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Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 2:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Yep, Zgood, 21 Mg is the strongest. Okay, now I see what you are saying, just changing the time of day that you are slapping it on.

Lumbele, I think my regimen was 30, 30, 30 days. And when I got to the end, the adhesive on the patch was irritating me so much that I skipped a whole lot of them, and didn't notice anything different. No cravings returned.

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Sunday, October 02, 2005 - 4:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Wow, Juju, they had you on the accelerated plan, eh? Wish I could say the same about the cravings, but hey, so far so good, and I can shake them off faster and faster.

Zgoodgirl
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08-22-2003

Monday, October 03, 2005 - 8:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zgoodgirl a private message Print Post    
Woot! Forgot to come in here at 7pm last night to let everyone know that it has been ONE WHOLE WEEK since I picked up a cigarette!

YAY!

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Monday, October 03, 2005 - 9:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
p Yippee, Zgoodgirl!!! p

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Monday, October 03, 2005 - 12:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
You are doing really goood, Zgoodgirl!!! Way to kick it in the butt!!

Yay Zgoodgirl!!!

Nynana
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05-31-2005

Monday, October 03, 2005 - 8:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nynana a private message Print Post    
Oh I LOVE this thread! WTG Zgoodgirl!

I smoked 2-4 packs a day for 37 years, menthol no less, which created a duo addiction. Last October hubby and I decided to quit smoking together...that lasted 4 days and then it was either kill each other, divorce court or smoke. We opted for smoking while figured out what to do to survive.

He set his quit day for November 8th, 2004 and I was to set mine for 2 weeks later <we had already had the rule, no smoking in the house, which helped!> ... He quit on his day. I got up on the morning of November 9th, 2004, looked in my cig. pack and saw I had 8 cig. left. I decided then that when they were gone, I was done smoking.

On Sunday coming up, I hit 9 months smoke free!!! I can't wait for that one year mark, next month!

For those just beginning this journey, I am going to pass on some tips that helped me greatly. Use any that may help you.

1 - accupuncturist use something they stick through the ear lobe to help one quit <I have never done this> but I learned from my chi gung PR that if I would massage or rub my ear lobes when I had a craving, the craving would pass. It does!

2 - if you are sitting and watching TV and a craving hits, tap the heals of your feet. This helps, I don't know why but it does help, within minutes the craving is gone.

3 - Gobstoppers were my friend. They start out sweet, end up sour, take about as long to suck through one as it did to smoke a cig. Both hubby and I used them for the first 2 months.

4 - every time I wanted a cig, I would get on my treadmill, sometimes for only 3 minutes, sometimes for 15, it helped.

5 - drink lots and lots of water to help you flush the junk from your body. This also helps.

We have now put up new curtains, washed all the walls and when my grandsons come, they love coming to the house because it doesn't *stink* like cig. smoke

Anyhow...hope something in our tips and tricks can help someone else. I am excited to still remain in my quit. Thanks for letting me share here about it.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Monday, October 03, 2005 - 10:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Congratulations, Nynana!!!

Great tips too.

Isn't it wonderful to not HAVE to smoke anymore?

Nynana
Member

05-31-2005

Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 12:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nynana a private message Print Post    
Oh Juju,

I was going to say you don't know how good it feels to not be smoking, but yes you do LOL!

I am just so amazed that I have done it. If someone had told me 18 months ago I was going to be quitting smoking I would have told them 'liar liar pants on fire'...now I found this freedom inside myself that never existed before!

It isn't easy but we CAN conquer it...and I get this sic little enjoyment out of not paying such high taxes on cigs that goes to our government, kind of screws them a bit too ;)

Zgoodgirl
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08-22-2003

Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 4:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zgoodgirl a private message Print Post    
Whooo Hooo Nynana!

Thanks for the tips! I was kinda wondering about pressure points in the body, and thought I heard somewhere about one that relieved cravings. I'm going to try them the next time a bad craving hits (which has usually been around 8pm). Like you and your Gobstoppers, I have been hooked Orbitz Bubblemint (can blow a pretty mean bubble now) and cinnamon toothpicks.

A friend at work gave me something called a Tangle, a little plastic twisty thing that you can play with and take apart. She said that she used it to keep from biting her nails, and has noticed that I am wringing my hands a lot. It has worked wonders!



Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Tuesday, October 04, 2005 - 10:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Zgoodgirl, congratulations on making it another day! Every day you make it without smoking is one more day of victory, one more day closer to freedom.

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 5:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Nynana, we quit around the same time. Like you, I want so much to be able to celebrate 1 year. For some reason that seems like *the* milestone to me, too.

Zgoodgirl, you are doing great. One day at time, and one day when you are not lookin' you'll be celebrating a year, too!

Nynana
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05-31-2005

Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 9:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nynana a private message Print Post    
Zgoodgirl you are doing GREAT! You CAN do this! Make sure to drink lots and lots of water!

Lumbele, when is your quit anniversary? Maybe we could have a party together at TVCH to celebrate!

Nynana
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05-31-2005

Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 2:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nynana a private message Print Post    
Today is 11 months since my quit began. I had written 9 months in my first post but it was the 9th of November when I quit :-) I never thought I would make it this far, now I believe I can do *anything*!

Wendo
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08-07-2000

Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 5:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wendo a private message Print Post    
Congratulations Nynana!
You CAN do anything!


Zgoodgirl
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08-22-2003

Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 6:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zgoodgirl a private message Print Post    
Congrats Nynana!!! Just one more month!!!

One hour ago it has been 2 whole weeks for me! I have to admit, it is getting better. I actually forgot to put a new patch on yesterday. But I put one on this morning, because I didn't want to get too confident and later realize too late that it was too early to stop the patch.

I still see people smoking and try to get a whiff of it, and ohhhh it smells good. But I have made up my mind, I am quitting this time!


Nynana
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05-31-2005

Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 8:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nynana a private message Print Post    
Zgoodgirl I am SO proud of you! Won't be long when you will be flapping that smoke away from you and when someone comes in that has been outside smoking, you will just want to gag! That started with me back in June. Now I can't stand the smell of it.

You are doing so good!

Thank you Wendo and Zgoodgirl for the congrats! I love having a place to share these milestones with!



Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Sunday, October 09, 2005 - 11:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Zgood, what Nynana said. And congratulations. It sure sounds like you are going to make it this time. Yay!!!

Congratulations on 11 months, Nynana!!!



Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 6:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Zgood, how are you doing? You are almost at 3 weeks now, then comes the 1 month milestone and so on and so on. Before you know it months will have gone by and you will still be in one piece, maybe a little worse for wear, but doing fine. You sound determined, so I am sure you will beat this. Congratulations!

Yesterday I got a big whiff of smoke in front of a building, and as usual I was disgusted, but this time my next reaction so far of "I want one, too" didn't follow for the first time. Now that I call big progress, right Juju?LOL

Nynana, my quit date is November 2, 2004, just one week before yours. Let's get looped, a girl gotta have one vice, don't we?

Zgoodgirl
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08-22-2003

Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 7:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zgoodgirl a private message Print Post    
Just dropping by to check in. Still smoke free. Still have the urges, but they are not as bad as they were. I think I’m starting to get over the oral fixation, which I think is harder than the nicotine itself. The patch is really doing a number on my skin though. I’m basically having to lotion the skin, then scratch the glue off.

My insurance added a Flex Spending account for medical. It’s like a savings account that you put in a certain amount to a Visa you can use for over the counter drugs, copays and things that your medical insurance will not cover. I’m going to get into it and treat myself to a teeth bleaching one month after I get off the patch.

ETA-Lumbele, just saw your post! LOL! It IS getting surprisingly better. When I am running around and I see someone smoking, I still try to get a whiff. My bf is getting tired of me saying, ‘Ohh, look he’s smoking, oh there’s another one smoking.’ LOL! It still smells really good, but I feel like I don’t need one rather than want one (if that makes sense).

