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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, February 11, 2008 - 9:30 pm
Exactly right, Pamy. If you were still smoking, you would be like death warmed over by now. To me, that is one of the greatest benefits of not smoking. Any time I would get even an ordinary cold that other people got over in 3-4 days, I would be absolutely wiped out, could barely even function for about a week if not two. I didn't understand how other people had such an easy time of it. I thought it was just something unique about me. Duh!! It was the smoking, dummy! Now, I just get little annoying colds like other people get, an inconvenience, but no big deal, not near death several times each winter. Some years I don't get a cold at all.
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Slothkitten
Member
09-16-2003
| Monday, February 11, 2008 - 9:32 pm
Feel better soon, Pamy 
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 12:22 am
Pamy, hope it goes away quickly.. when do you leave for Florida?
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 1:14 pm
well it got worse thru the nite and this morning...taking lots of meds...my bed was soaked this morning so I think I broke my fever during nite, which is good......my worst problem is flu body aches....I feel like that most every day due to the Fibromyalgia, so when I get the flu aches it is like getting them X 20!!! I am off and gonna rest today. I have to go in tomarrrow,our supervisors luncheon is tomarrow and I have to do so much for it. I just pray I feel better by Fri, thats when we leave.
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Boberg
Member
10-04-2002
| Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 1:22 pm
" if I end up on a corner, thumping Allen Carrs book and sprinkling Chantix about, well, I'll get a picture,lol." ROFL, I love that feeling. You/me/all of us are so excited because we have suddenly been set free from something we thought we could never be happy without and you want to share it with all the others who are still enslaved. You want to grab them up and hand them a book and some Chantix...and say here, read this, and take these, and you too can be free........lol.....they will come and lock us up. But yes, I totally understand that feeling. You have been released from a prison and are finally free! Dipo, I too have to remind myself at times that it is not a treat, you know that cig on the way home from a hard and stessful day at work. I know the withdrawal is way over and it is just in my head and I remind myself that the real TREAT is that I no longer poison myself and that I can take deeper breaths now days, and that when I do breathe there is no rattling and that I don't wake myself up at night wheezing. " anyway...my point is MAKE THE ANNOUNCEMENT!! anytime/anywhere!!! who cares if some ppl think we are crzy and you might just get a dental travel kit! LOL" Ok, that is too funny, Sloth has us standing on corners passing out books and pills and Pamy has us MAKING ANNOUNCEMENTS whenever and wherever...lol Thanks for sharing that story Pamy, ssssooooooo funny! Juju your comments about one of the benefits of not smoking is getting thru colds, etc easier.....is bringing out the
in me....IF I ever get sick again and have to go to the doctor....I am going to ask him/her flat out...."why am I sick...cause every other time I was sick you said it was because I smoked and that I needed to quit.....well, now I have quit, so why am I still getting sick????? Huh? answer me that doc!" Sea thanks for all your encougement and for keeping our chart so we can see all the progress and all our new non-smokers!
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Boberg
Member
10-04-2002
| Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 1:24 pm
(((((Pamy))))) hope you are feeling better soon!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 7:11 pm
Boberg, not sure what you went to the doctor for, but chances are you won't be going nearly as often.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 8:07 pm
Thx Bo, I know this is not as bad as it would be if I smoked , thats another plus to being nonsmoker. I agree with Juju, we wont have to go to doc near as much I havent been since he gave the the chantix and that was last Nov!! I did call and tell them to tell him I quit!
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Slothkitten
Member
09-16-2003
| Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 8:24 pm
Boberg, your lungs are clear, yay !!! lol Mine, too. Only a little residual congestion left, I expect it to be gone very soon. Back talk and sassing the doctor, Boberg, that had me rolling ! You wrote earlier something that is the pure truth for me . . . . I'm not quitting, I have quit. It's the best thing, I still am amazed. Quitting for me has turned out to be no more stressful or difficult than say . . . orientation on a new job. It's something sorta new and I have to think more about what to do, but it's pretty smooth and kind of exciting to learn a new way. After four days quit, my urges have been hours apart today ( yeah, I still smile when they come. Today, I used Bring it Awwwwnnn and Get back Honkycat, so dumb, hahah ). Even if I have days in the future with frequent cravings, it doesn't matter. I think and feel like a nonsmoker already, it's so wild, I'd have never thought I could do it. Pamy, I hope you get better for your trip, this crud has stomped on everyone this year. Take care , this stuff makes a body feel wicked bad !
