Posted on 02/09/2005 10:29:25 AM PST by socalrepubminority
Yesterday I quit smoking.
I figure if I can keep a little log on how the progress is going you guys can give advice, and words of encouragement, either that or you guys flame the hell out of me, I never post a vanity again and this thread falls into obscurity.
just some background to get a handle on the situation my wife and I BOTH smoke(d), we're 28 years old, no kids, both smoked for over 10 years, I'm on the gum she's on the patch.
Yesterday was a haze, all I remember is coming home from work diving into two day old pizza and chicken wings, toped off with a bowl of peanut butter cup ice cream. the wife came home, she's a Rat I'm a Republican....I know(we try to never talk politics), it's already set up to be a rumble in the jungle, I think we said four words to each other last night "I love you goodnight".
A couple of things as I move into day two.
1. Is this freaking gum supposed to burn my mouth so much that I can't tell if I'm drooling or not?
2. How long am I going to continue to want to punch people who have done nothing but talk to me?
Good for you!
Good luck!
Stay out of the bars and lay off the booze for a week, after the third round after softball was when I always gave in.
Hope you make it
My ex husband took off with them. He hid out for 3 weeks...finally going to the court house in the town he ran to, and filed for custody...saying I didn't want them, had given him permission to take them, and was abusive to them.
Here is the link to the FR thread...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/575227/posts
I'm really sorry to hear about that, but glad it all worked out and you quit smoking to boot.
Not that I'm the expert; still smoking...but there's a box in my underwear drawer where I have to look at it every morning.
Hey good luck. I've never smoked, though I've spent years and years making a living in bars breathing everyone else's smoke.
Take care of your marriage, though. I'm more concerned about your not speaking to your wife. Don't let the detox wreck your home. Maybe when you get the urge to smoke, kiss your wife till you get a different urge. Heh! Seriously, don't fight when you're both chemically challenged. Talk it out.
Hope it goes okay!
It's okay to use a crutch, if you think you must; but it's possible to quit cold turkey. IMO, you just have to be really ready to quit. I mean: I did so--after more than 50 years. I learned (among other things) that kicking the smoking "addiction" is 99% mental and 1% physical; and that the "urge" for that next cigarette passes within 3 minutes. Go to the following URL for some real help:
http://www.quitsmokingonline.comHang in there!
good luck. no booze+walking off the cravings worked for me. walk no matter what the weather. this helped keep the weight down, too.
Very glad you got your kids back. Those antagonists on your thread deserve the Hell they will receive when their lives end.
ping
It's mostly mental after the first few days.......Then it's ALL mental.
When you think about slipping a smoke....think instead about a beautiful glassy 5-6 ft day at Trestles...with a slight off-shore breeze. Lefts peeling off like zippers....and only a handful of guys out.
FRegards,
In all seriousness, I would suggest exercise in conjunction with quitting. It really does help.
I tried getting up this morning at 5:00 AM, I couldn't do it. I used to be able to get up like clockwork. Am I getting old? Sucks...
Well...my surfing days were many moons ago. And I no longer live in SoCal...And yes, getting old sucks..!! Hehehe....
But, you ought to try getting up at 0'DARK THIRTY putting on 15 pounds of clothes...and trudging 2 miles thru the woods to go sit in a treestand for 5 hours...!! Now that's living..!!!
In order for you to give up something you love, you must hate it. Hate it with burning passion. The very thought of smoking must make you bitterly ill. Otherwise, you will return to the habit.
I find the most ardent anti-smokers are former smoking addicts. I never smoked but grew up in a smoking family. I am more tolerant than the anti-smoking SS.
Oh yeah - watch that peanut butter cup ice cream...or you'll end up having to quit that too. Take it from someone who knows. :)
I really do hate it but love it at the same time, if that makes any sense. I could see myself shedding tears asking my self why, while I have a smoke clutched in my hand taking a big fat drag and enjoying it. I heard the addiction is as bad as heroin....do you think that's true?
From what I remember, the addiction is greater than herion.
I don't have the habit. Good thing because I have asthma and chronic bronchitis which is said to be attributed to 2nd hand smoke. But I know that no self-respecting person would make his/her lungs go from pink to black. No self-respecting fiscal conservative would spend enormous volumes of cash for cigarettes, snuff, chew, or cigars. No self-respecting person would make their teeth turn black at the chew areas, get gum disease, talk like Jabba the Hut, or have skin as wrinkled as elephant hide at age 40.
It's not about self-love it's about self-respect that you'll quit. You're smarter and stronger than a POS cancer stick!
I decided to quit while I was planning my wedding. I was sooo stressed out and fixated on the wedding, that I didn't have time to think about the fact that I had stopped smoking.
After the wedding, I would tell my husband everytime I wanted to light up. Just saying I wanted a cigarette seemed to get me past the craving. Almost 3 months smoke free!
Good luck and God bless.
I have read this, but never had a need to try it:
Calculate how many cigarettes you smoke in an average day. Each day, smoke one fewer cigarette than the last time.
You're quitting, but more slowly.
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