Archive through June 27, 2003
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Archive through June 27, 2003
Wargod | Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 11:27 pm     Deedee, when I quit smoking, I also gave up the caffeine. I'm a big, big soda drinker, with lots of water thrown in, and I can tell you now that giving up the caffeine was worse than the cigarettes, LOL. I lasted 3 days without a Mt. Dew before I finally caved and went running to the soda machine at work...yet haven't smoked in about a year and a half! Keep up the good work! |
Llkoolaid | Monday, June 23, 2003 - 12:03 pm     Deedee, I can see you are going to be a success story just by the way you are looking at things. The twist that you are rewarding yourself rather than depriving is so simple and true yet most of us think of it as punishment. It really is a big step when you start looking at it that way. I can so relate to Tabbyking said about the people huddled outside grabbing that quick cigarette, I too refused to believe that I looked that bad. |
Urgrace | Monday, June 23, 2003 - 11:13 pm     Well, I didn't read the book so I didn't know about the caffiene/nicotine relationship, but I had to mostly give up caffiene three years ago. My mammogram scared the daylights out of me briefly when they found a lump. It turned out to be a caffiene lump. Now I waver back and forth between caffiene and decaf drinks. Love the fake lattes too! By the way, today I craved food instead of a ciggie! Is there no end to the cravings? Wah! Did you know that if you eat a green onion and don't smoke or have your toothbrush handy, that you can still taste the green onion for quite a while? Okay, I'm through ranting for now. |
Daisymae | Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 01:19 am     What store do you get "Carr's Easy Way to stop smoking"? I'm quitting Tuesday. |
Deedee | Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 06:24 am     Hi Daisymae! I found the Allen Carr book at Barnes & Noble. |
Pamy | Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 06:55 am     I did too, it was only around 8 bucks |
Tashakinz | Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 06:53 am     How's everyone doing?? |
Deedee | Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 09:11 am     Still hanging in there. A little antsy today but doing ok. Thanks for checking. |
Tashakinz | Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 09:24 am     I so remember the feeling Deedee - you're doing great!! = ) |
Juju2bigdog | Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 10:18 am     Yay Deedee! Yay Tashakinz, you non-smoker, you. Hey, Tasha, have you reached the point yet where you feel sorry for people who HAVE to huddle outside buildings because they HAVE to smoke? |
Wargod | Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 10:26 am     Way to go, Deedee! The antsy feeling will pass, but until it does, that's the time to go walking or find a project that will keep you busy. It really does help. Hope today is easier than yesterday. |
Tashakinz | Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 11:02 am     lol Juju - I don't feel sorry for them because they have to huddle outside, I feel sorry for them because they're still operating under the illusion that they can't quit. I know I used to... ah, to be free. = ) |
Llkoolaid | Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 06:18 pm     Tasha, you make my day. Deedee, it won't be long and you will be just like Tasha, trying to help out new quitters. |
Juju2bigdog | Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 10:17 pm     It's a wonderful feeling, isn't it? Not BEING FORCED* to smoke anymore. The small things were what I liked best, like on a potty break during a conference at work, I could actually go to the potty instead of running outside and puffing as fast as I could. LOL. *because, let's face it, we never CHOSE to go have a smoke on a break. We HAD to have one. Period. |
Deedee | Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 11:13 am     I yelled at my hubby. Not just a raising of the voice. I yelled at him like an insane woman, over something very simple. My resolve is high. My motivation is good. I have resisted the pitfalls and then suddenly from out of nowhere I am screaming like a mad woman over the telephone at my hubby who is 700 miles away on business. He is a smoker. He is suportive of my effort to quit but he has no plans to quit in the imediate future. We have never smoked in this house(we moved in 10mos ago.) He told me he would empty his ashtrays before he left on Monday. Today was trash day. When I brought the can back into the garage, I found an ashtray he had not emptied. I called and told him that he did not keep his word and I was VERY harsh. After a while I called back and apologized to him. Yeah he forgot to empty the ashtray, I took all my anger out on him, when it was me I was angry with. I could not believe how badly I wanted a cig when I found that ashtray. How I kept from rooting around in that ashtray, and then huddling like a bag lady in the corner with one of those 5 day old butts, I do not know. Why is it that the smallest things are giving me the most problems. (The bad coffee, the unemptied ashtray, etc.) |
Tashakinz | Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 12:03 pm     Deedee: Keep breathing - it'll be okay. Don't look at it as being angry with yourself - you're detoxifying and that is very stressful on your system. It was days like that when I would fill up a laundry bag full of clothes and just beat on it. If nothing else I think it had the effect of wearing me out lol. I really did find medication helped though, if you're willing to explore that route. |
Juju2bigdog | Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 04:32 pm     Agree with Tasha, don't say flat no to drugs (uhhhh, just cover the kids' eyes if they come in here). If you need some drugs, nicotine patch, whatever else, just do it. It's only for a while. Sometimes resolve can use a little chemical help. |
Llkoolaid | Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 08:09 pm     I agree with Tasha and Juju, use and do whatever helps. This is so hard and stressful and you need to use anything you can. I know you don't want to hear that things will soon get easier but they will. Hang in there, you can do it. |
Deedee | Thursday, June 26, 2003 - 09:44 pm     I am going to give it a few more days before I try something else. I guess I am using the little train that could method. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can. |
Tashakinz | Friday, June 27, 2003 - 06:29 am     lol Deedee - you know you can, you know you can, you know you can. |
Llkoolaid | Friday, June 27, 2003 - 09:26 am     We know you can, we know you can, we know you can. Go Deedee!!!!!!!!! |
Wargod | Friday, June 27, 2003 - 09:44 am     You can do it Deedee! |
Juju2bigdog | Friday, June 27, 2003 - 02:24 pm     It only hurts for a while, Deedee. Oops, my nose just grew an inch! |
Deedee | Friday, June 27, 2003 - 05:03 pm     1 Week and 5 minutes! A week! At first it was hours then days/hours. Now it is a week!! |
Wargod | Friday, June 27, 2003 - 05:48 pm     Woo Hoo, Deedee!!!!!! Congratulations! |
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