Starting a new day without Smoking!

[Drivegirl54]

I usually stock up on peppermint candy and sprees. Then I do everything in my power to keep my hands busy. You can do it!

 

[vfem]

I am ok now

It was just thinking about it.... I called my husband and talked to him and he is telling me he is going to finish the pack he is smoking right now before he gets home and thats it for him too.

So for now, I am going Mother's day shopping online for my mom and my mother-in-law. I really can't afford much.... but I think of it as I'm quitting, and if I spend what I would spend in a week on smokes it will be fine.

 

[wegotchickens]

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Yay! You and hubby are in this together. That's so awesome!!

 

[ijon1]

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You could not do a kinder thing for youself and your family.

 

[Fancie]

I have the commit longezes myself, I prefer cherry. I quit in november, and when ever I really want a cig I just have a longeze

 

[bishopschickens]

It will be 4 weeks this saturday that I quit smoking and man I am so glad I did. There are times I want one still but it gets easier trust me!

Brandon

 

[Big Chicken Little]

You all can quit !! I quit in 1980 after smoking for 15 years 2 packs a day and i liked to smoke. I went cold turkey and was so miserable for weeks that I swore I would never get started and although it was not easy it did work..... a big yaaaa for all of you !! Don't worry you will not suffer long.

 

[Chickenmaven]

Please hang in there! Do it for your child!

Young people never think that smoking with ruin their later lives. My mother is in her early 60s. This is the first time in her life that she has had a nice home and enough money & time to do whatever she wants. She has COPD from years of smoking and she cannot do a thing. Can't walk down to the corner to have icecream with her grandkids.

You will gain so much if you keep fighting this good fight. You will smell better. You will save 1000s of dollars. You will be able to be the mom & grandma that my mom cannot be, because she is literally crippled as a result of her habit. Sorry to be so serious, but this is my testimony as a daughter - to you, a woman with a daughter.

 

[chiknhut]

I have quit too. Been quit for a few months now. On November 29, 2007 my mother died at the age of 52. Her lungs collapsed on her from smoking. She went into surgery, had complications and had to go back in surgery the day after the 1st one. She has 7 children--- me being the oldest (I am 36). My youngest sibling was 17 at the time. The day she went in she told me that she didn't think she would make it through the surgery and told me what her wishes were. She would have died if she didn't have it so she didn't have a choice. Anyway, she was put on life support after the 2nd surgery and we (the children) had to make the hardest decision of our lives to remove it. We all had a decision in it but it was ultimately up to me as she had me as her power of attorney. I decided after that I would not put my family through what I had went through. I had to fight with myself to quit. Then on her birthday I was "talking" to her at her grave and said that I needed the strength to quit but didn't know if I could do it. I have had trying times but then I look at pictures of my kids and ask myself which means more to me. Its hard to quit but worth it. Set your goals and remember you are definitely not alone.

 

[vfem]

Well the hard reality of this is I'm going to be 30 in June. I've been smoking for 15 years... I temporarily quit while I was pregnant... but that was my only attempt that at least worked out for more then a few days. Even then I only fully quit 2 months before she was born. (I used to sneak 1-2 smokes a day before that)

I just lost my father-in-law on my 4 year wedding anniversary to my wonderful husband. They said he died of what APPEARED to be Pulminary Failure of some sort... they cancelled the autopsy last minute to really find out what happened. He smoked on and off for 40 years. I'm sure that had something to do with it.

I look at my daughter and I KNOW I want to be healthy for her, for many years to come.