SMOKERS... LETS KICK the HABIT!!

[Lady Pamela]

Originally Posted by Incubus

You will be successful when you choose to be mate - we all know how rough it is though...I'll lend you one of my spare tinfoil hats if you need the extra aluminium!

It's only you that suffers; it's rough when you have to keep starting all over again, knowing how rough it's gonna feel for those first days and weeks.

I'm real glad you felt able to come tell us slipped up again...and if it happens again, come lemme bark at ya again

Keep the faith y'all


here's an extra one for you OSB

Barking only means you give a shit..and that you want to support and also be supported back.

It is great to have someone you feel you can depend on and also be honest with. No matter what...Ya all have been there for me..thanks so much!


Btw...day six and SMOKE FREE STILL...It is lessoning some with the turmoil..but so not a safe point yet.

And oh how life has challenged my quitting process..ha

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[Lady Pamela]

Smoke free 6 days and feeling my air in my lungs better.
Tastes are getting better.
My nose is off the hook with every smell around.
And I actually ran a little without thinking I was gonna die...lol

Still a strugle and a gained some weight but I am still doing it.

BTW, Weight is an issue for me as I struggled many years with anerexia..so it is very hard. But I don't care. I will pass through this and then loose the weight. Btw..I am healthy not skinny now so it's all good...smiles


One addiction at a time..smiles I will finally be where I am suposed to be.

Originally Posted by Lady Pamela

Barking only means you give a shit..and that you want to support and also be supported back.

It is great to have someone you feel you can depend on and also be honest with. No matter what...Ya all have been there for me..thanks so much!


Btw...day six and SMOKE FREE STILL...It is lessoning some with the turmoil..but so not a safe point yet.

And oh how life has challenged my quitting process..ha

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Day 6....woooohooooo...the force is working it's magic.

Tis true, I do give a shit. I am <that> ex smoker; a walking advert for what can happen to you if you don't give up in time and if asked I will evangelise about not smoking til the cows come home or they walk away, which ever comes first!

Lemme tell you I was somewhat manic for a while after first quitting. It took a few weeks/couple of months or so to calm down and finally *know* that this time I'd cracked it.

Originally Posted by Lady Pamela

Smoke free 6 days and feeling my air in my lungs better.
Tastes are getting better.
My nose is off the hook with every smell around.
And I actually ran a little without thinking I was gonna die...lol

Still a strugle and a gained some weight but I am still doing it.

BTW, Weight is an issue for me as I struggled many years with anerexia..so it is very hard. But I don't care. I will pass through this and then loose the weight. Btw..I am healthy not skinny now so it's all good...smiles


One addiction at a time..smiles I will finally be where I am suposed to be.

I'm anosmic and have a less than standard sense of taste so sadly I didn't get those benefits. However, I did notice how wonderful it was to wake up in the morning - no matter how much or what I'd drunk the night before - with a clean mouth. It was a revelation that is was smoking that made the difference.

Ok, so the weight thing is an issue for me too. I spent 20some years with eating disorders but even as I recovered from that I remained very slim. I was used to being around 100lbs all my adult life. I purposely didn't substitute my oral fixation with cigs for food, I was well prepared for that one. Then, double whammy happened, I got hit with full on (peri)man-0-pausal symptoms.
Hoody on-hoody off...jebus I'm going mad but it's great not to bleed every month shyte.
Well it appears that nicotine sorta helps speed up your metabolic system. This combined with the above hormonal stuff led to an exorable increase in weight which is the hardest thing I've found to deal with. It's relative because if I told you what I weigh you'd laugh but I have flesh that I've not had since I was a teenager.

However, I'd rather be a small winnebago with 48% lung function left than a racing bike with rapidly decreasing lung function.


May the force be with ya




eta...Day 10

[uniquetobeme]

You all are doing so well! Addiction is terrible because it teaches us to lie to ourselves and to find ways to justify our behaviors. There is a professor at George Mason University, Dr. Robert Smith, and he has done research on nicotine and the adolescent brain of rats vs adult rats. He found that the adolescent rats were much more sensitive to the nicotine and developed many more receptor sites for the nicotine, whereas the adult rats had little change. I bet most of us, if not all of us, started smoking while still a teenager. Our brains are wired for addiction. Unfortunately, his study showed that we would also be wired for other addictions as well. So, this is one of the most difficult things to overcome.

We are all amazing individuals to be this serious about quitting and making it through these struggles. Dr. Smith said his wife smokes and he doesn't think she will ever quit because of how addictive smoking is. I think I recall him saying (but this was years ago) the only way to really quit an addiction is to substitute it for something else. I'm not sure I agree with him on it being the ONLY way, but I think it does make it easier if we substitute the smoking habit for a healthy habit.

It has been 2 weeks since I quit smoking and I have been nicotine free for one day. I was worried last night because after a LONG week at work, I drank a couple glasses of sangria. I was worried that would trigger me to smoke. My son's boyfriend smokes...so I know I could easily get one, but I didn't and I didn't even have the craving. I know I have to be really careful...drinking is a huge trigger for me...luckily I don't drink often!

[Tommi]

Good Luck to everyone. Just a drive-by in support of what I have been told is the hardest addiction to kick.
Congrats to those that r turning the corner.
Never a smoker, but seeing and feeling the side-effects, My Mom was able to give up drugs, alcohol, and rl, etc., but could not give up smoking.

[Lady Pamela]

Just got back and thought I would say..Still going strong..on day 9 today and soon that will be doen.

I have had some hard moments but old habits die hard sometimes..smiles

Congrats to everyone for keeping on keeping one..smiles..tty all tomorrow. night

Originally Posted by uniquetobeme

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It has been 2 weeks since I quit smoking and I have been nicotine free for one day. I was worried last night because after a LONG week at work, I drank a couple glasses of sangria. I was worried that would trigger me to smoke. My son's boyfriend smokes...so I know I could easily get one, but I didn't and I didn't even have the craving. I know I have to be really careful...drinking is a huge trigger for me...luckily I don't drink often!

Fantastic! You're on the way. I personally don't believe we should avoid others that smoke whilst we quit; it's something we have to deal with if we have smokers in our lives...that sure is the case for me...giving up in a false microcosm of non-smokingness isn't real, ultimately we have to go out and about and deal with smokers, might as well do it from day one. Does that make sense? Sure seeing others smoke can be a trigger but that's when our self talk about positive choices kicks in.

You did real good!

Originally Posted by Lady Pamela

Just got back and thought I would say..Still going strong..on day 9 today and soon that will be doen.

I have had some hard moments but old habits die hard sometimes..smiles

Congrats to everyone for keeping on keeping one..smiles..tty all tomorrow. night

WooooHoooooo! Day 9, see how fast those days build up. There are many hard moments to come but as the days pass your coping strategies develop and become stronger until not having a cig becomes the norm rather than the exception.

May the force be with y'all



ps. Day 13