I still reach for where I usually kept my cigarettes every once in awhile. In the middle console of the car, behind my keyboard; but I’m not sad anymore when I remember that I don’t have any and I’m not smoking. I never realized how close I actually kept them near me!


Llkoolaid
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08-01-2001

Friday, October 14, 2005 - 4:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Llkoolaid a private message Print Post    
Geez Juju, you are still going at it. Day 4 here. Yeah Yeah Yeah I know I can do it. lol

Let's call this round 10. I am getting so tired of going through the first 2 weeks of quitting.

Anyway, Honey, I'm home.

Llkoolaid
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08-01-2001

Friday, October 14, 2005 - 4:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Llkoolaid a private message Print Post    
Oh, I wanted to tell people something I saw that I think triggered this latest quit thing. I was driving by the hospital and saw this woman somewhere between the ages of 60-80 standing in front of the hospital, on the lawn by the road ( not allowed close to the hospital) attached to an iv, wearing a nighty and cotton housecoat, which was blowing open in the wind, standing in the rain having a fricken cigarette. Pathetic, I swear the IV pole was holding her up. My immediate thought "F---, I don't want to be that sorry looking old bag."

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Friday, October 14, 2005 - 5:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Yay, LL!!!!!!!!! Now don't bite, but you *can* do it!!! Are you using any aids this time?
Having to go to the hospital was always a big dread to me, too. Not so much because of the operations/treatments, but because I knew I couldn't smoke there (except one hospital in B.C. that had a smokers room, not any more though, I am guessing); my main reason for pushing for a fast release date every time.


Llkoolaid
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08-01-2001

Friday, October 14, 2005 - 7:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Llkoolaid a private message Print Post    
Yeah Lum, I have the patch, this time I am not going to fool myself that I don't need it after 3 weeks.

Sad, sad , sad, what lengths we will go to for a smoke.

Zgoodgirl
Member

08-22-2003

Friday, October 14, 2005 - 7:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zgoodgirl a private message Print Post    
WhooHooo Llkoolaid! You can do it this time!

I use to work in a hospital as a phlebotomist and know what you mean. I would have to sit outside on breaks with patients dragging their IV towers around with them. I always thought it was an odd thing to see. I even saw someone bring a woman who just had a baby a tree with cigarettes hanging from them, which I thought was sad. There were always stubborn people (mostly the elderly) who would sneak cigarettes in their room. Even as a smoker, I could tell that they had been smoking in their rooms as soon as I would walk in.

But the one that I will never forget was a little old woman who had emphysema. She was on O2 and would have someone sneak smokes in her room. The doctors told her over and over again not to be smoking at all let alone her room. One day she was lighting her cigarette to smoke, and the oxygen connected to her nose caught the flame. She had 2nd and 3rd degrees all over her face, and her hair was gone. They had to transfer her to another hospital that had a burn unit after that.

Sadly, this never made me want to quit smoking. I was really young at that time and thought that things like that would never happen to me, and I was smoking because I wanted to, not because I had to.


Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Friday, October 14, 2005 - 4:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Yay LL!!!

It's about damn time you got back in here. You have had me worried to death. I mean worried about your death. I mean ... uh ... real worried.

I am SO sorry you have to go through this shit again, but it does beat the alternative of not ever quitting until it is too late.

Hang in there. You know the routine. Pure deadly hell for a while, and one day you get free.

Hey newbies, did y'all know LLkoolaid started this thread about four years ago? And it's been going ever since? And I apparently have been in here ever since? LOL. Heh, go look at the personal quote* in my profile.

Oh, and LL? That old woman in front of the hospital who looked between 60 and 80 was probably 50!

Oh, and Yay Zgoodgirl!!!





*for those who don't speak French - the more things change, the more things stay the same.