I quit I did not do anything else when I did smoke, and only focused on that thing that I was inhaling...and oh what a relieve it was when I knew that this particular one was my last one....

Anyways, that was how it worked for me....everybody does it their own way, but...you should realize that is something that you are doing for the better, and that you are not giving up anything...it's not really like cigs give you anything!

Best of luck

Congratulations!

I used Chantix for 3 months and I have been smoke free since January 19th 2009.

My husband still smokes (outside only) and that doesn't even tempt me any more.

Hang in there.