Topic : Trying to Quit Smoking?

Hey Marcoblue; 

You are doing so well.  Keep at it.  Try to stay busy, hands and mind.  Everyone has his\her own way of quitting.  I was one of those who had a quit several times before I was successful.  My prayers are with you and take each day as it comes.  Post here often, other look to you for inspiration.  Don't sweat the small stuff and lots of luck.   

Aggie One year, one month, three weeks, one day, 12 hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds. 10388 cigarettes not smoked, saving $4,150.17. Life saved: 5 weeks, 1 day, 1 hour, 40 minutes.
 

Hi Linda from Montana 

I'm from Texas, we are truly from two different climates, love to have some of your cool air down here.  

I quit smoking with the help of this board. Smoked 34 years, tried a many of times to quit, but the support was great here, and it was what I needed in getting me though the tough times. I too used the cigarettes as a best friend, they were always there for me. And I wanted to break those chains. Aggie and I are some of the "old timers" from the board, Aggie has been on longer than I and a wonderful support. How we got going in quitting smoking. Pick a quit date, then we went on wellbrutrin to take the edge off  of quitting, then I got on the nicotine inhaler to help coast me along. Some get on the nicotine patches or gum. You are replacing you stick and that is part of the trick in quitting. I have tried so many times and could get more than 2 or 3 days before I gave in, alot of the times it was just a few hours, nicotine is one hell of a drug addiction, and that is what you are dealing with nicotine drug addiction.  

Post often, will be here for you, lets us know your progress. And like anything else the wellbrutin its a prescription. I have heard that you can't mix nicotine and chemo, it's like a poison mixture. 

Linda 

One year, one week, five days, 21 minutes and 21 seconds. 11310 cigarettes not smoked, saving $2,188.57. Life saved: 5 weeks, 4 days, 6 hours, 30 minutes.
 

Hi Aggie, 

How are you? I see you are doing great in the dieting department . Good for you, me long way to go. I keep hoping it will just melt off. But a few years of seeing that isn't going to happen is a reality check there. Dam mirrors just don't lie!!!!! 

 Computer of mine went crashing and so that is why I haven't posted in a while. Sure does bite when it's time to buy another and you didn't plan on it. 

Well hope all is well with you.  

Linda 

One year, one week, five days, 31 minutes and 16 seconds. 11310 cigarettes not smoked, saving $2,188.61. Life saved: 5 weeks, 4 days, 6 hours, 30 minutes.
 

Hi Marcoblue 

Yes you are going to make it. We all have to stumble before we learn to walk and that is what quitting smoking is about. Learn from your mistakes and gain as much knowledge as you can in the weapons to use in stop smoking. It's all one step at a time,  and with smoking one minute at a time sometimes. Keep us updated with your progress. How long did you smoke? 

Linda 

One year, one week, five days, 39 minutes and 42 seconds. 11310 cigarettes not smoked, saving $2,188.64. Life saved: 5 weeks, 4 days, 6 hours, 30 minutes.
 

Hello everyone. I am a 32 soon to be 33yr old woman. I have been smoking since I was 13 years old. I have four children. When I was pregnant with each of my children I was able to quit smoking with no problems at all. Never thought twice about wanting to smoke when I was pregnant but a few months after the baby was born I would start again. I had my last child 7 years ago and don't plan on having any more. But in these 7 years I have been trying to quit over and over again. Longest has been 3 months. I have my next date to quit which will be on April 17. I am going to try the patch again religiously. I know I have to be successful this time and will try my hardest. It makes me angry that I am having so much problems with quitting. I look at a cars exhaust smoke and think of I my as well be sucking on that exhaust pipe. My husband is also a smoker which will make it harder because he just can't quit. I wish he would also try. His mother past away a few years ago from lung cancer.  

Hi Linda,

Sometimes it takes  people other than family to help a person. You've heard where you been telling someone, for instance your hubby like" you need to do this or that", and they just don't hear you. Then a friend or a stranger tells them the exact same thing and they listen. My family begged me for years to quit smoking, but I didn't want hear it or give it up. Then one day you have something like cancer hit your life and you are ready to make a change. For me it was being with other smokers on this board that helped in my quitting. Before I was with alot of non-smokers, and they don't understand the things you go through in quitting.

 We are here for you. Have you picked a quit date?

Linda

Bam2468

My question to you is how old was your mother-n-law when she passed away? Take that age and subtract it from your age, that's probably how many more years you have with your children !!!!!! I don't mean to sound harsh, but smoking is something you don't come out winning. I too started at an early age (16) and smoked till I was 49, when I diagnosed with lung cancer. At that time I had a son 9 years and a daughter 27. I felt  I had our daughter well on her way in life, one day  seeing her get married and have children, but there was so much I wanted to teach my son about life he was only 9, and I had just cut it short with my cancer. There was no two ways about it, that my smoking caused the lung cancer. Through a lot of praying and I mean alot of praying and the removal of a whole lung, I got a second chance. But I had to gamble again with the smoking after my surgery for at least 1 year, age 50 and a closet smoker. If that wasn't twisted. But the patience of this board showed me the way. And now I'm smoke-free for one whole year, longer than I ever  was smoke-free before. My lungs so far are cancer free to this point. A tear drops from eyes reading what I have wrote to you. You have so much in life, your children and but most important you have you. With you, they are have it all, without..............

Linda 

One year, two weeks, 3 hours, 20 minutes and 17 seconds. 11374 cigarettes not smoked, saving $2,200.90. Life saved: 5 weeks, 4 days, 11 hours, 50 minutes.