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Moondance

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 04:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow Gracie! I just read your post... Congrats!
:)

Tashakinz

Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 05:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
11 weeks today - 11 weeks today

:::happy dance:::


Tash

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, March 29, 2003 - 05:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yay Tasha!! Yay Denecee!!!

Lumbele

Sunday, March 30, 2003 - 01:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Way to go, Gracie, Denecee and Tash!!!!!

Dahli

Monday, March 31, 2003 - 02:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This is a great milestone for you guys - spring is such a wonderful time to be smoke free!! (but then so is summer... fall etc etc) LOL

Denecee

Monday, March 31, 2003 - 02:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks all! I feel good!

Llkoolaid

Friday, April 04, 2003 - 12:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hope everyone is still hanging in there. Just checking in to see how everyone is doing.

Denecee

Friday, April 04, 2003 - 01:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Still hanging

Tashakinz

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 12:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've had better days...I guess this is my reminder that nothing worth having is ever easy...

almost 3 full months though

Moondance

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 12:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hang in there Tash, Denecee & Grace!:) You are doing great!

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 02:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tasha, glad to see you are still hanging in there. I promise it will be over one of these days.

Llkoolaid

Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 09:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tasha, hang in there. It is weird how you will just be doing great and then have a few bad days. They will pass, I promise. You are doing so well, you must really notice the differance now in how you feel. Hang in there.

Tashakinz

Monday, April 07, 2003 - 12:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks guys. I probably would be doing better if I weren't so obsessed with not gaining more weight. I spent almost a year taking off the weight I gained from the last time I tried to quit and am BFD to never look like that again. I know my metabolism will eventually regulate itself, but it's frustrating after a few weeks of not gaining to see a nasty jump on the scale. I almost put a hole in the bathroom wall on Saturday morning I was so ticked...temper tantrums may not be attractive, but they have definitely been one of my side-effects. lol

Fortunately, my darling hubby had to work that morning and was spared having to listen to me.

Thanks for the encouragement!! It really does help to know there's someplace I can come to vent with people who understand.

Tash

Urgrace

Monday, April 07, 2003 - 06:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Three weeks and two days smoke free. I have been eating more, but also more often and someone asked me if I was losing weight! <shrug> If I am it's from the late night pacing...

Saturday I got called to come work Sunday evening (I quit smoking the same day as I quit work). They kept me on for fill in emergencies! The assistant manager welcomes me back and the first thing she says is, "let's go have a cigarette!" I turned her down

Juju2bigdog

Monday, April 07, 2003 - 06:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yay, Gracie!!!

Babyruth

Monday, April 07, 2003 - 07:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Way to go, Gracie!!!! :)

Dahli

Tuesday, April 08, 2003 - 10:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tash - stay strong - you're doing awesome! Gracie...what can I say? besides YIPPEEEEEEE!!!!

Llkoolaid

Monday, April 14, 2003 - 09:01 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Gracie, Denecee, and Tasha , How are you guys all doing. Spring is here and the air is so much fresher and cleaner. Just wait for the flowers to come, you will actually be able to smell them this year. Now if you get that urge that we all still get, you can just go out in the fresh air and realize how much nicer it is not smoking.

Dahli, my mother said she was going to set a date to try and stop again, Keep your fingers crossed for her. She said she is going to make herself read "the book" and she also said the reason she stopped reading it was that she knew she would stop smoking and she was afraid. I thought wow, that is a big step for her. Anyway I am doing my best to encourage and not nag her.

Dahli

Monday, April 14, 2003 - 09:26 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Good Luck Kool, my mom is also working her way towards it and knows it will mean she is going to stop, her health is improving in other areas... I've got her moving away from processed empty foods and taking more supplements and EFA's - she knows the more she cares for herself the less she'll want to poisen herself - so my fingers are most definitely crossed for both our 'moms'!
Keep us updated!

Juju2bigdog

Monday, April 14, 2003 - 10:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yay Moms!!!

Tashakinz

Thursday, April 17, 2003 - 12:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm still hanging in there. I wish I had a better hold on my temper these days, it was going okay and seems to be getting worse lately, but I've been under extra stress...who hasn't...

On the other hand - today is day 96, something to be said for that. = )

Thanks for the encouragement all!!!

Tash

Dahli

Thursday, April 17, 2003 - 09:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Day 96 Tasha - now that's a NUMBAH!! By Easter Monday it will be 100! Holy Hambone!!!!!

Juju2bigdog

Friday, April 18, 2003 - 11:14 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Congrats, Tasha!!!

Uhhhhh, seems like by now you should be well over the nicotine withdrawal, although I do seem to recall just being mad in general for quite a while that other people got to still smoke and I didn't. LOL. How ridiculous that seems now. They are not "getting to smoke." They HAVE to smoke. You are free! You no longer HAVE to smoke. Yay!!!

Tashakinz

Friday, April 18, 2003 - 11:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
lol Juju - I'm still patching and will be for about 5 more weeks. = )

Smokers don't seem to be bothering me much, it's just life in general that's sucking (self-moderated)...

Urgrace

Friday, April 18, 2003 - 02:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thirty four days, no patch, no book, no gum, no problem! YAY! It's still the late night crave, but I've been trying to replace it with a nice, tall glass of water. So far it's working.

Next month will be my biggest test, when we go on a mini vacation. If my dh keeps on the same path we will both be smoke free! We haven't done the long car ride smokeless yet.....

Congrats to all the others here who've beat the urge and to you who are working it out!