Encourage me 2 stop smoking please

I just wanted to post and say that I am very proud of my wife Diane. She is almost at the 14 day mark for quitting! I think she may be over the hump. Good luck to all of you who are trying to quit and God Bless.
 
Diane - 14 days is awesome - CONGRATULATIONS.

Hang in there all who are trying to quit.
It is definitely not easy.
 
Congrats to Diane You are well on your way to beating this and you have a support group right here at SA. We are your cheer leaders. :cheers:
 
Hey...I quit three weeks ago, after about 40 years.........Please, use a product, if you need it......It is worth the cost.............Though I know that I am still very much in the danger zone, this time the nicotine gum has been a godsend........I tried the patches in the past and they didn't help me...........I found them too itchy and irritating.........I wanted to share what I do to help relieve the need for the actual physical act of smoking.......When I find my hands reaching for the cigarette that isn't there, I pick up a pen and pretend. Holding it like a cigarette and even pretending to smoke it, while enjoying the nicotine the gum is feeding me, works for me in easing the need. An outsider would think I've lost my mind, and maybe I sometimes feel like a little kid playing a game, but, heck, whatever works..........I wish you the best. Only the wealthy can afford to smoke nowadays so we poor folks gotta do what we gotta do......By the way, after only three weeks I already feel such a surge of energy that I find myself dancing all around the house, a habit of mine that had been dwindling in past years...........and I like it! Rock on!
 
Thank you everyone for all the encouragement :love:

3mnkids1 said:
how are you doing today? I caved :laughing: Im so disappointed in myself but I am trying again. I am going to do this! My husband and I are both trying to quit so it was a little.. .. tense around here. I hate that feeling. I know its because im going through withdrawals and I shouldnt be so bitchy but I cant help it so I smoked. The children were upset I smoked but happy that I wasnt a raving lunatic anymore. Today is a new day though.
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This all sounds so familiar and I know just how you feel - It's incredibly hard. When your ready, just try again and try not to be disappointed in yourself. The companies who manufacture cigarettes know exactly what they are doing and it's really not your fault it's so hard to quit, so don't be angry at yourself. Good luck to you & your husband!
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good luck to you! I quit cold turkey 3 1/2 years ago. I undertook a huge project at the same time, getting my house ready to sell. I haven't had a cigarette since. My house sold the first week I had it on the market. Now I use the cigarette money to buy expensive European clogs. :wave:
 
congrats Diane and to everyone else who has quit.. Thats great.

Im of course sitting here and the scene from plane, trains and automobiles is running through my head.. when steve martin is at the car rental, only it isnt a car I want but A cig. so i keep saying I want a :cussing: cigarette, right :cussing: now! yes I know, another movie reference.. I cant help it, its a sickness. just about any situation and a movie line will come to mind :scratch:

oh, just remembered John Candy smokes it that movie.. ah, gotta go find that dvd and watch it. :laughing:
 
Good luck to ya !!
My aunt quit cold turkey my little cousin saw the movie they show them at school ,
about how your lungs turn black , and you get breathing disorders and how your teeth turn
yellow and die early , she came home crying and pleading she was so upset my aunt got
scared and didnt touch another cigarette and she was smoking 3 packs a day.
Everytime she looked at a cigarette she remembered her daughter and how frantic she was.
 
I used to smoke and quit almost 17 years ago when I found out I was pregnant, what better motivation. I can actually breath now. If that isn't reason enough, think of this. I hate to sound harsh, but I'll give you the best reason of all. My brother-in-law was a heavy smoker and drinker. He died last week at 54. We know that smoking had a lot to do with it. QUIT NOW!
 
