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It's day 3 since I've had a cigarette. Yesterday was a good day....today is not. I feel like I'm on the verge of a anxiety attack! I'm very dizzy from walking around in circles today!
I've been wanting to quit for a long time. I've lost 30 pounds in the last year due to eating well and exercise...but I'm really afraid of putting back on the weight or failing.
Last weeks post from (burning question) has a lot to do with my decision to do it now. I had mixed feelings and emotions about a lot of the posts. Some I found extremely arrogant, others I respected and appreciated their point of view and some stories just broke my heart. Overall they were just one big eye opener and a major kick in the ass which I needed. I do have to say one thing though to a certain person.....we all know who that is. Never judge a person on a habit....smoking "yes" is a selfish habit....but believe me when I say..."I'm far from selfish". Not a fare judgement at all!!
So, with my challenges today...I thought the BB would be the best place to come for some much needed support.
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-------------------- Ottawa Custom Signs Stittsville, Ontario Posts: 346 | From: Stittsville, ON | Registered: Dec 1998
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Way to go Brenda!! Just think, if you can get through tonight, when you wake up in the morning, you'll have FOUR days under your belt!! When I quit, some nights I went to be at 7:00, cause I knew I couldn't crave them if I was asleep! My poor hubby was probably ready to be rid of me by then, so he was happy to get the kids off to bed later! Sometimes I wanted one so bad, I thought I'd cry. I just kept thinking, I don't want to quit again, I've come so far!
Just hang in there. Tommorrow will be better! We are pulling for you.
Suelynn
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Suelynn Sedor Sedor Signs Carnduff, SK Canada Posts: 2863 | From: Carnduff, SK Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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Good for you Brenda. I have never smoked. I wanted to as a teen, but was too uncoordinated to be able to inhale! Anyhow, I am happy whenever someone does something positive and good for themselves. I am sure it can't be an easy thing to give up. I'll keep pullin' for you and Our Humble Mayor. Good Luck! Love...JILL
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Drink lots of water and do deep breathing exercises regularly. Most people breathe very shallowly, barely using any of their lung capacity. Smokers (when they're smoking) breathe deeper because that's the point of inhaling. You need to replace that behaviour by using the same technique but with air not smoke. This will help get much needed oxygen through your system.
For some oral gratification that won't put on any extra pounds, use celery sticks while you're weaning away from the hand-to-mouth activity. Drinking water is good for this too.
I quit in 1978 using the SmokeEnders method and these are some of the techniques I can recall. There are a lot of behaviours associated with smoking, and these have to be consciously addressed in order to be successful in quitting. It's not just about the addictive chemicals.
With your success in losing weight and exercising, I'm sure you'll find this works right into your new lifestyle.
Good luck! And if you feel like having a cigarette, brush your teeth instead.
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go girl. drink water, chew gum, whatever to get your mind away from it. Those feelings are your body getting back to normal. The feelings you have not felt in a long time. They will pass. I dotn know how you feel cuz ive never smoked but i can empathise with ya/.
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Someone sent me this thing about the power of bananas and here is one of the paragraphs from it:
Bananas can help people trying to give up smoking, as the high levels of Vitamin C, A1, B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.
I don't know if it's true or not but it can't hurt I guess!
Keep going, you can do it. You'll be surprised how much better you feel and how much money you'll have to spend on shopping elsewhere!
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-------------------- Amy Brown Life Skills 101 Private Address Posts: 3502 | From: Lake Helen, FL, USA | Registered: Feb 2001
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Hey Brenda, The main thing I'd like to tell ya is . . .
You CAN do it! Besides, you'll keep your pretty face a lot longer too . . .
Also, I would like to mention the post by Dave Parr - Feb. 18: OT Smoker's/Different twist. The last post on that topic is a coupl'a quit smoking tips.
All the best to ya.
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Amy reminded me of another great reason to quit!
When I quit, I went to my bank and got them to set up an automatic transfer from my checking account to a savings account every monday morning. I saved $35.00 per week (I chose that amount because I found when I had to stop at a convenience store to buy smokes, I also bought junk that I didn't need. I found when I didn't need to stop for smokes, I didn't need to have money on me all the time) Anyway, that $35.00 a week grew in no time. When things got hard about 4 months later and I really wanted to smoke again, my savings had grown to $600.00. I didn't want to ruin that by smoking again. At the end of the first year, I paid for a trip to Mexico for my hubby and me out of my smoking account. The second year I bought new leather furniture. I finally stopped the automatic transfer, but that little pot of money helped keep me inspired.
