Topic : Trying to Quit Smoking?

Hello everyone, 

i would like to start out by introducing myself. I am  Meagan and I am currently a Non-Smoker of 9 months.  

I am proud of my accomplishment but I am starting to get Horrible cravings again, therefore thinking about smoking again. I had to throw out all my candle lighters and anything that can produce a flame just because i dont trust myself not to go for a smoke. 

i was just wondering if anyone had any advice 

Thanks for the encouragement and advice.  Sarah I wanted to ask you about Barb Tarbox.  She is from my town.  Are you near?  You must be in Canada?   

I have been on the Welbutrin now for 2 weeks.  I have cut down.  I will do this! 

thanks! :-) 

I am very excited.  I have established my quitting date as of April 3, 2006.  Counting down the days.  I must say that it's not only exciting but scary all at once.  I am looking forward to this battle.  I find that having an online diary is very helpful.  I also have one on my website.  It's great to read and re-read my entries.  I find it quite helpful.  Also the posts that other members make are very encouraging.  If there are other smokers, ex-smokers that would like to share hints and tips that would be wonderful.  Let's all gang up on this bad habit and beat it together.   

Soon to be a non-smoker 

Liz 

Today is a wonderful day, it's my ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF BEING SMOKE-FREE, yippee, yahooo. This is something that I thought I would never accomplish, quitting smoking. What we put ourselves through in trying so, so many times to quit.  

 If I was a runner, I feel I just won the marathon (and I don't run, but now I can take breaths, and not start coughing). This was a race for me to survive.  

Nobody grows up and says I want to be a smoker, it happens when you fall into an addiction that you would not believe how strong of a hold it will have on you !!!!! As a teenager it was cool in the 70's to smoke. In the 80's it was there for you like a cup of coffee. In the 90's you hear all the health issues of what it is doing to you. In the turn of the century, you make a decision many, many times to quit. But it is just not that simple. The nicotine has a hold on you like you would not believe. Something you thought where little chains you could brake any time you wanted. Then you start the process of saying "I am going to quit". You swear  those chains got bigger in link when it was time for a usual light up. The process begins with the praying "help me find the strength to quit". Then our bodies give in, and we light up again. Time to run down to the corner drug store and buy some patches, and give that a try. That may help some, but those chains are still there tighten, you haven't broke free yet. Then it's time to just give in and say "to heck with it", it's more fun to smoke. Years go by, love ones die of cancer and you wonder well it's time again to lay them down. I'm just going to quit and that is it !!! Only to look at the next day and say "I made it only 2 hours and I just had to have one, that's it". Tomorrow is another day, and I will try again. Before you realize it, you have smoked a many, many, years. Some people are lucky that they can quit and not get any repercussions out of it. Others will pay the final price. It is a true gamble every time you put a cigarette to your mouth. Enough of me preaching, with the help of prayer, quit smoking aids and a support system, that is hopefully how you can overcome "the smoking addiction". 

Linda 

(my quit date is the 30th of March, my meter will turn one year at 8:00 tonight) 

Eleven months, three weeks, six days, 14 hours, 44 minutes and 55 seconds. 10938 cigarettes not smoked, saving $2,116.58. Life saved: 5 weeks, 2 days, 23 hours, 30 minutes.
 

Hi Linda; 

Way to go!!!  Hope you are going to celebrate such a great accomplishment!  Wonderful, wonderful and keep up the good work as a mentor here. 

Aggie One year, one month, one week, four days, 6 hours, 27 minutes and 45 seconds. 10106 cigarettes not smoked, saving $4,037.63. Life saved: 5 weeks, 2 hours, 10 minutes.
 

Thank you so much Aggie. It is so good to see how well you are  doing, great job !!!! We both have came a long way.   

Linda 

Eleven months, three weeks, six days, 16 hours, 51 minutes and 9 seconds. 10941 cigarettes not smoked, saving $2,117.10. Life saved: 5 weeks, 2 days, 23 hours, 45 minutes.
 

Dear Amyec22, 

It's been awhile since i've come to this board, but , my husband and I just fell into the "we've got too much going on and being stressed out to keep trying to quit" mode.  So we're back to the drawing board on setting a quit date (again).  You were so supportive and gave us hope I thought I'd write you and tell you how much you helped when we firtst tried to quit.  maybe next week we'll do it but this time now that some of our stressors are behind us, maybe we can stick with our plan. 

Pray for us to be able to stick with it this time. 

  thanks again, 

Bruce and Berni 

I am extremely proud of myself.  Something I never am.  I am always one to beat the crap out of myself, so this has really made me feel really good about myself.  I have cut back to one pack or less a day.  I haven't smoked in the house in two weeks with really is cool.  And I'm working my way up to quitting.  I am in all or nothing person and for me have discipline and practice when cravings come up is preparing me for when I actually do it.   

I have been almost if not sometimes a 2 pack a day smoker.  That is a hell of an accomplishement and it is working for me.  I also have the habit of chain smoking during certain situation and that's been an accomplishment.  I will sit and smoke for any reason, at any time, I always had an excuse.   

I never thought that I could ever quit, I mean ever, I didn't know how to live without cigarettes, how I could ever function.  And now I am gaining more confidence that I can actually quit.  I feel like I will be successful in doing so.   

I don't know if this will work for anyone else, everything has been at the right place at the right time in my life, but this is so cool and it is working for me.   

And I have been successful at cutting back this time, when I might make it a day or so.  Just having to go outside to smoke and most of the time not smoking in the car, has been such an accomplishment for me.  I am serious and committed about this.  It has made such a difference. 

This is just so cool and it is working for me at this time....I feel like I'm going to make it!!