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15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 37

In need of prayers

The outpouring of support in this community is amazing. Kaiser, my thoughts are with you. I have Multiple Sclerosis, and it is the times between the tests and the results that 'cause me the most stress. Too much time to think. As TS Elliot wrote, "I will show you fear in a handful of dust". Hoping it all comes out OK, Api

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 37

Api's 2 Cents

As I think about the reasons I have quit, as I review my list which I posted to my desk and put in my wallet that is encouraging me, all the things I am working for, nothing is addressing something that is my major issue. I think it is the biggest block, the reason I have backslid and, if I don't make it this time, will be the reason I go back....

I really enjoyed smoking. I like the taste, I like the way it makes me feel, I like the fact that it suppresses my appetites. I enjoyed smoking. I cannot state it enough. (Note the use of the past tenses!!! I am working at peoples!) All my Craves are about the fact that I dug smoking, not just the physical addiction

I am trying to allow delayed gratification overcome the instant gratification. I am thinking about the money, about the health benefits (and I have MS, so it is very important for me, beyond all the usual negatives!) about how, now that my sense of smell is returning, how bad my apartment stinks.

Yet, again, I really LIKED smoking! Past tense people, past tense

I am not sure if anyone else has read Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point. I really recommend it. He talks about how there is a correlation between alleviating depression and nicotine. I am on Lexapro, plus my MS Meds and MS itself 'cause depression... So it is all a rich tapestry....

What I am asking is, is this a problem for anyone else? I read peoples posts about looking at the smokers huddled in the cold, and asking themselves how that once could have been them. I look at them, and wish I could still join them.

Man, This STINKS!

Api

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 12/6/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 3
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 120
Amount Saved: $54.00
Life Gained:
Days: 0 Hrs: 11 Mins: 25 Seconds: 55

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 37

In need of prayers

Good Deal Kaiser, great to hear it wasn't something worse---Api
My Milage:

My Quit Date: 12/6/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 4
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 160
Amount Saved: $72.00
Life Gained:
Days: 0 Hrs: 13 Mins: 17 Seconds: 48

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 37

Api's 2 Cents

Thanks for the support. I know you're all right and yet I also inhale deeper when I pass them by. Well, I'm not even a week down so it will get better. Just for the laughs, and 'cause it really does say how I feel, the lyrics to one of the best songs about smoking ever... It just tells it like it is (or for us, WAS!)

Api

Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette

Written by Merle Travis and Tex Williams

Now I'm a feller with a heart of gold
And the ways of a gentleman I've been told
The kind of guy that wouldn't even harm a flea

But if me and a certain character met
The guy that invented the cigarette
I'd murder that son-of-a-gun in the first degree

It ain't cuz I don't smoke myself
And I don't reckon that it'll harm your health
Smoked all my life and I ain't dead yet

But nicotine slaves are all the same
At a pettin' party or a poker game
Everything gotta stop while they have a cigarette

Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette
Puff, puff, puff and if you smoke yourself to death
Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate
That you hate to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette

Now in a game of chance the other night
Old Dame Fortune was a-doin' me right
The kings and the queens just kept on comin' round

And I got a full and I bet 'em high
But my bluff didn't work on a certain guy
He just kept on raisin' and layin' that money down

Now he'd raise me and I'd raise him
I sweated blood, gotta sink or swim
He finally called and didn't even raise the bet

So I said "aces full Pops how 'bout you?"
He said "I'll tell you in a minute or two
But right now, I gotta have me a cigarette"

Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette
Puff, puff, puff and if you smoke yourself to death
Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate
That you hates to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette

(Ah, smoke it! Hah! Yes! Yes! Yes!)

The other night I had a date
With the cutest little girl in the United States
A high-bred, uptown, fancy little dame

She loved me and it seemed to me
That things were 'bout like they oughta be
So hand in hand we strolled down lover's lane

She was oh so far from a cake of ice
And our smoochin' party was goin' nice
So help me cats I believe I'd be there yet

But I give her a kiss and a little squeeze
And she said, "ah, Marty, excuse me please
I just gotta have me another, cigarette"

And she said, smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette
Puff, puff, puff and if you smoke yourself to death
Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate
That you hate to make him wait
But you just gotta have another cigarette

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 12/6/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 4
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 160
Amount Saved: $72.00
Life Gained:
Days: 0 Hrs: 13 Mins: 18 Seconds: 24

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 37

Am I Wrong?

