Quit Smoking & Ex-Smoker Hats

Quitting tobacco has its own rituals of celebration. Online, ex-smokers post their day counts and sign off with KTQ, short for keep the quit. A UK seller makes a 4cm metal Smoke Free coin personalised for 100 days, six months or one year. People reward themselves too: one QuitTrain member bought a new shirt and shorts after seven months, and a Straight Dope poster treated a three-year anniversary to a PS3. The jokes are just as specific. Ex-smokers describe watching a whole episode of a show without a smoke break, pajamas that smell like fabric softener instead of an ashtray, and still making smoking gestures all the time. One iCanQuit member chewed about 25 pieces of nicotine gum in her first month after 25 years of smoking, and a QuitTrain poster put out her last cigarette at 11:59pm on New Year's Eve. A LADbible story retold a vaper who quit cold turkey and lost the smoker shame after 70 days. These quit smoking hats put that voice on a dad hat. Badges say EX-SMOKER and SMOKE FREE, QUIT SMOKING STILL SMOKIN' HOT already sells on Redbubble hats, and the rest are bits about cravings, smoke breaks and unemployed hands, including for people who quit vaping. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat.