------ “The most beautiful thing we can experience in life is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: for his eyes are closed.” - Albert Einstein
Congrats on the 36 hours but... Get back to me when it's 3600 hours.
I'm not trying to be an ass here but EVERYONE who smokes should sincerely try to stop. There's no other reason to smoke other than you're addicted to it.
Next time you're near a high school and you see some 16 y/o trying to smoke and look cool maybe then you'll realize how stupid it really is.
Debbie wrote:After 7 months I went back. Go figure.
Hey, here I sit with Emphysema, COPD, Hemosiderosis, sucking on oxygen and cigarettes still smell like fillet mignon to me. I can't even say for sure how many times I tried to quit. Must of been close to 100 before I was successful. I really don't know, I just know everytime I thought I was done, I found myself lighting up another one.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose. -Bill Gates
Easto wrote:Congrats on the 36 hours but... Get back to me when it's 3600 hours.
I'm not trying to be an ass here but EVERYONE who smokes should sincerely try to stop. There's no other reason to smoke other than you're addicted to it.
Next time you're near a high school and you see some 16 y/o trying to smoke and look cool maybe then you'll realize how stupid it really is.
Agreed. Doesn't make it any easier though.
Quitting cigarettes is a bitch.
Just so you know I'm not trying to chastise anyone, I use to smoke 2 packs a day. It's been about 18 years since I quit. I tried and tried just like everyone else. You'll know when the time is right. I realized it when I would get up in the middle of the night to pee and I would be lighing up a cigarette.
Humby if you need support, I'll be happy to send you a picture of me with oxygen and showing less then 80% saturation just from walking across the room.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose. -Bill Gates
blebs wrote:Humby if you need support, I'll be happy to send you a picture of me with oxygen and showing less then 80% saturation just from walking across the room.
Humboldt wrote:Agreed. Doesn't make it any easier though.
Quitting cigarettes is a bitch.
When I quit I found that smelling old smoke in my clothes, and house etc. triggered me to want a cigarette. So, I slowly cleaned what I could to rid it of tobacco odors and stains.
I quit cold turkey almost twenty years ago. I kept a pack of cigarettes in my cupboard for at least a year. My strategy was that no one, no where at any time could tell me I couldn't smoke, including myself. Every day that went by I knew I had that choice. But, as each day passed, I chose not to light up and before ya knew it...I was thinking less and less about them.
I used to dream I'd be in the back seat of a car smoking a cigarette that was at least three feet long. I guess I was in the backseat to make room for it in the car.
Humboldt wrote:Agreed. Doesn't make it any easier though.
Quitting cigarettes is a bitch.
you can do it,it is hard,in 2000 I quit a 27 year 2.5 pack-a-day habit,and have loved it ever since.I used money for a motivator,Marlboro lights at $5 a pack helped a lot for me.
Sarahnn wrote:When I quit I found that smelling old smoke in my clothes, and house etc. triggered me to want a cigarette. So, I slowly cleaned what I could to rid it of tobacco odors and stains.
Good idea, helps for me too.
My problem is that if I'm trying to quit there's no way in hell I could keep an unopened pack in my house.
I psyched myself out so much that when I finally got down to my decidedly last pack I chain smoked the whole pack just so I could be done and over with it. That was a few years ago and I haven't touched a cigarette since.
Instead of thinking about how much you want a cigarette, think about how much you don't want one.
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking
No, but I do have to say, the desire never went away. When you can't even walk to the bathroom without desaturating to around 80%, it's time to take a serious look at things.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose. -Bill Gates
Well my wife still smokes. Tries not to smoke around me, but she ducks into the utility room, then the furnace picks it up and kicks it throughout the house anyhow. It's kind of a bummer for me, but I keep reminding myself that If I hate breathing the way I do now, it would be worse to pick up a cig.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose. -Bill Gates
blebs wrote:Well my wife still smokes. Tries not to smoke around me, but she ducks into the utility room, then the furnace picks it up and kicks it throughout the house anyhow. It's kind of a bummer for me, but I keep reminding myself that If I hate breathing the way I do now, it would be worse to pick up a cig.
That's not cool.
The least she could do is step outside, or install an exhaust fan.
Humboldt wrote:That's not cool.
The least she could do is step outside, or install an exhaust fan.
She does spend most of her time outside, but when the weather is crap, she uses the utility room. Our exhaust fan sucks. It doesn't do a good job at all. Something about the way this house is built.
If it weren't her, it would be somewhere else in public that I'd have to deal with the temptation anyhow. You just have to get through your mind that it's a big no no and then deny the temptations as they arise.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces people into thinking they can't lose. -Bill Gates
I stopped going to the gym because I pinched a nerve in my neck really bad. It wasn't long till up picked up the cigs again. Something upset me and WHAM ... smoke.
Debbie wrote:I stopped going to the gym because I pinched a nerve in my neck really bad. It wasn't long till up picked up the cigs again. Something upset me and WHAM ... smoke.
The gym helped a lot.
Phsical activity helps a lot
I could help you stay occupied
Sorry to hear about the lapse.
When are you quitting again?
I see no shame in failure, cigarettes are a bitch.