Hey Goofy, I got mixed feelings! I hate to say it, but I could never, especially only a few days into my quit, but even 410 like you, be in that small a room with that many people smoking. The temptation would just be to much for me... Plus, it sounds like it is affecting you physically, as well. At the same time, I am just not big on telling other people to not smoke around me. I just leave. I have that east coast, uber-liberal hippie attitude (not to stereo-type :-) so.... My advice would be to have a heart to heart discussion with the smokers, let them know how it is bothering you, and see if a compromise can be reached. Always remember Thomas Jefferson on Compromise, that it's a good one if everyone walks away unhappy. :-)

Api

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 12/6/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 5
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 200
Amount Saved: $90.00
Life Gained:
Days: 0 Hrs: 16 Mins: 23 Seconds: 58

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 37

need reward suggestion

As of 10:30ish tonight, my wife and I will have finished HELL week. I am doing better then she is, I think, but hey, It is HELL week so who the heck knows? So, I'd love to suggestions, if you'd be so kind. One, a prezzie I can get for her just to say I love you and thanks for being my quit buddy. Then something we can do together to be a good reward. I thought dinner in a nice rstaurant, but we are also on weight watchers. Plus, we don't really like fancy meals, we just 2 hippies. Sassy, I know you can think of something!!! Thanks in advance,

Api aka Jeff

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 12/6/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 6
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 240
Amount Saved: $108.00
Life Gained:
Days: 0 Hrs: 19 Mins: 33 Seconds: 48

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 37

Weekend Promise 19th December.

I am in on the no smoking weekend promise! At about 11pm tonight, EST, I will have 14 days without cigarettes! Hell and Heck week are done, the start of this week was tough but it got better... Well, as better as it can get! My Lyric Posting seems to be enjoyed so you'll probably get a lot of Dylan from me! Not only is he my favorite, his lyrics are the best. So, in honor of all of us who ended Hell/Heck weeks recently, or ever, AND are about to get socked in with some snow, I give you a little something from Dylan's Blood on The Tracks:

I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail,
Poisoned in the bushes an' blown out on the trail,
Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 12/6/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 13
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 520
Amount Saved: $234.00
Life Gained:
Days: 1 Hrs: 17 Mins: 1 Seconds: 43

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 37

As of today...

I know how crazy it sounds to be losing weight AND quitting smoking at the same time, but I look it as a "Health" push as opposed to the individual parts of the initiative. There are 3 layers for me and one super major plus... No Cigarettes, Better Diet Choices (we are doing weight watchers) and joining the gym.

My wife, who is also my best friend, is not only 100% supportive but we are doing it all together. It helps to have a friend like that. Also, everyone on this board has been great and very supportive! Thanks, as always, to Sassy, for introducing me.

My trick to the diet is the world of substitution--- You can always substitute something caloric with a less fattening substitute... It's like the scene in City Slickers where the 2 guys who are supposed to be Ben and Jerry can tell you what flavor of Ice Cream goes with every meal? I can tell you what to substitute in a recipe to help you achieve as close to possible the original intent.... It usually involves Turkey of some type. ;-) Also, I do the cooking in the house so I can control everything easier.

I tell the wife that the secret ingredient to every dish I make is love. It's actually Tabasco Sauce.

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 12/6/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 30
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 1,200
Amount Saved: $540.00
Life Gained:
Days: 4 Hrs: 0 Mins: 8 Seconds: 59

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 37

Low Calorie, Quick and Easy Recipe Thread! I start with my Crunchy Chicken Recipe

I thought a thread with some low fat recipes would be fun! This was my Grandma's recipe for Passover so that it wouldn't use bread but I just like it. So, without further ado...

Goldie's Crunchy Chicken:

Prep Time: 15 Mins

Cook Time: 14-20 Mins

Serves: 4

Ingredients: Egg Whites/Egg Beaters, 4 Chicken Breasts, 2-4 servings of Baked Potato Chips aka Crisps for our Euro Friends (Even better, I use Lay's Light which are 70 Cals per Serving), garlic salt, red pepper flakes, 1 spray of Pam

Put potato chips in a plastic grocery bag, add garlic salt and pepper flakes to taste.. Then, step on the bag until the chips are all crushed, about the size of rice grains, maybe a little bigger. Then, Dip each chicken breast in the egg whites and toss in the bag. Shake vigorously, until all the breasts are coated. Spray pam on a shallow baking sheet and lay out the breasts. Cook at 375 for 15-20mins, flipping once during heating.

Low cal, and crunching the chips get's out some of the lack of smoking anxiety. For me, anyways. :-)

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 12/6/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 30
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 1,200
Amount Saved: $540.00
Life Gained:
Days: 4 Hrs: 0 Mins: 10 Seconds: 18

15 years ago 0 +0 / -0 37

quitting smoking / losing weight !!!!!!

Awesome tip Sparky. I do something similar... I am also trying for 64oz of H20 per day... So I have the same 16oz Waterbottle, with 4 rubberbands around it. