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I'm in the middle of day 1. Getting hot n cold, a little irratable around anybody, so I'm locked myself up with my Wizzard DVD and might start a panel later (ALONE)!!
This is not EZ!
-------------------- Mark Neurohr "Ernest" Paintin' Place 141 Sunnyside Road Kittanning, PA 16201
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You also have to look at the fact that you won't reek like rancid smoke. Your breath won't gag the person standing next to you. The stench eminating from your car won't cause your passengers to vomit.
This is not even broaching the concept that you won't burn holes in your clothes, sofas, or car interiors. You won't have to plan your social calendar around where you can and can't smoke.
You don't have to go through the panic of when you realize that you left for the shop and you only have four cigarettes left... or your lighter broke... or you sat on your pack and they all cracked at the filter...
I call it freedom. Freedom from a morning hack. Freedom have being a slave to a freaking piece of paper wrapped around a product of known carcinogens. Freedom from being winded from taking two or three can of trash up from the basement.
The money savings is an enormous fringe benefit!
I think I am going to turn into one of those a-hole militant ex-smokers... I apologize in advance.
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6469 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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"You also have to look at the fact that you won't reek like rancid smoke. Your breath won't gag the person standing next to you. The stench eminating from your car won't cause your passengers to vomit." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH NOW YOU KNOW WHY people who didnt smoke......didnt want to be around you!!!!! had nothin to do with your personelity....hehehehe. "I think I am going to turn into one of those a-hole militant ex-smokers... I apologize in advance"...........dont aplogize WELCOME TO OUR SIDE!!!!!!!!!! DON: 14 days should be enough for your body chemestry to not have gravin for nicotine, now the physical addiction is gona take a lot longer.........morning coffee without a cig, meals without a cig after, sex without a cig....after!!! hahahahahahaha you will catch your self reaching for your pocket to make sure you got your cigs, will carry a lighter for months after you dont need it, and your mind will keep tellin you you really need a cig....4-5-6 months from now....your past the chemical addiction point......now all those HABITS associated with smoking are gona haunt you....dont give in and take IT ONE DAY AT A TIME.......
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-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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that will take you to my SPEEDO PICS....hahahahahahaha
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Don, quitting should be easy if you just ask yourself if you would like to live without suffering with cancer. How about being around to see your kids grow up and get married and have grandchildren? Is a lousey cigarette really worth loosing all this?
-------------------- Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. 15 Warren Street Little Ferry, N.J. 07643 billsr@riedelsignco.com Posts: 2953 | From: Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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Day 15. Hey, I can too quit smoking and chew gum at the same time. A lot more coordinated than you guys thought I was, aren't I?
Thanks, Bill. Quitting is not easy no matter what reasoning is used. But, you're right. I do want to see my grandchildren. And I've also found a very special woman that I'd sure like to grow old with.
One thing I've got going for me is that I've quit several times, and it always ended with "just one cigarette". So, I know from experience that not having just one cigarette is the key.
And Joe... here's a pic of my red Speedo. I'll bet you didn't even realize that they made a style for old farts that look like you and me.
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Good for those of you that quit smoking. You will thank you, and the planet will thank you.
Now...when I quit, I was told about "Brewers Yeast". It seems that originally our nerves were coated with a natural coating. When we started smoking, the nicotine replaced the natural coating. That is why some people have the jitters when they don't have a cig for a while. The only thing that helps them is to have another cig, thus replacing that coating. Problem is that it only last a short time. Now, brewers yeast tablets start to build up that coating, easing the jitters and uncomfortable feeling associated with nicotine withdrawal. I took a couple of tablets each time I felt the need. It will not harm you (as I was told by my doctor) so you can take as many as you like. And no you won't get a yeast infection. hahaha
Please check it out....if it works for you like it did for me, it would be worthwhile.
Also...I drank a lot of water to flush out my system and did an affirmation each time I felt like a cig. "I choose not to smoke"
Good luck to all of you. You CAN do it. You are stronger than the addiction.
-------------------- Jackson Smart Jackson's Signs Port Angeles, WA ...."The Straits of Juan De Fuca in my front yard and Olympic National Park in my backyard...
"Living on Earth is expensive...but it does include a free trip around the Sun" Posts: 1005 | From: Port Angeles, Washington | Registered: Jan 1999
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Brewers yeast? Drug stores carry that? I'm having a rotten day today and am going on a quest for brewers yeast! Maybe it'll calm me down to where I'll give the comic sans layout a chance.
Hey, even if it doesn't help at all, maybe just a plecebo effect would be a good thing.
(but don't let me know if it's a plecebo, because that would ruin the effect. )
That's pretty damn bad when I'm even game to try plecebos. Hopefully, I'll report of day 16 tomorrow without a smoke.
PS. Jackson, I've been reading your posts here for years. One of these days I hope to meet you.
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I bet drug stores have it, Don, but I know a health food store will. I think even the dreaded Wal-Mart carried brewer's yeast.
-------------------- 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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Finding brewer's yeast turned out to be an adventure. Finally found some at the mall.
Get this...and some of you will get a kick out of this...the health/vitamin store had an entire wall dedicated solely to "plecebos". I'm tellin ya, half the store was plecebos. When I told the manager that brewers yeast was supposed to help people who are quitting smoking, she moved all the remaining brewers yeast from the plecebo section to the "stop smoking" section of the store.
Looks like I'll make it through day 15 after all. I'm sure thankful that I'm not going through this alone.
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A word of advice to all that are joining the "Let's All Quit in 2006" crusade. The brewers yeast tablets are not what one would call 'chewable".
don't forget the Higher Power too . . . He helped me quit drinkin'.
Here's another tip I mentioned a while back on other 'quit-smokin' threads:
When you really DO NOT wanna smoke, ie: you've won the mental battle, but the physical cravings and the 'hand-mouth' habits are kicking-in, use this free of cost:
Take an old mayonaise jar or some kind of container with a lid. Put a few old ciggarette butts (as few as 3, as many as 10) in there and add just enough water to barely cover them. Put the lid back on and set the thing aside. Now, this grows much 'richer' in 'scent' as the days wear on.
When the 'habit' grabs your attention, grab the jar and open it and take a big whiff.
It's kind'a like 'electro-shock' therapy . . . it's a negative-positive 'reward' to train your body to reject nicotine.
When done as described above, is among the top 10 worst smells on the planet, and btw, will be exactly what your lungs look and smell like inside you, and what your breath, and clothes smell like to others, which will be a positive thing to encourage you to avoid.
-------------------- Signs Sweet Home Alabama
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Looks like I made it thru DAY TWO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Didn't do the yeast thing, still on the patch.
Friggen woke several times last night, tore the stupid thing off, watched a movie for a while then tried getting more sleep. Sure glad I'm off all week from work! Hopefully it'll be worth it.
Your not alone Don, day 2 was much easier than day 1!! Thinkin' about staying away from any New Years Eve stuff though....
-------------------- Mark Neurohr "Ernest" Paintin' Place 141 Sunnyside Road Kittanning, PA 16201
-------------------- “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” -Winnie the Pooh & A.A. Milne
Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5499 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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Not chewable? the kind I had were like the antacid tablets. hmmmmm....don't know what to say now.
-------------------- Jackson Smart Jackson's Signs Port Angeles, WA ...."The Straits of Juan De Fuca in my front yard and Olympic National Park in my backyard...
"Living on Earth is expensive...but it does include a free trip around the Sun" Posts: 1005 | From: Port Angeles, Washington | Registered: Jan 1999
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QUIT OR DYE....its thats simple.....if you dont do it now....you will slowly kill yourself.....some faster then others....but it will kill ya....and iam not tryin to be humorous or flip here. dad was 50 and was never without his PALL MALLS!! mom was 70, never smoked....but owned and ran a bar(2nd hand smoke) from 1957-78 when she died. our own pat king was a smoker! roy frizby..lung cancer....me bladder cancer,1st question they asked me was "do you still smoke?" bruce heart attack and surgury... how much more do you need to quit...we that survived it are the lucky ones.......
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One thing I used from a Tony Robbins book was about changing the way you associate cigarettes with pleasure or gratification, and instead associate them with cancer, emphysema, heart attacks, etc. The clean breath, clothes, and extra money in your pocket is just icing on the cake.....
Good luck guys - we're pulling for you.
-------------------- www.signcreations.net Sonny Franks Lilburn, GA 770-923-9933 Posts: 4118 | From: Lilburn, GA USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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Way to go guys! You know they have a laser clinic here that people are saying it made them quit. I surely don't know how it works. Btw, I used to take brewer's yeast for health reasons, and the best is the refrigerated kind, of course, I had to mix it in tomato juice or v8 so I wouldn't taste it. My sis put it in apple juice. It really calms your nerves and helps a lot of things.. lots of b vitties. Now you encouraged me to get back on it.
-------------------- Deb Fowler
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible - Walt Disney (1901-1966) Posts: 5373 | From: Loves Park, Illinois | Registered: Aug 1999
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Hey Don, Just take all of those dollars you are saving and stick them in a G5 jar. Now thats incentive! Hang in there.
-------------------- Bill Modzel Mod-Zel screen Printing Traverse city, MI modzel@sbcglobal.net Posts: 1360 | From: Traverse City, MI | Registered: Nov 1998
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Having trouble landing the moving truck I had supposedly reserved from uHaul for yesterday, and not today, too. And now, it turns out that the person who had promised to help moved has backed out, without letting me know. Phone busy since 7am.
So, now uHaul is calling with a truck, and I have nobody to help load it.
If I make it through today without a cigarette, I deserve a medal.
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Don, just how you displaced stress with a smoke in the past, now you still need to displace it, just with a healthier option. Try taking a short walk or use a few minutes to stretch and catch a few calming deep breaths, or ... meditate. Usually just a few minutes to decompress is all you need to get past it. I had to use these techniques when losing weight because in the past when I'd have a stressful day, I'd run to the store (which is yet another stressful place for me) and get a snickers bar and 20oz bottle of Coke.
Like Dr. Phil says, as cheesy as it is to quote Dr. Phil, "You don't just quit bad habits, you replace them with healthier ones."
-------------------- "If I share all my wisdom I won't have any left for myself."
Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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Good idea, Mike. Do you suppose hunting this guy down like a dog and beating him to a pulp would get me through this moment of weakness? I wonder what Dr.Phil would say to that.
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Well, I'm getting ready for my quit day! Almost here, but whats funny is, I am already smoking less just thinking about doing it. Hopefully it will be easier this time around. And this time I'm gonna be smart, and not let something stupid like breaking up a relationship give me a reason I want a smoke! Keep it up guys, I will be with you shortly.......
-------------------- Tim Rieck Signs Halfmoon Bay, BC Posts: 736 | From: Halfmoon Bay, BC, Canada | Registered: Sep 2000
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While Donna is watching you two goofballs, I am going to quietly sneak under the radar... LOL!
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
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