Messages By: linda12k

In reading some of the postings, I try to take away at least one thing that will help me. My searching is for one question at a time. "Do you think that so much of what goes on in life and how it affects us is due to our chemistry in our bodies? One day we can be in a really good mood, and someone would say something a little on the sharp side, and I would think, did I bring on that answer, to be so sharp? Or is it what is going on in their life, that they don't like? What made me think of that was, when one time I was at a stop light waiting for it to turn green, and I looked over at the next car with the person in it. Thinking, I just got the some really bad news on my health. That person next to me doesn't know what is is going on in my life.  You really don't know what the other person is feeling inside that they come at you with sharp words. That was 2 years ago. I ponder on  that at times.

Thank you for your reply. Your last sentence "Often knowing who we aren't will help us understand who we are. "   

Of who we want to be or not want to be. Close to Shakespeare, but not trying to imitate. Being around certain people that are negative, I want to grow in a different direction. Bringing to light their short comings, does not help those. They only see their reflection in front of them. 

I do not want to be so narrow in my vision of the distance from me to the next  person. 

Linda 

Hi Everyone! 

I guess everyone is really busy shopping and decorating for the holidays. It can be a wonderful time and it can be not so wonderful too.  With everything taking place, for all that are trying to quit, hold on, just take a few more deep breaths when you have that urge!!!! For the rest that are contemplating quitting, when you pick a quit date, let it be just that a quit date. Not a date like, January 1, too much emphasis  put on that date. Just a day when you feel you are prepared to get a hold of the addiction.  My day was March 30, nothing sufficient about that day, other than it is MY Quit day.  

Touch base with whoever needs assurance in taking that step. 

  

Linda 

Eight months, 10 hours, 40 minutes and 3 seconds. 5890 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,113.34. Life saved: 2 weeks, 6 days, 10 hours, 50 minutes.
 

Wishing everyone a "Merry Christmas". 

 

Linda 

Eight months, two weeks, 23 hours, 46 minutes and 36 seconds. 6239 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,179.32. Life saved: 3 weeks, 15 hours, 55 minutes.
 

One of the greatest gifts you can give to yourself, "is to quit smoking". This I believe is one of the hardest things you'll have to do. Usually some of the hardest things that we have to struggle for, gives us the greatest joy for a long time. Good luck on your quest to be "smoke free".  

May the New Year ring in to all "Good Health and Happiness". 

 

 

Linda 

Eight months, three weeks, one day, 12 hours, 33 minutes and 16 seconds. 6420 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,213.48. Life saved: 3 weeks, 1 day, 7 hours, 0 minutes.
 

Well that "New Year" is almost here !! Time to reflect on what has pasted us by. Sometimes we think that the year pasted was not  that big of a year.  But we learned something down the road. 

 I heard this on Oprah many times "when you know better, you do better". For all that have tried soooo many times to quit smoking, "journal it down" your downfall, so the next step you take won't be in that same hole. Maybe in writing it, it will stick better in your mind. 

I too have cried, begged, and prayed so hard to quit the habit I thought I loved and hated. But this journey that I am now on has a real sense of peace with it. I too prayed to God  to help me quit, but he did not put that cigarette to my mouth. I did. I changed my prayers to help me find greater knowledge in dealing with quitting. And that happen, I discovered this board and the knowledge of other people is what help me find a way to get out of the smoke, the haze you are in.  Never give up your quest to be smoke free. 

Go back to the archives and read and read, you'll never regret it, you will come away with some knowledge about quitting. 

May the New  Year bring a sense of peace inside those, that are fighting a battle with themselves. And to those that have quit may the peace you have within, spill over to the ones that need it most. 

  

Linda 

  

Eight months, four weeks, one day, 14 hours, 9 minutes and 1 second. 6590 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,245.54. Life saved: 3 weeks, 1 day, 21 hours, 10 minutes.
 

Wow, the New Year started, and this board really picked up. I'm been on this board for a while now, trying to help when I can.  This is what I discovered from this board. 

1. Get a prescription of Wellbrutrin or Zyban; this takes the edge off of quitting, you have to be on it 1 to 2 weeks before you actually give them up. 

2. Pick a QUIT date. 

3. Get one of these; nicotine gum, inhaler or patch, to get you through the day, I personally used the inhaler. 

4. Post often on the message board of how you are coming along. 

5. Find something to keep hands busy. 

6. Get yourself a meter, www.silkquit.com , it is an incentive to keep going, once your meter is going on how long you have quit.  

7. Read some of the old postings on this board, to see what worked for others, also the "archives". 

  

Nicotine is one drug that will tell you  "just one more time", and if you do, you are  hooked again. 

I really believe everyone that has smoked, has tried many times to put them down, hopefully this will be the right time for you !!!!! 

I, myself smoked 34 years, a pack a day. I am also a Lung Cancer survivor, minus a left lung now. 

  

Linda 

  

Nine months, five days, 7 minutes and 45 seconds. 6720 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,270.10. Life saved: 3 weeks, 2 days, 8 hours, 0 minutes.
 

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 

  

Linda 

  

Nine months, six days, 1 hour, 49 minutes and 7 seconds. 6745 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,274.96. Life saved: 3 weeks, 2 days, 10 hours, 5 minutes.
 

Hi Amy 

I think the meter is great, it is such an incentive.  

  

Linda  

Nine months, one week, 12 hours, 41 minutes and 41 seconds. 6780 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,281.55. Life saved: 3 weeks, 2 days, 13 hours, 0 minutes.
 

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  

  

Linda 

  

Nine months, one week, three days, 11 hours, 18 minutes and 32 seconds. 6851 cigarettes not smoked, saving $1,294.90. Life saved: 3 weeks, 2 days, 18 hours, 55 minutes.