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Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Tuesday, February 05, 2008 - 10:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Thanks, SK! I know I'll love it if its set in FL! Of course, I like all his books, anyway. I'll check it out at Amazon tomorrow.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 7:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Well, I suspect the reason Kaiser won't prescribe Chantix is because it is so expensive, and if their doctors write it, their pharmacy will have to fill it. Duh!

If it were me, and I were determined to quit, I would probably go to a doctor on my own, bite the bullet and pay the doctor fee and get the Chantix on my own nickel.

Boberg
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10-04-2002

Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 9:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Boberg a private message Print Post    
LOL, I am laughing cause evidently I am the only one in here who has had a weight problem before now cause I have known about the dress/swimsuits for as long as I can remember.

I did fine yesterday, I realized later that day that I had forgotten to take the Chantix that morning...don't know if that made a difference or not. My day had been going so smoothly...probably had not even thought about cigs more than 4-5 times....then so unexpectantly I got that really strong "urge" after eating lunch (a common trigger of course). Now I was at work so I had to just remain calm and act as if nothing were going on...I did go talk to a co -worker who had quit many years ago and he was encouraging and the "urge" passed...then it didn't bother me again till I started the drive home (another common trigger time) but it passed also.

It really has been easier than I ever thought it could be. Guess that is because I truly do not want to smoke instead of just wanting to want to not smoke.

Thank you all for the shout outs and Lumbele, if I had been at home, I WOULD HAVE BEEN HOLLERING BACK AT IT, LOL but here in the ICU that would not have been looked upon kindly. But it did make me laugh!

The worst part of the withdrawal so far has been the insomnia....that should start getting better very soon though.

It is all worth it cause I truly enjoy being FREE!

Oh Meme, you and I must be about the same age cause those dresses we wore in high school, well I have longer tops these days..lol

Boberg
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10-04-2002

Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 4:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Boberg a private message Print Post    
Goodness it is quiet in here today! Everyone ok?

I have just been over cruising the latest BB information....noticed I got a strong urge to lite up....seems BB will be another trigger for me.

I know several of you also enjoy BB...any concerns about this season with no cigs involved?

Meme9
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07-30-2001

Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 7:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Meme9 a private message Print Post    
It's is quiet isn't it. BB is a concern, but for me stress is the biggy. Think of it as watching tv.

LOL at your tops being longer!

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 10:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
sorry girls, I have had a headache since 2pm and one of my stitches got loose so I had to go back to dentist....headache better...I think it was one of those lack of chocolate headaches/lack of solid good food kind of headaches.

dentist fixed my stitch so I feel better..going to bed soon

Hope ya all are doing good!!

BB would have been a concern for me also but I am a total non smoker now and nothing will make me want to smoke again! Pretty balsy statement since I have only been non smoker for little over 2 months!, dontcha think? LOL

I prolly wont be here til late thurs nite/fri morning......you all behave :-)

sending you all xoxoxooxoxo and non smoking vibes! :-)

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, February 06, 2008 - 10:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Pamy, lol, I fixed up your rant post tobacco and all the rest.. I could tell you were charged up when you typed it!

I have a swim dress thingy from Land's End.. another place to look for a variety of swim stuff, but I'm so short and fat I still haven't been anywhere in it.. still it is a great thing to have available. Pamy you will ROCK that cute dress!

GAL, I remember the cat guy from when I went to Key West! At that time one of my friends was working as a bartender at the outside bar (well he worked several of their bars) at that resort, so you could sit and talk to him as the sun set. I got a signed postcard from the cat guy. Lenny said that those people who work out there actually are paid by the resorts to be there to entertain, because it adds to the atmosphere.

I've heard about menthol being harder and same for clove cigarettes but I think the idea of mentol candy/lozenges (or clove) is a good one.

As for suicide studies, you do have to be monitored when taking any drug that alters brain function, but I think it is a sad excuse on Kaiser's part to use that as a blanket excuse to give it to no one, unless the drug is pulled off the market. It would be a shame since it seems to help so many, sort of like pulling prozac, which does help many, because it may affect some people adversely.

