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The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: Jan. 2007 ~ Mar. 2007: Health Center: Who wants to quit smoking with me? (ARCHIVES): Archive through March 19, 2007 users admin

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Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 9:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Our Twinks is much tougher than we thought, Juju. She is determined, and we all know that that's the key. Yay, Twinks, you're kickin' butt!

Slothkitten, LL and Nick, go get 'em!!!

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 12:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Sea, Juju, and Lum!!! Its so encouraging to get positive reinforcement here! It hasn't been easy by any means but I'm very stubborn and I hated the fact that something that was killing me could beat me if I let it. So that's not gonna happen. Plus, as I keep saying, I really don't want to ever have to go through quitting again cause it sucked bigtime. OH, and the number one reason for quitting: I don't want to be the grandma that smells yucky. I don't want my grandbaby to ever know me as a smoker.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 3:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
You go, Twinkie!!!

Nickovtyme
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07-29-2004

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 5:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nickovtyme a private message Print Post    
I worked out for 80 minutes this evening. The first time I've worked out since I've quit smoking. It's time to lose all the weight I put back on when I quit.

Oh yeah...and I was breathing great during my working. :D

Chiliwilli
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09-04-2006

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 2:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chiliwilli a private message Print Post    
Study: Quick Walks May Help Smokers Quit
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:28 PM EDT
The Associated Press
By MARIA CHENG

LONDON (AP) — As little as five minutes of exercise could help smokers quit, says a new study. Research published in the international medical journal Addiction showed that moderate exercise, such as walking, significantly reduced the intensity of smokers' nicotine withdrawal symptoms.

"If we found the same effects in a drug, it would immediately be sold as an aid to help people quit smoking," said Dr. Adrian Taylor, the study's lead author and professor of exercise and health psychology at the University of Exeter.

Link

Seamonkey
Moderator

09-07-2000

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 1:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I got this big glossy page I think with a newspaper about these magnet thingys you put on your ear (You'd think they could have jazzed them up to look like cool ear/cartilege jewellry, but no)

Name is ZEROSMOKE and they claim that one kit lasts a lifetime, quite in as little as 30 days, all natural, no patch, no gum, no drugs, no chemicals, non-allergenic, one time cost, FDA listed, as seen on tv. $39.99 plus shipping and handling (usually that is hefty for as seen on tv products)

http://www.zerosmoke.org or 800-578-3737.

You can also distribute them.

Frankly y'all seem to be doing just find on your own but on the other hand, anything that works is good, too.

Another good day of quitting wished for all of you!

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 3:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Congratulations, non-smokers. Every day you battle back the beast is one day closer to absolute freedom.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 5:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
I just told my darling hubby that now I can appreciate just what he had to live with all these years and did it very patiently. I thanked him for that. All those years I smoked in the house and car and him being a non smoker and he rarely ever said anything about it. He's the best.

Slothkitten
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09-16-2003

Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 8:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Slothkitten a private message Print Post    
3 weeks today !

I'm like a bloodhound . . my sense of smell is that sharp.

I'm still overeating . . I look like the before picture.

Cannot BELIEVE I quit smoking . . mindblower.

Also, cannot thank all of you cheerleaders in this thread enough . . . you helped so much with your support, your understanding and your care . . .

Thank you.

Retired
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07-11-2001

Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 8:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Retired a private message Print Post    
Congrats Sloth!

Way to go Twinkie and all the other non smokers!

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 9:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
^5 Sloth! 3 weeks today for both of us! I'm also eating a lot still but I'm giving myself either, until April 1st or next week depending on my mood next week. LOL Then I'm going on a diet and exercise regime. That won't be hard because I'll be packing to get ready to move sometime in the fall, plus painting the whole inside of this house to ready it for sale.

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 9:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Yay, Slothkitten and Twinks!!! You left the 3 weeks hump behind!

Exercise is a really good idea, Twinks; wish I had done more of it when I first quit, instead of making Werther's stock go up sharply.
We'll keep your seat in the workout thread warm for ya.

Slothkitten
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09-16-2003

Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 9:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Slothkitten a private message Print Post    
Yay Twinkie !

Thank's Retired and Lumbele !

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 11:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
Congratulations Twinks and Sloth!!

a

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 3:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Yay Slothkitten!!! Yay Twinkie!!!

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 4:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Thanks, guys!!! Its great to be a non-smoker!

Slothkitten
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09-16-2003

Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 5:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Slothkitten a private message Print Post    
Yes, thanks Vac and Juju !!

Hootyhoot
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12-18-2001

Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 7:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hootyhoot a private message Print Post    
On April Fool's Day, it'll be seven years since I quit. I am still proud, and very grateful that I finally did it. (I smoked for 41 years!)

Some of the thoughts that were most helpful to me was the idea that as the last smoker in my crowd, I therefore was the least intelligent. Because certainly by 2000, we all knew it was not smart to smoke. Oh, I could not stand the idea of being the dumbest! And a theory of my own was that the oxygen deprivation involved in smoking actually was depriving me of more brain cells daily. I felt I didn't have any to spare! And so, on my umpteenth try, I did it.

Congratulations to you, Twinkie and Slothkitten and Nick.

Llkoolaid
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08-01-2001

Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 7:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Llkoolaid a private message Print Post    
Just past my 3 months and wow, I am glad that is over, I have been so nervous because I knew that it would be a milestone for me. Doing fine, don't have real cravings anymore although the occasional thought like" gotta get a smoke" pops into my head, and it is funny at first I feel a little confused and then it is like, oh yeah no I don't.

To you guys that still are substituting food, that passes soon. Keep it up guys, we are winning.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 8:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Good work, LL!!!

And congratulations to Hootyhoot!

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 8:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
YAY, LL!!!!!!!!! Big milestone!!!!!!
Congratulations!
Oh, and those thoughts keep popping up even much later. Probably just to remind us of our achievement.

Good going, Hootyhoot!

Retired
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07-11-2001

Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 11:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Retired a private message Print Post    
Congrats to all!

Slothkitten
Member

09-16-2003

Monday, March 19, 2007 - 11:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Slothkitten a private message Print Post    
Hoothoot . . . 7 years !!!! Inspiring.

LL . . . . Way to go !!!!

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Monday, March 19, 2007 - 2:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
An amazing thing happened this past weekend. Hubby was on the phone with friends of our's and they invited us over for Easter dinner. Well, normally I'd love to go BUT they both smoke at least 2 packs a day EACH! I told hubby I didn't know if I was strong enough to hold up around that and he said well maybe we should make an excuse for why we can't go. But I didn't want to do that and oh boy, am I glad I didn't! I called them yesterday and told them I had just quit smoking and they jumped on this as a way to quit themselves! They said they would not smoke while I was at their house and I'm going to give them all the tips and hints I know to help them quit. If we'd made up an excuse they might never have actually had the incentive to quit! How cool is that???

Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Monday, March 19, 2007 - 3:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
Very, very Cool Twinks!!! It just keeps getting better and better! Congratulations!!

a