Do you SMOKE and want to GIVE UP ?????

[mtnhomechick]

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yep......ya crave 'em but when you light up.........guess what....they don't really taste that good anymore.

Congrats..........keep on keepin on!

 

[Renee]

Good luck to you!

Yes, your skin tone will improve. Even better, when you wake up in the morning, you will be AWAKE! Ready to roll! No dragging your butt into the kitchen just to sit back down, exhausted, to wake up over the course of an hour with cigarettes and coffee (or tea, English Chick)! You will be able to take deep breaths, and you will feel clean and fresh and strong.

I quit in 1997. Quitting was the hardest thing I have ever done. I loved smoking, and I still miss it. After 21 years, I was up to over two packs a day, three on the weekends. I quit for a year in 1984, and for a year in 1988, and for shorter periods countless times.

Here's what finally worked for me: I hit it with both barrels. I cleaned the house and car and tossed the ashtrays. I cancelled the morning paper, stopped buying coffee and alcohol. I got a hot tub. I talked a shrink into prescribing Wellbutrin (it wasn't available for smoking cessation yet), got a hypnotist who came to the house twice a week, used Nicorette (a lifesaver!), joined a gym, and bought pounds and pounds of hard candy. Once everything was in place I took three days to "taper off" to ten cigarettes a day and then quit.

I don't recommend taking more than a week to taper off. It's best to quit cold turkey, as Purple Chicken and Bluie said.

It's tough, but you can do it. Just keep thinking about what you can do it that extra 10 or 20 years of life...

 

[Imp]

Some of the tricks I used to quit:

I wore a rubber band around my wrist and everytime I had a craving I snapped it hard on my wrist. (The back of the wrist, not the front-very painful)

Put a piece of scotch tape over the end of a straw and poked a pin hole in it so I could have something to draw on.

Get your teeth cleaned on day one.

Avoid all other triggers like alcohol, coffee etc.

Do anything to break habits like: I truly believed that my car wouldn't start unless I lit a cigarette first, so I would crawl in the passenger side, or from the back.

The other tips mentioned here I also used.

I know a couple people who have done well on drugs available. (Wellbutrin and Chambrix I believe)

If I think of anything else I'll post.

 

[Renee]

Imp, you crack me up. It's so true, you have to change every habit!
I kept one Pall Mall on my dashboard to sniff when I needed to. Eventually all of the tobacco fell out and it was just the paper.

 

[willowcol]

Ok I am in, I smoke between 1 and sometimes 2 packs a day. My husband quit last new years, I tried, made it 2 days and cracked. He still hasn't smoked since and boy do I hear it everytime he buys me cig's. Maybe this slowly cutting back before we stop will work better. I really do want to quit, it just seems I lose my mind if I don't have them. I will try very hard this time. I am 37 and started smoking at age 14. I have heard if I try to quit smoking I need to quit drinking coffee as its my biggest trigger, also cinnamon mouth wash when we get a craving takes away the craving, and also lots of vitamin C I read it links somehow to the nicotine and takes it out the body so you have a shorter withdrawl time. I have done alot of research on quiting, just haven't been strong enough to do it yet.

 

[mtnhomechick]

From personal experience I would have to say that " Thinking about Quitting" is actually harder than quitting. JMO

 

[Imp]

If you want the sure fire way to quit read Stephen King's short story "Quitters Inc." from one of his anthologies many years ago. Night Shift I think.

 

[babyboy1_mom]

Sign me up. I am ready (I think) to quit also. I have quit in the past, just to start back again. I am ready to stop for good now. I know that it would be alot easier if I could get my DH to stop also.

I have been through most of the things that the smokers/ex-smokers have commented on doing/happening. I would get into a stressful situation and I just needed that cigarette or the store around the corner was getting ready to close and I had to hurry, because I just knew that I would not survive without a cigarette through the night.

I too have done some research on quiting and I know the benefits, but it is SOOOOO hard. I know that there is only positive results to quiting smoking. I just have to remember all of those postitive things, whenever that craving hits. I will have to do this cold turkey or I will be back to smoking on a regular basis again. (1 - 1 1/2 packs each day)

My 4 yr. old will be very happy...lol I know that I will be happy also, but farther down the line.

I know that I can do this and I know that all of you can do this also. This is just mind over matter and if we all set it in our minds that we can do this, then we can do this!!!!

Keep me posted and I will keep all of you posted.

Dorothy

 

[luvmychicknkids]

we are getting more lined up!!!! I think the more of us there are the more it will help.

Don' worry, RickiHupp, I know I will be nasty too.

Maybe we can yell at each other!!!

 

[BirdBoy88]

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NOPE NOPE! that's for me!!

all moods swings on me i am the Spirit lifter i am here to take all the moods that can happen in a 2 minute time frame LOL