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I never smoked (PTL), so I can only imagine what it's like to try and quit.
But I'd rather quit and gain a few pounds (and work on that later) than not quit and someday find myself gaining a few pounds in the form of a tumor.
I applaud you all for kicking the habit. You'll love yourself, your family will appreciate it, and strangers everywhere that won't have to smell it will be thankful as well.
And in the end...you're probably doing the one thing that will increase your life expectancy.
Go get em!
Edit: I forgot to add - - last night I was kinda thinking about this post when I was lighting some trash in my burning barrel. My head was kinda over the barrel as I was trying to light various items and I caught a lungful of smoke. Yaaaack! I coughed like heck and could barely breath....and I thought, "how does one force themselves to get used to doing that - on purpose?"
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being an "old country boy" when i was a yougin smokin was a required experiment. we(4-5 boys)that hung out together one would steal a cigerette form parents pack and we would go out in the woods and smoke it. another experiment we did was DRIED CORN SILK rolled up in a piece of newspaper!!!!! NASTIEST STUFF YOU EVER WANT TO TRY.....and the stangest think happened to me i wanted to quit smoking.....the LAST CIGARETTE i lit....never got to inhale it...IT TASTED LIKE THAT CORN SILK IN NEWSPAPER!!!!! i coughed and put it out....never smoked since!!! also we tried smokin CATABA beans....you know those trees grow up north with those long bean like things.....when they are dry we tried smokin them..damn near killed me.hahahahahahaha
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Jane, thanks for posting that, I am really looking forward to this. Jon said we should start tomorrow, & I said "NO WAY, while we are driving for 6 hours!!!!!!"
Mark, you are such a good guy! Thank you. I will let you guys know when we start.
I am also going out to get that Brewer's yeast Jackson was talking about.
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Oh, Bobbie....remember I was going to report back on the brewers yeast? My report is that I can't tell any difference between taking it and not. Get it if you'd want, but I can't recommend it or not.
But.....or should I say butt...you'll find a definite improvement in your BM situation.
quote:Originally posted by Tim: Ok Don! You're on!
But I'll take the new years date as my start point. I already have the box of patches sitting above the cupboards in the kitchen. Been there for a month. Just haven't got round to it yet, but I think this is perfect motivation. Plus my secret admirer is also a much younger and beautiful gal that doesn't smoke, so might make my chances better.
I'd ask John to draw one for me too, but I doubt he knows how to draw "ugly" lol Seriously though, I've never posted my pic when I was a resident for the past few years, just used the smiley face, so only those that have met me at the splash meet in Nanaimo know what I look like.
Ok, so its 8 days and counting down to quit time! Thanks for the inspiration!
Tim, you've been awfully quiet. Are you in? If not yet, join in when you're ready. The water's not as deep as it appears.
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MARAJUANA DONT COUNT...all other tobacco is banned!!! hehehehehehhe hennie tells me the story of her back in the 70'smoney was tight and couldnt by cigs..so she decided to quit em.....only she kept at it with the weed.....hahahahahahahaahah
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What tripped me up every time I tried to quit was the thought that "just one" won't hurt, so I'd bum one from anybody I could find. Pretty soon, I was at the gas station buying a pack and hating myself. Don't give in to false logic.
Bobbie, I can't say for sure if it will help when you go to the "library", but keep in mind you don't have to tell us EVERYTHING.
We're proud of y'all and just think of how much time you're NOT wasting with smoke breaks. BTW, I'm on Day 427 and I can't remember for the life of me why I ever liked the damn things.
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Thanks for bringin' that up, O.P. If you're going to give up smokin' you've got to give up "ALL" smokin'. It's all related don't ya know.
Second hand smoke is darn near impossible to get away from. It's good to see some cities pass "no smoking" laws. I mean you can't go into a restaurant and go to a non-smoking area and not really get away from it when just a few feet away there's a smoking area. So you've got to be strong. It ain't easy. It's hard enough to quit.
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I don't know about the whole second hand smoke thing. Personally, I think it's all a bunch of hogwash. But, one thing for sure, second hand smoke stinks worse than first hand smoke! Not sure how that works out, but it's a fact.
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Second-hand smoke, now code named "Environmental Tobacco Smoke" in keeping with Politically Correct terminology, is not hogwash, but rather a fact borne out by science.
The Mayo Clinic, American Cancer Society, American Lung Association, National Cancer Institute and countless other entities have years of scientifically conducted research to prove the health risks of second-hand smoke. The Environmental Protection Agency has years of studies backing this health risk as well.
After reading all the health risks, the statistic that really sort of bothered me was a fact that *smoking parents account for 90% of ETS (environmental tobacco smoke) exposure to their kids*.
Parents wouldn't knowingly expose their kids to other dangers, and my guess is that most people don't really think about the smoke they exhale in the same way they think about the smoke they inhale. Probably the thought upon inhalation is "this smoke isn't good for me" rather than the thought that "this smoke isn't good for them" upon exhale....which is a natural response.
Here's what years of scientific research really has to say about second hand smoke:
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2nd hand smoke hogwash?? LOL!! Let me tell you, when I walk into a smoke filled room, my breathing aparatus is screaming for clean air and I start coughing. That's gotta mean something.
