I just joined the site, I have been successfully using the patch for 3 weeks now.
I've been wanting to quit for a long time. My husband was a smoker when we met, he'd been smoking off and on for a couple of years(mostly socially), then one day he got sick of smoking and quit. He didn't have any cravings or second thoughts, he didn't need any help, he just stopped. I on the other hand, have been smoking for about 15 years, sometimes a pack or more a day.
In the last year I cut down to half a pack, or less some days. We moved away from my home town where all my friends and family lived. Where ALL of them smoked. I worked as a bartender then, so I was around smokers all the time, quiting always sounded too hard(considering everyone I knew smoked). So finally my sister and I decided we were going to quit together. We set a date, bought the patches and made a pact. Well that day came , I got up, threw out my cigs, put on a patch and called my sister. But...she had decided she NEEDED a cigarette, not even bothering to try to stop. I almost ripped off my patch right then. But I figured I had all ready started, why not try. I did for about a month, but eventually I started to go over to my sisters house just to bum a cigarette. So I was back to where I started. SMOKING!
Now we live in California, the land of non-smokers. I smoked for the first few months, and I felt like the odd ball. My husband was always begging me to stop, he would send the kids out while I was smoking to ask me to stop. I was the one always sneaking off in the corner somewhere. My husband would tell our friends I was going for a little walk. But they all knew what I was doing.
Last time when I tried, I knew that I could go and smoke if I really wanted to, I knew there were cigarettes just down the street, I knew nobody in my life would really notice(except my husband, who still smoked occasionally), and I knew that deep down I didn't want to quit yet. This time I know I'm ready.
It's been 3 weeks now, and this is the hardest thing I've ever done.
:)
smenos
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/3/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 21
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 173
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $52.5
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 1 [B]Hrs:[/B] 13 [B]Mins:[/B] 43 [B]Seconds:[/B
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Quit Meter
$81,772.20
Amount Saved
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Quit Meter
Days: 4810
Hours: 3
Minutes: 40
Seconds: 8
Life Gained
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Quit Meter
45429
Smoke Free Days
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Quit Meter
454,290
Cigarettes Not Smoked
