Posted on 08/18/2004 7:33:07 AM PDT by grellis
>>I quit smoking when I took Zyban. I also quit eating and sleeping<<
I could use to stop eating (although the last time I did this, my hair fell out and I started passing out without warning). I really like to sleep though!
Great tips! I actually do have a pretty set pattern to when I smoke, so I will be doing a lot of routine-juggling in the next few weeks. I smoke the most before 4pm, and hardly ever at all between 4 and bedtime. Fortunately, that gives me a lot of room to work with.
I was going through a ten-pack of Extra green every week during my pregnancies and I was able to cut back to five smokes a day. The problem now is that my teeth are in terrible shape and chewing gum is painful. I'll probably do a lot of whistling if I can't come up with an alternative.
I'm trying desperately not to think that you might be seeing me sooner!!!
I smoked back in my college days, twenty years ago--did quit cold turkey. Chewing gum helped. Vanity too. I was appalled at what smoking had done to my Aunt's facial skin. I had always had good, clear skin and decided I wanted to keep it.
I wish you well, but will miss you!! :(
Good Luck!
Chris
Get sugarless gum. Mom chews gum now. After she visits, I always find sticks of gum in the kids' rooms that they've snarfed from her packages!
If you don't smoke after 4 p.m., that's a big part of the day already under control. If I didn't eat after 4 p.m., I'd be as thin as you!
Can you think of anything besides whistling that'll keep my mouth busy? Remember, this is a family forum, LOL. I'm not going to try sucking on a pencil or anything like that, I think it will just make me want to smoke.
Yelling at the neighbors, maybe?
Ice? Singing? Repeating math facts, or the periodic table? Making phone calls for political candidates?
I just know the boys are being bad. This house is as quiet as a grave.
LOL - I can usually hear crashing when mine are being really destructive ... although writing on the walls is quiet ...
OT, but I am kind of enjoying my inner fat girl. I was a blade with boobs for 25 years, 22' waist and 32" hips and never worked out or dieted. Last year when I turned 45, I bulked up to 140 pounds, got gray(er) and my eyelids dropped.
If you time-lapsed pics of me and my mother and her mother, you couldn't tell who was who.
I will enjoy it when I turn 50 or so and get thin again----if genetics hold true as they have with my cousins, aunts, mom and grandma. If not, I guess I'll just be more to embrace! ; )
Don't chew gum. It looks gross, for one thing and it is just a substititute until you decide "F it. I need a smoke."
Take up needle-work of some kind. You'll have both hands busy. I knitted enough stuff to clothe the world the first time I quit.
LOL - I see my mother in the mirror every morning! Mom's a well-preserved 66 (all natural, except the hair color), so it's not too bad.
I think you probably look very nice! 140 is not a bad size, but it's a little high for beginning pregnancy, which I always have to consider :-).
yeah, sorry, baby kept me up last night! She's going through the piggy eating phase of a growth spirt! Can't wait for the sleeping phase of the spirt, which should be tomorrow!
Thanks! You and me both, the Mom is in my mirror thing. My mom is a lovely 71 last July 28.
My baby making days are behind me, not menopause, I'm just too old for it to be safe with my other health problems.
It's just weird to not be able to whip out my old clothes. I miss my pretty belts!
I understand. I'm fortunate to have mighty good health, for a multiparous chick of my age.
And how is your mother doing now?
She starts chemo next week. The surgury went well and she crabbed a lot on the phone last time we talked so, all is well!
Glad to hear it!
Thank you for your prayers. How's Dad? When does he visit?
(We are hijacking grellis thread, btw!)
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