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Oh, How do I love quitting, let me count the ways!!!!!!

for 16 år siden 0 +0 / -0 967

Good for you Kathy, sounds like you have a very good attitude about this. I wish I had that much fun with my kids. They play paper mario by themselves..

Have a fun weekend...and NOPE.

Kelly

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 12/6/2007
Smoke-Free Days: 183
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 5,490
Amount Saved: $686.25
Life Gained:
Days: 14 Hrs: 22 Mins: 33 Seconds: 17

for 16 år siden 0 +0 / -0 15

TGIF. Nothing better than a Friday. I will not smoke. I will not smoke. I will not smoke. I will however play in the park with my kids, watch a movie, eat till I'm blue in the face, make funky little mocktails with my kids and play Super Paper Mario till we all pass out. I love Friday Nights. Did I mention I will not smoke.
My Milage:

My Quit Date: 6/2/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 4
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 56
Amount Saved: $21.84
Life Gained:
Days: 0 Hrs: 7 Mins: 54 Seconds: 4

for 16 år siden 0 +0 / -0 15

Thanks everyone for your support. It's Thurday. I love thursdays because it means that tomorrow night I'll be sitting with my kids in the evening watching a movie we rented and stuffing my self with pop orn and whatever else I can think of. I look forward to that every week. My favorite day of the week is Friday (night mind you). That is the way I look at smoking. My favorite time is when I am smoke free. As I'm sure it is for all of you otherwise you wouldn't be here. My problem always was looking forward to the time when I no longer think of cigarettes, no longer crave them either physically or mentally. Mental takes a lot longet to get over than the physical. From now on I'm going to treat every day with my quit as I do my Friday nights. Every day will be Friday night with my quit. Thank you so much for your support. I couldn't go through this without all your help.

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 6/2/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 3
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 42
Amount Saved: $16.38
Life Gained:
Days: 0 Hrs: 5 Mins: 49 Seconds: 19

for 16 år siden 0 +0 / -0 46

Congratulations on two smoke free days. Sounds like you've done this often enough to know when you're going to give in to a craving. I can only suggest that when you know you're going to give in come here and let us know you need help. Give us a chance and give yourself a chance. What I found when I knew I was going to give in is that I didn't want help. I wanted to have that cigarette and I didn't want anything to get in the way. You have to get help and then you have to take the help. I've had times when this site turned my cravings around and I've had times when it just didn't make a difference. I guess it depends on how willing you are to put up a fight. I've given in a couple of times but I keep going right back to the quit. I believe eventually I'll get better at resisting. It's all part of quitting. You're not at all stupid. You have an addiction. When you have an addiction you act like an addict. Smoking was the norm for us, not smoking is not normal for us. It's a fight to feel comfortable with something we're not used to and it just takes time, patience and tenacity. It may take a year or more. No one really knows how long it will be for each of us. Just keep at it and one day we'll just look back and realize it's over.

Just a note of interest. When my husband's aunt got alzheimers she forgot she was a smoker and just didn't ask for them anymore. I don't know whether that's funny, sad or a good thing. Just thought it was something that might make you go hmmm?

Gotta go. Keep up the faith in yourself.

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 1/26/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 130
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 1,430
Amount Saved: $629.20
Life Gained:
Days: 15 Hrs: 8 Mins: 30 Seconds: 21

for 16 år siden 0 +0 / -0 3307

Boy do I hear you. I don't even know how many times I have quit and gone though withdrawal. I must be one sick puppy, but this time I gave in and worked with my doctor. I took Chantix and it helped so much. I also take this quit as it comes. There have been moments when I wanted a cigarette so bad I would have killed for it. (funny they kill us) All I can say is for me someone told me a long time ago just to keep quitting and one day it will take. Know what? I think I have quit for today. You hang in there, it will happen for you. If you should mess up, dust yourself off and get right back here. But then again you have quit, right?

You may need to have somethings in place to help you. Ice water, hard candy, phone numbers, a book, a journal and try this try putting a rubber band around your wrist and when a thought comes up snap it. I did this and you don't want to snap it to often, it hurts LOL

Keep the Quit

Sparky

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 4/30/2007
Smoke-Free Days: 401
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 4,010
Amount Saved: $601.50
Life Gained:
Days: 56 Hrs: 19 Mins: 54 Seconds: 4

for 16 år siden 0 +0 / -0 216

I am sure this is not the first time you have tried to quit. I am around 6th or 7th. But this time was different. I read everything that they have to offer on this site and printed out everything that I could print out from the site. I wrote down all the reasons that I started smoking again before and divised a plan to not fall back into that trap again.

Stay focused on your goal and don't look back on the past as a failure. Look at it as conditioning for this one and only successful quit. You will suceed. You need to tell yourself that nothing will cause you to pick up another cigarette ever again. Your life and health are more important then those pesky craves that you will get through no matter what.

What does not kill you will make you stronger.

Cigs will kill you!!!!!

Hang in there and stay strong and work out a game play for those times you know you might cave for the crave.

beckylynn

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 4/29/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 36
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 720
Amount Saved: $54.00
Life Gained:
Days: 4 Hrs: 7 Mins: 49 Seconds: 15

for 16 år siden 0 +0 / -0 39

Kathy, I've had the same problem. I get through the first few months (2-6) and then for some reason go back. It's usually slowly, but eventually. I don't want that to happened this time either. I think you and I have to keep a careful eye on ourselves for probably a long time. This is going to change my lifestyle for a least a year, before I'm able to be in certain situations or places. Make sense? I'm really getting determined and don't want to ever go back. NOPE!

Cece

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 5/26/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 9
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 108
Amount Saved: $22.95
Life Gained:
Days: 0 Hrs: 20 Mins: 51 Seconds: 41

for 16 år siden 0 +0 / -0 1153

Kathy,

Congrats on making it through your first two days smoke free! Have you ever tried to keep a journal during your quit? Writing down all of your withdrawal symptoms can be a powerful reminder of how hard quitting is. Our memories are pretty miraculous organisms and we tend to forget the bad and focus on the good. You may have forgotten how horrible you felt as a smoker, or how hard the cravings were to get over or even how BAD cigarettes taste. Take some time to reflect on your reasons for quitting. Rest up and reward yourself for making it this far.

Brenna, Bilingual Health Educator

for 16 år siden 0 +0 / -0 289

Kathy

That addiction is talking to you right now, tell it to shut up, that you really don't want to smoke and that you are going to fight the urges with everything that you have inside you. You can do this. Take it one day at a time and just don't smoke for today. Ice water and gum are now my best friends.

Lisa

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 3/30/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 66
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,640
Amount Saved: $290.40
Life Gained:
Days: 7 Hrs: 6 Mins: 21 Seconds: 6

for 16 år siden 0 +0 / -0 15

Every time I have quit before I always promised myself I would never go through the withdrawals again. When the cravings end and life seems normal I go back to smoking. Can someone please explain to me why I keep doing that. It always manages to happen after I quit from anywhere between two or three months. I get really upset for some reason (at that time the reason seems to be good) and have a cigarette. How stupid am I. How do I stop that from happening this time. Sometimes I think that what keeps me from smoking is the cravings. The unberable cravings that make every part of your body wish it was never created. I don't want to go through this again. This time I want it to be the last. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 6/2/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 2
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 28
Amount Saved: $10.92
Life Gained:
Days: 0 Hrs: 4 Mins: 22 Seconds: 15

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