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Post by Ann on Jun 28, 2010 7:47:56 GMT -5
I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend smoke free and you are ready to have another week of not smoking under your belt.
The humidity here has been awful, I've been hiding inside the house. I sure hope we get relief soon, it might drive me to drink but not to smoke! ;D
Keep The Quit
Jan. 20, 2000
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Post by Flo on Jun 28, 2010 13:48:56 GMT -5
Good morning Ann! We have been having a horrible time of it here with weather more like October than June but I won't complain. Our neighbours in the east are experiencing floods and tornadoes and then heat waves! Still ever so grateful that I am free of cigarettes and feel the benefits of it every day.
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Post by freeatlast on Jun 28, 2010 19:42:18 GMT -5
wow i don't know where i am at where to type i posted last nite for the 1st time ever on a forum where it said new pm people should go and no one has spoken there since me 1030pm last nite...i really am looking for people to talk to back and forth...now and whenever i need....am i at the wrong place....really looking for a chat room where people are talking now...do people do that anymore? i just need people to talk to...i talk...they talk....right now...WHEN I SIT HERE WANTING A CIGARETTE !!!!!
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Post by Flo on Jun 29, 2010 12:16:38 GMT -5
Hey Free at last! Welcome! I see you posted yesterday but I hope you haven't given up on us. We are a sleepy site full of old timer/veterans who have been quit for many years (I am one of the newer ones who has been free of cigarettes for four years now. I hope you are hanging in. You sound a bit (ha!) desperate. Don't be desperate. Think about why you quit and keep that at the front of your mind at all times. The first hours are easy as you are living off the stored nicotine in your body but once that is used up, your body starts to crave and that is your body telling you in no uncertain terms that it needs a fix. Don't give in. Remember why you quit. Each time you fight and win that crave you get stronger and the crave gets weaker. You will even get to that point if you're lucky of being quit for a month or two or three or four and there are no more craves...then the real addiction starts as your mind starts telling you that you can have that one cigarette and all the talk about addiction is just a pack of bull. Don't listen.
It's really quite simple. If you want to quit smoking, just don't smoke. I know that sounds callous and insensitive but it's true. Do anything. Yell, scream, eat - but don't light up. Your quit is only as strong as your convictions which led you to quit in the first place.
For me, it was the realization that I fight the addiction now or fight lung cancer or some other horrible disease that smoking brings later. That's the only choice you have. Fight the crave now or fight the disease later.
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Post by slim on Jun 29, 2010 21:07:23 GMT -5
Checking in
Freeatlast....way to go on deciding to take back your life~! 3 weeks quit is quite an accomplishment.
You made it through Hell Week and Heck week and pushed thru week 3 which in my case was a small miracle. Don't let the nicobeast romance you in to having just one, remember that smoking is not an option no matter what! Surf the net for chat rooms..they are out there. If you have questions for us, ask away. Always glad to help a fellow ex smoker. Keep your quit.
9 Years 2 Weeks 4 Days 3 Hours 31 Minutes 4 Seconds.
Cigarettes not smoked: 99154.
Money saved: $19,830.88.
1 Yr 10 Mos 2 Wks 5 Days 13 Hrs 43 Mins 58 Secs
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Post by Dot on Jun 30, 2010 8:12:00 GMT -5
Well, Dot's back again, with 26 days. Hope you guys don't slam the door in my face!
Dot
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Post by Flo on Jul 2, 2010 11:32:21 GMT -5
Hi Dot! You are amazing and I love you. You have amazing stamina though it may not seem like it. You fall off the wagon but you always get back on. You know the saying, Never quit quitting! One of these days, it'll take. You'll see. Miracles can happen. Look at me.
I had a dream last night - things are kind of stressful right now with my Dad in late states of dementia and we are looking at putting him in another home that specializes in this condition - he's been freaking out lately, yelling and throwing things at the nurses and trying to run away - it's been very stressful - well, in my dream, I'm with my mom and we are stressed over my dad and then I have a cigarette. I am totally alarmed but I am thinking of buying a pack of cigarettes. Someone buys me a pack and hands it to me. I take it and I'm fighting it. Then I remember that one cigarette leads to a carton and I take the package and throw it out the window. Determined yet again to stay away from cigarettes.
Whew! So, dont give up. Never quit quitting! You'll win one of these days. Like the lotto, it may be a slim to nothing chance of winning but it's 100 percent sure that you won't win if you don't buy a ticket.
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