Good decision, Pamy. Her doctor needs to know what she is actually taking. However, I think I'd be tempted to go out of network and just pay a doctor to get Chantix and be monitored for that chunk of time.. hey it is a medical deduction, after all.

Dipo, if did you get Chantix or what are you using if anything? Congrats on 12 days!!

Boberg, maybe get some slop or peanut butter for BB? LOL.

Or.. do live feeds posting! That keeps both hands very busy

And I wasn't looking at suits, but working on the election all day and today I was recuperating.

When I was in HS, I grad in 63, we were supposed to be able to kneel on the floor and have the skirt touch the floor. During the year that pretty much held but in summer school things shortened up a bit and then at Berkeley, well lots of jeans and sweatshirts and I had those but my last year I had lost a bunch of weight (actually too much, I was like 99 lb) and I has some uh incredibley short dresses and that carried over to when I started working for the County of Orange where they still didn't allow pants suits for several more years.. I had some really short dresses, though I did wear colored tights and we used to layer fishnets over those even.. LOL.. bizarre to think back on.

And in those days people smoked all over the place.. most of our managers smoked cigars.

Boberg
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10-04-2002

Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 6:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Boberg a private message Print Post    
Good morning everyone!

I slept so well last night, yea! I feel so good this morning, had my morning coffee without any real urge for a cig. Feel energetic today for the first time in I can't remember how long and it is exciting to know that my day will not be filled with sitting around smoking cigarettes which made me lethargic and starved my cells and organs of the oxygen they needed to feel as good as they feel this morning.

Something I noticed yesterday....I am laughing more often and more easily, one of my co-workers yesterday asked me what I was so happy about....lol Something else I noticed...when I laughed, I did not get choked and start coughing.

It is all good and I am enjoying being free from the slavery of nicotine.


Pamy hope you can rest up today and get to feeling better soon!

Meme I am seriously considering exactly what you suggested re: BB. I do not think I will be getting the LF this time. I will just enjoy the TV show and check out the BB sections here frequently. This time of year, thru June, is great weather wise in TX and I feel like getting out and enjoying the great weather and my new found freedom instead of being glued to the feeds. Probably a wise idea for me since my quit is so new (last year I was way to emotionally involved and found it very stressful....my fault and no one else's).

Seamonkey I too remember when we finally got permission to wear pants suit....can you believe women had to get permission to wear pants...unbelievable how far we have come. I remember the fishnets....actually everything we wore back then has come back around: "flares" used to be bell bottoms, "low riders" used to be hip huggers, ect....know what I mean....lol


Oldtex and Sloth...hope you both are having a great day and hope to hear from you soon!


"If it were me, and I were determined to quit, I would probably go to a doctor on my own, bite the bullet and pay the doctor fee and get the Chantix on my own nickel."

Juju I totally agree...the cost can't compare to the THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of dollars we have spent on cigarettes.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 8:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Yay Boberg!

Don't know if this is a quote from the book or not -

"enjoying being free from the slavery of nicotine."

but it sure is accurate. When you smoke, much of your life revolves around feeding the beast. It must be fed, or you will be punished. Once you get free, you don't have to feed it anymore.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 11:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Advantage #653 for not smoking:

Never again will I leave my husband sitting alone in a restaurant while I go outside to smoke.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 3:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
Okay, Pamy it was 11 days, now it is more, my first official non smoking day was 1/26/08.

Seamonkey, didn't get the chantrix, doing it once again on my own.

I have been wanting to be done for a while now and keep getting sucked back in. I am determined for this to be the last time!!

Boberg
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10-04-2002

Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 4:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Boberg a private message Print Post    
Congratulations Dipo! 11 days is fantastic, no more slavery to nicotine for you! Pamy I believe that makes Dipo the first new non-smoker for 2008, I'll just be the first for Feb. I know I will soon be joined by at least one other new non-smoker soon. (hoping, hoping, hoping)

My DH doesn't visit TVCH but he also is a new non-smoker....he hasn't smoked in 2 weeks and he quit using nicotine replacement 3 days ago! Since neither of us are pouting about "having to give up something"...our household has been quite peaceful considering two addicts going thru withdrawal live here...lol}

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 7:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Wow, that is great about the hubby, Boberg!

