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Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 3:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Boberg, I did the same thing! I limited my smoking to one place in the house and it was far away from the puter where I tended to smoke the most. That really does help. It also shows you really do want to quit! YAAAAA!!!!

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 6:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
LOL Juju!

Boberg...you are doing better than me...the puter room was the only place I smoked and I didnt remove the ashtray until days after I took last puff...just in case LOL You are being pro active...very impressive!

I have wanted a cig a few times today...chewing the hell outta this gum!!!

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 6:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Oldtex, how are ya doing??? xoxoxo

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 6:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
You go, Boberg!!!

Hang in there Oldtex. You will make a breakthrough one of these days, and until you do, just keep on keeping on.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 7:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I keep waiting for food to taste better/different......it tastes the same. I thought that was something that happened when ya quit

Is it cuz I smoked ultralights? anyone else have food taste better?

Holly
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06-19-2005

Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 7:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
Nah. Never happened for me. Nor did my sense of smell improve. BUT--I don't get bronchitis any more ;)

Oldtex
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03-06-2006

Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 9:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Oldtex a private message Print Post    
Pamy - I'm doing "just" OK. Seems like for every good day I have, I have one bad day.

JuJu - Yep, I'm hanging in there. I certainly don't want to give up now! But it is a struggle.

Boberg - You did great in removing those trays from the computer area. Hang in there with me and hopefully soon we can both celebrate! Baby steps are OK. Good Luck!

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 10:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Oldtex..dont worry, baby steps are just fine. just keep taking chantix and it will all fall into place.

(((Oldtex)))

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 7:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Oldtex, hang in there, those bad days will become fewer and fewer, I promise. Obviously, with Chantix, there is no need to rush your fences.

Boberg, that termination is what will get you through. I wasn't successful in quitting until *I* decided I had to and that this *would* be my *last* stab at it.

Pamy, it took quite a while before my taste buds "bloomed" again. Still need spices, but much less than while I smoked.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 7:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
I had a taste breakthrough once in one of the lulls between smoking and before a relapse. I was in a shopping mall food court in Miami, circa 1986, and I had a hamburger from a no-name stand that grilled the burgers. It was astoundingly good.

Yay, Oldtex, just keep plugging away. There will come a day when you realize you are not nearly as miserable as you used to be. Hey, take your victories where you can. Then there will come a day when you completely forget that you are supposed to be smoking, and that will be pretty amusing because you are really supposed to NOT be smoking, but your inner child doesn't know it yet. And eventually there will come a day when you will think to yourself, "what was I doing even thinking of smoking those killers? I must have been out of my mind."

Meme9
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07-30-2001

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 10:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Meme9 a private message Print Post    
I never had any change in smelling or tasting. Never was a food lover...never understood when friends just loved food, you could see it in their faces when they talked about it or was eating!!! I know you all are thinking I'm skinny...nope. If I make myself eat through out the day I can lose weight...LOL, I forget to eat. One of the first things my daughter asks, even if it's 3 or 4 in the afternoon, when she calls is did you eat anything today. I was hoping that by quitting smoking would help...not yet.

Oldtex and Boberg, your still trying and that is what counts...YAY!!!!

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 11:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
How can you NOT love food and NOT be skinny? How can you forget to eat and NOT be skinny?

My taste or smell has not changed. But I eat all the time because I'm not smoking.

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 12:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Well, Meme, I am so sorry to hear that. At least my poundage was acquired with enjoyment.

What surprised me in the "smell" department is how apt I have become at detecting smoke. Never ever noticed it before I quit.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 1:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Meme, I would probably forget to eat too, so I make it very rigid. I have breakfast lunch and dinner at a set time every day. And an afternoon snack. And a husband who makes sure I eat. If your daughter is close by, could she call you three times a day?

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 2:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
But Juju, you are skinny.

Meme9
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07-30-2001

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 3:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Meme9 a private message Print Post    
Finally, someone other than me, who understands forgetting to eat! When I don't have a lot of other stuff going on and I'm able to focus only on eating I can do it, other wise I think I'll eat later and then I forget. I'm suppose to eat every hour and a half. I do well to eat twice a day. Juju, if I remember right, you also have low blood sugar like me.

Lumbele, I also can detect smoke very easy now. Ok, maybe my smeller is better.

Meme9
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07-30-2001

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 4:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Meme9 a private message Print Post    
Oh, I forgot to tell you guys, one of my friends has quit this late week and another one is going to when she finishes the cigs she has at home. YAY for my friends!!!

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 4:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Yay indeed for your friends, Meme, the more the merrier, eh?

Do you have a timer, Meme? You and Juju are supposed to eat more often because of low blood sugar and I because of high. I manage the main meals ok (except for weekends), but those snacks are a different matter entirely. So I have started to set a timer, either my annoying, incessant stove timer or this one, equally annoying (if you remember to leave the sound on your puter), but both quite effective.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 4:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Cig smoke I can smell very easily now. Can't tell a change for anything else though.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 5:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Meme, I am not diagnosed with low blood sugar, but I can feel it when it drops, and I get mighty danged crabby and light-headed when I forget to eat. Bigdog makes SURE I get fed, LOL.

Twinks, I think I just have a lucky metabolism, but I think there is also a theory of weight management that says to eat six small meals a day. All of my meals and snacks are fairly small and they are all real food (like not, er, Twinkies), well, except maybe potato chips. I do have a half ounce or so of potato chips with my half sandwich at lunch.

And hey, go non-smokers!!!

Herckleperckle
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11-20-2003

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 5:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Herckleperckle a private message Print Post    
Now, you non-smokers who visit Germany will never be reduced to this:

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A man smokes through a "Smoking Point" in a restaurant wall in Goslar, Germany. The holes have been made after the introduction of a smoking ban in restaurants in Lower Saxony.


Pamy
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01-02-2002

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 7:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
YAH Meme!! YAH Meme friends!!! us Power No Puff GIrls are going to make the world smoke free...1 friend at a time :-)

LOL Herc!!

I also can smell smoke on people now, really couldnt before. I still like the smell of ppl smoking. I was sitting at poker table with 5 smokers smoking for hours and it didnt bother me and I didnt want one. This weekend showed me no matter what situation I am in I am a nonsmoker!

Meme9
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07-30-2001

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 9:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Meme9 a private message Print Post    
I'll never MAKE anyone quit, as we all know no one could MAKE us quit. I just let them know, it was possible for them too and that I would be there to help them. The one friend that quit this week, had just gotten out of the hospital(she almost died,long story). I went to visit her when she returned home, took her something good to eat, and she was smoking and the subject came up of how well I was doing on not smoking. She had not had one the whole time she was in the hospital, I told her she had already went through the worst of the withdrawal, and that if she were to stop right now it would be much easier for her....something for her to think about. I called her sister, my bbf, later and she told me that her sister had quit, gave her cigs to her dh, and was done with them. She did it because it was the right time for her. Now my bbf, say she is going to quit to help her sister as encouragement. YAY for sisterhood! Now, I'm going to encourage both of them. YAY for friendship!

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Monday, January 14, 2008 - 10:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
yah true! we cant make them, thats for sure..in my case, just showing them is a plus. They cant believe how easy it was for me.

Great story Meme!!! you are an awesome friend!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - 7:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
LOL, HP, if that contraption doesn't make you quit, nothing will. Is that for real? Lumbele, is that why you really quit?

Yay Meme for helping the friend. Ain't nothing like getting out of the hospital right after you have almost died, to give a little inspiration to the task.