Try it, it might work for you!
Suelynn
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Suelynn Sedor Sedor Signs Carnduff, SK Canada Posts: 2863 | From: Carnduff, SK Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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I know you guys are gonna laugh at me, but...
Today, I purchased a box of nicotine gum. It's still in the wrapper, but I got it home and it's sittin on my desk.
I'm almost a two pack a day smoker. This isn't going to be easy. I think me and Mr. Nicotine Gum are gonna have a stare down for a couple days. The sob is sittin there tauntin me at this very moment!
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Go for it DON, Do it, take 'im on and kill 'im.. Mr. Nicotine must die. Death to him.. Off with his head.
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Quitting the cigarette habit is the hardest thing I have ever done. And I've done it twice. I quit for 10 years and for some foolish reason, thought vices were better the second time around. Now after smoking for another 6 years I quit on New Years Eve. No one could tell me to quit, I had to arrive at that decision all by myself. Miss it? You Bet! Tempted to go back?? You Bet!! Puttin on weight??? Stupid Question!!! But Reinforcement comes from the strangest places. Like the grandkids not grimacing when I give them an oderless hug. Ot the A**H**E at work that put a cigarette on my Computer keyboard. (Its still there, an everday reminder of what a jerk He is.)
Brenda,Don, Steve and everyone else who arrives at this decision, "to thine own self be true."
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Keep up the great work! You're doing it! It's going to be easier & easier. The urges will be there for a while. They will be less frequent and less powerful (or convincing.) Keep reinforcing the work you have put into this so far. You are not going to want to redo this work some other time. You ARE a NONSMOKER!
It seems people enjoy doing things they do well. There is usually very little anxiety involved in doing those enjoyable things. Quiting smoking has it's anxious times. Focus the anxiety to help you win by remembering your goal is to be free of the very thing that is pulling at you. Get mad at IT. You will win!
Don,
I applaud you man! Gear up & do it! I found the gun very unpleasant, where the patches were no problem at all. I did use the gum right after it came on the market, years ago. Surely they have improved the flavor since then. I liked the combination of regular sugar fee gum & the patches. Either way, dig your heals in. I am already feeling a whole lot better. Some days I feel physically good! Been a while! I'm really looking forward to how good I will feel after the first year.
Keep up the Great work guys!
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It's a subject dear to my heart and here are a few of my thoughts and some points of my experience, none of it of course etched in any stone, just MY PERSONAL feelings:
Two critical things on the journey of quitting to make it for good, one is a sincere desire to stop when you realize that the pain of smoking is larger than the pain of the thought of not smoking. Pain motivates.So does the hope for it's alleviation.
The second is preparation. Not just the clearing of the house of smoke related stuff, ( I have climbed inside my dumpster to get it back out more than once, that is what dedicated smokers will do) but a time to wind down and to know you will have a quit date and keep it. I had a quit smoking box I gathered stuff in for a long time, the gum, newspaper clippings, Dear Abby letters on the subject, pamphlets. Regular gum. Hard candy. Notes that said: anything you do that does not hurt another is OK, anything at all, just don't smoke. Or: Inch by inch it's a cinch. or: Quitting won't kill but smoking will. Etc. A list of the good stuff I anticipated in repay. And a necklace I had made with a diamond in it that I was not going to put around my neck til the quit date, and that I wore for the first six months. A jar with old stinky cigarettes in water, and above all, cut 3 inch pieces of drinking straws. They took care of the deep breathing of AIR in a cigarette soothing sort of way when the going got tough. There were times when I locked myself into the bathroom, smoked my straw and lit a match for that sulfur smell associated with smoking, just to get to the next round of making it yet another 15 minutes but to NOT REALLY SMOKE> I still, 5 years later, at times find a piece of straw in a pocket of something I wear. The straws were something I kept in my mouth and chewed on. Harmless, but they delivered air. And deep breathing is a critical bit of simulated help.
I stop now, I just get carried away.
Except for one more thing. When I found out that they had a medication that took away the morbid depression that always overcame me when I tried and failed to stop smoking, Zyban, I knew it was time to pull out the quit smoking box and go for it. I sat on a bench at a rest stop on I-40 at Easter in 1990 and determined that El Cinco de Mayo was my last day to smoke. It took a few pages of just gurgitating on a yellow pad, and then I took a picture of the bench I sat on and had it over my desk for a couple of years.
There is life after cigarettes. I followed the instructions of the Zyban to the letter, and about 4-5 weeks later I realized I was forgetting to take the pills and stopped them.
