Quitting smoking?
bethvandenberg
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So m doing it again...quitting smoking and was wondering who else out there may want to support that? I quit in 2010 and started again in 2011-12. Have big tri goals this year and don't want smoking as part of it.
Anyone need support during their non smoking quest as well?
Anyone need support during their non smoking quest as well?
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good luck on the journey of quitting smoking i know it is hard to do i quit 3 years ago and was a 3 pack a day smoker... i still love smoke and the smell of it i will say i went cold turkey and gained some weight but not alot..
I will be here to support your efforts... good luck!!!0 -
I would love to be able to quit smoking, I only found the willpower both times I was pregnant but started up again literally days after each was born! I'm currently looking at getting nicotine patches etc, wishing you luck!!0
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4 months smoke free for me after 17 years of a 3 packs a week. The workouts help a LOT. Every time I get a craving I think of how much my workouts and body would suffer.0
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Hi,
Stopping smoking is also one of my goals in the New Year.
I will be 30 in May and if I'm still smoking by then that will have made me a smoker for half my life so far
I have given up in the past but as many of us do I started again, this time I will stop for good.
I am currently 3/4 the way through "Allen Carr's - Easy Way For Woman To Stop Smoking Without Gaining Weight" and have to say it has completly changed the way I now think about smoking. Hopefully I will be a non-smoker by the time I finish the book.
Please feel free to add me as I could do with some support with this and am only to happy to help others if I can.
Love Gemma xx0 -
Today I celebrate 10 years of being a non-smoker. Yippee!! I smoked 2 large packs a day. I was 57 years old and smoked since I was about 16. I quit because of the cost and fear. I guess I'd be dead by now if I hadn't quit. Nicotine gum was my saving tool. The physical addiction goes away long before the habit. It took a long time before I stopped reaching for (nonexistant) cigarettes. Don't give up - you'll be happy as a non-smoker and you'll find out how smelly smoking is. Not to mention the money you'll save!0
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I quit smoking a little over three months ago using Chantix. It's been a tough journey, but I actually tried to cheat yesterday (drunken NYE f*ckery), and the cigarette was much too strong...it burned my throat!. Two drags and it was out the window. Chantix worked amazingly well for me and I occasionally use an electronic cigarette.
Good luck on this difficult journey. Feel free to add me.0 -
I quit in October when I quit drinking and started going to the gym.. I can't do one without the other.0
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I have also quit smoking for the new year, i am finding the e ciggerette a life saver, id probably of tried to strangle my fiance by now if i didnt have it. You should think of getting one if you start to find it hard, or miss the feeling in the back of your throat from smoking. Good luck ::) Hannah0
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I had my last cig on New Year's Eve. This is day 3 and so far, so good. Cold turkey was the only way to do it for me. I have been smoking a half a pack a day for 29 years. Good luck to all of us!0
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I quit 6 1/2 years ago. I smoked 1-2 packs a day plus chewed a can of skoal a day for around 20 yrs. I tried cold turkey, hypnosis, patches and the gum. None of them worked for me. I went and did the acupuncture and walked out of there like I never smoked or chewed. It made it the easiest thing in my life. No anxiety and no cravings. One of the best decisions I've ever made. I highly recommend looking into it.0
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I quit in Novemeber (for the third time). I had quit two other times on Chantix, but I quit because I found it too hard to date as a smoker - so I quit for the wrong reason. This time I quit for myself. I actually stopped using the Chantix right after I quit (even though you are supposed to keep using it). I just kept forgetting to take it, then realized, hey, I can do it without the meds
I have my health to think about now. It isn't about dating or quiting for someone else. I think that is the only way it works, if you want to quit for you!0 -
My last puff of a cigarette was a week ago Tuesday. It was really really tough at first but I got generic Nicorette Lozenges and those helped SO MUCH. Although I read on reviews on Amazon that a lot of people got addicted to the lozenges, which scared me, but I only used one or two a day and they worked wonders! I haven't used any lozenges for 3 days now and I feel fine. Just tired and emotional haha.0
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I made it to day 4. It's been 96 hours since my last cig. omg.0
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Good luck and good for you! My fiance quit cold turkey almost 2 years ago and hasn't had once since. I totally think its doable... its not necessarily easy. The big thing that helped him was taking away some of the environmental & behavioral triggers for doing it. So, no time around other smokers, no bars, etc. Now it doesn't hold any temptation, even around his family who all smoke.
YOU HAVE THIS.0 -
Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it dozens of times
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I smoked over a pack a day for 31 years. Last cig was March 31, 2012. It's been over 9 months and I don't miss it at all. Many failed attempts to quit over the years, but this one is it. I don't like the smell anymore at all.
The things that helped me the most were the electronic cig (but not the kind that look like a cig, they don't "smoke" enough). And I went cold turkey with the nicotine. I used 0mg nicotine liquid for the e-cig. It satisfied the hand to mouth part of smoking, as well as the feeling of the smoke being inhaled.
