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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: T.O.M. on January 06, 2018, 09:59:43 PM
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Tomorrow will be 10 days since my last cigarette. I haven't gone more than 8 or 9 days on previous quit. Helps that I don't smoke in my house, or at least the heated parts. I smoke in my workshop, a part of my unheated garage, and it's too damned cold to do that now. Smoked in my car headed to or coming home from work, and at single digit temps it's too cold for that as well. Feel good. Feel less congested in my chest. I find myself thinking about it, more than I would have imagined. Other than that, no real problems. Figure I'd post here, now, so you all will hold me accountable. 😉
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Congratulations! Keep it up!
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Nobody likes a quitter.
[popcorn]
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After awhile, you won't miss it at all.
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Nobody likes a quitter.
[popcorn]
My gun shop will. Plan to reward myself with my first AR for my birthday if I stay the course to October.
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If you get desperate, go for the nicotine lozenges.
They satisfy the craving, but because the nicotine lozenge doesn't spike as fast, or at all maybe, they don't really feed the addiction either.
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Stay the course. Your lungs, throat and mouth will thank you for it.
Most of my extended family in my parents' generation smoked. And an abysmally high percentage of them died of cancer -- lung, throat, you name it.
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Since 07 Sep 17 for me. Cold turkey from 1-1/2 to 2 packs a day. Coincidentally, this is 07 Jan 18, so that's 4 months total.
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I thought I could.
Good effing riddance.
Still get "pop" urges at certain habitual light up a cigarette times, but purely mechanical (not chemical) and gone in a couple of seconds. Most prominent one is when I get on the road in my car. I make a joke out of it. Ha ! Gotcha ! I knew that would happen ! Another "pop" one is when I hang up the phone.
Seems like the conclusion of an act is the trigger.
Saving a lot of money, to boot. Call it fifty bucks a week. You do the math. On my budget, that's a lot.
Congratulations, Chris. (Don't let the withdrawal affect your job.)
Terry
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Keep it up, Dude. I used the patches to quit for 4 months and was doing fine until my Mother threw me a curve I didn't see coming with her *expletive deleted*ing will. Now that we're seeing some positive movement about getting the estate settled, and I'm actually seeing a way out from under the enormous albatross that she threw on me, I'm looking at quitting again. I'll likely go the patch route again.
I know you didn't do that, and that makes what you're doing all the more admirable and amazing.
Besides, as I've told you, if you start smoking again I'm going to come out there and kick your ass. And we both know that we don't want that. :rofl:
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Glad to hear it, Buckeye.
This is coming from a 2 pack-a-day smoker (menthol!). Started in college. Continued for another 30 years or so.
About 3 months ago, I passed the "4,000 days without a smoke" marker.
If my sorry ass could do it, so can you. Keep at it, Chris.
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15 March 2000
You can do it.
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Good for you!
October 21, 1981 for me. I’m at the point now where I can enjoy a cigar without further desire.
JB
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Good to hear! Keep it going.
I hope you have plenty of support from people around you to help you avoid it during that hard spot where you want to justify having just one. My brother was trying to quit dipping for quite some time. He would stop for weeks and then someone would offer some at 1 AM after some beers and he would start up again. He finally was able to say 'no' one of those times (with help) and never did it again.
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Good to hear! Keep it going.
I hope you have plenty of support from people around you to help you avoid it during that hard spot where you want to justify having just one. My brother was trying to quit dipping for quite some time. He would stop for weeks and then someone would offer some at 1 AM after some beers and he would start up again. He finally was able to say 'no' one of those times (with help) and never did it again.
Similar, and a warning. Started at 13 yo in high school, quit for 11 years in 1978, started again in 1993 when I married a woman who smoked.
I still remember taking that first re-start one out of her cigarette pack on the kitchen table. "You sure you want to do that?" she asked. I thought I was strong enough to make it "only one."
Kept smoking until mentioned above, 07 Sep 2017.
Terry
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Today is day 15. Tempted many times, but hanging tough so far. Noticed that foods are tasting stronger/more flavorful. Been having a second cup of coffee in the morning, as there's no nicotine wake up while driving to work. Feeling good, though. And no one has died. 😉
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That's great! One day at a time. Days become weeks, become months, become years. Stay strong.
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And no one has died.
Try harder.
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How are you doing Chris?
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How are you doing Chris?
Funny, I was going to ask that just this morning.
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Sorry. Busy day. Still good. 19 days today. Still cold outside...like 6 now...so the workshop is around 20, which helps a lot. No where to smoke if I wanted to!
Actually, looking forward to starting the Couch to 5K program and trying to get back into better shape.