ashleyda55; said:
Nicoderm, Nicorette, etc. offer free samples -- which when I received mine was a whole two weeks supply. Walmart often has the free sample listed on their free sample page......definitely do try it -- I smoked for almost 40 years, and quit almost a year ago. I have tried many times in previous years and was never successful -- the most I made it was 9 days. I really believed that I would never be able to quit without going crazy. I have always enjoyed smoking! I would not have made it without the patches/gum. I also learned a trick many years ago that "You cannot take something away without replacing it with something else or something better -- FOR WHAT WOULD FILL THE VOID". This is a very wise statement. My biggest concern was gaining weight because I absolutely hate being chubby (it makes me so depressed and I hate myself). So.....I knew I loved mint -- so I took a straw that was somewhat fatter then the normal size. I smoked every cigarette I had ( I try to never waste anything) and have never bought another carton. I cut the straw with scissors into pieces the size of a cigarette -- took a cotton ball and pulled it into a piece that could be inserted into the straw firmly (be so very careful to make it big enough that you cannot inhale the cotton and suck it down your throat -- be very careful that that cannot happen) and would absorb enough of the artificial flavor mint extract that I had bought at Walmart. I liked the peppermint better then the wintergreen. Everytime I wanted a cigarette I would dunk the straw into the extract and use it just like a cigarette -- I could feel the wonderful mint taste going down my throat and enjoyed it so much, in fact so much more than smoking a cigarette -- and I was not inhaling any of the poisons the I would get from a cigarette. I told myself that I HAD LOST NOTHING -- JUST GAINED SOMETHING BETTER -- AND SO MUCH CHEAPER. I had none of the nicotine withdrawal symptoms thanks to the patches/gum. Even using a straw with water in a glass helps because many of us have "mouth hunger" and need something in our mouths for comfort. So find out what you can replace your cigarettes with, definitely request free samples of the gum/patches and write down on a piece of paper to look at when you need to all the things you are gaining by not smoking -- and what you are using to "replace it with". Give it a try -- it worked for me! And, yes I have gained 10 pounds in a year -- now I have to find out how to lose that weight and get down to wearing a size 8 again. Hopefully better weather and summer will help that cause I can make myself so very busy.....Wish you all the luck in the world and let us know how you are doing. Freebie King has shown Nicoderm free samples several times and I believe I saw it on their site recently. I know I saw it on the Walmart web site too --- look for free samples. Bless You!
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Good Grief.....I tried everything, including removing it and redoing it.....and I could not change that word "stink" to "suck" that is in my previous post.........I hope some of you get a little laugh out of that typo......!!!! Geeeez.....
 
It is a very difficult thing to do. Unfortunately, the only way I quit was when I was diagnosed with lung cancer 3 years ago. I smoked for 30 years. I went through chemo and radiation and never want to do that again. I will be sending you good thoughts. Please don't let it come to what I went through. Hugs. :wave:
 
Good luck to all of you! My husband has been a smoker 30 plus years & started on the presciption Chantix which makes cigarettes taste terrible. He still smokes a few a day because of habit but that is a lot better than 1 1/2 packs a day. He only has been on it 2 weeks so I'm hopeful this will work!
 
I smoked for 20 years and quit. I tried many many times before I succeeded. Don't give up. If you fall off the wagon, get right back on and try again. If I can quit, so can you. It was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life, but also very rewarding. I gained weight while I was quitting. Food became a substitute for cigarettes, but that's okay. Being a little fatter was better than smoking. I lost the weight later once I was over cigarettes. I found the patch helped me, and then I weaned myself off the patch. I also found that I told someone that I really respected that I was going to quit, and I didn't want to have to admit to that person that I failed, so that was a great motivator. I feel so much better now that I am smoke free. I look at my sister who still smokes and she looks so much older than I because of the cigarettes. My Aunt has emphazema from smoking, and I see her struggle to breathe every day of her life, and it reminds me how fortunate I am that I was able to quit. I notice now just how bad cigarettes smell and how bad smokers smell. I never smelled the smoke on myself. Hang in there. You can do it, and if you fail, don't give up, try and try again. You will succeed. I have been smoke free now for over 10 years. You can be smoke free too.
 
rhondafaye said:
Good luck to all of you! My husband has been a smoker 30 plus years & started on the presciption Chantix which makes cigarettes taste terrible. He still smokes a few a day because of habit but that is a lot better than 1 1/2 packs a day. He only has been on it 2 weeks so I'm hopeful this will work!
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Rhona keep a good on your hubby. There has been so many bad things about Chantix in the last year. I quit 2 YEARS AGO MAY 15TH AND STILL SMOKE FREE. I know some doctors don't prescrib Chantix any longer. I only took it for 1 month as it was free with my insurance the 1st month, next month they wanted over $100, I told them to keep it (when I did I got a few words about cigarettes costing more.) 1st yeawas not rough, but did think about it more. Now I hardly think about it.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL WHO ARE TRYING TO QUIT!
 
:sunny: For those of you still needing a little help, and are hindered by the cost of patches and the Chantrix, have you heard of the electric cigarettes? They aren't near as spendy as the other aides plus alot of the habit is just having something to puff on. Check out this one. http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.14561
There are also videos at Ytube for electric cigarettes to see all the different varieties. Hope this is helpful to those trying. It is difficult, but don't ever give up.
 
Good luck Miki. I smoked for 22 years. Quit when I was 41. I am now 64 and the Cancer Doctor has scheduled me for surgery at the end of this month (May 2009). My lower lobe of the right lung is being removed due to smoking. The Doctor said it could be from second hand smoke but, most likely the cigarettes I had inhaled for so long. I wished I had never seen one. Started in the Army (they were giving them to us), playing poker at night for cigarettes.... dumb,dumb,dumb. Young and didn't know any better.

What worked for me...... Never told myself that I had quit. Just said, "I don't really want one right now, I'll have it later". Kept on telling myself that and after 21 years, I haven't smoked.

The other thing, my wife didn't smoke, we hung with friends that didn't either. We sat in non-smoking places in the resturant, etc.

Best wishes again. You can really do it. Hey and no kidding, you will smell better to others!
 
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