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Slothkitten
Member
09-16-2003
| Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 1:16 pm
Dipo ! 4 weeks ! You're in the home stretch . Nick, this nicotine is a siren. It calls to us. You're in the fight, it's so hard. Way to go on staying in it. Oldtex, you have made such progress ! So glad for you that you are breathing better and no cough . It's a real accomplishment to do what you have done. After all my confidence that I was done with the poison cigs, I'm fighting cravings constantly this weekend ( how could I feel so sure I was done, was positive I was done and now I'm . . . not ). I'm picking up my refill for the Chantix on Monday and staying on it for awhile. ( I was on the Chantix for one month, been off it less than a week ). Hi Pamy !
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Lumbele
Moderator
07-12-2002
| Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 2:01 pm
Yay, Dipo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are over a big hump!!! Sloth, from all I hear about Chantix, it works differently for everyone. If you need one, two, three, howevermany refills, you go see your favourite pharmacist (with doctor's supervision, of course). Keep those training wheels on until you've got your balance. There is no shame in that at all. What's important is that you leave that whammy in the dust. You home yet, Pamy?
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 3:02 pm
Yay Dipo!!!
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 3:51 pm
YAAAA Dipo!!! You are doing great! What an accomplishment, huh? SK, ITA with Lum! You just keep taking that Chantix until it gets a little easier. Do whatevery ya gotta do! You can do it! Shoot, you ARE doing it! YAAAAA!!
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Lawrie
Member
08-03-2002
| Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 6:48 am
This thread can be so inspirational. People maintaining their quits, reducing and moving toward quitting, learning from "practice" quits. Keep at it everyone! It's worth the effort.
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Slothkitten
Member
09-16-2003
| Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 1:19 pm
Thank's Lumbele and Twinkie, better today. Lawrie, you got everybody covered in that post !
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 1:41 pm
Congrats and yay to all the quitters! Way to go!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 2:13 pm
I am home! I posted in my folder. NIck, hang in there, you will do it!! Oldtex, yah!! for little victories, you will have the big one here soon!! I took it for 1 month, quit in 3rd week....I wonder if GAL quit too soon and thats why she still craves them every so often. If the rx was free I woulda taken in for at least 1 more month cuz I think it helped with food cravings also. Good to see everyone is still keeping this thread alive!!! vacation as a non smoker was better than I ever could have dreamed!!! It made such a big difference...I swear I wish I could bottle this feeling I have, it is such a great feeling!!! I pray you all have this feeling real soon!!! xoxoxxoxoo gotta go sleep, be back later YAH No puff Power girls!! and guy! 
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Slothkitten
Member
09-16-2003
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 8:17 pm
Welcome home,Pamy ! How wonderful you had a great trip and that you are loving your new non smokers life ! If you ever can bottle that great feeling, consider calling it Pamy Not Whammy,lol.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 9:48 pm
thx SK!! and LOL at the name!! hahahahaaa I do still like the smell of smoke, I had to LOL watching ppl run off plane after 5 hr flight to go outside to smoke. I could smell it when we walked by, it smelled good but still didnt make me want one. I still cant believe its only been 3 months, I had my 3 mo anniversary in FL on the nite I saw my bff from jr high, it was so cool spending it with her cuz she knows how long I smoked and she was there for me when my parents passed away and couldnt understand why I didnt quit then. She thought I looked great and god love her she didnt mention that I looked fatter!!! lol
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, February 25, 2008 - 11:15 pm
Welcome back, Pamy! You are always going to be gorgeous regardless. You are just stuck with it. Learn to accept it and move on.
Welcome back, and glad you had a good time.
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Lumbele
Moderator
07-12-2002
| Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 5:52 am
Welcome home, Pamy!!!! We missed ya, but I'm glad you and your boys had a great time.
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Boberg
Member
10-04-2002
| Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 1:38 pm
Pamy so glad to see you back and so glad you all had such a great time! Your first non smoking vacation!!!! Think of all the extra time you had for vacationing since you didn't have to find time and places to smoke.. Sloth I have the same feelings at times....some times it is easy and some times "I" really want one....but I do not want one...know what I mean? The urges and times "I" want one are getting farther and farther apart tho....YEA! Dipo about one month now???? You are doing so great and believe me when I say that I continue to draw strength from each one of you each day that you do not smoke! Each one of your successes make me and my resolve stronger...know what I mean? QUESTION: I am about 3 1/2 weeks smoke free now...last couple of days I have been coughing up lots of phlegm....also had some sinus drainage but am not sick. Is this normal...Dipo, Pamy did you all go thru a period like this where you seemed to be clearing of mucous???
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, February 26, 2008 - 4:37 pm
Bo, that is so true! I told my DH isnt it nice not having to wait for me to go smoke? I used to plan my whole park route around the smokin areas!! pittiful!! Bo, no I didnt have that but my friend did. I almost felt gipped cuz I didnt have it LOL Juju, you are soooo sweet, love ya dearly!! Lum and Sk, thx for the welcome back, I did think of ya all while I was there my new addiction is Stride gum, that stuff rules, 1-2 pcs and flavor lasts for hours. It is great for blowing and popping too, esp the inside mouth popping which I love!!! and ya all know how I love to blow 
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 7:32 pm
I made a joke in here and no one even noticed! where is everyone?? no posts here all day!!! I look fwd to comming here and reading/sharing with ya all.
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Boberg
Member
10-04-2002
| Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - 8:42 pm
I caught your joke Natalie, oopppsss I mean Pamy! LOL It is quite in here...I guess everyone is out enjoying their smoke free lives....YIPPEE.
