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The TVClubHouse: Archives: 2004 January - Arpil: Who wants to quit smoking with me? (ARCHIVES): Archive through April 17, 2004 users admin

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Cassie
Member

07-15-2000

Monday, April 12, 2004 - 7:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I should have gone that route, Serate. I had the doctor give me the slow release kind where I take the full dose at one time. I wish I had stuck to the 2 pills, four hours apart. Not nearly as jittery on them as this kind.

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Monday, April 12, 2004 - 7:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You'll get through it Cassie, I know you will! Just try to stay away from caffiene and sugar; that should help a little. Easy for me to say right?

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Monday, April 12, 2004 - 10:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    

quote:

One question for anybody who has quit: At what point were you when you REALLY felt you had quit and would not go back? When you knew for sure that you would not lapse back by just having one...




Cassie, I think everybody here will most likely give the same answer: Never. There is no such thing as having just one. As Wargod said, most of us know that once we have that one, we will be right back smoking again and have to go through this holy hell all over again.

Good work on making it another day.

Cassie
Member

07-15-2000

Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 10:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Made it through the 72 hours: YEAH!!! Feeling better already, honestly :-)

Wargod
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 10:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Woo hoo Cassie, way to go!

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 10:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    


Cassie
Member

07-15-2000

Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 1:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
<Cassie, I think everybody here will most likely give the same answer: Never. There is no such thing as having just one. As Wargod said, most of us know that once we have that one, we will be right back smoking again and have to go through this holy hell all over again. >

Juju, I wrongly phrased the last part of the question you gave answer to above. I know that we cannot have one cig again or we'll be back to being a full-time smoker tout suite. What I meant was: How long did it take before you REALLY knew you had it beat and felt confident you wouldn't succumb again? Or do you never reach that point. (My fault for the mix up!)


Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 7:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cassie, after I composed my answer it occurred to me that you might have meant something other than what I answered. Best answer was probably Wargod's yesterday 1:24 PM post. It sort of occurs when all of a sudden it hits you that you haven't even THOUGHT of having a cigarette in a really long time. Or when you pass a bunch of people all huddled up outdoors smoking and you say to yourself, "Thank God I don't have to do that anymore." Because you KNOW they are not out there because they enjoy it. They are out there because they HAVE to be to feed the addiction.

Yay for making it three days!!! One day at a time. One hour at a time.

Denecee
Member

09-05-2002

Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 11:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just want to tell all the newbies "Congrats, on your very smart decision!"
I am in my 16 month of being a non-smoker and I agree with the others about that one cig(no such thing).
Good luck to all, stay strong!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - 3:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yay Denecee. It sure seems like just yesterday that you quit.

Halfunit
Member

09-02-2001

Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 6:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
:-) !! Happy 13 Months of No Smoking Anniversary Urgrace !! :-)

Cassie
Member

07-15-2000

Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 8:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yeah, Urgrace! Great Job :-) I can't wait until I can say the same thing.
(I'm on my 6th day. Yesterday was the toughest yet, but today is much better -- so far.)

Denecee
Member

09-05-2002

Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 9:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Juju! Time goes by too fast if you ask me!


Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 10:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
SIX days is terrific, Cassie! If you can do six, you can do seven. There will be some bad days, even after you think you have quit having bad days. BUT they do get fewer and farther between. You just have to keep hanging in there, and one of these days you too will have a startling thought: "Gee, I haven't even THOUGHT about having a cigarette today."

Yay Cassie!

Cassie
Member

07-15-2000

Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 10:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Juju :-) And Denecee, congrats to you too. It must feel great, huh?

Dahli
Member

11-27-2000

Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 11:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cassie, you go girl! How is the eating right coming along??? Don't forget feeding your body the good stuff will help it fight the good fight and enjoy being healthy and strong. My best advice on the smoking is the book that saved my life "Allan Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking" Both Llkoolaid and I recommend it and I'm happy to post excerpts or send them if you want a look!

Cassie
Member

07-15-2000

Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 11:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hey Dahli :-) :-) :-) How you doing gf? The eating right is going but still has a loong way to go. (Haven't boiled any buffalo lately ) Right now I'm giving myself lots of leeway on the snacks etc. It's just imperative that I quit smoking before anything else. I'd love it if you could email me some excerpts from Carr's book (if it's no trouble) and if it looks like it'd be helpful, I'll go buy one. Although I'm doing well with the quit, (well, no one's dead yet anyway) I'm still leery that I could slip up, and want to be ready to handle the sneaky urges that got me last time I quit.

Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 4:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The one thing that got me through the urges this time Cassie was remembering the hell it is to quit and I just said to myself, I am not going to go through this misery again. Good job on six days. I found day seven particularly difficult, it was a big hump day for me, then it was clear sailing till about the six week mark. I hit another hump then and after six weeks, I was definitely out of the woods.

Cassie
Member

07-15-2000

Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 4:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow, for some reason Maris this afternoon has been a b*stard, much worse than the first 3 days. I went to a "quit website" just to have a gander around noontime, and started reading about all the possible withdrawal symptoms one could get. Big Mistake!!! I had none before I started reading about them. Now I cannot stop thinking about smoking and am presently "smoking" a straw. Is that sad or what? No more web sites for me!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Thursday, April 15, 2004 - 7:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, Cassie, that is just plumb pitiful! Not smoking the straw, reading about the symptoms and then coming down with them!

Looks like if you Google "reasons to quit smoking" there might be some good stuff in there that you can peruse until the urge passes.

Hope you made it through Day 7.

I will say Yay Cassie! in anticipation that you did. Every day that you get further away from it is a victory for you. Every day that you get through is one more day that you don't have to repeat if you just never put that "just one" cigarette in your mouth again.

Cassie
Member

07-15-2000

Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 6:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Celebrating one week of freedom...Yeah!!!

Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 6:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good stuff Cassie. This is the big day, I believe day seven is when the nicotine is supposed to be out of your system. Should be a lot easier after today.

Wargod
Member

07-16-2001

Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 8:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Way to go Cassie!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 9:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yay Cassie!!!

Freedom is EXACTLY it!

Halfunit
Member

09-02-2001

Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 9:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
^5 Cassie! Woo Hoo!