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... No, not CDing withdrawal. Smoking withdrawals. I have not had a cigarette in 2 days.
Since I have no money to my name anyway, (plus they stopped my unemployment checks) it would be a good idea for me to just quit altogether. Wish me luck...
The upside is that this situation will force me to quit smoking. The downside is that I also rely on food and electricity.
Ouch! I can certainly sympathize with you there, Lorna. I quit smoking cold about, oh gosh, it's been nearly 8 years already!
I just kept telling myself "I am not going to smoke, today". I didn't worry about tommorow, just today. Each day I would repeat that mantra. Each time I got the urge I would repeat that mantra. The first week is the hardest. After that it is just the habit you are fighting, not the addiction.
You CAN do this! I'm here for moral support if and when you need it.
Whatever you accomplish in life is a manifestation not so much of what you do, as of what you believe deeply within yourself that you deserve. - Les Brown
From everything I hear quiting smoking seams to be one the hardest things people can do that can actually kill by doing it. Of course taking a shower can be as dangers but I do not want to have think about that this remember that the money you save cigerets will buy food and electricty.
The worst part of quitting smoking should be over in a few more days.
I quit cold turkey for good almost 25 years ago when my late father phoned from his hospital bed and told me that he was diagnosed with lung cancer and asked me to quit. I put down my cigarette and never smoked another one.
The first week was HELL but I told myself I promised Dad, and stayed away from it. He moved up to a hospital very close to my workplace and I saw him at least once, usually twice a day for the next month (my Mom stayed with us and was there with him each day with my wife) until he passed away.
Once in a while I just look at the price of a carton when I pass by the tobacco counter at the place I do my in-store banking, and the last time I looked, a carton was almost $50.
I feel that I'm better off indulging the girl within once in a while instead of smoking over a carton a week.
Lorna,
Honey, if anyone can do it you can. Kirk Douglas tells a story aobut how his father quit. He was from Russia and Kirk said that his father would carry a cigarette in his shirt pocket, when he got the urge he would pull out the cigarette, look at it and say," who is stronger you or me ---- I am stronger!" he would say, and put it back in his shirt pocket! Kirk says it worked!
Love ya,
Deborah
First star to the right, then straight on 'till mornin!
My father used to p*** me off, when he would say to me, that there was more will power in one cigarette than there was in me. Never worked? I did quit some time later but not because of that. When he quit he threw his cigarettes away. I quite with a full pack in my shirt pocket.
I quit 12 years ago after smoking for 16 years. At the time I was smoking 3 packs a day. Here are some things that might help. The most important is that cravings usually last a minute and a half at the longest, so if you can hold off for that long, the craving will usually subside. Second, we never lose a habit, we replace it. I chewed gum. It turns out that the time it takes to get out, unwrap, and start to chew a peice of gum is about the same as the cigerette ritual. But it can be anything. Change radio stations. do a dance, anything to consume the energy of lighting a cigerette. Good luck
Love always,
Elizabeth
Lorna wrote:... No, not CDing withdrawal. Smoking withdrawals. I have not had a cigarette in 2 days.
Oooh...ciggies! When I saw the subject line, I thought, "Poor wretched dear, having to quit MAD Magazine...!" Ciggies weren't much trouble, but having to stop reading MAD Magazine cold turkey...I don't even want to think about it....
Hi Lorna,
The longer you stay away from smoking, the stronger the sense of achievement you'll get, I quit 3 months ago. I had quit twice before but always restarted again, this time it felt different, for some reason it just didn't have the hold over me anymore. In the past they even included a new withdrawal sympton on the packet of stopping pills (can't remember the name) just for me
Both ~D~ and myself really wish you luck with stopping smoking
Rebecca xxx
ABC aired a documentary about the tobacco industry a couple of nights ago. I didn't discover this until it came on (I was at work, natch!), otherwise I might've recorded it for future viewing. Hearing about all the evil things they've done over the years to conceal the dangers of smoking, to minimize people's knowledge of those dangers, etc. At the end of the show, Peter Jennings read a short list of some of the chemicals added to tobacco for taste, or to make them more addictive, or for whatever reason, and it made me sick. I can't locate a similar list online, but what he read included ammonia and benzene. :-&
The most common form of despair comes from not being who you are. - Soren Kierkegaard
:-& 