And one more thing...I envisioned, when the going got tough, the volume of the cartons I had smoked in an otherwise empty room. I then went mentally to a place of realization that for this life time this was truly enough, and that smoking just one would not only bring me to filling more of that space, and maybe to years of more misery, but it would also bring me to THIS VERY QUITTING PLACE yet again, later, with more pain, and maybe too late. Because quitting is always looming - either you do it yourself, or it gets done for you. I mentioned in another post that my brother Tom who lives here in town got diagnosed a month ago, has already had brain surgery (that's where the cancer can spread to) and is now under radiation on the brain and chemo. He smokes as my siblings fly in to say good bye. Week after next it will be my mother, for heaven's sake. So forgive my passion, I'm living it right now.
Anyway. that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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I enjoyed (really) smoking up to the day I quit. I had tried many times and failed. One day I was out for a drive with my wife and kids and started coughing. I coughed so hard that my eyes blacked out. I was still conscious, I just couldn't see. Luckily, I was able to bring the car to a quick stop from 60 mph and after a minute or so, I could see again. I was still coughing and my throat started to bleed (yuk..sorry). That's when I threw my pack out the window. I guess the point of this story is to quit on your own terms instead of waiting for a traumatic medical reason. My circumstances made it easy to say, "Nothing to it but to do it."
-------------------- Terry Baird Baird Signs 3484 West Lake Rd. Canandaigua, NY 14424 Posts: 790 | From: Canandaigua, New York | Registered: Dec 2002
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I quit in mid July '88 and have not had even one since. I stopped for 4 days and broke down and bought a pack. Boy, did I feel dissappointed in myself. I smoked the pack except for one as quickly as I could and then left the last one as a "panic smoke" on the shelf. I would smell it, put it in my mouth and even drawon it, but didn't light up because I knew if I lit it I would then have to buy another pack. after about 8 months I threw it out. I marked the calender for months and years counting the days, etc. since I stopped and it gave me some comfort. I would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night dreaming I was smoking and come out in a cold sweat, but then felt better knowing it was only a dream. This would happen for years. Just go cold turkey and GOOD LUCK!!! Edited because I quit in '88 not '98.
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-------------------- Drane Signs Sunshine Coast Nambour, Qld. dranesigns@bigpond.com Downunder "To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer" Posts: 965 | From: Nambour, Qld. Australia | Registered: Nov 1998
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Wow, thank you so much everyone for your support and sharing your own stories. Through the evening as I experienced "that crave feeling come over me" I've come down and read the posts....and believe me it's helped. I've taken advice...drank lots of water....went for a walk....went to the gym and just kept busy. It's time for bed and I made it through the day...yeppie!. Tomorrow is a new day...hopefully a good non-smokin day! GO FOR IT DON! LOTS OF SUPPORT HERE ON THE BB!! xoxo Brenda
-------------------- Ottawa Custom Signs Stittsville, Ontario Posts: 346 | From: Stittsville, ON | Registered: Dec 1998
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I think I'm going on 6 years since I quit. I used the patches and the tips that came with them. It didn't make it 'easy' but there were no homicides involved. The deep breathing exercises, ice water in the morning...different tricks to get you through the bad cravings really worked! Three months after quitting it was found that I had a medical condition that the cigarrettes had been agrivating and I got to have THORACIC SURGERY. Now I have these cool scars around the left side of my chest and nipple area( ewww).Spontaniously collapsing lungs??!!! They scraped up the inside of my chest wall and tore some of the hide off my lung and stapled it to tmy chest so that when it happens again the lung can't just flop around inside my chest and constrict my heart, which it was doing before. That one I tell to all the young girls I know who smoke...carved up breasts are not a good thought. Keep it up! You'll be surprised what making the right decisions can change in your life... for the better!
-------------------- John Byrd Ball Ground, Georgia 770-735-6874 http://johnbyrddesign.com so happy I gotta sit on both my hands to keep from wavin' at everybody! Posts: 741 | From: Ball Ground, Georgia, USA | Registered: May 1999
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I have never seen the program, but the missionaries from the Mormon Church have a "quit smoking" program that they will administer for free. I know people who have completed the program, and from what I understand the success rate is very high. Good luck with your admirable quest! ( I think you can get in touch with these guys by calling the closest ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. They might even have a missionary number listed. )
-------------------- Steve Estes Sign Studio Calvert City, Ky 42029 Posts: 185 | From: possum trot ky usa | Registered: Apr 1999
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The Smoking Issue.... Makes you wanna Light up just talkin about it...
I was doing good until.... Yep, Went to the bar to Shoot pool... Friends Smoking, People you don't know smoking, Second hand Smoke.. Hey Ben, " Can I Borrow a Cigarette with no intention of ever returning it?" Sure the packs there take all you want... THAT IS NOT WHAT I NEEDED to hear!!!... NOW me Smoking!!!!!! I know self control... Always easier to solve others addictions & problems.. I always hear.. Oh Yeh! You just have to Put Down the Pack and Say NO!!!
I've been puttin down the Squeegee( come on I had to say that..lol) I am gonna beat this Monster as Someone said. That Is THE NATURE of the Selfish BEAST.. ( I loved that Quote, Makes me wanna growl or something)
Good luck ... Wait .. I do have the solution... I will Give you my Phone Number and you will give me yours... When you get a Cravin' just call the " Non Smokin Hotline " up here in Good Old Yooper Country, I'll do the Same when I get the Cravin... Hell after One Month and the Phone Bill, You Nor I will be able to afford Cigarettes.. We will be so Broke we can't even pay attention... Now that is a Great Idea..and you gain a friend to boot... (outspoken one I hear, Good shape, Young, Good Lookin.... did I forget anything..lol )
Well Anyways... My Non-Smokin Clock just started over this morning ... I am ****ed at Myself... 15 hours without a Cigarette....
Hey its a start... Good luck BDP,
Amy... those Bananas don't stay lit Long...
Don Coplen.... You know what NIKE says... yep buddy just do it!!! ( sure sounds easy don't it.. Me against those lil' life sucking sticks. I'm like 20 times a BIG as they are i can beat those Lil' Bastards) Take the first step brother.. ( sounds like some T.V. evangelist )
-------------------- Mike Contreras MAX Sign & Design Gladstone , Michigan Posts: 84 | From: Gladstone , Michigan | Registered: Jun 2000
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I might just be lucky, I was a 2 1/2 pack a day smoker. One day in '63 I had to go to a meeting, I was late, when I got there a guy was outside the door getting the last few drags from a cigarette. He looked like a child stealing candy from a jar. It looked so stupid to me that I quit there and then and haven't smoked since. The thing to do is to look forward to the three week mark when you can start tasting good food that you haven't tasted for years. Think about all the bad things about smoking like the cigarette grabbing you by the collar and dragging you out in the cold rainy weather away from the comfortable people still in the house. Driving late at night when you are tired and the terrible taste of that cigarette that you just think you have to have. The cravings will go away soon enough. A lot of the habit is mechanical. I remember for about a year when I was leaving the house I would pat my shirt pocket and my pants pocket...I was checking to see if I had my cigarettes and lighter. My 36 year old son is going through what you are going through now...he hasn't smoked in 8 days. Good Luck and stick in there...think about the bad things about smoking, It will help. There are really no good things about it.
-------------------- Rove Gratz Gratz Signs 342 Walden Station Drive Macon, GA 31216 rovegratz@aol.com Home Page: http://rove-342.tripod.com Posts: 861 | From: Macon, GA 31216 | Registered: Jan 2004
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Although smoking is an addiction that not only physically "attacks" your body, it is also a habit. A few things that helped me with that part when I quit: Do something different. If you always have a smoke at your break time (after supper, whatever) don't go there. Take a break in a different place where there are no smokers, have an apple or raw carrots instead after supper, take a walk. Don't go to the bars for a while to play pool. If you have to go out to an occasion where there will be smokers, tell them when you walk in the room, "Hey, I quit smoking!" Now they are bad guys if they don't support you or try to tempt you with a smoke and you are less likely to bum a smoke as the night goes on because you have just told everyone you quit! When I quit when my kids were little (I've quit before and started up again), I told them about what I was doing. Then whenever I went to the store, I made sure I took them with me. Take it from me. There is no way I could buy cigarettes when my two little guys are saying, "Mom, you shouldn't smoke!" loudly in the check out line. A friend of mine wore a rubber band around his wrist. Whenever he thought about smoking, he snapped him self, HARD. I think they call that aversion therapy. I quit this time and I plan on keeping it up! I still have a smoke occasionally when I am out with smoker friends, but I can control it as long as I don't BUY any. It really feels good to not have to go find a place to smoke everyday and I know I feel a LOT better physically. You can do it guys!! Hey, go on line and talk to us like this...
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Well, it's a new day and a good day so far. I woke up this morning, had the urge for a smoke but jumped out of bed and took a cold shower. Then I went for a walk outside...very cold today.
But, I feel good and have not had a cigarette urge for approx. 2 hours. Thank you so much for all the support! You guys have no idea how this is helping....seriously!
Mike, Steve, Don or anyone that is trying to quit as well....yes, lets all call each other for support when needed. It is so much easier when you have a cheering squad! 613-258-9911
-------------------- Ottawa Custom Signs Stittsville, Ontario Posts: 346 | From: Stittsville, ON | Registered: Dec 1998
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Hey Brenda - Good for you!! When you want a cigarette, put a dollar in a jar instead. I'm so proud of you getting through the day. One day at a time, one craving at a time. Lot's of good advice and help here. I'm quitting this Monday as I'll be in the hospital for a week. I figure it'll be the perfect time as I'll be all doped up and won't know the difference. The operation is not smoke related - but the healing process always is! Total knee replacement and I want to be able to get up and walk, and get back to the BB asap. Smoking really hinders the healing process. Anyway, I'm tossing my # out here (at the bottom). I'm makin' a list of those who put their numbers out here for support. I just may be calling someone - I'll be stuck in bed and won't be able to get up and take a walk. So if some crazy lady calls you & she sounds really slow (doped up), it's probably me. Some things I'm thinking about . . .
I can't wait until my husband can smell my perfume, not the tobacco! (he quit years ago - maybe I'll actually get one of those long lingering kisses again)).
I am really looking forward to waking up each day without coughing my lungs out before I even get out of bed.
I'm looking forward to white eyes again - not the ol' bloodshot look.
I'm looking forward to a few wrinkles dissapearing.
I'm looking forward to finishing a conversation without the need to go outside & have a smoke.
I am excited to look at the dollar jar 6 months from now and be able to plan a great get-away.
Maybe when I answer the phone, people will realize it's a woman they are talking to, not a raspy mans voice!!! (I hate that!)
I will no longer support those nasty tobacco companies that are targeting kids now, cuz all the adults have quit!
One thing I've heard - don't wait 6 months to reward yourself. Reward yourself every day!!
Good Luck to all!!
Jackie 209-296-6868 Volcano, California
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Hey Jackie! Good for you....best of luck to you. I have feeling it's going to be more of a challenge for you due to you being un-mobile. Keep a phone close to you and call me anytime for support. Keep your self surrounded by supportive people and the one's that smoke....ask them to leave their smokes at home...they will understand.
-------------------- Ottawa Custom Signs Stittsville, Ontario Posts: 346 | From: Stittsville, ON | Registered: Dec 1998
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Good Morning! for you who have access to The Globe and Mail newspaper, todays edition, p.A22(back page of first section).... a good article from an ex-smoker. Nothing brand new, but well written, from the heart. More ammunition for you who are quitting and winning!!!
John Lennig / SignRider
-------------------- John Lennig / Big Top Sign Arts 5668 Ewart Street, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada bigtopya@hotmail.com 604.451.0006 Posts: 2184 | From: Burnaby, British Columbia,Canada | Registered: Nov 2001
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Well, it's day 5 and I actually feel really good today. I've thought about a smoke but have not really "needed" one. My headache is actually gone and I feel very positive today! The bonus is.....I don't feel the need to keep running to the kitchen either.
I think that I made the timing right. I started exercising and eating well a year ago...didn't try to do all at once and quit smoking so that it was impossible to succeed at any. But with already changing my lifestyle....I think that quitting smoking this time is going to be much easier.
Thanks again for all the support as well as the emails and phone calls. You guys are great!!!
-------------------- Ottawa Custom Signs Stittsville, Ontario Posts: 346 | From: Stittsville, ON | Registered: Dec 1998
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I have smoked for 2 years, tried to quit several times. I had some aquaintances who tried the herbal "smoke away" pills, and said they worked for them. My friend had some left over and I began taking them, and was pleasantly surprised that they worked. I took them the night before, and woke up and did not have the urge to smoke. I was so happy about that. I did it on my day off, made sure of low stress, and took the "stress manager" herbal pills sold under the same brand as "smoke away" pills. I was sceptical. But if one is really serious, them pills can be a Godsend. I tell you I feel better phyisically, and sleep better as a non smoker. It is a real moral booster, too. Poeple who don't smoke really have disdain for smoke smell. Well, good luck. Money back guarantee on the smoke away pills I read on website, empty bottle or full. I don't work for the company, I'm a sign maker. Like I said I was sceptical, but pleasantly surprised.
