Day 4 of not smoking....

[sibelian]

my bf looks like a giant packet of cigarettes.

Tell me not to cave in!!!!!

[Hotler]

1. Hang in there. n/t

[Tikki]

2. You won't....you are strong..

It's all about the money now-a-days...to be honest.

I have seven years nonsmoker....equals over $10,000 saved.

Oooh, plus saving on medical bills if I caught pneumonia, again.


Tikki

[sibelian]

7. Oh well done!

I envy your willpower...!

(grits teeth)

[Throd]

3. I'm on about day 6,000. Stay strong, it gets better!

[sibelian]

8. Go you!

And, er yay me, hopefully.

[bigwillq]

4. Stay strong!

:hug:

[madmom]

5. You can do it, thing of all the things that won't have that yellow tinge to it...

I didn't realize everything (walls, curtains, windows, my clothes) in my house did until I quit and started buying new stuff and saw the difference.

[MiddleFingerMom]

6. Smoked for 30 years -- mostly about a pack-a-day (but THREE packs-a-day when I finally quit).

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I went cold turkey and, for me... it was a breeze.
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I'm not that strong (fluctuating weight gains and losses can
attest to that), I think it's because every freaking cigarette
for literally over two years, I'd think, "I'm going to quit... and
SOON!" When I finally DID quit, I had over 730 days at up to
NINETY times per day preparing to "get my mind right".
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Best advice I can give is, from virtually ALL long-term quitters,
you hear that it gets easier. IF you cave in, you KNOW you're
going to want to quit again -- so you're just going to REPEAT...
UNNECESSARILY... the agony that you've put yourself through
(so commendably) up to whatever point it is that you might cave.
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(on edit) "my bf looks like a giant pack of cigarettes"
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:rofl::rofl::rofl:
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[sibelian]

17. I am slightly humbled...

:o

[freshwest]

20. I had an aunt and uncle who were smokers for many years. The doctor told him he had emphysema.

He went home and told her and they both tossed them and never looked back. Just the shock of him losing his life over it was sufficient. Now, if your bf is still smoking, that's gonna be tough.

I was anti-smoking early on as they showed us the pics in health class about the condition of the smokers' lungs of over a period of time. Rather grotesque, but they showed us the sectioned parts of lungs of non-smokers, those who'd smoked for only a year, and those who'd smoked for ten years.

In the first, the lungs were pink, the second, gray, and the third had tar in them that looked like an asphalt road in the summer. This was enough to put me off. Not everyone saw things like that, one woman I knew, ten years older than myself said her school said smoking was good for you. That's when corporations rule the roost, they twist the facts to make a convenient truth/profitable lie.

Later in college I took microbiology and one of the things they taught was the effect of smoking on the bloodstream. I used to be able to recite the whole thing, but it went much like this: Carbon Monoxide binds to the Hemoglobin in the blood from the smoke just like it kills people when they have a CO leak in their house.

Of course it's not that fast, but over the years causes acidification, which can lead to some inflammation and other miseries, and the blood cells don't reproduce correctly. Any wonder, other than tar in the lungs, why there is lung cancer?

And my bf was having health problems in his twenties. He said the doctor told him he had 'the lungs of an old man,' but he'd been smoking since he was 12, like some people do, and he just thought he couldn't get away from it. Being the impulsive thing I was, I began to stub out all his cigarettes so he couldn't go back to them while he was smoking. His desire for not being denied other pleasures overcame his aggravation and he very soon stopped smoking altogether. That is, he thought I was more important, LOL!

Just think of the long-term for yourself. A lot of women I know that smoked did so because of that oral and hand fixation. They said that they cigarettes gave them something to do with their hands and mouths instead of eating. They were smoking to lose weight.

Although that doesn't always work. And they did experience, like some do, a huge increase of appetite when they stopped smoking.

So a healthy substitute has to be made while one gets off the habit. It's hard to give up nicotine, one can get headaches and stuff.

But smoking is a low vibration activity. You are the architect of your body and your life. You can be happier, feel better, etc. Good luck!

:hi:

[freshwest]

9. If your bf looks like a giant pack of cigarettes, I suggest you do all the same things with your bf

That you would do with the real thing. I don't need to get graphic...

But doing so will surely take your mind off those nasty coffin nails.

Just sayin'

:blush:

[Lucinda]

10. I had the same though.

Without the blushing. :)

[freshwest]

14. Well, I didn't know how Sibelian would take it...

[sibelian]

16. well, i don;t know i'll have to try and see

:P

[bigwillq]

12. I like that idea!

:evilgrin:

:)

[sibelian]

13. I don't think he'd like benig stubbed out

and mushed around in an ashtray...

though other things, maybe :) lol

[freshwest]

15. Who says there will be anything left to toss out? Just kidding.

[sibelian]

18. lol!

:rofl: !

[HappyMe]

11. Do NOT set the bf aflame!

Quitting smoking will then become the least of your worries.


Stay strong, you CAN do this thing.

[sibelian]

19. Ok, I won't

and thank you!

[applegrove]

21. You are doing great!

[rurallib]

22. try 10 deep breaths when you have an urge

worked for me nearly 40 years ago - and it is free.

Maybe put some of that money away you would be spending for a vacation or something nice.

Whatever you do DON'T CAVE

Get support here - we love to support smoking quitters

[Odin2005]

23. YOU CAN DO IT!!!

[WCGreen]

24. You are almost past the hardest point....

After that, it's all down hill....

[beac]

25. Just celebrated my six year anniversary if quitting-- cold turkey.

You can do it!

Today, you have not smoked 300% more days than the first day you quit. Tomorrow it will be 400%.

It helped me to focus in advance on how disappointed I would be if I smoked even one more cigarette and how I would lose all the time I'd "banked" so far.

Mint toothpicks (I found mine at the health food store) helped w/the oral part of the craving and I kept a couple of rubberbands on my wrist to play with to keep my hands busy. (The rituals of lighting, tapping, stubbbing out were a big part of smoking for me.)

Soon, smoke will start to smell gross to you and you'll notice how much better your lungs feel (even if you hadn't noticed they felt bad.)

GOOD LUCK AND HANG IN THERE!!

:hi: