Ok. Yes I quit smoking. It was time.
Been almost 48 hours. Today was better than yesterday.
I'm wearing the patch.
I go back to work tomorrow and that will be hard
I'm used to going outside with my friends, smoking and talking
I'll still go outside with them but I'm afraid I'll really want one.
"No I won't" I tell myself
I am stronger than that little coffin nail!!!!!!!!

I've quit before but this time seems to be the hardest.
I wanna live to see my grandchildren get married.
Buy stock in gum, I'll be buying a lot!!!!!
Pray for me! I'm doing it this time!!!! NO SMOKING!!!!!!

thanks!


Fran

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I have OCCD
Obsessive-Compulsive Coupon Disorder!!!

Congrats and good luck!

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"Never loan your car to someone you have given birth too"

You are in my thoughts. You have made a very wise decision! Be strong.

CONGRATS TO YOU!!!!!!!

Sending all the good vibes your way!

{{{{{GOOD VIBES}}}}}

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Vicki


TLJ Women united in Spirit!

Congrats to you, but might I suggest NOT going out with the smokers. The temptation would not be worth it. Maybe just pick up a good book while they are out on their smoke breaks, or a good magazine. Then get together with them for lunch or something so you can still talk with them.

Congrats and good luck!

i've been smoke free for almost 26 months now, and it was one of the best things I've ever done!

PM me if you need to talk about it!

Sending you tons of postitive vibes



Good Luck to you......I have watched my Best Friend struggle with trying to stop smoking.....

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"You can never really pay back. You can only pay forward."

Wayne Woodrow “Woody” Hayes

O-H-I-O

Does this help?

that is tasty...yummers!

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Vicki


TLJ Women united in Spirit!

LOL! Yes Hersheys Pot of Gold will do that to you.

seriously? That picture is pretty graphic and should have a warning. It could cause some to become physically ill. I'm just saying...

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To me this is gross and not for the faint of heart
http://webmail.aol.com/33161/aim/en-...Inbox&partId=5

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Vicki


TLJ Women united in Spirit!

Good for you! I am sending positive no smoking vibes your way.


I quit over 10 years ago and am so glad I did. I still miss it, but less and less as the years go by. Initially, it helped me to not really think I was quitting. I just woke up every day with the plan to not smoke that day. I think it made it a bit less final and easier to get over the physical and then emotional habit.

I told everybody and anybody I wasn't smoking. I found the more I made it public the harder it would have been to start up again.

I had to change a lot of things in my life. I didn't go anywhere alone in the car or take long car trips for a few years. I had to stop drinking coffee for awhile.

Finally, I got myself a small gift every Friday for making it through another week. Perfume, earrings, chocolate, didn't matter. I just found it helped to memorialize another week without smoking. I think I did that for about a year.

Good luck! Sending many good vibes your way.

Ooh, I like that. Cigarettes are expensive, so a little treat for getting through time without them, or a fancy hot drink if you do go out, doesn't seem out of line. You might want to tell supportive coworkers about your decision, if just to have someone backing you up when your will's not so good.

Sending No Smoking vibes your way - good luck. If you have a set-back, just start up the next day.....every day without cigs is one more day for your body to recover.

I am wishing for you that one day you will wonder why the heck people stand out in the cold to smoke.....and you will think it's crazy!

Best wishes for 2008,

cj/

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I was walking home one night and a guy hammering on a roof called me a paranoid little weirdo. In morse code. -Emo Phillips

Good Luck! I quit Oct 3/07 still think about quite often but i haven't slipped up.

Congrats and good luck!

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Brenda

GO #24 JEFF GORDON

Congrats to you for making this big decision and good luck!!!


Sending lots of non smoking vibes your way!!!

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Sell crazy some place else, we are all stocked up here.

Thank you all so very much!!!!
Im at work doing good
yeah that pictures helps, I just want them to go back to a nice pink color.

Im chewing lots of gum still.
stoped at Target this to see if Christmas hit 90% yet and bought 3 packs of stride.

I will be in another building for a few weeks starting Monday so I won't see my normal smoke buddies
so I should be good!
every day it gets a little easier.

Thanks again!

Fran

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I have OCCD
Obsessive-Compulsive Coupon Disorder!!!

Glad to hear today went so well....Your doing awesome!

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"You can never really pay back. You can only pay forward."