If a vehicle is running in an enclosed area, you'd choke up too. That's what smoke does to non smokers.
My sis is subject to 2nd hand smoke, her hubby smokes and she doesn't. She gets bronchitis attacks due to the smoke. There IS indeed damage being done.
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I think second hand smoke has to be harmful. How could it NOT be? It's smoke! Think about smoke inhalation if there is a fire... I am really glad we quit. I didn't normally smoke ALOT (maybe a pack every 3 or 4 days) and we never smoked in our house (we would go outside at home) or office but we did smoke in the shop (garage) when we did smoke at work. All those butts laying everywhere to sweep up... I'm determined now!
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I was a musician locally here for 20 plus years. Played in every club within 200 miles. Every night when I would go home, I smelled like a tobacco factory. Its untelling how much smoke I inhaled over the years. I never took up smoking , and Im really glad I didnt. You folks have my respect for trying to quit. My dad quit after smoking lucky strikes for 35 years. Them there is rot gut cigarettes.
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FROM PAGE 2: "mom was 70, never smoked....but owned and ran a bar(2nd hand smoke) from 1957-78 when she died." last few years of her life, she had all the classic "smoker symtoms"....short of breath, coughing up crap, lite headed...and heart problems......yea i guess 2nd hand smoke aint that bad.....its even worse for US EX SMOKERS!!! i lov shootin pool, but the smoke kills me for 3-4 days afterward. i like BILOXI casinos....again 3-4 days after i hack, spit up crap, and have breathing problems. the picture that always stays in my head is of this guy in sarasota i knew.... he was 60 ish, had a quaduple bypass, and carried an oxygen bottle on wheels....would trun off the OXYGEN....LITE UP A CAMEL.....SMOKE IT, COUGH AND GAG....TRUN ALMOST BLUE....then put out the cigarette and put the OXYGEN BACK ON!!!!! how ADDICTED CAN YOU GET?????????????????
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I found this article today at work while surfing MSN. Good reading as it offers even MORE incentives to quit, some of which haven't been touched yet on this post!
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OK, I am starting tomorrow with NO smokes. Yup, just went to the store & bought me a bunch of stuff to chew on & suck on to help me out, some celery & oranges too.
My doctor's appt. is for 10 am tomorrow, & I am gonna ask her about these things that have been plaging me.
I will let you guys know how I feel!
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Good Luck, Bobby!! We Can DO THIS!! Just keep thinking about all that cash you'll save, how your lungs will clear out, how you won't smell smoky anymore, how your body will benefit, on and on.... We're rootin' for ya!
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Well, I got up this morning, brewed a good pot of coffee, let the dog out, and didn't have a smoke all day long again. 21 days and still not fallen off the tobacco wagon.
Not bad. But, I can do better. I think I can go 40 days now.
You can do it, Bobbie! Go for one day. Put all you can into not smoking for one day. You can worry about going two days later.
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Made it through day 21. Don't know about anybody else, but surprises me. Thought certain today was gonna be my downfall. Guess i'll shoot for 22 tomorrow.
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Don, is it Day #8 or 9 for me?? It's been soo long ago (when I used to smoke) that I honestly need to look at a calender to figure when I quit?? I still put a patch on in the morning, but I really don't think I need it. I've "almost" completly forgot the whole ordeal!
(Hope this encourages those of you who are contemplating quitting). It was the first 2, maybe three days that were tough. The rest is all downhill....................EZ.. Honest!
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Well, this morning I woke up to the alarm, hit snooze, then went back to sleep when I realized this is "the day". I did that 2 or 3 times, then finally got up. BEFORE I got out of bed, tho, I said, "I am not a smoker & I do NOT smoke!".
This held me up all day til about 2:00, then I got antsy. I had taken 3 of those lozenges with me today, but haven't tried one.
Jon smoked ONE today, which is great, & he took 2 lozenges to help him. He hid the ash trays & stuff, so i think that makes it easier for me.
I am believing you, Mark, that Day 3 is the start on a downhill slide, easy going, etc., etc.,
Talking to the Lord helps a LOT, & listening to my music.
I wish i could just go to sleep for about 4 days & wake up from all of this!
Did you guys notice something? We each got ourselves into this by ourselves, & we have to get ourselves OUT. We are each individually on our own, fighting this battle, aren't we? I am glad we have each other, & also the others on this BB that are encouraging us too.
Funny, my thoughts were SO loud today, I could almost HEAR them, telling me I wasn't enjoying driving or anything unless i had a cigarette! I talked back & said, "OH no you don't! I am not a smokewr,& I do not need a cigarette!"
I think so far, I did pretty good! PTL!!!!
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I remember getting into smoking at an early age. My dad and his buds would get together at our house in the 50's for jam sessions. They played jazz. Mom would go to the grocery store and buy cartons of filtered and unfiltered cigarettes and open them up on the kitchen table. Then she massed the assortment of cigarettes in a huge bowl we used for popcorn and put them on the coffee table for the men.
