DAY TWO! (INSPIRATION PLEASE!!!!)

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Well i have decided to quit smoking. Today will be day two with no cigarettes. I have quit a couple of times before, but always ended up smoking again. Once i quit for over 4 months, and one little cigarette at a 9-ball tourney ended that.


Anyway, I could use some inspiring words, or stories of people that have quit... I have smoked since i was 12 years old and I am one month away from 35 so it is past time to stop, but it is incredibly difficult. almost every thought is about a smoke. Even when i stay busy, i think about a cigarette.

This is the first time i have quit cold turkey, and never realized how much the treatments help!
 
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Wow Ron first off congradulations on giving it another try. While I have never started to give you advice on how to quit, both my parents have. Took 3 times for my step dad, and Mom...well lets just say she is in denial. They both tried the patch & gum. Finally my step dad woke up one day and said he is done. Don't ask me how he quit other than his will. As for my mom, she has tried everything but she keeps saying she doesn't want to quit.

So I think that will be your biggest barrier. If you really want to quit in your heart you will have an easier time and will do it. BTW my step dad was an alcoholic and quit the same way. He is 15 years clean on booze and about 7 on cigs.

Good luck and don't give up!!
 
Congrats Ron

I am smoke free for 2 months now. So far I have had very little difficulty with cravings. What I find mostly is that I get into a situation that I would normally kill to have a smoke.
My worst is planning and thinking. Anytime I used to stress my brain, it was always accompanied by a smoke. Its sounds corny, but this is exactly what I do.

I say to myself " God I really want a smoke".
Then I say " But you know, I don't smoke anymore"
Then I move somewhere else for a few minutes (another room, outside the shop, etc)

I find it passes in just a few seconds, then I go on about my day. The key is to get past those few seconds everytime.

Good Luck
Darrin
 
Hi Ron:
I smoked for 35 years and never really beleived I could quit. It has been 6 years now smoke free. Cigarette smoke smells like horses>>t to me now . Just tell yourself when you get a craving that it will pass in a few minutes , wait it out. Both my mother and sister passed away from smoking related cancers .
Loly pops are good to have around when the craving hits.Sugerless gum is my craving of choice now. Don't give in, not even a puff or your done for.

Hope this helps
Pat
 
Ron...I am the last to give advise about smoking. I've quit at least five times and I'm back at it again. I hope you have a strong mind and the will to do it!



Scott (stay strong dude) B
 
The only thing I can say is think of all of the resin, pen kits, and other cool shop stuff you can buy with all of the money you are not spending on smoking....! I see the prices in the stores, I do not know how many packs a day you used to smoke, but with their prices being around $5 a pack it can add up quickly. I would say that you place a jar in your shop and every time you would have bought cigaretts you put the money in the jar. at the end of each month buy some thing for your shop.
 
Ron, You can do it. I made up my mind to quit and I did. I smoked for 30 years,if you need help go to your family Dr. and have him write tou a script for the patch. This is what I did and it works, but you have to have the will and want to to quit or nothing
will work. The patch that I used was called Pro-Step. For several yrs. before quitting
I was going through 4 packs a day. I have been smoke free since April 7 1996 and have no desire at all to start smoking again. BEST THING I EVER DONE. Wish you the best my friend.
Al
 
Ron,

I hate to break it to you, but you only quit once. You just stopped smoking for a brief period. We used to call it temporary lulls in our smoking careers.

I quit over 13 years ago, after smoking almost 2 packs a day. The one and only thing that got me through it was the thought that I could loose every other battle that day. The world could really let me have it, but I was not going to give in to smoking. I would go to sleep every night with that victory under my belt, and no one nor nothing was going to take it away.

I have not a cigarette since. 13+ years later and I still have vivid dreams about having one. I have even woke up and apologized to my wife for smoking. She would look at like I was crazy and say, "You didn't smoke last night, you were at home with me." Oops!

Hang in there. Remember, don't let it control you!

Rob
 
Thank you everyone! I know i can do it, and i will succeed! I am sick of the expense, and lack of stamina, and the smell, and all that goes with smoking.


Rob, Thank you for sharing! I like that mentality! I think that is how i am going to look at it. No matter what happens today, As long as i dont smoke, it is a success!!!
 
Will I was a lucky guy, after smoking 20+ years I decided one day I was tired of it and quite. At that particular time in my life it was easy. I had tried many time before. That was over 15 years ago.

You can do it. It is like drinking, you can't just have one. Don't even go there.
 
Congrats on quitting Ron. I have a brother and brother-in-law who have both quit, or at least one is still trying to.
Another thing that you should really think about is cancer. I know that you have seen the effects of cancer and I just lost my mom to it. No, her's was not because of smoking, but if smoking truly increases your risk of getting lung cancer, then you should do everything in your power not to ever put a cigarette to your lips again.
You can do it, and not only do you need encouragement, you also need DIScouragement. So make sure everyone around you knows that you WANT to quit and discourages you from ever smoking again. Make sure they help you. My brother-in-law always tells me that it's something to do that keeps him busy and from getting bored (he's in the Navy and smoked mostly when he was out to sea for months at a time). Maybe that's the way it is for some people. If it's that way for you, then find something else to do. Go read a book, watch tv, turn some stuff, play football, basketball, etc. Get involved in some local groups or clubs to keep you busy.
DON'T GIVE UP ON QUITTING!!!!!!
 
Find a hypno therapist in your area that specializes in smoking cessation. Quitting isn't just about the smoking, it is also about all the little hand movements and the patterns of life around the smoking. Having pro help getting you to no longer have those associations is a BIG help.

Good luck to you. I know it is horrendously hard from watching my mom try to quit for decades. She finally did when she got the right incentive: she wasn't allowed around the grand kids if she was smoking. She decided seeing the kids and being around for them to grow up with her was important enough that she was able to quit. You will be able to too.
 
Ron,

I hope you are successful. I quit for the first time in March, 2001. I went nine whole months without a single puff, and then, on Christmas eve night, I met my wife-to-be, and she smoked. I was hammered when she decided to go outside for a smoke and I went with her. Someone called her back into the house, and she handed me the half-smoked cig and said she'd be right back. Without even thinking abouot it, I smoked the rest of it, and went inside. The next morning I woke up with a fierce hangover and a pack of my old brand of smokes in my pocket. I had smoked four of them. I threw the pack away and went another six months. For whatever reason I felt like a smoke, and bought a pack. Two weeks later, I quit again. This went on for a year or two. Mostly not smoking, but then a week or two long binge.

In March of 2004, three years after I originally quit, we moved to Florida. I went down first, to start my job, and close on our house. My wife waited in NJ with our 1 year old daughter until I finalized the home purchase. I didn't want the family living in a hotel room. I quickly got lonely and stressed over the new job, buying a home, and especially not being ale to hold my little girl. I smoked for the better part of six weeks until the family came down. That was my last smoke. The day before they arrived, I finished the pack, and haven't smoked since. That was six years ago, and I hardly even think about it now.

You just need to get through the first couple of months. Your brain tries to make deals with you to get you to smoke, and you have to be strong enough to reject every thought of smoking.

Chris
 
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Ron,

I hope you are successful. I quit for the first time in March, 2001. I went nine whole months without a single puff, and then, on Christmas eve night, I met my wife-to-be, and she smoked. I was hammered when she decided to go outside for a smoke and I went with her. Someone called her back into the house, and she handed me the half-smoked cig and said she'd be right back. Without even thinking abouot it, I smoked the rest of it, and went inside. The next morning I woke up with a fierce hangover and a pack of my old brand of smokes in my pocket. I had smoked four of them. I threw the pack away and went another six months. For whatever reason I felt like a smoke, and bought a pack. Two weeks later, I quit again. This went on for a year or two. Mostly not smoking, but then a week or two long binge.

In March of 2004, three years after I originally quit, we moved to Florida. I went down first, to start my job, and close on our house. My wife waited in NJ with our 1 year old daughter until I finalized the home purchase. I didn't want the family living in a hotel room. I quickly got lonely and stressed over the new job, buying a home, and especially not being ale to hold my little girl. I smoked for the better part of six weeks until the family came down. That was my last smoke. The day before they arrived, I finished the pack, and haven't smoked since. That was six years ago, and I hardly even think about it now.

You just need to get through the first couple of months. Your brain tries to make deals with you to get you to smoke, and you have to be strong enough to reject every thought of smoking.

Chris
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Good for you. You took the long hard way. It took allot of courage, congratulations.
I quit cold turkey but it was not easy. Wife kicked me out of the house one night for being obnoxious. The yearning for a smoke kept at me for years but each day made it easier to not think about it too long.
I do still enjoy cigar smoke or pipe smoke but only second hand (YUK).
So I am impressed with your story and to all else, it takes courage and strength and commitment.
 
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Will I was a lucky guy, after smoking 20+ years I decided one day I was tired of it and quite. At that particular time in my life it was easy. I had tried many time before. That was over 15 years ago.

You can do it. It is like drinking, you can't just have one. Don't even go there.
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Like you, I quit twenty or thirty years ago, but I still like my wine. Now days it is a glass a week. And I like a shot (single) of Wild Turkey in the afternoon.
 
I wish you luck Ron. I've tried and failed loads of times:frown:

My mind keeps telling me that smoke can't be that bad for you if they use it to 'cure' bacon and salmon:rolleyes:
And as humans aren't a million miles away from being pork meat, then I'm gonna live forever:tongue:
 
I quit smoking on Dec 13 2009. I had a heart attack at the age of 38. I have had a few puffs since, but it does make a difference of how I feel. I get sick from it now. I have had maybe 2 smokes since then. Both were the day my son wrecked his truck and he had some broken bones but otherwise ok.

I believe anybody has it in them to quit cold turkey same way you are. They gave me the patches at the hospital but I've had nothing since. My wife quit while I was in the hospital the 2nd time for a bypass. She used the first stage of patches. It would be better to get help from something instead of smoking again, whether its patches, gum or hypnosis. I wish you all the luck. You will notice in a few days how much better your food taste and how much you smell.
 
Ron; Keep at it. Take one day, hour, or minute at a time and ask if you can resist just for that day, hour, or minute? YES YOU CAN!!!


If you can, join a support group to quit smoking. If you are employed and have health care coverage, many health insurance policies will cover part or all of the cost of a stop smoking plan.

Added Later; Even if you give IN ONE TIME, DON'T GIVE UP. After all you didn't give up pen turning the first time you messed up a pen; did you?


This is a quote from my "Rant" web page:
Some people ask if I smoke. My answer is: "My father died of lung cancer. One of my last memories of my father is carrying him 20 feet from the bedroom to the bathroom. He couldn't walk that far. It was easy to carry him though. He only weighed about 80 lbs."
I DO NOT SMOKE! Smoking is a way to spend lots of money on a disgusting addiction so you can die at an early age in horrible agony!


Also:
Phillip Morris commissioned a study to determine if there are any positive economic benefits from smoking. They determined that smokers die younger and therefore don't collect pension benefits or Social Security. (This is NOT an urban legend, I have a copy of the newspaper article!) They have also changed their name as they don't want to be associated with the pain and suffering resulting from smoking.

This is my web page where I rant!
http://www.coleman-family.org/rant.htm
 
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Well Ron I am a reformed smoker ( they are the worst) My story is a little different. I had attempted to quit several times and the longest stint was 3 years but alas I caved in. Keep in mind doing construction 2 packs a day was the norm. On day I got what I thought was the flu turned out to be my appendix well emergency surgery ensued so there I am out of the OR and wondering why I have a 11 in staple line!!!!! Well the thought it may have ruptured and had to do some checking. Now that being said I had a terrible deep cough that was pure agony it was so bad I had to hold a pillow over the incision when coughing. Seems this is normal with smokers and anestesia well I made a deal with God, if he would get me through this I would not smoke again...yea right. I got home and went to light that first one and said I made a deal I sure would hate for the man to collect so I tossed it and never looked back. I used fireballs to offset the craving for something to have never missed the Nicotine. I guess it was divine intervention 23+ years ago!!!!! You can do it you just need to want to!!! Good luck my friend I do wish you the strength to get through it....
 
I have been smoke free for almost 10 years after smoking for 45 years. Use the money you save on some tools or something you like. Between LOML and myself we saved enough money each month to make the car payment on her new car. It is not easy buy you can do it, one hour, one day, one week. I carried a box or rasins and a roll of lifesavers in my shirt pocket and when I wanted a smoke I reached in and got a lifesaver(shape of the lighter) or some rasins (box shape of box of cigs) finially got tired of rasins and lifesavers and and the habit was broken. Not to say I don't want one now and then but it passes quickly. Good luck you can do it. And besides the State of California doesn't get any Cig. Tax money from me.
 
I quit smoking 20 months ago after somking at least 2 packs a day for over 50 years. I used Chantix to help me quit and it really helped. I have allready saved about $6000.00 dollars, which is nice. Also I don't smell like a ashtray any more. I still have some tough days, but it is getting easier. Hang in there and you will be glad you are doing this.
 
RAdams said:
Thank you everyone! I know i can do it, and i will succeed! I am sick of the expense, and lack of stamina, and the smell, and all that goes with smoking.
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Well...I'm a smoker Ron and I'm not stopping today. I wish you the best of luck, but just in case...keep in mind that smokes are cheaper if you buy them from Kentucky, you can train children to feed you popcorn while you watch TV, and you can ...er maybe not you, but I can get in the shower with some shampoo and smell good again! :biggrin:

PS...According to my doctor, I am the only person he ever met that continued to smoke during chemotherapy treatments and at the same time won the battle! I really wanted a smoke..heck, I better go step outside right now and celebrate.
 
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I quit for the last time 23 yrs ago It was my 3 attempt I want through alot of serts, tictacs, and so forth. Now I'm hooked on toothpicks. I carry a toothpick holder in my pocket. It takes the place of a cig. Its also a good source of fiber. LOL
I was a 4 pack a day man. If I woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom,I lit a cig before I stood up, and has a 2nd before I went back to bed. The last two times I tried to quit,it was cold turkey. YOU CAN DO IT I did.
 
Dude I quit doing a lot of things, most of them were either illegal, or just not good, but the biggest triumph of my life was giving up Cigarettes. I smoked the vile things for almost 30 years, and had quit once for almost a year, but you know that story. After being off them for about a year and a half I started having less colds, could run faster and further, I did put on some weight that has been a problem, but it's been about 17 years and I can't stand to even be around Cigarette smoke any more, other kinds of smoke like BB-Q and fire pits and a few other things don't bother me but you will live longer, feel better your children will feel better and enjoy better health, man it's like an old Willy Nelson and Merl Haggard tune Reasons to Quit. Good Luck Juggalo.
 
If you really want to quit 99% of the job is done just walk away and never look back. I smoked from ages 14-38 decided to quit and never went back. The first few months were the worst I gained weight and was a bit grumpy. but then it was gone and this July I will be 50 never touched or wanted a smoke in 12 years. It's all about willpower and commitment. But I can only speak for myself :eek: good luck!
 
My grandfather died from lung cancer. On his deathbed he told my father and uncle to stop smoking. My father stopped smoking his pipe and my uncle quit smoking cigs. Regretabley my uncles wife (my aunt) didn't heed the warning. 40yrs later she had a lung removed and chemo/radiation, then died after the cancer returned and spread from her other lung to her brain. None of us kids have ever smoked. It would have been beaten out of us if we did.

My brother in law quit smoking when my sister told him she was pregnant with their first child. He never looked back. Smoke free 15yrs now.

My old boss from before I when solo, used to smoke. On one vacation he went cold turkey. He said he did it through visualisation. He visualised licking a dirty ashtray everytime he felt the urge. He said it came from a comment that his wife, a non-smoker, had made about kissing him. Smoke free 20+yrs now.

A close friend and workmate had a heart attack 7yrs ago. His family found him on the kitchen floor a day or 2 after the initial event. He went cold turkey in the hospital, hasn't looked back. Regrets that he smoked for 40yrs.

Talk to your wife, talk to your friends, talk to the trees, just don't talk to the cigs, and don't listen to their siren song. Remember before cigs the lizard brain in the back of every man's head said "Sex" every 15secs, not "Cigs"! Reprogram it!
 
A true American Patriot smokes, because without smoking the lack of government funding would cripple this nation. Think not just of all the taxes lost on cigarette sales, but what about all the farmers? What about the manufacturers of the cigarettes, the paper, the filters, the transportation and all the employees in those industries. What's the corner store going to sell? Liquor and toothpicks? Last I saw, liquor doesn't stick between your teeth unless it was made by Ken Ferrell. :wink::biggrin:


Just clowning around of course guys. :tongue:
 
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I tell anyone who wants to quit smoking about my poor MIL. She smoked for years upon years, FIL did too. The last 4 or 5 years of her life, she spent on an oxygen tank and the last year or 2 she absolutely gasped for air just sitting in a chair. It was so hard on her body and hard to see her like that. It really pains me to see some elderly sitting in a wheelchair smoking and on oxygen. If you really need a jolt look up the effects of smoking on the net or check out a book at library.

I wish you the best of luck and hope you can stick to it.
 
Congrats on day two, I kept telling myself, thats 2 days, if I have one now I have to start counting all over...........it worked for me.
 
Ron!

We are all proud of you!

In a movie I saw once, a psychiatrist (played by Robin Williams) said: "You are either a smoker, or you're not. Figure out which you are, and be that!" I smoked for a quite a while, the last ten years was off and on all the time. Then one of those times came along where life demonstrates that there are lots of important reasons to be alive, and no good reasons to smoke another cig instead. That's when I became a non-smoker, and since then, for about the last ten years, all I had to do was "be" that.

And don't for a minute believe that it will be easy. There are still times I catch a whiff, and think it would be nice to have a smoke. But there are never any good enough reasons to do so.

You can do it! Just hang in there.

Scott.
 
Stick to it Ron. I started at age 12 and quit at 28, at the time I was smoking at least 25 export A every day. I was in the Air Force at the time and had quit once before for 2 months. 2 weeks in Bermuda with the guys, fix aircraft during the day and drink and smoke at night, I was back to a pack a day by the time I came home. When my son came along I figured it would be nice to be around to see him get married and besides it was a bad example for him. Quit over a 4 day Easter weekend 33 years ago and haven't had one since. It was probably 3 years before I stopped reaching to my shirt pocket for the pack when I was driving though.

You can do it just keep at it.
 
Hey Ron,I smoked 2 1/2 packs a day.2 years ago last week I stopped.I had 1 1/2 packs of cigarettes.Gave the 1/2 pack away.Smoked the other pack in 11 days.That was very hard to do.I have not had one since.I eat more in the evening.Gained weight.I have lost 30 lbs now.So I know what you are going through.Hang in there.It does get better.I did not use any of the patches,gum or any of that.I kept telling myself that I can do this.Stay strong.I might even send you a present.Todd
 
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You can do it !!! I smoke for 42 yrs and last Nov 10th my birthday I decided to quit smoking I took Chantnix pill for 8 weeks it work for me but my short term memory suck then, just change up what every your doing when you think about having a smoke just do something else and within minutes you will forget about the smokes and yes it gets easier as time goes OH yes I save over $1,500.00 since NOV 10th also I fell better I can breath better smell everything again. But now I fighting the overweigth and I will work i that next, just stick with it you can do it, CIGS ARE NOT YOUR FRIEND !!!!!!! tell yourself this when the grave comes on. Plus think of all the pen kits you can buy !!!!! Good Luck, Louie:)
 
Yes you can

Well I have been smoke free for over 30 years now, after smoking 2 -3 packs a day for lots of years. Still remember quitting. Probably the hardest thing I have ever done. My method was to set intermediate goals (ie making it until after I have bkfst, making it until lunch, etc) Did this for several weeks until I was able to say I could set a goal for an entire day. Somehow it did not seem as impossible when I broke a day into segments. Most important thing is YOU REALLY HAVE TO WANT TO QUIT SMOKING. Prayer helps also! Best of luck on this goal and I will pray for you also.
 
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Good luck with your quest, Ron. I would take whatever money you normally spend on smokes and put it in a large jar in plain site. If you are a pack a day guy at 4 bucks a pack, then you put four dollars in the jar everyday(two packs per day=8 bucks). After a month or two, take the money out of the jar and buy yourself something nice. If you cheat, take the money out, pile it up, and BURN IT... That's what you're doing with the money when you're buying the cigarettes.

What? Need more motivation? How about this? If you quit for three months, I'll scrounge up a couple more fun blanks to send your way.
 
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