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 10:24 pm
Coming in here and reading about all the excitement in your words sure makes an ex-smoker smile! I didn't realize how many new non-smokers there are here right now. Yippee! Keep it up Grannyg, Twinkie, Goddessatlaw, Pamy, Meme, Oldtex, Boberg, Kaylasmom, Dipo, & Slothkitten! Tomorrow I will have completed five years without a smoke!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 11:37 pm
Slothkitten, I like your analogy that you can think of it like learning what do to on a new job. That is an excellent way to think of it. Okay, tomorrow I am beginning my new job as a non-smoker in life. I am going to learn how to do this new job and be the best there ever was.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 3:06 am
Well I hate to break it to y'all but even never smokers need to visit the doc from time to time.. but it is true that they will no longer be able to rag on you about smoking -- yess!
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Boberg
Member
10-04-2002
| Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 7:38 am
Congratulations on 5 years smoke free Urgrace! I hope I am able to pop in here and say that one day. Yea I know most everyone has to go to the doctor occassionally....I was just being a little snarky....when you smoke and you have to go to the doctor, it just seems like they blame everything on the fact that you smoke...lol but when I had to go to the doctor it was usually for sinus or respiratory problems. Actually, I am going to the doctor today, I have plantar facsitits and I can not walk with out pain in my left foot....so I will go get an injection and be much better for a few months. Hope you all have a great day and it is #5 for Sloth and # 18 for Dipo....YEA, way to go! Pamy hope you are feeling better.
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Lumbele
Moderator
07-12-2002
| Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 8:03 am
Happy Anniversary, Gracie!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Slothkitten
Member
09-16-2003
| Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 9:07 am
Happy FIVE , Urgrace !!!!! Thank's Juju. I'm enjoying being free ! Good luck at the docs, Boberg .
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Retired
Member
07-11-2001
| Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 12:03 pm
Happy 5 year anniversary Grace! I just celebrated my 5 year anniversary too. Isn't it a great feeling? Congrats to all the new quitters. You are all doing so well. Love SK's analogy about the new job orientation too. You guys are all All Stars!!! 
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 12:42 pm
Gracie, I am so envious you have five years under the belt. Congratulations.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 1:04 pm
Woo Hoo Gracie!! You'll get there, GAL and every one of the new exes..
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 1:11 pm
Congrats, Gracie!! It must feel so rewarding to have 5 years smoke-free! I can't wait til I can say that!
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Boberg
Member
10-04-2002
| Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 4:50 pm
Been rough today. I have felt anxious, fidgetty, so I have snacked alot. I cut back to 1 Chantix in the morning last week for three days and then I stopped taking it all together, it has been three days since I had one....don't know if that is why I am so fidgety or if it is just one of those days.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 5:12 pm
Boberg, maybe you need to keep taking the Chantix for a while? Or it could just be a craving for a smoke. I know it passes my mind every so often but I just ignore it. It does get easier with time.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 5:13 pm
{{{Boberg}}} probably just one of those days, but you are doing an awesome job!! Pamy, hope today is going well...
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Meme9
Member
07-30-2001
| Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 5:54 pm
Yay everyone!!! You all are going great! Boberg, I still have those day. Best I can do is focus on other things. Are you pass the reaching for the cigs part. That was the worst for me. I don't reach for them anymore. But, the thought runs through my mind sometimes. LOL
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 7:33 pm
Juju, I agree that SK's new job idea is brillant! Gracie, happy 5 yr anniversary!!!! great job! Bo, hope the rest of your day went better. Hang in there, dont feed Whammy!!! He is getting scared cuz he knows he is dying!!! die Whammy! die! Thanks ya'all...I feel a bit better, taking the Zicam and dayquil....added 1 extra day off so I can rest and get some stuff done tomarrow.
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Boberg
Member
10-04-2002
| Wednesday, February 13, 2008 - 8:25 pm
Meme9 I am not reaching for them anymore but do still have the thoughts run thru my mind 3-4 times per day at least. It passes quickly...but today I have just been fidgety about it...think about that one long slow puff and then blowing it out...I know that is all BS and all that would do is lead to another puff and then a lifetime of addiction and I will not smoke another cigarette, but today was rough and I got thru it by stuffing my face with crap I didn't need. I know that is not going to help....it is just more burying of my feelings. I need to just feel it I guess and get thru it and keep telling myself NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO infinity. LOL I am probably rambling here. Meme it is good to have your insight thou and know there is someone else out there getting thru it. I know the withdrawal part is over and now it is the retraining and rethinking that has to be reinforced over and over till it is more a part of me than the previous 26 years. I believe it was Goddess that said now it is just a matter of telling yourself NO over and over as many times as it takes. Pamy glad you are getting to rest and take it easy for a couple of days.
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