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Slothkitten
Member
09-16-2003
| Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 7:44 am
Pamy, I read your blow joke and did laugh ! Because I was remembering that one picture you posted one time during a TVCH meet. You and 2 other peeps had your backs to the camera, and were on your knees ,lined up in front of some life size cut out picture of some man, lolol ! As so many here have said, you are fun ! Boberg, thanks and yippee on how you are doing !!! I'll be 3 weeks free on Saturday, unreal. I have bad moments, sometimes they hang around and it's hard to push the urges for a cig away, but the periods of time I don't think about it gets longer and longer. I notice the extra money, my sense of smell has improved and exercise is easier and don't get as winded. I notice I can get bitchy real quick, heh.
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Boberg
Member
10-04-2002
| Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 10:40 am
"I notice I can get bitchy real quick, heh." Whoa is this caused by stopping smoking cause now I have something to blame it on...hehehe No seriously, I had noticed that also...one minute I am very content and calm, then someone pulls in front of me on the road and slows down, or some other everyday occurence and I get steaming mad....cuss to myself and everything. One minute I think this quitting smoking has made me calmer and then one of those moments happen and I think, nah, still the same ole impatient b@tch....lol Sloth when it gets hard to push the urge away.....GRAB your BOOK and read to the beast....outloud whenever possible....that will shut the beast up and send him back to his corner whimpering. Yep, I miss all the action in here....what we need is another new quitter to support.........ANY VOLUTEERS? Truly I am proud of each and everyone of us....we are each in differing stages of success in a battle that is very difficult. Having the support and encouragement of this group....every one of you....has really made the difference for me! Thank you!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 11:05 pm
SK, we were blowing the guys from Apollo 11 LOL it was me, Moondance, and Grannyg!!! hahahhaha good times!!! Bo, I agree...we need some fresh recruits! or we need more posting by the people that are still working on the quit. well I got that flu back again and I am afraid its gone into broncitus...I just thank God that I felt wonderful in FL...weird that I had flu..got better, felt great in FL, came home and started feeling sick and 3 days later its worse than before...I am weazing...think how bad it would be if I still smoked!!!
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 11:06 pm
ps SK, bit a trivia....that day we were blowing those astronaunts was the day I told Granny if GAL could do it , we could do it!!! who knew that day would change my life!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, February 28, 2008 - 11:27 pm
Be careful what you agree to that you think will never happen, Pamy. Pamy, you might have had a cold before you went and caught the flu on the plane. Or vice versa. I always seem to catch something on a long airplane flight. Occasionally I remember to be REAL paranoid and wipe down almost the entire plane when I get on. I can't recall if that helps though, LOL. Usually it hits me about three days after a flight, but once on the way home from Hong Kong it developed ON the plane, so I must have caught it a couple days earlier. I was getting really scared on the plane ride because I didn't realize I was getting sick, just that I couldn't breathe very well, and my ears would not clear. Duh! I was almost relieved to find out I was sick. And yes, all of this cold, flu, bronchitis shit is worse when you smoke.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, February 29, 2008 - 3:46 pm
I feel worse today...still happy I am nonsmoker!! as bad as I feel I would still try and smoke if I still was smoker! it just boggles my mind what an idiot I was!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Friday, February 29, 2008 - 7:16 pm
Pamy, you are doing so great. And you looked so good blowing the Apollo 11 crew. That was one of my favorite pictures ever, Colossus' too. And I'm just amazed and truly honored that you used my lil trip through "I've had my fun and now I'm done" land to kick-start your own smoke-free journey. You've made it so much easier for me to deal with living a non-smoking life because of your attitude. I'm still mad that I can't smoke anymore, and I'm even madder because I still think about smoking more than I think I should after almost 5 months. My office manager is still smoke free (and putting on weight LOL) after 2 months, she used Chantix. Her husband too, who was a client of mine. He quit at the same time as her. They're both doing very well with their quit. One of Colossus' employees also quit because of me and my office manager, but she white-knuckled it. She is a young girl who has been self-sufficient since the age of 17, and is taking care of herself, two dogs and a kitten. She is beautiful and pig-headed, and when she sets her mind to something there's no knocking her back. She has been smoke-free for 6 weeks and really hasn't seemed to suffer much. She sure hasn't complained. I asked her today how she was doing with it, and she said she was fine, 6 weeks out no problem, but she was disappointed to discover that life was much more boring without cigarettes. I understood that, cigarettes give you something to look forward to, a break from pressure, and a relaxing feeling. Jennifer works 70 hour a week or so with two jobs, she has no time to date or socialize. She said she was glad she quit and wasn't going to start again regardless, but I really felt for the girl she's been duking it out without the help of drugs. I joined Cardinal Fitness today. I am going to start tread-milling on Monday. I like their structure - a one-time sign-up fee ($59.00), $19.95 per month and no minimum contract. You attend and pay for the months you want to attend, if you aren't going to attend (say during the summer) you just tell them, you don't get charged, and you start up again in the fall without a new sign-up fee. My oversized hiney is going to be REDUCED!! I just KNOW IT!!
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Geri
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 6:41 am
Bo, I really, really, really want to quit but I am having trouble taking that first step. I am seeing my doctor on Wednesday to discuss Chantix and I also bought a box of Nicorette gum. (I have used it to quit before, operative word-before) I have basically smoked for 40 years, and while I had cut down to 6 a day for about 3 years, I am now back up to 2 packs a day and that is nuts yet I can't seem to cut down. I really have to do this but I will admit that another failure scares the heck out of me. Reading these posts has inspired me.
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Lumbele
Moderator
07-12-2002
| Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 6:53 am
Geri, each try is practice for the real thing. Who knows, this could be *your* moment. We have all failed before, but then there it was, the *one* time where it took. Don't be afraid to fail. At worst, you'll give your lungs a vacation.
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