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Good job !!! You've got this !!!!
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Whew ! Good to hear back. You've got it knocked, bro.
Don't waste the effort so far !
Terry
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Just checking in. 24 days today. Still good. No slips.
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Good job, Chris. Keep it going.
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Hang tight, it's worth it.
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Doing good !!!! You got this....
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You can celebrate with a cigar!
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Soon, you won't even think about it.
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Nice job! We're taking care of my mother in law and she smokes--it seems like such a hassle. Smoke before you leave, smoke when you arrive, leave to go outside and smoke. Make trips into town for tobacco. And she's poor, too. Geeze.
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In a meeting today, got seated by a smoker. She reeked. Find that I'm noticing the smell more. Even on some of the papers people bring to court. More reason to keep going. (Fixed an autocorrect boo-boo.)
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In a meeting today, got seated by a smoker. She seemed. Find that I'm noticing the smell more. Even on some of the papers people bring to court. More reason to keep going.
When SWMBO moved in, her dad was a smoker and I swear for about 6 months I nearly threw up from her clothes in the closet and the smoke smell that was off gassing from them.
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"Find that I'm noticing the smell more. Even on some of the papers people bring to court."
I still catch a whiff of it in my apartment when I come in from the fresh air. I don't know how many quintillions of surface square inches there are, considering all the fibrous things like carpet threads and the like, but I've been smoking in here for about 13 years. I now have beige walls.
Yeah,yeah, I vacuumed the crap out of the place, blasted fresh air through the place on the warm days since September, when I quit. Nineteen inch fan blowing in on one side, nineteen incher blowing out on the other.
Still catch the smell, coming in from outdoors. (And I suddently noticed the smoke from one of my neighbors. I knew he smoked, but I guess my own emissions masked his.)
Oh, and I'm really noticing the $50 or so a week I'm saving. I make it about $800 m/l since I quit.
Totally unrelated, but good for a grin on your autocorrection. Saw it somewhere:
"Autocorrect is my worst enema."
Terry
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"Find that I'm noticing the smell more. Even on some of the papers people bring to court."
I still catch a whiff of it in my apartment when I come in from the fresh air. I don't know how many quintillions of surface square inches there are, considering all the fibrous things like carpet threads and the like, but I've been smoking in here for about 13 years. I now have beige walls.
Yeah,yeah, I vacuumed the crap out of the place, blasted fresh air through the place on the warm days since September, when I quit. Nineteen inch fan blowing in on one side, nineteen incher blowing out on the other.
Still catch the smell, coming in from outdoors. (And I suddently noticed the smoke from one of my neighbors. I knew he smoked, but I guess my own emissions masked his.)
Oh, and I'm really noticing the $50 or so a week I'm saving. I make it about $800 m/l since I quit.
Totally unrelated, but good for a grin on your autocorrection. Saw it somewhere:
"Autocorrect is my worst enema."
Terry
Ozone generator seems to take the edge off smoke smell, might be worth a try.
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I now have beige walls.
A friend quit cold turkey during his divorce; he took the wedding photo down after 25 years, saw the difference in the wall color, and has been terrified of cigs ever since. Light one up near him and he starts sweating from the fear.
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Tomorrow is 30 days. Around here, a pack is just under $7. I was buying 4 packs a week. So, around $112. Need to not only not spend on cigs, but stick that money (or at least a good chunk of it) in an envelope for that gun buy.
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Fantastic!
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Ozone generator seems to take the edge off smoke smell, might be worth a try.
Yeah, I might try running a big job on my laser printer or building a Jacob's ladder. I think I might have the parts for that.
Funny how I never noticed the ozone off my printer until I quit smoking.
And yeah, I moved a wall clock recently and left a large circle of white on the wall.
Not a bad idea about stuffing a "$moking $aved" envelope with the unspent cash for a personal present.
Good going, Chris !
Terry
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So, it's been over a month. 12/28/17 was my last. Been some stressful, nasty court days, but I've stayed the course. I'm thinking about it less. I still do, sometimes. Would never have thought a year ago, I'd be sitting here in 2018, waiting for the Super Bowl, no smoking, no Pepsi or Coke, and happy about it.
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CONGRATS !!!!
And as to the "Thinking about it" thing. I woke up in the middle of night about a week ago craving a Lucky Strike, which I haven't smoked since college (1983-1987). Because they were the cheapest cigarettes you could buy back then.
I do recommend carrots and celery to help with the oral fixation so you don't put on extra pounds...
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And as to the "Thinking about it" thing. I woke up in the middle of night about a week ago craving a Lucky Strike, which I haven't smoked since college (1983-1987). Because they were the cheapest cigarettes you could buy back then.
Back when poor people could afford Spam. And tortillas, for that matter. Lucky's are more expensive than Camels around here.
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Good job !
(It'll be five months for me, come Wednesday, 7 Feb.) <...A note of encouragement, not braggadocio
(Well, yeah, it is, a little. =D )
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Good job !
(It'll be five months for me, come Wednesday, 7 Feb.) <...A note of encouragement, not braggadocio
(Well, yeah, it is, a little. =D )
Nothing wrong with bragging about it. And support is appreciated.
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Very excellent.
I have to go to Walmart tomorrow morning.
I've decided that one of the things I'm picking up are nicotine patches. I'm going to make it stick this time (stopping smoking, not the patches).
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Very excellent.
I have to go to Walmart tomorrow morning.
I've decided that one of the things I'm picking up are nicotine patches. I'm going to make it stick this time (stopping smoking, not the patches).
I think that was the biggest thing for me. In the past, I felt like I should quit, or I ought to quit. This is the first time I've wanted to quit. Deciding that I don't want to smoke anymore helped.
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Six months today.
How's it going, Chris?
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I think that was the biggest thing for me. In the past, I felt like I should quit, or I ought to quit. This is the first time I've wanted to quit. Deciding that I don't want to smoke anymore helped.
You hit the nail on the head. I had a friend who talked about doing or not doing stuff, no matter what it was. He said the key was to decide you want to. To quote his sagelike words..."You gotta wanna."
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When SWMBO moved in, her dad was a smoker and I swear for about 6 months I nearly threw up from her clothes in the closet and the smoke smell that was off gassing from them.
My mother passed away in 1994. In 1995 I moved into the house and started painting rooms. The room next to the master bedroom had been my bedroom when I was very young, then became my younger sister's room when she was born (parents had the attic converted into a room for me). It was January, and I was working at night, after work. When I started painting sis's old bedroom, I thought my eyes were failing -- I was painting light colors, and I couldn't see anything.
Older house, had a ceiling light fixture in the middle of the room. I finally removed the glass and washed it. OH MY GAWD! The amount of tar that came off probably about killed the septic system. Then I pulled the bulbs and washed them. What a difference. The thing was -- both parents were heavy smokers, but nobody else in the house smoked, so this was tar accumulation from second-hand smoke in a room where nobody smoked. I shudder to think what my mother's lungs must have looked like.
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Six months today.
How's it going, Chris?
I'll say it's about a C grade for myself. High stress at work, some personal issues, and I said f#ck it on a Friday, bought beer and a pack of cigs. I managed to avoid falling back to the old ways, but I did finish that pack. Mea culpa.
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As the say, "*expletive deleted*it Happens".
Just climb back on the bull and start your ride again.
I can't tell you how many times I got thrown off the bull riding rodeo as a kid, but I just kept getting back on. I eventually made 8 seconds after a few false starts.
The person who is beating you up the most about it will be you. It is what it is. Quitting nicotine is one of the hardest addictions to break so you just start all over and tell yourself it will last longer this time than last and eventually it will last forever.
bob
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I'll say it's about a C grade for myself. High stress at work, some personal issues, and I said f#ck it on a Friday, bought beer and a pack of cigs. I managed to avoid falling back to the old ways, but I did finish that pack. Mea culpa.
Drat !
Although it may take three or four tries, don't let that be an excuse to start again. And I hope things settle down for you. Put this up as your wallpaper. Green is a good tranque, path and bridge are good symbols:
(https://c.pxhere.com/photos/97/9a/bridge_wooden_bridge_forest_woods_woodland_landscape_nature_trees-862052.jpg!d)
That picture somehow brings to mind some phrase I heard once about broad sunland uplits... or broad sunlit uplands... something like that.
Terry
Pic credit in properties.
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Drat !
Although it may take three or four tries, don't let that be an excuse to start again. And I hope things settle down for you. Put this up as your wallpaper. Green is a good tranque, path and bridge are good symbols:
(https://c.pxhere.com/photos/97/9a/bridge_wooden_bridge_forest_woods_woodland_landscape_nature_trees-862052.jpg!d)
That picture somehow brings to mind some phrase I heard once about broad sunland uplits... or broad sunlit uplands... something like that.
Terry
Pic credit in properties.
Sunlit upland broads would've been the thing..
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Hey, I found it:
https://www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/speeches/1940-the-finest-hour/their-finest-hour/
Winnie, June 18, 1940, to the House of Commons, the "Finest Hour Speech":
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The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This... was their finest hour.”