THE SMOKERS QUIT CAMPAIGN - ADDITONAL NOTES

[Mom 2em All]

Well, I have gone 17 little days now...and two days without a patch or gum or anything at all...

and I almost went crazy at work today- it was the worst day in three years. I actually walked out, but I went back in.

And I didnt have a cigarette- but geesh, I did want one. Heck, I want one right NOW.

I wont, but I do want one.

 

[Fancie]

How is everyone doing???

I'm on 4 months now... and having fewer hard days... But I like being able to breathe again and that is the only thing stopping me from lighting up again.

just hoping everyone else is doing well.

 

[DawnSuiter]

I'm not having any real success other than I haven't given up. I bought the stronger patch and will be starting again tomorrow. I'm just going to keep trying until I get it right.

 

[Omran]

I quit smoking (over night ) yeb every day I don't smoke when I am sleeping

Omran

 

[debilorrah]

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That's me

Although I have cut WAY down.

 

[luvmychicknkids]

I had not looked at this thread since early January. I felt like such a failure and was ashamed to step back in here. But, here I am. My husband got home on Jan. 2nd. I also got stitches in my hand that day...one awesome good stress, one really bad stress. Add that to the normal daily stress of being a mother of 3 and caretaker of MANY. He smokes too. I asked for one.....he gave it to me. I continued smoking one or two of his for a few days and then said HONEY.....we need to go buy me a pack. He is gone now.....will be in Turkey for 15 months and that gives me time to be well quit when he gets home. I want to and I plan to set a new start date. Will drop back by when I decide on the day.

Hope everyone is doing great and those who slipped haven't been beating yourselves up as bad as I have.

 

[debilorrah]

Honey do not beat yourself up. This is a habit that is so hard to break, and I for one know it! One and off since I was 12 years old and I am now 47. I don't smoke as much as I used to but quitting now just seems like an impossibility! I feel your pain!

 

[luvmychicknkids]

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That is waht scares me.

I have smoked for so long......CAN I quit??? I know I WANT to. They claim that is the first step. It is feeling like a really tiny baby step at this point.

Ummm.....Tupperware...you sell TUPPERWARE!!! Sorry, I just noticed that!!! I love that stuff!!!

 

[chooniecat]

Not a smoker but I tell you-- My mother smoked for 50 YEARS and she quit on her own 5 years ago(with patches, anyhoooo) and I am SO proud of her. I must say(and you will critisize me)she did it for a couple of reasons and one of those was none of our family would go to her house or hang with her long because we found it so hard to smell/breathe. you have to realize ONE cigarette makes you smell toxic. not to mention your car,clothes,walls,breathe,ears. I of course have always loved her but if its hard for me to smell her then its my choice to avoid that. being a smoker you DON'T realize how terrible it smells to an outsider(how I have always felt) So GOOD LUCK TO y'all and if my Mom did it ANYONE can.(she also gave up drinking and addictive prescription drugs-shes a kick butt lady)

 

[Highlander]

Has anyone seen these?

I was having lunch with a friend last week and he suddenly whipped out one of these things and started smoking it in the restaurant! It was clear it wasn't a real cigarette because the tip glowed blue but it looked like smoke coming out of it. I was initially really shocked until he explained it to me.

You purchase a vial of nicotine and use a couple of drops inside the device. There is a lithium battery inside (where the blue glow comes from) and the nicotine is converted to water vapour which looks like real smoke. So you get the nicotine high, the actual physical element of a cigarette with holding the device and taking a draw, you get the "catch" at the back of your throat and the visual of the smoke and all with no tar, tobacco, carbon monoxide etc etc. Which of course makes it perfectly legal to smoke it in bars, restaurants and even planes! He let me try it (been stopped for over a year) and it almost made me want to start up again!

Hopefully some of you will find this useful.