I would sit at the top of the stairs and watch these guys smoke, drink and jam the night away. The music was mesmerizing. They enjoyed those smokes so much I couldn't wait to get my hands on one. The whole house smelled like an ash tray. I had an early morning paper route and would grab a fist full of smokes on my way out the door to deliver newspapers. At 5:30 in the morning no one paid attention to some kid on a bike smokin' cigarettes.
I remember another kid and I used to practice blowin' smoke out our noses. They told my dad to quite smokin' in his early 40's. He was a 4 pack a day guy and his fingers were always yellow. Every car we ever had smelled like an ash tray. The car could be brand new, but by the end of the first day it smelled like an ash tray.
They told Dad he could probably smoke cigars or pipes based on the theory that you wouldn't inhale them. They didn't know any better back then, but now we know that is total bull****. Of course Dad inhaled them anyway.
Gettin' Dad a pipe, some tobacco or a humidor was always the perfect Christmas gift, because you knew he was going to use it.
A friend and I took some of Dad's pipe tobacco and thought it would be fun to roll it into some notebook paper (8 1/2 X 11) and make a giant cigarette. We snuck into some little old ladys' garage and fired that sucker up. We had flames almost to the ceiling with big old hunks of tobacco crashing to the floor. The whole time we were coughing our brains out. That should have been my first clue.
I worked construction when I was young for my grandfather. He wanted to give all the grandsons summer work. Being around construction workers while they smoked their unfiltered Luckies, Camels and Pall Malls was not the best thing to expose kids to, that and the chewing tobacco, but that's how I grew up. That was my exposure. The whole world was firing up or chewin' it seems.
When I got to high school I played football, basketball and baseball and the school would kick you out of sports if they caught you smokin' or drinkin', so I learned to sneak it.
So my history with smokin' is long and now that I've quit (and I'm not countin' the days) I can't believe how much better I feel. I've been poppin' right out of bed and gettin' with it. I would have quit a long time ago if I knew how much better I was going to feel -- so soon.
So think back about how you got into smokin' and think ahead to how good you're going to feel, and I hope you can make sense of it all. It helps me to put things into perspective and realize that I got into it on my own and I can get out of it on my own. Good luck and God speed! Nobody said it was going to be a cake walk.
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Bobbie, good for you and Jon! Lozenges?? I've never tries them, but I can tell you this. Puttting on on 21 mg Patch is sorta like flipping a light switch (to off) for me. I struggled pretty badly the first two days, but worked on some projects that kept my mind off of smoking. After day 3, it wasn't nearly as bad. Just kept myself busy and tried to not to anything that I used to occiatate with smoking (such as driving a car). I didn't go anywhere all last week. Used to build fires and that was the only way I would smoke in the house. So... I didn't build fires!
Hang in there, you're not alone! It'll get better in a few days. I promise! Keep telling you'e yourselves that YOU CAN DO IT! KNOW, that it won't be easy. Keep in mind, you've probibly smoked for a looong time!
We're rooting for ya!
Bill, really enjoyed the stories in your post. Somewhat reemind me of how our family was.
Can you tell me ONE more story before bedtime!!
-------------------- Mark Neurohr "Ernest" Paintin' Place 141 Sunnyside Road Kittanning, PA 16201
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Great to hear you made it through the first day, Bobbie....and you, too, John! Now on to day two. you can do it. It's just like today, only different.
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Thanks, Mark! And thanks Bill for that story, very interesting!
My Grampa always smoked, & he died of lung cancer when I was 12. My Uncle Walt, too, & My mom had cancer in her uterus.
My parents allowed me to smoke pot, but not cigarettes, because they said that the cigarettes killed Grampa, & at least pot got you high. If I was smoking cigarettes in my room & they were coming up to my room, I'd hurry up & light up a joint so they wouldn't smell it as much! Always burned incense to cover the cigarette smoke, too, not the pot smoke.
I remember feeling like I was up there with the "cool girls" when I could finally inhale a cigarette without coughing. Do you believe that? What a fool I was!!!!!
Every time you guys say it gets easier, I get encouraged. Please don't stop!
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WAY TO GO, All of US!! We can do IT! One more story about Bill... We just put his Dad in a nursing home recently and it has been really hard on Bill, dealing with the whole thing, the power of attorney responsibilities, Dad's "moods" about being there...well, you get the idea. Anyway, one of the things that the Dr. told us was that THE biggest reason that Dad is having so many health issues right now is the smoking. Dad quit many years ago and when Mom died last January, he took it up again. He has been smoking ALOT! Can you believe it! His apartment's smell was unbearable! Anyway, that is another big reason that we can see the "evils of smoking" so vividly at our house! We are DONE with 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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As for me, I still can't remember when I quit smoking cigarettes??
Don, can you help me?? It seems the last cigarette I had was sometime LAST YEAR!? It's been soo long I can't figure it out?? I dont' even think about it anymore.
It's also so much easier knowing that Bobbie and Jon are keeping a close eye on our progress. I hope we make them proud (don't tell them how easy this has been Don, make them think it's really hard)! OK?
-------------------- Mark Neurohr "Ernest" Paintin' Place 141 Sunnyside Road Kittanning, PA 16201
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