Wayne Woodrow “Woody” Hayes

O-H-I-O

Hang in there Franny. I had my (hopefully) last cig on New Year's morning. I've been smoking since I was 11, I'm 47 now. Quit a couple of times but always went back. Now that my Mom has lung cancer I hope to never smoke again. I don't want my son to suffer because of my selfishness.

I stopped about 10 years ago after having an upper respiratory infection, I couldn't inhale if I wanted to. So I just decided that I didn't smoke anymore, not that I quit, but that I had already gone 2 days without them so why start now, the hardest was behind me. Pysch yourself up, soncentrate on the fact that you haven't had any for so many days and you don't want to blow that hard work.


I wasn't really ready to quit, but my lungs were, so that made it easier. I still walk by people smoking and take a big smell of them and still love it, but would never go back.

Good luck and find something else fun to do on the smoking breaks that is fun for you.

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"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." ~ Bernard Meltzer

Congratulations on QUITTING.

I had my last cigarette on May 24th. I have been an extremely heavy smoker for many, many years. I've tried several times to quit. I've used every aid there is to help you quit, even Zyban along with the strongest patch (together). Nothing worked for me.
Then, last spring I heard about a new smoking aid that was supposed to really work. I'm thinking "yeah, right". Then I was told about a Dr. in Logansport, Indiana who was pushing all his smoking patients to get on this new medication. He published an article in the Logansport Newspaper about this medication. In this article he claimed 90 to 95 percent success rate. I printed the article and took it to my Dr. She said she questioned his claim of success, but in looking around the exam room I was sitting in, there was literature sitting about this very drug.
I began taking this drug called Chantix. It is a 12 week program. You really are supposed to stop smoking after having taken the first week of pills. But being the heavy smoker that I was, I smoked the first month while taking it. But I was cutting down on how many I smoked.
I haven't been on the pills for several weeks now (I was on them for the 3rd 12 week session). I can't say that I never want a cigarette. I think of them quite often, but after having taken Chantix, it gave me the will power I didn't have on my own to stay away from them. I still have cigarettes here in the house that I could pick up at any time, but I never go near them. I'm around people all the time that smoke, but I'm not really tempted anymore to pick one up. I just keep thinking how long it has been now, so why ruin it. I know if I was to pick up the first one, that would be all she wrote.
I HIGHLY recommend Chantix to anyone who really wants to quit. It is (in my opinion) the very best smoking aid there is. It works on the part of your brain that makes you crave the nicotine. I made me a fake cigarette from a drinking straw with tissue packed in one end to have something for the hand to mouth motion that is a part of smoking habit.

Good luck to anyone and everyone who decides to quit smoking. If I can do it, anyone can do it. But CHANTIX was definitely my saving grace.

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My GOD Bless our Country and our Troops, and rid the World of terroists.

Thanks! Dh still needs to quit so maybe this would help him too.
He wont smoke around me thought so he is smoking less, at least when I'm home lol

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I have OCCD
Obsessive-Compulsive Coupon Disorder!!!

i have to second on the chantix. dh and i have been smoke free for a year this month. he was a 2+ pack a day , and he quit on it. he had tried other things too. he kinda changed his routine for a while (like drinking coffee first thing in the am, since a cig would go along with it) instead he would get up and eat a good breakfast. got some suckers for the hand to mouth habit. and treated himself to starbucks. he drives a truck so had a lot of times when he would think, but with that pill he didnt have the craving for nicotine. it helped with the withdrawls,,

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mom_2_5 , and baby makes 6
Dallas James, born 5-21-03

Sending good vibes.......

My DH has been smoke free for 3 years now. It only took a little over 7 years of nagging for him to stop He recently just lost the 15 lbs he gained from quitting, I wish he hadn't he is already so slim.

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Chicago Bears!!!!
We are the Bears Shufflin' Crew
Shufflin' on down, doin' it for you.
We're so bad we know we're good.
Blowin' your mind like we knew we would.
You know we're just struttin' for fun
Struttin' our stuff for everyone.
We're not here to start no trouble.
We're just here to do the Super Bowl Shuffle.

Fran,
I'm sending you good vibes!!!! Keep up the good work. It's an uphill battle every day but so definately worth it. I had my last cigarette on 11/1/07 and I'm still smoke-free. I hope this time around, I stop for good. Tried twice before with no success but I'm really determined this time Hang in there.

Kathy