I also used an app for my phone called Quit Now. I still have it to remind myself how much money I saved so far and how many cigs I have not smoked. It also shows the health benefits of not smoking as you go along.
Good luck to anyone quitting. It's hard but definitely worth it. I never realized how out of breath I was doing simple things that I would never be able to do now while exercising if I was still smoking.0 -
I've never been a smoker...got lucky to not get addicted when I tried it as a teen. However, my bf is trying to quit. He's down from a pack/day to a half pack/day. So proud of him!0
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Oh yeah, most definitely. Also trying to quit. Kind of have to. Some days I almost make it, but I have zero willpower (even with patch + gum) living with smokers. Don't want to blame them, but I just am having such a hard time with it.
I did quit for over a year, once, in different conditions.
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Hey how's it going without the smokes? I'm on day 1 today, and it's not terrible.0
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Hey! I'm knocking on my one year anniversary of being smoke free. My date is January 16th. I smoked for 33 years and quit using Chantix, but the stuff made me incredibly loopy. Really. It was a wonder I still had a job by the time I came off of it. Cinnamon sticks helped a great deal! I chomped at least a hundred of them.0
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I have called the quit line and have a quit date set for January 12, 2013. I have smoked for 14 years and reall REALLY need some support from other smokers. I live in a house where everyone smokes. We are not allowed to smoke inside though so that is good that I won't have to smell it unless I go outside. Unfortunately smoking has become such a part of my life. I will do fine until I have to go to work. Break time means cigarette time and I will have to find something else to do for the 15 and 30 minutes that I used to smoke. Somebody please friend me because I have quit before only to start back up again.
I need the support and help and I will do my best to support and help you in returrn. One way that I look at it is this, I have been "fat" almost my whole life, I have only smoked for half my life, if I can lose 30 pounds in four months, I can quit smoking. Right???
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Hey! I'm knocking on my one year anniversary of being smoke free. My date is January 16th. I smoked for 33 years and quit using Chantix, but the stuff made me incredibly loopy. Really. It was a wonder I still had a job by the time I came off of it. Cinnamon sticks helped a great deal! I chomped at least a hundred of them.
Congrats, that's great!!
We can all do this!0 -
I quit and restarted a number of times over 30 years. But five years ago my doctor gave me a scare (a false alarm, as it turned out, but hey, it worked!). I tossed the cigs while I was still on the phone with the doc, then freaked out at what I had done. But this time it stuck. Mostly because for the first time, I saw my non-smoking as a liberation and not as a denial. I was thrilled to be a nonsmoker. I experienced cravings, but they didn;t make me want cigs, they just made me mad, as I didn't want to have them. Spent the first week out of the house as much as possible with friends, and then went to sleep immediately upon coming home. During day when I had cravings I would sing to myself until they passed, Also would text friends until they passed, or go on internet and read no-smoking websites. Went twice a week to a very informal quit smoking support group run by a grad student from the pub health school here. And read (and re-read) and book: Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking. Although I had already quit I read the book over and over. It was really the key to feeling like I had freed myself rather than that I was denying myself.
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I quit smoking about 9 years ago after many many many failed attempts. I haven't smoked since and don't miss it.
I quit cold turkey, had the support of my husband AND finally got it straight in my head. Quite simply, I didn't want to be an addict anymore and made that my mantra. Whenever I wanted to smoke, I repeated my mantra, really believing it, until the urge passed.
You have to want it for what it is. By that I mean, you can't quit for health or weight or your husband. You have to deal with the smoking head on and for what it is.
The truth is simple: you don't enjoy inhaling that foul smoke into your lungs. Your brain is addicted so has fooled you into thinking you enjoy it. What you ACTUALLY enjoy is satisfying your addiction. That feeling of calm you get is your jangling nicotine receptors getting their hit.
There are only 2 things keeping you smoking: physical addiction and fear. That's it. Fear that you will never enjoy a social situation again, fear that you will be chained to your desk with no hope of breaking the mind numbing monotony of your daily grind, fear that you won't be able to cope with stressful situations without it.
Well, you can and you will because millions of people who have never smoked all manage perfectly well!
Read "How to stop smoking" by Alan Carr. It literally changed my life.0 -
+1 for Allan Carr, I read The Easy Way and quit cold turkey after 20 years.0
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I'm also quitting.0
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Kudos to you for starting on the smoking cessation journey. My quit date is set for March 1st,2013. The last time I quit it was for 3 years during nursing school(hellacious time to quit right) but I figure if I could do it then I can go the distance now and so can you! Please add me and we can support each other...Fight the Habit:explode: :smokin:0
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2 1/2 weeks smoke free here! You can do it!0
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Goooooooodluck!!
I'm 21 & have been smoking for 6 years!
My partner & I (it was his idea) have made the decision to live healthier lives, not only for ourselves, but the kids we plan on having together:)
I WILL DO THIS!0 -
I quit cold turkey twenty years ago. Quitting was the hardest thing I have ever done. I was successful with family support (nobody else smoked at home) and breaking the associations between certain activities (drinking) and smoking. Good luck with your journey.0
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