Quitting smoking

[cashisking]

Originally posted by debbie knowles
3 days...2 hours...and 15 minutes....smokicon djk

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Congrats!!! 1 day at a time!!!! 72 hours and the nicotine has left your system!!! you can get a free quit meter from whyquit.com if you are so inclined!!! It is a pretty cool little motivator!!!

Jenn

 

[debbie knowles]

Thanks Jenn...At this point I need any help I can get...I could smoke one in each hand right now. djk

 

[cashisking]

Just don't do it! The urge will pass! I promise sometime today you will think, huh, I am not craving!!! This is tough, but think how proud you will be when you wake up in the morning knowing you made it one more day!!! Look around that site, it really helped me.. We can do this!! I just know it!!!! Make sure you are drinking tons of water, or juice. I learned that around 72 hours is when the nicotine leaves your body and REALLY screws with your blood sugar levels.. Hang in there!!!!!

Jenn

 

[cashisking]

I can laugh now..

Last night I had one of those smoking dreams, you know the one where you go back to sleep trying to get that dream back:rolleyes: I walked right into the store bought a pack, then for some reason bought two more, and went and hid somewhere and started smoking like a choo-choo, then I felt humiliated. woke up glad it was a dream, but craving like mad too. water, gum, and sunflower seeds!!!!! I will make it through today too, just like yesterday!!!! Remember it wont always feel like it does today, but if you smoke, you will have to go through withdrawl all over again....

 

[debbie knowles]

4 days 4 hours and 22 minutes

62 cigarettes NOT smoked
$7.84 saved
Extended my life by 5 hours and 10 minutes according to my quit meter.

And I am so down in the dumps and depressed that I could just sit and cry...this really bites! djk

 

[cashisking]

Deb

Your doing GREAT!!! What an acomplishment!!!

Sending loads of <<<<HUGS>>>> your way, a good cry may help. It gets better, it gets better, it gets better. You can do this! You have kicked that nicodemon in the arse! I had an afternoon yesterday where I wanted to cry, of course I get behind the stupidest driver on the way home, after a tough afternoon, then get home and EVERYTHING anyone does irks me, but I took Cash to the park had an adult beverage, and calmed thyself! We are learning new coping skills, for all those years we lit up, now, we just have to BREATHE!!!!!

I have been quit for 1 Week, 1 Day, 23 hours, 15 minutes and 45 seconds (8 days). I have saved $21.86 by not smoking 134 cigarettes. I have saved 11 hours and 10 minutes of my life.

I love that thing!!!:D

Jenn

 

[buddy'smom]

Ummmmm....

Is today the 16th? :eek:

Jean

 

[ljnash]

Deb & Jenn--You are BOTH doing great! Hang in there, Deb, it will get better!!

I'm proud of you both!!appicon appicon

Lenore

 

[debbie knowles]

Re: Ummmmm....

Originally posted by buddy'smom
Is today the 16th? :eek:

Jean

Run Away Jean!!....Run! Run while you still can...This really bites, I tell ya...I have already committed myself and will now look like a fool if I fail,...but you can still run!!!! Go Go and take your lighter and when you get away, please have one for me!! smokicon
It's not getting easier..today has been the worst day yet and I am either in tears or ripping someone's head off...Run!!

Ok..don't read the rest of this Jean..you should be running by now. Jenn ..you are doing sooooo great..over a week now and still cheerful!! :eek: How do you do it girl...you sound so positive and "upbeat" and I just want to "beat" someone "up"!! Keep up the good work and keep dragging me along with you kicking and screaming because you are helping me and making me TRY to smile! Good Job Girl!!!appicon djk

 

[cashisking]

Re: Ummmmm....

Originally posted by buddy'smom
Is today the 16th? :eek:

Jean

Why yes it is, come join the quitters!!! Let's get rid of them nasty things!! Go get your quit meter and start counting..

Oh I am a sort of mathematical person so I was bored and figured out that I have smoked over 111,000 cigarettes in my lifetime, I have spent OVER 1.5 years of my life sucking on a cancer stick! I dont even WANT to figure out how much $$ I have let go up in smoke.. Those are stats that I never EVER want to grow.. How about you other quitters, care to do the math? The numbers will astound you I garantee!!!!

Come on Jean!! Bye bye smokey treats..

Jenn