Hello North Country Lady.
Hope all is well with you. When you wrote you were three weeks into your quit. The same as I am now. Keep in touch via the site and let us all know how you're getting on.
Gen
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/28/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 22
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 360
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �154
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
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Yeah, I miss smoking too but you have to do a kind of reversal thing with it, as suggested by others here. When I get that flash of desire I just stop what I'm doing (maybe it was a trigger) and actually think about smoking a cigarette and how really horrible it would taste and what my mouth would feel like after - not to mention the lightheadedness and the lingering stink on my hands. Then I decide not to consider it any more and carry on - or eat something instead.....
Gen
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/28/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 22
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 361
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �154
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
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Hi Kev
You can't get away from us now. You're in to day 3. Hope all is well this morning. Keep in touch and let us know. You've got a lot of people behind you here wishing you every success.
:)
Gen
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/28/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 23
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 371
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �161
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
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People are really going for this repeat post reinforcement technique I notice.
It's good. Should get the message home.
Gen ;p
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/28/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 23
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 371
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �161
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
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Hi there Kev
I'm wondering how long you can keep this same thread up and when you will have to move up to the 'New Users etc' category because you are rapidly becoming a seasoned non-smoker. You can't claim to be a newby any more!
Very well done. Really pleased you're doing so well. Just read Mike's where he described feeling a bit blah and had been quiet. I am like that too. Still feel kind of in this state of mourning a lot of the time but then really happy when I stop to think that, come tomorrow it will be 3 weeks with no slips at all. I never would have belived it.
And all thanks to this site!
Could go on here at length in response to your other post about online versus actual because I have had such a ridiculously inefficient and frustrating experience with the NHS that if it wasn't for this site I would never have made it this far. that's for sure.
Keep up the good work. Can't advise on gum sorry.
Gen
:)
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/28/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 27
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 439
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �189
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
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Son called this morning to ask how I was. Nice boy. We talked for a bit and then I felt the need to mention the 'S' word. When I told him I was at day 16 his first question was 'Have you not had any AT ALL?' Then he wanted to know what I was using so I said I was going cold turkey (despite my daughter saying it wouldn't be possible and him having said that I HAD to read to Alan Carr book) but that I had found a fantastic web site where we all chatted and it was helping enormously.
After a gap he said 'Can we just re-wind here. You've STOPPED SMOKING using a WEBSITE!? How did you do that?' I admitted I needed a bit of help with the Instant Messenger but that I had done it all by myself.
He just said' Someone has swapped my mum with an alien'. :eg:
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/28/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 16
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 259
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �112
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
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Well done Phil. Happy weekend. Fingers crossed the weather holds. I bought some new sun loungers yesterday (cheap at Morrisons) so hope to be using them.
Gen
p.s. you can take that 2lbs back any time. I don't want them. Ta. :)
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/28/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 16
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 261
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �112
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Hi Mercy
I had a pretty crap day yesterday with one thing an another - then realized it was Friday 13th so put my hunger, bad mood, cravings down to that. In the evening a friend came to stay over and we sat outside. She had brought a bottle of wine with her and her nicotine gum. I had to stop drinking almost three years ago and have gone cold turkey on the smoking thing. She stopped smoking cigarettes 5 and a half years ago - and she is still on the gum. She asked me how did I feel and I said I would love to have a cigarette (Friday evening, end of a sunny day here etc etc) to which she replied 'Well have one then' She didn't feel it was right for me to be feeling so bad for the want of a bit of nicotine. Then she offered me some of her gum.(I didn't take it)
I suppose I am writing this because what you seem to see as an irrational fear is nothing to beat yourself up about. You've gone 82 days and, as someone else said somewhere in this thread, it is a tiny bump on the road to get over and you want to do it - and you will.
Not like my so-called friend!!!
I don't know but I would have thought the substitute idea might work.
Good luck and have nice weekend. :)
Gen
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/28/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 17
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 279
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �119
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 2 [B]Hrs:[/B] 6 [B]Mins:[/B] 40 [B]Seconds:[/B] 45
Maybe you just posted yours at the wrong time and it seemed no-one was going to respond but then you got all this great reaction to an honest post. I am still a baby quitter really. I didn't have any preparation but I started with a bang of enthusiasm, tinged with confusion as to how to proceed. Then I had a few days of seeming to cope really well - the novelty and excitement carried me along - but this last couple of days have been bad and I have had all sorts of demons whispering in my head. It is, as I said about 15 days ago, like losing a lover. That awful wrench when a cigarette is no longer an option because it is just not there for you any more and can never be because things have altered and you have to move on with your life without them........
Analogies abound. Running marathons, losing lovers. Anything that puts another smoke free day on the clock and keeps us lot talking about it has to be good.
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/28/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 17
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 279
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �119
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