For everyone on the "quit smoking" movement

nursee67

Hi everyone!
First of all...congrats to those of you quitting! I quit Oct 14, 2009. I will always remember that date. I had tried quitting numerous times without success. The longest I ever went was 10 months...didn't want to smoke during pregnancy. I returned to smoking as soon as I was able to return to work. My mother died at age 58 from COPD...awful disease that smokers have. I knew then I wanted to quit. It took me almost three years after her death to do so. How did I do it? I went to a support group. We met weekly and discussed why we smoke and why we want to quit. I met many people...some with 50 yrs of smoking history. Wow! We also received 6 weeks of nicotine replacement therapy...I did the patch. After our 'quit' day...we met this inspiring woman. She tried quitting 17 times.....she would get jealous of people who smoked. They can smoke...I can't smoke. Then she realized...I CAN smoke...I just choose not too. She said...1 cigarette is 2 packs to her. I take that same advice...1 cigarette is one pack for me. My kids are thrilled. I don't stink and neither does my car. I can breathe....my resting heart rate is 60-62 rather than 84-86. I can walk and not get short of breath. I have added some years to my life. How wonderful is that! So...good luck to you all.
BTW...I take the same 'I can do it" attitude with my weight loss.

lucky1ns

I read once that someone said they were jealous because someone else "got" to smoke.

Then realized that they "had" to smoke.

Check this out, it changed my life (2 years on 3/3/10)


http://www.opposingdigits.com/ebooks/Easy.Way.To.Stop.Smoking.pdf

Here is a link to the site of the author-

http://allencarr.com/central/

And yet another book-

http://www.whyquit.com/joel/#book

Courtesy of this helpful site-

www.whyquit.com

And a great online forum that helped me find all this stuff-

http://www.quitsmoking.com/bbs.htm

nursee67

Another wonderful book is called..."Out of the Ashes" By Peter and Peggy Holmes. It helps former smokers with inspirational sayings. These people were former smokers as well.

robin52077

I just quit but feel WAY better and will NEVER smoke another cigarette!

sofaking6

Thursday will be my 4 month marker since quitting for the 3rd time. Here's to it being the LAST TIME!

I hate smoking. I hate cigarettes. I hate the smell, the disease, the slavery, the expense, the whole gross mess of it.

lisamcraig

I quit 6 weeks ago tomorrow and feel great. I had tried numerous times to quit also. My goal by my 40th birthday was to quit smoking and lose a little weight I had put on, that didn't happen. My goal when we got to 2010 was to quit smoking and lose the larger amount of weight I have now gained by my 45th birthday. On tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 7 am, I smoked my last cigarette and I am done. I too, hate smoking, hate cigarettes, hate the smell, the disease and I am done with it.
I did put on an additional 5 pounds, but now all I have left to do is lose the weight and that's the easy part.

megamom

I quit Sept 1, 2006, best thing I ever did for myself. Congratulations to all you quitters out there. You will be so happy you quit. I took care of a smoker the other day, I am a nurse. The patient smelled sooooooo bad and just reeked of cigarettes. I said if we could bottle that scent and spray some every time someone wanted a smoke it would make them lose that desire right away.

sonnacchio

I quit a year and a half ago and don't regret it at all...however, it seems I am in the minority on this: I miss smoking. It was my time-out, my break, my after dinner mint. It got me out of social situations I didn't want to be in. If smoking was good for you, or at least not bad for you, I'd still be a smoker.

Don't get me wrong, I WANTED to quit and finally did. That desire was bigger than the urge to smoke, so that should say something about how much I wanted to quit. I can now do things I keep forgetting I can do - like go to the mall and not want to run outside for a "break" or take an aerobics class and be able to participate without gasping for air.

That being said, I refuse to jump on the "Smokers are bad, bad people!" wagon. I live in a state that taxes smokers $6 on every pack they buy. If that same tax was passed on to the soda drinking public, or the fast food public, or the health food public, there would be a public outcry of FOUL! Smokers are people who haven't learned how to quit or found the reason to quit. Smoking can become the one thing a person has when they have nothing else.

So, while I am personally proud that I quit, and I am happy for others who choose to quit. I refuse to point my finger at the smoker and say," EWWWW!"

(Sorry, just a little personal pet peeve of mine.)

nursee67

I agree with sonnachio...I will never become one of those"you better quit smoking" ex-smokers. I know what it's like to try and quit. I know what it's like to be in the enjoyment of smoking. I always say...a person will quit when they are ready...All I can say is...I am happy that I quit!

Ryhenblue

I quit smoking in 2002 using Zyban after my father died of lung cancer at the age of 45. Now I'm really sensitive to cigarette smoke. If I'm at a stop light I smell it in my car if someone is smoking in a car near me. If I go into a house or business that have smokers in it I get sick. I'll smell the smoke on my clothes and in my hair. My pet peeve though is the person smoking at the entrance of the building where people are coming and going. It's disgusting and I shouldn't have to smell it. I feel like there isn't a high enough tax on cigarettes. If people can't afford them then maybe that'll be reason enough to quit.

I also agree with the soda and fast food tax.

NancyMoedt

Help!!!

I want to quit smoking :smokin: and lose weight at the same time. Is this even possible?

I have 2 packs of cigarettes left and when they are gone, I'm not buying more.

Please help.

lucky1ns

Nancy read that book I posted above bright before you quit, he wants you to smoke while you read it.

It will change your life, I swear.