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15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 433

Anyone want to flash those stats ??

Is flashing like streaking?

OK!!

This is me and I'm really super proud of myself!!!

Hey Deepbreath, sounds like the perfect reward!

How great is that? whoooo hooooo!

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 4/1/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 119
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,856
Amount Saved: $685.44
Life Gained:
Days: 14 Hrs: 15 Mins: 14 Seconds: 10

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 433

Maybe I set my quit date too soon

Hello Pupikat,

Great to see your latest post.

BJ is right, the scariest part is the anticipation!

Once you are in the quit, you will feel better everyday.

There are so many people here waiting to help you along.

The Allen Carr book is such a great help for positive attitude adjustment!!

As everybody here says, you can make this as easy as pie with the right

attitude.

Good luck!!!! I'll be here in your cheering section!

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 4/1/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 119
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,856
Amount Saved: $685.44
Life Gained:
Days: 14 Hrs: 15 Mins: 17 Seconds: 11

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 433

Newbie from Canada

Hello Minnie!!!!

I just saw your post in the Mods section about healthy habits!

I was soooooooo happy to see you !

We were all hoping your quit was going well. Looks like you are a winner!

Already one day 8 and you have made it through Hell week.

WOW! Good for you!!!

You are doing great!

Check in anytime... we are all here rooting for you!

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 4/1/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 120
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,880
Amount Saved: $691.20
Life Gained:
Days: 14 Hrs: 16 Mins: 51 Seconds: 6

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 433

New here

How did we get ourselves to the point of making a commitment?

That is a really good question and certainly one I would have asked if I had known about this site when I quit.

My desire quit was like a more like feeling that has been creeping up on me for many, many months.

I had tried to quit before. A few months here and there but my heart wasn't in it.

Looking back I would visualize my desire to quit this time as

the red liquid crystals in a thermometer - rising and rising until the glass tube is mostly red. Each degree of the thermometer was another reason to quit that I truly felt in my heart.

Foremost was my health both medical and dental

The ostracizing social aspects. It became harder and harder to smoke anywhere.

I felt like a second class citizen when in public. I was embarrassed to be smoking in public.

My own desire to avoid social events where I could not smoke.

Just being sooooo stinky allllll the time!

I hated ME for wanting the cigs more than anything else in life.

You know all the reasons.

Finally I saw the thermometer as being more filled up mostly with RED. Fever!

I had more reasons to quit than to not quit. And by this time I truly wanted to quit

more than stay smoking.

That was it. That was when I quit.

If I had put much thought into the actual day to quit, I think I would have been nervous. Instead

one morning I put on a patch and quit. Some say the anticipation of a quit is worse than the actual quit!

If you are looking at a big giant scary thing, it will be hard. If you break it down to small increments -

one minute, one hour, one day it is much easier.

Karren has written a wonderful post that is well worth studying.

We have all been through this exact thing.

I think you said something very important in you post....

you said "know you should quit" but you should know

that you can quit. That is the key!

We are all here anytime for support!!

Read some old posts for insight and good luck!!

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 4/1/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 120
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,880
Amount Saved: $691.20
Life Gained:
Days: 14 Hrs: 16 Mins: 57 Seconds: 23

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 433

When I plan on smoking again

Exactly right!

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 4/1/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 120
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,880
Amount Saved: $691.20
Life Gained:
Days: 14 Hrs: 16 Mins: 58 Seconds: 38

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 433

Deb48 slid in under the radar @150!!

Wow 150!!!!!

That is soooooo cool!

Congratulations!

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 4/1/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 120
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,880
Amount Saved: $691.20
Life Gained:
Days: 14 Hrs: 17 Mins: 0 Seconds: 22

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 433

New here

Karren!

I bet you are right! We are identical twins separated at cessation!

But we are quit buddies now along with all the other troopers!!!!

Your quit story sounds so much like mine but posted with far more eloquence.

If you put the patch on and never looked back, perhaps you probably had the same feeling of fantastic freedom that I did.

It carried me a very long way to have that freedom finally. The road has had some ups and downs, as you know, but I feel so much better. ESPECIALLY out in public.

One of the things I still remember from day two was being outside of a large office building. I saw a nice woman lighting up. I thought to myself "oh Looooord! Is that what I used to look like!?????Thank GOD I don't have to do that anymore!"

Cani513 ---- if you decide to come over, it's really great. We all have a wonderful freedom we never had before! There is a whole lot of info for you just in this thread for you to ponder. We are all here waiting for you!!!

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 4/1/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 120
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,880
Amount Saved: $691.20
Life Gained:
Days: 14 Hrs: 17 Mins: 10 Seconds: 56

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 433

A Bear and Horse celebration!

That is unbelievable!!!!

Congrats to BOTH of you!

Mr. Bear.... I'm rather new but I spent a lot of time reading old posts. I always liked to see your comments.

Mr ED .... Wow! You lead way. Thanks for all your hard work with the stats! Neigh to you too!!

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 4/1/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 120
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,880
Amount Saved: $691.20
Life Gained:
Days: 14 Hrs: 17 Mins: 21 Seconds: 51

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 433

Junkie Thinking

My junkie just told me today that it's ok to smoke

When Pigs Fly!

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 4/1/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 120
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,880
Amount Saved: $691.20
Life Gained:
Days: 14 Hrs: 17 Mins: 43 Seconds: 21

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 433

Day 5--Kicking MY Butt

Hello RonR,

Sorry to hear that you are having a tough one today.

No, doesn't seem quite fair to have a big crave pop up from nowhere!

I've heard some say it's the Nicodemon making one big last stand before it starts to get better.

Craves go up an down but mostly start to diminish in the next couple of weeks.

You are really doing great so just hang in there!

I too quit by using the patch. I found out that I had to take it off about an hour or two before I went to bed or

I would be tossing and turning (along with crazy dreams). When you were a smoker, you did not smoke while you were sleeping so your body is not used to it and is all amped up!!! Many people who use the patch had the same problem but taking it off at night should solve that! This also will mean you are getting about 1/3 less nicotine a day.

Anxiety and stress may also be from the patch if you are getting more mgs than your old cigs. I started with the 21mg since I used to smoke a pack a day but my heart was racing!!!! I looked up my cigs on the web and found out they had a lot less nicotine than the patch!! I went straight to the 14mg and felt much better. My friend also had the same thing happen to him. We both used to smoke lights.

The last thing you want to be when quitting is tired!!!! ugh! I hope that taking it off at night will help you out!

It did the trick for me!

I'm on the West Coast too if you want to post and up until about 10p

Ok, get some sleep if you can tonight!!!

Hang in there!!!!

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 4/1/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 120
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,880
Amount Saved: $691.20
Life Gained:
Days: 14 Hrs: 18 Mins: 10 Seconds: 16

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