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Post by willpower on Jul 21, 2004 19:06:16 GMT -5
Day 3 - Was hell this morning but got better throughout the day. Tonight was kinda difficult.
I hate my house...smells....gotta sell it and buy a new one.
Car smells too.
Update tomorrow.
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Post by Dee on Jul 22, 2004 18:14:21 GMT -5
Wow willpower, is it that easy? Gotta sell it and buy a new one? I wish I had known that! We spent months cleaning and painting. Sheesh, I could have just sold it and bought a new one! Now ya tell me! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by willpower on Jul 23, 2004 7:47:31 GMT -5
LOL Dee, wish it were that easy but I don't think we will have much luck selling a house that smells like an ashtray. Home Depot, here I come.
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Post by slim on Jul 23, 2004 13:27:13 GMT -5
Hey Willpower, I found this board on day 4....I was wondering around the net like a crazy man prior to...you should feel good about stumbling across us on day 1! In real estate we have a saying and it goes like this: "If you can smell it, I can't sell it" Can I hear an amen Fresh and clean sells faster and for more money. We also say: "spend a nickel to make dime" However: after you spend the nickel you might just want to stay! ;D
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Post by Karyn on Jul 27, 2004 13:43:08 GMT -5
Hi Willpower! I am 39 also and have smoked for 23 years except the two times I was pregnant. I would have never made it through the second time if not for these wonderful people on this board. I too started after my second son was born and I quit breastfeeding. I hate it and am on my way to quiting too. I think the same things as you do, I want to see my sons grow up. They are 21 months and almost 5 years old. I will be 40 August 5th. I know I need to quit and I know I want to, problem is I cant make that date to actually quit. Not sure what it is going to take. Everything you have said about your symptoms sounds very normal. Hang in there I hope to be right behind you girl, and just remember to hang here with these great people they will help tremendously Karyn
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Post by willpower on Jul 27, 2004 14:06:36 GMT -5
Well, I havn't been updating as often as I should but I'm happy to say today is day 8 of my new life smokefree. Today was the first day that the cravings have subsided considerably. I can't believe I made it through the weekend. I am so proud of myself! Karyn, you let us know when your ready and we will be here for you too. I love being able to get support, and I needed it several times the past few days. My husband is also smoke free for 8 days too. HOORAY!
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Post by Karyn on Jul 27, 2004 14:15:38 GMT -5
THat is so wonderful willpower, I am so happy for you and your hubby. You go girl and keep it up, I am sure your kids will like the smell much better also. You know I dont smoke in the house but I know it is on my breath and clothes. Poor kids are going to grow up thinking that is what a mommy smells like (well not when I quit they wont) so take heart in knowing you are a clean smelling mommy now. Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by MK on Jul 27, 2004 21:01:29 GMT -5
;D
Hello Willpower!
Welcome to the board. I logged on 4 years ago and it was an important tool in the battle to quit. Yes, I mean battle. Initially I fought for every day quit. But day by day it got a little easier. I fought through the depression, weight gain. I still fight but the more I am removed from the cigarette the better I am.
Hang in there. No matter what goes on in your life, do not pick up a cigarette. The benefits are great.
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Post by redhotmama on Jul 30, 2004 17:03:45 GMT -5
Hell all! I just joined all of you. I am online to get some much-needed courage. I have been quit 39 days and I think my cravings today are worse than they were the first week. Perhaps in the beginning I was all gung-ho in my committment..............whatever the reasons.............I am fighting for my life here! My 4 year old grandaughter begged me to stop smoking , in her words "Grandma it will kill you"........she is only 4 1/2!!!!! Last week a neighbour passed away from esophageal cancer..........a long drawn out painful death on huge doses of morphine for the pain. She was my age (59), a drinker and a smoker but she had quit smoking............the effects nevertheless manifested themselves years later in her cancer. We have already done perhaps (perhaps not) irreversible damage to our bodies....................I cannot continue to do so and hope to see this grandaughter graduate from high school. I know all this in my sane moments like now, but insanity can hit like a thunderbolt with the sudden whiff of someone lighting up. This quitting is the hardest thing I have ever done..........childbirth was a walk in the park!!! I congratulate all those who are struggling one day at a time and I am also patting myself on the back for my 39 clean-lung days.............I am worth it and so are all of you! Looking forward to meeting some new friends!
redhotmama ;D
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Post by MK on Jul 30, 2004 21:01:38 GMT -5
Hang in there mama. You don't need those smokes. It gets easier day by day. Welcome to the board!!!
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Post by willpower on Aug 5, 2004 8:43:22 GMT -5
Day 17...when will these overwhelming cravings go away. I had to stop the patch because I was having an allergic reaction to it. So its been cold turkey for the last week. Will update again in a few days.
BTW, hubby is still smoke free also.
Lisa
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Post by jpkwitter on Aug 5, 2004 11:18:39 GMT -5
those cravings will never really go away...they will just come fewer and farther between...embrace them...makes friends with them...accept them...it takes away the power of them...and it means you are alive and kicking that beast to the far corners of the universe or further than that even. Hang in there...keep busy...drink lots and lots of water...do something you have always wanted to do but never had the time or inclination to get around to it. Even going for a walk with no destination is a pleasure. JP p.s. Congrats to your hubby!! WTG both of u
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Post by willpower on Aug 5, 2004 12:20:06 GMT -5
What, never go away? Come on...certainly people don't continue this miserable the rest of their lives? Every little crisis that comes along brings with it the overwhelming urge to "make-up" for lost time. Had it not been for my 7 year old son I would have caved in and bought cigs last night. It was alot easier to deal with when I was using the patch...but a terrible itchy rash in every spot I placed the patch forced me to stop using them. Now it is just that, Willpower, or nothing.
I have started working-out at the gym twice a week and at home too. I have changed the way I eat, less calories, less fat, less cholestoral.... Both my parents have heart disease, both have undergone by-pass surgery. Their surgeon told me that with both my parents having heart disease, it was death sentence for me to continue smoking...that was told to me 5 years ago, but yet I still continued to smoke.
Couldn't walk-up a flight of stairs without gasping for air...but I continued smoking. Couldn't take a deep breath without my lungs hurting...but I continued smoking.
NO MORE! I won't give-in to "death". Isn't that what this is all about....life or death? Life or a slow, painful, torturing death!
If nothing else, I like posting here because it allows me to "remind" myself in writing about the reasons why I MUST win this battle, no matter how hard.
Until next posting.....
WILLPOWER!
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Post by MK on Aug 5, 2004 20:11:18 GMT -5
Hang in there!! You are doing great. One day at at time.
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Post by slim on Aug 5, 2004 23:33:41 GMT -5
I often found that I could come here and post alot of my thoughts and ramble a bit and after which the beast had fallen asleep for a bit. What ever it takes right! It really is a life or death choice.
Way to go Willpower.....Keep the quit!!!
I quit cold turkey - so it is possible
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