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May 18, 2006, 1:18 pm PDT
 Quote From: darcey Good job Bev I'm really encouraged by you! Your struggles sound the same as mine I can really relate to you. I react to my husband the same way and he responds with the same as yours. Thank god I found somebody that can encourge me and I would like to do the same for you. I think it would be much harder for me to deal socially if all my friends were smokers, but that just shows me You Got the Power! Good Job. I want to pick a quit day but I wonder if just quitting today would be the thing to do, why prolong it I guess. How do you program yourself to not take the smoke? Remember Dr. Phil says you have to replace one habit with another, what did you do? Did you stop doing certain things or going certain places in order not to pressure yourself. And I don't think you're crazy for talking to yourself, when there's no one else to "pat your back", you have to rely on yourself. I'm going on a 2 week holiday at the end of June and because I usually don't make it past the 3 week mark I'd like to stop smoking so that when I'm on holidays I'll be on my 3rd week and hopefully be too busy having fun that I won't think about that smoke. Plus the couple we're going with doesn't smoke so it would just be my husband puffing away! I don't know, I just need a game plan. Thanks Bev for your reply and keep up the good work you're doing great!!! I can't believe how anxious I feel, CRAZY! Darcey Hi Darcey. Thank you. I can't explain in words how you make me feel by saying that I have encouraged you. Quitting smoking is a hard road and everyone here knows. And it is wonderful all the support that is here. It is so hard to deal socially with so many people you know smoke. They say to pick a quit day but not to pick a day to far in the future. I have programmed myself with just that smoking is just killing me. I feel it in my chest. And I want to be around for my kids. Linda has told me just say N.O.P.E not one puff ever and it has stayed with me. So I just say nope, nope, nope in my head. Nope don't want one. For my habit I have picked up chewing lots of gum. All the times I would want a smoke crave for it I would just grab a piece of gum and take really deep breaths. The deep breaths really works you know, you would usually take that deep breath of smoke instead you have replaced it with just plain ol air. And I know exercise daily every morning after I drop the kids off to school. I avoided my friends who smoke for about 3 weeks. The first week was bad not so bad. The second or third week not sure why got a little harder fought threw it hard. And now it's not so bad. I know smell cigarette smoke everywhere and it is a bit gross. Especially when you smell it on people. Really gross. Your plan on quitting smoking sounds like it may be good time to quit for you. As long as you can think ahead if there will be a lot of temptation that will make you want to smoke. Especially when your husband will be smoking. Good luck to you. Hope to hear from you on when your quit day. I know that anxious feeling that was how I felt this time. Determined to do it. You can download a silk quit meter on www.silkquit.org. Good luck to you. Beverly One month, one day, 7 hours, 17 minutes and 23 seconds. 438 cigarettes not smoked, saving $157.77. Life saved: 1 day, 12 hours, 30 minutes.
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