Topic : Trying to Quit Smoking?

here is the link for the meter:
www.silkquit.org/meter.html
click on the dlownload silkquit 02.60 for windows. Save to your desktop and then install the software. The first time you run it, it will ask for your quit date, how many cigs a day you smoked and the price of a pack of cigs. Good Luck

www.whyquit.com  is another good site

Linda

One year, two weeks, 19 hours, 49 minutes and 1 second. 11394 cigarettes not smoked, saving $2,204.89. Life saved: 5 weeks, 4 days, 13 hours, 30 minutes.

  Thanks for the information!  I quit 6  years ago for 7 months and I always counted how much money I was saving.  I guess it made me feel good to know I was saving my family big bucks!! HA!

Hi Linda, 

So sorry to hear about your cancer that is really rough. Keep posting on the board with your progress, we care. It's really got to be very hard to think about quitting. Take the smoking one hour at a time. And if you didn't pick one up, pat yourself on the shoulder.  If you can't do it that particular hour, maybe the next will be better. Keep as busy as you can. We are here to help. 

Linda from Texas  

She was in her 50's. I do think of that a lot. I am sorry to hear about you having had cancer I am happy to hear that they were able to remove it and that you are cancer free. God bless you. Stay strong. Tear drops fall from my eyes reading your story. I want to be around for a long time. I don't want to lose that time with my children. Before I made that decision to quit. I lay in bed every night just thinking how I am going to die young and my children won't have me. It's not fair to them. What really got me was I was playing with my children after school as I always do. We were playing tag and I was running out of breathe and I had bad chest pain and had to quit playing. I quit on my quit date April 17. It's been 4 days. Not so bad actually. I guess I am finally ready and dedicated to quitting. I will start exercising in about a month or so. With the patch I read you have to take it off during exercising. I really don't want to take it off. So I will wait. Linda I thank you for your words and I will take your story and carry it in my heart and mind with me.  

Beverly 

Hi everybody!  

Sometimes you have to forget how you feel and remember what you deserve.  Have a great day!!  

Aggie
  

Aggie  One year, one month, four weeks, two days, 7 hours, 34 minutes and 37 seconds. 10582 cigarettes not smoked, saving $4,227.86. Life saved: 5 weeks, 1 day, 17 hours, 50 minutes.
  

Hi Beverly, 

Thank you for your kind words, your posting meant alot to me.  

I'm so proud of you. You have 4 days already behind you, yahooooo !! You quitting, this time it's for you, the outcome will be for everyone.  The one thing I took from this board was N.O.P.E.  not one puff ever. When you want that one cigarette really, really bad don't give in to that one. For me and many others on the board it just open the gate for many, many others.  It's like you can't stop at just one cigarette. I come to realize that this was just the nicotine taking control again. And that is one addiction that has a strong hold. I used the inhaler as a substitute, it didn't take long before I didn't need anything.  You are doing so good, keep posting. 

Linda  

One year, three weeks, 2 hours, 49 minutes and 55 seconds. 11583 cigarettes not smoked, saving $2,241.41. Life saved: 5 weeks, 5 days, 5 hours, 15 minutes.