Nickovtyme
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07-29-2004

Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 8:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nickovtyme a private message Print Post    
Tomorrow is day 7 on Chantix...we'll see what happens.

I do find that my cravings are farther apart.

Meme9
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07-30-2001

Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 8:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Meme9 a private message Print Post    
YAY!!! Dipo, your doing great!!!

Wow Boberg, that is great, at least you both can understand to stay clear of each other if the grumpy mood hits!

Twinkie, I have don't that in the past too. Dh hated it!

Meme9
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07-30-2001

Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 8:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Meme9 a private message Print Post    
Nick, sounds like what the others experienced. Just keep hanging in there!!!

Boberg
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10-04-2002

Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 9:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Boberg a private message Print Post    
Yep thats it Nick, first the cravings are farther apart, then you notice you aren't antsy so much to go outside and have one, then you notice you really aren't enjoying them or getting anything from them anymore and start to wonder why you bother.

Are you experiencing any side effects, some have mentioned weird dreams, personally I had problems with constipation It got better after about 4 weeks.

Nickovtyme
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07-29-2004

Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 9:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nickovtyme a private message Print Post    
not any side effects that I have noticed. I had the squirts the other night...but it might have been something I ate.

No weird dreams or ED or anything like that.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 9:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Nick, don't worry about when you "should" quit. Just keep taking the Chantix and you will just feel like quitting one day. Easy, breezy.

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 9:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I am so proud of all of you!!!! I love that this thread has stayed active since last year!!!

I just got home, gotta eat and watch survivor...I shall post more tomarrow

just wanted to pop in and give ya all some xoxoxoxoxo

Pamy
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01-02-2002

Friday, February 08, 2008 - 6:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Happy Friday!! I am wishing you all good luck and here's to a smoke free day...or better yet....an URGE FREE day!!!

Feel the Power!!!!

xoxoxoxoxo

Serate
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08-21-2001

Friday, February 08, 2008 - 2:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
I don't post in her much because I don't want posts to seem preachy or scare tactics, but I do want to say I pray for each and every person who posts in here.

God Bless You All!

Chiliwilli
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09-04-2006

Friday, February 08, 2008 - 3:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chiliwilli a private message Print Post    
Tobacco Could Kill 1 Billion by 2100
Thursday, February 7, 2008 11:52 PM EST
The Associated Press
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — The World Health Organization warned in a new report Thursday that the "tobacco epidemic" is growing and could claim 1 billion lives by the end of the century unless governments dramatically step up efforts to curb smoking.

In its first comprehensive report on tobacco use in 179 countries, the U.N.s health agency said governments around the world collect more than $200 billion in tobacco taxes every year but spend less than one-fifth of 1 percent of that revenue on tobacco control, it said.

Link

You guys are all doing GRRRRREAT!!

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Friday, February 08, 2008 - 4:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Serate, nobody in here needs any preaching or scare tactics, and it is good of you to be sensitive to that. The people in HERE are the smart ones, the ones who know and admit they are killing themselves and who realize they must stop right now by whatever way they can.

Smoking addiction is a very insidious thing in that it makes people think it might in some bizarre world be preferable to DIE rather than give up their good friend who is not a friend at all.

Boberg
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10-04-2002

Friday, February 08, 2008 - 4:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Boberg a private message Print Post    
Chiliwilli few of us are able to quit because of the health concerns, while we all know it is dangerous that doesn't seem to stop us.

I am getting a kick out of knowing that the government (that says it wants me to not smoke, yet taxes the cigarettes tremendously, thereby making lots of money off smokers) is no longer getting my money to waste as it pleases.

Now if we all were to quit (like they say they want) where would they go to make up all that lost revenue?????

you know, I have found it very interesting, that where ever I search for "how to quit smoking"....every bit of advice, every suggestion involves lots of money....In all my seaches over the internet...not one place mentioned the book "Easy Way to Quit Smoking" I would never had known about it if Pamy hadn't mentioned it here.

According the the claims, the book has been very successful helping people to quit, yet it is not found at WebMD and many other places.

I guess my point is....while they say they want you to quit....they really don't put any effort into helping people quit.

Why would they, look at all the money they would lose if everyone did.

Serate...thank you, I can always use a prayer.