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Archive through January 24, 2008

The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: Jan. 2008 ~ Mar. 2008: Health Center: Who wants to quit smoking with me?: Archive through January 24, 2008 users admin

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Meme9
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07-30-2001

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 6:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Meme9 a private message Print Post    
I'm glad to see Oldtex, Boberg and Slothkitten moving along on the non smoking trail!!! Hypermom you have to make the first step for there to be any progress. We know it's scary. We were all there, where you are now. You can do this. Baby steps.

Yay to all the posters on there way to being quitters!!!

Slothkitten
Member

09-16-2003

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 7:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Slothkitten a private message Print Post    
Half " gone all Chantix on me " lol !!

Lumbelle, you give good support !

Meme, you too, so supportive. And, soon you'll be at 2 freakin months,lol !

Yay Twinkie !!! 4 months, wooty woot !!!
So happy for you, you continue to inspire, Twinkie.

Second day on Chantix and I swear I went 3 whole hrs today without thinking of smoking. I'm wondering if the nicotine blocking is already happening, wow. If so, I may stop sooner than planned, I'm so ready to lay it down.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 7:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
YAH TWINKLES!!!!!

I am so proud of you!! $ whole freakin months!!!!Happy anniversary!!!

I never even came close to having suicidal thoughts on Chantix....and I dont think anyone here did either

Sloth, wow that is great! I had those days too but I dont think it started til 2nd week. I remember it was almost like oh shit I forgot to smoke!! better get outside fast! LOL

Lady at wk got the chantix but is scared to take the first pill....she knows she will lose her friend, Whammy!!! She has had it for 2 weeks and today I could tell she was embarrased to see me like she didnt want to hear me ask, did ya start yet.....I stopped asking her last week,,,,hope she comes around soon :-)

Slothkitten
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09-16-2003

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 8:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Slothkitten a private message Print Post    
Ok Pamy, I'm starting to think of my nicotine addiction as Whammy !!!

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 9:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Whammy

Slothkitten
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09-16-2003

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 11:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Slothkitten a private message Print Post    
That's him !!!

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 11:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Hmm I used to be eligible for that chart. Does anyone here remember when I quit? LOL I'm thinking it was almost five years ago in February or March.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 6:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
How long has Moonie been married?? I dont remember you smoking there

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 8:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Funny you should ask, Pamy. I was just digging out Moonie's Wedding thread at Drah's site. It was 2004.

Wow, Gracie, you def. are a non-smoker when you can't remember when you quit.LOL

Thanks, Slothk, this is where I got a lot of support myself 3 years ago.

Love that Pamy-Whammy; slap it silly, gang!

Holly
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06-19-2005

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 8:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
Lumbele, where's Dra's site? Can you post a link for me please?

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 9:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Here you go, Holly ....Draheid's Site

Holly
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06-19-2005

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 9:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Lumbele!

Holly
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06-19-2005

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 9:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
OMG, that's amazing--it's an archive of TVCH going back to the inception. How did I not know about this? I'm off to enjoy some old threads. <~~skipping off

Hypermom
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08-13-2001

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 1:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hypermom a private message Print Post    
Thanks all! I'm not scared about quitting. My choice is to wait until my DH and I are in NV for the rest of the winter. There, I don't smoke inside the house. Here, I smoke by the computer. Also, my BIL is here a lot, and he is a smoker. I want to quit with no smokers around and where I feel most comfortable doing so. :-)

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 1:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Lumbele, I have always tried to put unmemorable experiences behind me and in the recesses of my memory. They don't need front and center attention! Besides I have CRS! LOL

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 1:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Halfunit, didn't you quit the same year after my anniversary party?

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 1:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Gracie, I am all with ya on the CRS and sifting important from trivial info for retention, not always successfully. Guess my quit date is still important to me - or it was too big for the sieve.

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 4:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Lumbele, I do remember that I didn't even ask my dh to quit, but two weeks after I quit he did, too. That was way more important to me than the date. I know I wanted to quit for a long time and only smoked one or two a day (in the evening!).

Pamy, I had quit and didn't smoke when I went to California. I was worried that the smoke filled rooms would bother me.

Halfunit
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09-02-2001

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 5:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Halfunit a private message Print Post    
I quit in 2003. When did I go to Michigan, lol?

Retired
Member

07-11-2001

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 6:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Retired a private message Print Post    
Congrats (and happy anniversary) to all the quitters new and old!!!

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 7:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Draheid's site is amazing! I went to the smoking archives and found this post by Flyonthewall. For any newcommers, Fly was a beloved poster here, she is a legend here to many of us, she was so kind and helful. I just cant say enough about her and how many lives she touched.

Fly is one of the reasons the board got updated sooner than planned. God Bless her, she was taken from us too soon.

