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Guest SouthernBelle

So I quit smoking this morning. Just as before when I quit drinking beer (and smoking pot, for that matter), I'm going cold turkey. I was planning on using Chantix, but was advised to try otherwise.

Wish me luck!

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Guest ~Lily~

Good luck Belle! ^.^ I'm sure it'll work out great for you! I quit smoking cigarettes over a year ago, cold turkey and it went fine. Then again, I have asthma so I shouldn't have been smoking anyway and it really IS a disgusting habit and I was only doing it out of boredom, so I guess it was easy for me, hehe. Alcohol would be easy as well, because I don't drink much and I don't really enjoy the taste anyway. But I do enjoy Marijuana, and it is almost legal here, so x3 that would be harder to quit, but I'll definitely do it for HRT! ^.^ (when that time comes)

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Guest Donna Jean

Good for you, Belle!

That's what I did, too, when I quit...

I wadded up the pack and never bought another!

Stay strong, Honey...you can do it!

LOVE

Donna Jean

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Guest SouthernBelle

Oh, god, It's been all day!! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Guest Donna Jean

Hang tough, Belle....you can do this!

Get some gum....get some sucky candy....

Go for a swim...a run..a walk...

Buy some Popsicles!

Donna Jean

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Guest SouthernBelle

Hang tough, Belle....you can do this!

Get some gum....get some sucky candy....

Go for a swim...a run..a walk...

Buy some Popsicles!

Donna Jean

Good idea. I'm going to the store and getting some gum. Then I'll take a break from Laura's and go walking.

OK. OK. I can do this. It's so hard, though!

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Keep it up Belle. I quit smoking years ago and know what you are going through. The nerves are starving for nicotine. The addiction will start going away. Know that physically you notice you are feeling better almost right away, even though you are fighting the addiction. Maybe chew some gum to get the nicotine taste out of your mouth.

You can do it.

Love Jenny

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Guest Emily Ray

Belle,

All the best to you. I have been struggling to quit for several months now. I have days without any and other days with more than a few.

Huggs,

Emily

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Guest angie

Good needed topic,with first hand experience on Chantix.

One word of caution:If you have depression,or prone to it,

use only half the doseage daily.

Chantix works.The urge is there,but very diminished.If you

slip up,so what.The drug gives you that edge to make it over

the hump and become a non smoker.I Know...Forty Seven Days

without buying a pack of...(bad ones).I'm starting to feel

like a non smoker.Think,"I can do this". Smell for the first

time in years just how bad burning cigarettes and ash tray's

smell,not to mention myself and all my belongings...

So,I would try Chantix.Give yourself that extra edge to make

it over the hump,and much luck to you for the effort you are

undertaking.Just remember,if you slip up,it's no biggie,keep on

keeping on,and you will make it.

Angelique

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Guest SouthernBelle

Here's an update.

So things were going OK at first with the quitting smoking, but my soon-to-be ex-wife still lives with me and is smoking around me all the time. That has made it so hard for me to quit. And, on one day, she and her best friend came over and had like a girls' night with me. They brought alcohol and I decided to partake, because I was dying to have a girls' night with people that were supportive of me.

I don't consider the alcohol a relapse or anything, because I don't think I really had a problem with drinking. I do believe that quitting drinking is a positive in my life, but I think I'm just a young American and that's why I drank. Anyway, though, I smoked the whole night.

I hate cigarettes. Right now, I'm talking to my wife about diff living arrangements, because I NEED to quit smoking and I CAN'T do it with a smoker in the house!

HUGGS

Belle

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Guest Robin Winter

Proud of you hun, but if you were a moderate to heavy smoker, like half a pack a day or more, doctors don't actually recommend you quit cold turkey. It's up to you of course, but it's best to wean yourself off nicotine via the patch. Either way, good luck with it :) I'm planning to quit too over the next month or so. I'm cutting back first, then I'll go on the patch for a few weeks and see how it goes.

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Guest KatieT

G'luck! I know how hard it is, having two smokers as parents... probably why I never started! Just think of the motivators: More money to spend on clothes, and your body will thank you and give you much nicer skin as a reward. What's not to love?

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Guest Sotha
More money to spend on clothes

And what better motivator is there than that? :P

Yes. I would try different living arrangements. That would probably help you more than anything else, not having anything in your life to encourage you to relapse.

Or it you two are stuck together (perhaps for financial reasons right now at least) she could try quitting or at least not smoking anywhere near you until you are able to live separate.

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Guest SouthernBelle

she could try quitting or at least not smoking anywhere near you until you are able to live separate.

I tried that route. She wouldn't work with me.

Oh, well. She's out of the house now.

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I gave up ten years ago using patches. Haven't had a cigarette since. I'd tried going cold turkey quite a few times, never lasted more than a month. Turned out I wasn't. Some excuse/crisis/drinking session would always come up to dissolve my resolve. The first time I used patches it didn't work either because I didn't use them long enough- it seemed so easy I thought I'd be OK after only a few weeks. Next time I followed the instructions on the packet and kept using them for a few months. I've been so much healthier since!

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Guest NatashaJade

I haven't heard anything for a couple of days, Belle....

How are you doing?

HUGGS!

Donna Jean

Indeed! When you quit smoking, you need to broadcast it everyday to help it sink in. As someone who quit cold turkey 10 years ago, I know what a hurdle it is to get over. You need all the love and support you can get in this fight. My friends formed a betting pool as to when I'd break down and smoke. I bet them that after the last bet on day had gone by, I would still be nicotine free. I won! Drink lots of water. Eat sugar free mints whenever the urge strikes you to smoke. Take all the money you would have spent on cigarettes and put it in a jar. At the end of the month, go buy yourself something amazing.

luv

Gin

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Guest SouthernBelle

Well, here's an update:

I've been struggling. My wife has been in and out of our apartment and she's a smoker. The other day, I went to my parents' house (btw, talked to my dad! will post a topic on it!) and they are all smokers. I keep requitting.

I keep thinking I've got it under control and I keep losing control.

I need to go out and buy a bunch of mints and some popsicle sticks so I can make kool-aid popsicles!(thx for the idea DJ)

I'm quitting AGAIN today. Wish me luck, because I really, really need it!

HUGGS AND KISSES

Belle

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Guest Donna Jean

Belle, Honey....

Look in the isle in the supermarket that has the KoolAid and you should find some small Tupperware trays for making popcicles in..

Mine were a four pop tray for $1.49 so I bought 3! They have their own "sticks" in them...

Then use pre sweetened...made with nutra sweet or a sweetner like that...5 calories a pop...

I can sit on the computer and eat 12 popcicles...and it's about as many calories as an apple!

Good luck, Baby!

Donna Jean

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ow about those electronic cigarettes? Expensive at first I hear but no more than smoking.

I've been looking at them for my daughter. She started at 16-never got another penny allowance as long as she smoked either. She gave it up 2 years ago at 31 cold turkey but relapsed a few months ago. She has blood pressure spikes and every member of her father's family that has smoked has died of cancer.

So I am very scared for her but if I mention it we fight. And fight

Keep up the good work

Hugs

Jj

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Guest Sannara

Hello SouthernBelle,

Very pretty name. I agree with Katie T. what's not to love, by quitting. I went Cold-Turkey over twenty years ago. You can expect strength to come back that you forgot about. Food and drink will taste better down the road. and before you know it your body,very soon, wont even crave for it.

There nothing but benefits darling :D .

Hugs and support, Sannara

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Guest SouthernBelle

I'm still screwing up. I will hopefully be cleared for HRT in 3 months and I've been told that you need to be done with cigarettes for several months before you begin HRT.

What do I do? Do I get the patch? I don't want to postpone HRT for even a second...

HELP!

Belle

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