I just noted that GeekGirl is taunting the fact that she has been smoke free for 6 months ..
Congratulations TJ .. keep it up .. :woot::woot::woot::woot::woot:
I gave up smoking when my daughter was about one year old .. and about a year before I came to Greece. That was over 20 years ago now .. The longer you stay clean the easier it gets ..
Unfortunately my wife didn't stop, so I still get the secondary effects from a committed heavy smoker .. but the good news is that I work in a Smoke Free Zone .. anyone who wants to smoke has to go do it on the road outside the front door of the place we work.
i stopped for 2yrs and then started work selling them within 2 months back to 40+ a day
the longer i was stopped the harder it got it did not get easier,will ahve to stop again when i retire will not have the money to waste on them b&h 25's $12.80 a pack and the tax increases every 6 months
I stopped many times before I kicked the habit the last time .. you never really stop but you have to force yourself not to want them. I had succumbed more times than I remember to cutting back stopping and then starting off again.
When I met my wife I hadn't smoked for 3 years, it took just a few drinks in a bar in Athens a few nights after I met her and I was on 20 a day again (should have realised what getting involved with a Greek might mean !! :grin
If you know that you'll have to give up some time, why not do it now .. apart from the stain on the health there's also the strain on the pocket as you say.
as an ex smoker I know it's difficult .. needs a lot of determination and support from those around you.
Hats off to anybody that manages to kick the habit. Also means that you'll be paying less taxes to the Gov't :laugh: if you need extra incentive
been there & I have all those little answers ready too!
Until you're ready and you're committed to killing the habit, there's no way a smoker will stop being a smoker .. even at pain of death :grin: give the blindfolded man a cigarette :laugh:
i had no choice :upset:
i quit in oct before the first operation, the pet scan showed a small spot on the lower lung, which turned out to be melanoma. :sigh: [skin cancer which spread]
but fear is a great motivator. so i quit.... again.:4-surrend
they operated before xmas, and i still have discomfort
now they say to take interferon, if the next scan is clean, for a year.:4-dontkno
Cancer is all around us .. I lost an Aunt to it, I lost a cousin to it. My Grandma battled Breast cancer when she was in her 40's (we lost her when she was in her 90's), my sister is keeping it at bay after an operation to remove a lump and a relapse when she went down with Leukemia years after being clean ..
They say it can be hereditary so I have to keep my kids aware of the possibilities, assuming that they are mature enough to understand.
I can happily say that We have been smoke free for 3 yrs and 6 MO.
The wife and I quit at the same time.(and survived)
We used zyban (payed for by Health insurance) worked with group called free and clear. we set our quit date for the 20 Th of Oct, I quit on the 17 Th and the wife quit on the 19 Th.
Neither of us has had so much as an urge for a smoke.:grin:
To all tht are quiting Hang in there.
To all that want to quit, Like someone said you have to really want to quit or nothing works.
I tried many times over the years to stop but without success. Then, in 2001 I nearly lost my legs through blocked arteries caused by smoking. I had major surgery (aorto-bifemoral bypass) and that was the shock I needed. It will be seven years this year. Most of the time I don't think about it even when amongst smokers, but very occasionally, I fancy one. I know that that one would be enough to set me off again so I just think about something else and the urge goes. I used Nicorette chewing gum and found it a great help.
I don't ... my wife smokes and she frequently gets up when I go to sleep !!! :laugh: I just stopped buying them for MYSELF and putting them in MY mouth :grin:
I didn't realize how much of an impact of my gloating about my success to stop smoking would cause. :1angel:
Heres my story:
I started smoking when I was 13 yrs old. .stealing my moms smokes and hanging out my upstairs bedroom window to enjoy them. Finally at age 15 she said if your going to smoke you smoke downstairs so you dont burn the house down :laugh::laugh:
So I smoked at least 10-15 a day for the next 29 yrs. Smoking more at times especially when drinking. I really never did quit when I had my child ( I am really embarrassed to say) but had at least 1 a day when pregnant. Son was low birth at 5.8 pds but was always very healthy and a weight lifter today at age 14. Knows what he wants in his body which is a good thing.
To stop smoking I used Chantix. It did have side effects, the upset stomach but after 20 minutes the discomfort was gone. They suggest using for a 12 week program but I only needed for 4 weeks. Yeah thats it, 4 weeks..... I couldn't believe it myself. I dont and have not had a craving since my quit date. I have friends and family that smoke and I hate the smell and wish they would quit but I still have no desire to start back up. I will never touch another cigarette.
One thing I do hate is this darn weight gain I have. Its only 8 pounds but on a small framed body like my own it shows ( at least to me). I spoke with a friend who owns a Health Shoppe and she said she knows
5 people who used Chantix and stopped but they all gained 20+ pounds and more so I should be thankful.....and believe me I am
To help remove this extra weight I have been doing Taebo 5 days a week and taking some herbal and organic products to increase my metabolism which has slowed to a crawl. I take Cortiblocks Plus and use Shaklee products which help retain muscle tone while I lose fat. The main reason I never quit before was I didnt want to get fat but I have dealt with the fact that I will gain until I reach my plateau and start losing.
I have been told my skin looks much better and I look healthier. Smoking does cause wrinkles and dries out your skin....
So thats my story and Im sticking to it :laugh::laugh:
Thanks for listening and I hope all that desire to quit is as successful as I was
My first was when I was about 8 years old .. as I got older I was using my school-lunch money to buy a pack of 5 or 10 ciggies on my way to school. Hid them in a "Golden Virginia" tobacco tin at the back of the place where we lived. It had a fairly sheltered alleyway which was all dirt & back-fencing to the back entrance. I had lifted a clod of grass away from a back fence and poked the tin in there everyday as I returned home from school. Always left by the back and returned too.
Can't remember when it became apparent that I was smoking. Maybe much later in another place we lived after my elder bro was told to stop hiding himself away in the upstairs toilet to have his cigarette.
I remember one time at age 16 I swore never to smoke again after a visit to a local dance hall, where the mixture of cigarettes and drink made me sick. Left the remains of the packet in the toilet as I went to rejoin friends outside.
At age 18 I was smoking when I was working evenings in a pub... after returning from my daytime job. How many times I forced myself to have "just one after meals" is beyond me, but always the initial boredom of a slow evening pushed consumption higher. Either that or a night out to the dance hall with friends .. always a killer, and if I went having stopped, I left with a cigarette in my mouth!
It took me years to stop as a youngster, hadn't been smoking for 3 years when I met my wife at the age 27 but it only took a bar and company in Athens on my first visit to get me started again in 1978. The following day I was on 20 a day again .. we moved to Greece in 1987 and I had already stopped smoking AGAIN by then .. Only had one relapse on a beach about 10 years ago. Midday and we had a beach all to ourselves, my wife my 3 kids and I, we had a couple of cold beers and some ouzo .. and I decided I wanted to have a cigarette .. only the tears in my wifes eyes made me stub it out immediately after I had lit it up .. just one puff .. haven't tried again since ... yet !!! ....
I had a doctor tell me once the only people that quit cold Turkey are the ones that keep trying,
I quit way back in the early 70's for a year then went on 6 month cruse (Navy). it wasn't till 30 years later that I finaly managed.
@Done_Fishin Nice play on words.:grin: I suppose if a person was not familiar with the term it would be confusing. (cold turky : with out assistance).
@Geekgirl
8 Lbs ray:
I am still fighting mine. Still packing an extra 40.:sigh:
But getting better I was closer to 50 over.
the only way I have found to lose weight was to suffer from a gall stone .. found myself going to the hospital one dark night when I was packing around 105Kg's due to the most annoying pain and nausea which stopped me from sleeping. Got hooked up to a drip for a week .. no food whatsoever, had my op and was kept on a drip for a few more days before getting some really inedible boiled chicken, cooked without salt. I couldn't eat it so I ate the jelly that came with it and some small toasts that are found here.
I left the hospital 2 weeks later weighing 80 kilos however I quickly went back up to 90 as I had a few more weeks at home to recover .. at home I was just few steps from the local baker and fresh hot bread ... but it's the only way I know to lose weight ..
"there were no fat people in a concentration camp"
he was being facetious, and a bit crude i guess, but the point was made.
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