Here is a post she made, I am reposting here because I am hoping her words help someone here, that's what she wanted back then and I am sitting here wiht tears in my eyes cuz I know she will help some of you now. Fly was truly amazing. I miss her so much.

Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 11:06 am
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Hi everyone! I thought I'd pop in and give my very short story! LOL

Been smoking for 13 years, one pack to two a day.
Have tried several times to quit by cutting down, watching how many I was smoking a day and timing them out. I was in the hospital for brain monitoring and so couldn't smoke for 5 days, so they gave me the patch.

This did give me confidence that I could quit putting the smokes in my mouth.
I knew I was a trained monkey who at different activities now had to have my smoke hanging from my lips. Like Pavlovs dog, rushing to light up at the slightest light going off in my brain!

There was never a time I would be without my cig case, and if I was, there was panic!
Over time I've thought about all the bad things cigs do. I faced the fact I was hooked and really should quit because of all my health issues.
But that was a double edged sword. If I quit, I'd still have the brain tumor, the spine tumor, I'd still have Lupus raging my body.

So why give up my smokes? I contolled them, when nothing else was in my contol, at least my choice to smoke was MINE. And I ENJOYED it!
What a joke 'eh?

My neice asked me one day why I smoked. I lamely tired to explain. In the end she said "you're a drug addict". I admited Yes I am.
After that we talked several times about it and I began to realize that I really didn't need it, could live better without it and hated everything about them! So why smoke?

So I smoked my last pack of cigs and went and purchased the patchs.
Slapping one on I thought this is great I'm quitting! LOL ( I did think about drug for drug interaction here, but at least I wasn't lighting up!)
Then I stumbled in over here and saw you all talking about Allen Carr's "Easy way to Stop Smoking".

After reading Dahli's post on chapter 6 I wanted to get this book!
I found it at Barn's n noble here at the mall in town last Monday, the 20th.
I came home and read it streight though.
I pealed off my patch and rejoiced in the fact that I am a NON -SMOKER and I will never have to have any of that again!

I have been smoke free - patch free for 9 days now.
And I have no doubt in my being that I will ever smoke again. I am FREE!!!

Thanks for posting about the book! I am already encouraging others in my life. They are amazed at how different my attitude is already!
The confidence is back and I feel great about myself!
I could be saying it's been 9 years, not 9 days at the way I feel. Like, I know it's going to last a lifetime!

Because before I kept my smokes hidden away, yeah, I was "trying to quit".
I spaced out my smokes to "cut back", not realizing it was making it even harder to quit and making that almighty cig even more precious!
I told myslef I enjoyed it, and I was in contol, and smoking made me happy, calm...blah blah blah...

After you stop lying to yourself to ease the guilt of what you're doing to yourself, you start to see smoking for what it truly is.
A nasty addiction that leads to so many other problems!
You realize that it is the one sucking the life out of you!!!

You can rationalize it anyway you want. You can hide behind excuses, but the bottom line is, you have to admit you're a drug addict and want in your heart and mind to be free and to live your life with more confidence and power then you've ever had before!

I may sound boastful and arrogant, since it's only been 9 days, but for some reason, in my life this was a far more simple challange then some of the others I'm faceing.
I can't do brain surgery on myself, to remove that tumor, I can't open my spine and see what is wrong with it, I can't take away the effects of the autoimmune disease I have raging though my body.
But I can stop putting posion in my system on purpose!!!!

There's a lot that I can't control in my life. Lots that I wish were different.
Many regrets, many ideals that were changed over time, but one that has given me new strenght is the fact that I am powerful!
I have overcome many things and now I no longer smoke! It's that simple.
Not a sacrifice, for they did nothing for me, they took from me.

I hope this both helps someone else, and gives Thanks to those who encourage others.
Dahli, thanks for the book info! It was the courage, truth and wisdom, that opened my eyes to what I already knew!
God bless you guys,
FLy
(I'll try to drop in and update, but I just don't get here much. I had to type this over time, so I hope it makes sense!)

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I cant remember the date she died but I am thinking it wasnt too long after this post.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 7:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Hyper, sounds like you have a good plan, let us know when you are ready and we will be here to cheer you on

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 7:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I love how Fly mentions the power she was feeling, I can feel her excitement in that post!

Hypermom
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08-13-2001

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 9:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hypermom a private message Print Post    
Thanks Pamy! :-)

I miss Fly. :-( BB and Fly went together.

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 10:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Halfunit, our anniversary celebration in Michigan was Saturday, August 23, 2003. I just blew the dust off my album to look at the pictures, and remember what a fun trip that was meeting you, Unit, Teatime and her dh. On the way there we had also had a get-together with TheOwl and her dh, Tntitanfan, Sawheel and her Bigwheel.

What a wonderful post from Fly that you posted again for us, Pamy. It almost hurt to read it, remembering she was in so much pain at that time.