-------------------- Regina Rae Red Apple Design Ringgold, GA Posts: 46 | From: Ringgold, GA | Registered: Jul 2003
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Never smoked cigarettes and don't smoke the other since it hasnt been legalized yet I always hated cigarette smoke when I was young since my mom and dad sat me between them in the front seat on the way to Grandma's so my siblings and I wouldn't fight in the backseat. I was very much allergic to it anyway; used to get headaches a lot. My parents worked very hard, and times were tough, so the pressure was on and it was back in the old days when no one really knew that the cigs were bad for you and the cocaine was still in the coca cola! My dad quit when he was 60 and he lived another 23 years! (remember that billboard with the little guy with the coke cap? That's where they got the name coke, oh well, anyway...).. If I smoked it would have stopped my breathing all these years since I get bronchitis or short breathing when I am around that much paint or smoke for too long of a time; and then, there are the paint fumes!) So, necessity is what kept me from ever smoking all these years. I can't imagine the hell you are all facing, but, just try to put myself in your places.it seems like hell to go through the withdrawals, and it will maybe present the biggest challenge of strength in your life. I want to see you around, and do appreciate the perseverance and torture you are going through to quit. I admire you so much, I just wanted to say. Wish my mom was still around, but the pressures of being a psychiatric nurse was just too much for her to take the break we wanted her to take. She loved her job, and she said she was doing what she wanted to do! I just couldn't get her to quit of course, the job or the cigs. And the icing on the cake was my brother going over to Vietnam.Well, Brenda, Steve, Jackie, and all of you quitting or have quit: No lectures from me. I got to quit drinking coffee and not getting enough sleep..GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!! congrats on just trying. You guys are my heroes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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-------------------- Deb Fowler
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Bren, I'm avoiding you until you get the habit whupped - when I quit I was testy enough to pick a fight with a thunderstorm. You're doing OK, girl! TR
-------------------- Rodger MacMunn T.R. MacMunn & Sons C.P.207, Sharbot Lake, ON 613-279-1230 trmac@frontenac.net Posts: 472 | From: Sharbot Lake, Ontario | Registered: Nov 2003
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Actually Rodger...I'm not that grumpy....but I wish someone would help me find my brain and put in back in my noggin.....gawd.....I feel like the scarecrow....wobbly with no brain!
-------------------- Ottawa Custom Signs Stittsville, Ontario Posts: 346 | From: Stittsville, ON | Registered: Dec 1998
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Hey Brenda - You're doing GREAT girl!! Your brain WILL come back. Don't give in. I'm counting on you to be my inspiration. Tell me you can do it!!
So those Smoke Way things work, eh?
Jackie
-------------------- Bomba-Dear Jackie Vaughn #5115 Volcano, California www.chocoholic.com Posts: 761 | From: Volcano, California, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Keep it up you guys! You are doing great!! We are AAALLLL very proud of you. Those of us who have kicked the habit know what you are going through, feel for ya and just want you to succeed! You can DO IT!!
-------------------- Jane Diaz Diaz Sign Art 628 W. Lincoln Ave. Pontiac, Il. 61764 815-844-7024 www.diazsignart.com Posts: 4102 | From: Pontiac, IL USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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26 1/2 hrs and counting. I've already outdone my best expectations by 25 1/2 hours! This nicotine gum is horrible, but whatever it takes. Drinking alot of water.
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Well Don its about time you done it, just think. every hour your that much farther from being dependent on those damn things.
-------------------- Harris Kohen K-Man Pinstriping and Graphix Trenton, NJ "Showing the world that even I can strategically place the pigment where its got to go." Posts: 1739 | From: Trenton, NJ, USA | Registered: Jun 2001
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Hi Brenda, I have a way you can quit smoking in 4 hours! Go down to the local hospital and spend 4 hours in the "lung ward". Don't just walk through, stop in some of the rooms and talk to some of the people with tubes coming out of their chest and hole where their Adam's Apple used to be! They may not be able to talk back, but you will "Get the Message"!
-------------------- Tony Vickio The World Famous Vickio Signs 3364 Rt.329 Watkins Glen, NY 14891 t30v@vickiosigns.com 607-535-6241 http://www.vickiosigns.com Posts: 1063 | From: Watkins Glen, New York | Registered: Sep 2001
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Amy... those Bananas don't stay lit Long...
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and you are less likely to bum a smoke as the night goes on because you have just told everyone you quit!
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