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[naughtygirl]

Vinde...we haven't crossed paths regularly...but I remember the support you gave when I attempted to quit at the beginning of a pregancy. You were so very supportive at a time when I needed it. I wish the same support to you. Its extremely difficult to do. I went back to smoking after I miscarried, but I plan to quit in the near future when we try again. So this thread will be a great place to come back and read when I need it.

Good luck to you! And keep in mind all of the reasons why you want to quit. I made a list of reasons why it was important and pulled that list out when I needed it. Something else that really, really helped was downloading a ticker from www.silkquit.org .
It kept track of how long I had gone without a cigarette, how many cigarettes I had NOT smoked so far and how much money I had saved. This was so helpful to me because I did not want to start the ticker over.

My best to you.

 

[69Muffin]

VINDE!! Hi sweetie! I just found your thread and I think it's wonderful!

No posts for a while now tho hon, are you doing ok? I quit cold turkey 6 years ago and it's the best thing I ever did and it really wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. My sweetie quit over 3 months ago and I'm so proud of him. AND now you!

You go darlin'!

 

[John Roberts]

Good for you Vinde! I quit after smoking 25 years it has been 13 years since my last cigarette.....I quit countless times before I succeeded so if you slip...tomorrow is another day you can start over..... Ahem....lots of sex can distract you.

 

[omahaman2]

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[Vinde]

Thanks rosie, sexylady, naughtygirl, muffie, JR and omahaman.
I'm still sticking with it. It sucks big time. Although the times that i'm not craving are getting further apart. But when i am craving it almost seems worse. I have only had one setback so far. I was with someone who was smoking and a bummed a smoke off of them. It had been about 6 days since i had quit and when i smoked it i felt dizzy and yucky so that was good.
Thanks to everyone for posting.

 

[69Muffin]

Hun, I don't know if this will work, but it's what got me through. 7 days in a friend of mine in med school called me. He had no idea that I had quit. When he found out I was in my 7th day, he congratulated me, because the "physical" withdrawal is only 14 days. That's all it takes to get the nicotine out of your system. Everything after that is in your head. I've always been the kind of person that does NOT do something I don't want to do. I looked at where I was and said, hell, I'm 1/2 way there. After that, it was a piece of cake. I wouldn't pick up another one knowing that if I did, I'd have to go through the 14 days all over again.

Good luck sweetie. I know you can do it!http://www.websmileys.com/sm/fingers/fing25.gif

 

[Vinde]

Yay!!!! that means i only have 7 more days of hell to go through.
That was the hardest thing to get past when i quit this time because i have remembered how hard the first part has been in the past. You forget all the good reasons you want to quit because the first part is so crappy.
But looking at it as been halfway through helps.

 

[69Muffin]

Yay!!!! that means i only have 7 more days of hell to go through.
That was the hardest thing to get past when i quit this time because i have remembered how hard the first part has been in the past. You forget all the good reasons you want to quit because the first part is so crappy.
But looking at it as been halfway through helps.

GOOD! That's exactly how I felt too. I figured I wasn't going to go through that again. That and lots of celery sticks and carrot sticks! *lol* Those came in pretty handy too.

 

[69Muffin]

Hey hon, just checking in to see how you're doing?

 

[Vinde]

Thanks for bumping this back up Muffie. I'm really bad at keeping up with my own threads.
This wasn't a good weekend. I don't know what it was but on saturday i was at the grocery store and i just bought a pack of smokes. It wasn't out of habit, i knew what i was doing when i bought them, but i was craving right at that moment and did it. I had one as soon as i left the store and it made me so dizzy.
My youngest son whom i was with wasn't not impressed with me.
I made the mistake of telling my husband that i had bought a pack ( he's quitting too). If i hadn't told him that pack would have lasted me probably a week. We finished them yesterday.
The good news though is that today has been a pretty good day without them. I've craved a couple of times, but nothing a few mints didn't take care of. So i'm quitting again.

 

[69Muffin]

Hon, you gotta hang in there. No matter how bad the cravings get. I know they get bad, but you keep putting yourself back to that 14 days. You were what, only about 4 days from being free of nicotine? Now you have to do it all over again. I'm telling ya hun, celery sticks, carrot sticks, pencils, pens, anything. Just don't put another cigarette in your mouth.

I work in the medical field and I read something that blew me away. It didn't when I was younger, but now, it scared the hell out of me for my friends that still smoke. My sister too. Smoking does take 15 years off of your life. Now if you're over 40, that should scare the hell out of you. I know it did me.

So you hang in there hon. I know you can do it. If you don't want to do it for yourself, do it for you kids. I'm sure they'd like their mom to live 15 years longer than she will right now.

 

[James4]

Hey, stick with it. I quit 4 weeks ago. I guess the physical part is over, but I still have cravings that feel just about as bad as that first week. I keep telling myself, why go through that hell again. Gum helped me. Then I got so sick of chcewing that I switched to candy. Just make sure I brush an extra time. YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!