QuoteReplyTopic: O/T--Wish Me Luck, Girls! Posted: June 09 2005 at 6:33pm
I love zyban!!!! It made me forget to smoke and added benifit it helped my ADHD.Ahhhh to focus. To bad the cost was so great or it could be lack of will power Hmm..I went off it and started again. Truly one sided I will only date non smokers because I will not smoke if I'm dating one. It gives me that extra jolt of guilt I so need. I have had hipnosis, and patch oh yea acupunture and every morning for an hour or so I go cold turkey.I do wish you luck and maybe joining you ,I have a date tomarow with a non smoker!!
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I smoked a long time ago and quit after a night of (what else?) heavy drinking and smoking and I was like GROOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!! when I smelled my clothes.
Anyway - I am really glad you let us all know. I love this board, and I am so glad to be able to offer support to you. And I just want to say "you don't have to do it perfectly". Ya know? Like, if you happen one day to have one teeny-tiny cigarette along the way, be patient and gentle with yourself. I agree with the cold turkey approach, AND I just think it's really important to be compassionate with yourself and what you will be going through. And on the other hand maybe it will be really easy!!
In any case, I'm here, and I know everyone else is too!!
Keep it in the day works too. Or the moment. Just don't smoke for one day. Drinking alot of H20, walking, meditating, joining a smoke quitters support group, believing in yourself. I KNOW you can do it, just for today.
I smoked about 20 years ago, ended up in the hospital and had surgery (girl stuff) and never had the desire to smoke again! When I got out of the hospital, I just didn't want to smoke anymore. Weird. I haven't had a drink in fifteen years. Anything to quit is hard but it sounds like you want it bad enough! You can do it!
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Good Luck Jenny girl! I had a friend that went to see the mad russian and she was able to quit and if she could quit I know you can. Think of all the money you'll save? Everytime you want to light up put the money you were going to spend on cigarettes in a piggy bank and save it up and then splurge on some really funky hair as a reward.
But good luck to ya!
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You know what may havehelped me in the last two weeks as well (cause
i've really only had cravings when mad, or having a drink). I
just joined a gym. Like nearly simultaneously. I mean I
worked out some anyhow, But I've really cranked up the total
time. Though I hadn't planned it this way. hmmm.
So maybe an extra run in the morning when you would normally stick you
rhead out for that first morning drag. crap. Now I need to
go find soething to distract myself.
Jenny, when I quit smoking I used the patch and it helped a lot...did have those vivid dreams, though, amm...weird! So I wouldn't advise applying them in the evening. The one thing that I think helped me the most, and probably helped me from gaining the weight that I had every other time I tried to quit...COFFEE!. If you already drink coffee regularly this won't help, and you could debate whether a caffeine addiction is any better than a nicotine addiction, but it helped me tonnes. Gave me something to do with my hands and mouth, and added that little stimulant edge that my body was used to. I think it really took the edge off the withdrawal. I've tapered off a lot now, just a cup or two a day, but I drank pots of the stuff when I first quit. The second best thing I did was stop drinking. That was when I always relapsed after quitting before...in a bar, with friends...I'll just have one for old times sake...all of a sudden I was smoking again . It was two years after I quit before i started drinking again and felt safe. It was worth it though.
Good luck to you. It's so worth it, and you'll feel so proud of your self :)
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thats wonderful to hear!!! I personally dont smoke and never
have, I am allergic to it, which makes it hard to go to clubs and out
because i am really sick the next day! I would just take the
money you would spend on the cigarettes and put it in a piggy bank
everyday...like make it a habitual thing like after dinner or when u
would go try to smoke, and then when you think you are healed...or have
completely stopped, see how much money you have...and then you can buy
more hair! :-) sorry just thought it was a good idea...it definetly is
an expensive habit though! Goodluck, you can do it!
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good luck Jenny, I know its a hard habit to break. I wish you all the luck in the world!
Im a smoker too. Ive quit several times over the years. Ive quit for a year at a time. And then I always use an excuse (when I get stressed) to start back up. Ive never had a problem quitting, once Ive put my mind to it! I wish I could get my mind back in that mode again! The hardest thing for me is saying NO to the first cigarette. Ive been thinking more about quitting again lately....maybe my mind is getting ready again!
Thanks, girls! I'm terrified, but also pretty psyched. Smoking is so
harmful, expensive, and inconvenient, among other things, so the other
day, I was just like, "That's it--I've had enough." Now, I just need to
follow through.
By the way, I got free nicotine patches from the City of New York for agreeing to be in a survey!
Jenny that's wonderful. I've got all fingers and toes crossed for you. Me and my hubby stopped smoking a year ago and we can't believe we ever smoked now its great. We had tried before by cutting down but it didn't work we always seemed to creep back up on our intake. The cold turkey was the only way for us. We found it hard like Amm in the car on the way to work in the morning and at dinner break and after every meal so we bought those little chew bars to replace the smoking after meals, you know like the wham bars and stuff that get stuck to your teeth. They take ages to chew on so the feeling of something missing had gone by the time we'd finished them and I only put 4lb on from eating those and stopping smoking which has now come off again xxx
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I completely and wholeheartedly recommend Wrigleys Bubblemint Orbit gum. Go ahead and buy 15 packs and put them in every pocket. That along with the Zyban should keep you busy and keep you from eating your way through the process.
That Zyban really is a miracle. I took it for two weeks before I quit... started taking it for depression after I had a miscarriage... and ended up quitting smoking. I just didn't need them anymore.
Sadly I started again in March when my dad died, crisis smoker...but I'm getting ready to quit again. and again if necessary.
I quit cold turkey two and half weeks ago. So far so good.
Just try to stay out of high temptation situations for a while.
Don't go out when the office is taking their smoke break. Stay
away from the booze if you are at all like me and smoke five times as
much once the liquor is in.
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. It was two years after I quit before i started drinking again and felt safe. It was worth it though. 
Good luck to you, you can do it!
