THE SMOKERS QUIT CAMPAIGN - ADDITONAL NOTES

[luvmychicknkids]

I am really afraid that is what I will do. People talk about leaving a pack available while quitting........I can't imagine doing that!!! Why on earth would I waste a perfectly good pack of cigarettes???????

If I see them I think I will smoke them.

 

[B. Saffles Farms]

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I know what you mean, if I had cigarettes available I didnt think twice about lighting one up. But when I was out of cigarettes, I wouldnt take the time to go to the store just to get one. I could fight the temptation.

 

[English Chick]

Bumping this thread as we have a new BYC member who wants to make a New Year resolution to quit......then come on board the quit campaign

 

[RickiHupp]

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How are you today?? I read your eariler post about being almost out.....did u go get more or are you still going strong?
Either way, I am sure everyone here is hoping and praying for you!! Stay strong!!! You CAN do this. I have 2 more packs and I am NOT buying anymore!! We can all do this together, I know it!! STAY STRONG EVERYONE!!!

 

[English Chick]

I am having some Sherry Trifle instead of a cigarette..I wont tell you what else I eaten today.....oh Lordy please don't let me gain too many pounds!.....but it is Christmas!....guilt on sherry trifle slipping away...(ust this once!)

 

[luvmychicknkids]

Alright people, I think English Chick has it all figured out!!!!

That sounds like a perfect alternative to me!!!!

Thank you RickiHupp.

Well.....I did go buy more (I buy them by the pack anyway). However I am now down to 8 a day (as of yesterday) so we will see what happens today!!! TRYING sooooooooooo hard!!!! We are all gonna do this together!!!! I can just feel it!!!!

Any more updates????

 

[PurpleChicken]

I didn't read this entire thread but I want to pass my best wishes
and good vibes on to all of you.

Please remember to take it one cig at a time. If you mess up you can
always start again.

I never "quit" smoking, I just stopped smoking. Get it?

 

[English Chick]

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WOOOOOOT to you and darn well done! you are going to be a winner!....hmmm winners...think I might just put up an english Chick prize...got to think of one though...and no it won;t be a sherry trifle though the post.....a chicken gift perhaps.....OK come on tell me an ideas...(not eggs too far away) x

 

[pinkchick]

I'm in and just woke up DH told him about BYC'ers doing it and he said "WE ARE IN!"

A year and a half ago at the ripe old age of 35 I was put on BP meds. 3 x a day, my doctor was afraid I was going to stroke out right there in the office! What a pain in the !!!!!!! After 1 year of these meds. I had had enough, upon a regular check up early this summer I asked my doctor if I could go off these meds. and he told me NO, that I would be on them for the rest of my life. He told me that there was nothing I could do to lower my BP. Ahhhhhhh, he don't know my very well, do he? I have 15 years of medical background so I did some research. I lost 15 pounds, starting eating better, walking, and try on regular basis to destress my life. I also learned that smoking 1 cigarette raises your BP 12 points. So, I said that's it I'm going to quit smoking if that what it takes to lower my BP and get off these meds. I did stop smoking and stopped taking meds. for 50 days and my BP was fabulous. Again, I go see my doctor for a check up and he said WOW!, How did you do that? I told him what I did and then reminded him that he said I would be on these meds. for the rest of my life because there was NOTHING I COULD DO! He told me that he would agree to me staying off meds. if I continued with what I was doing. I continued with all but, started smoking again. My BP is still good and I am still off meds. but, I am still smoking. I hate hacking for 1/2 hr every morning when I get up....sucks! I feel guilty every time I light up!
I will be 37 on Dec. 31 and this is my B-day present to myself! No more hacking, no more guilt. I know I will feel better and besides I can spend the money I will be saving on my chickens and farm. I owe it to myself and my family.

Thanks in advance for the moral support! Let's Do It!

 

[English Chick]

Yikes girl get off those cigarettes!....you BP may not have gone up but what about your cholestrol levels.... I have been on meds since I was 46...Dr told me I would be on them for life....I wont go into details....(mine is all congenital)...am now 55.....AND COME MIDNIGHT 31/12/08 I am starting the campaign...I refuse to die young like all the other members of my family through congenital heart disease...but it has taken me a long long time to realise...."I am killing myself"....come on board for a new healthy you!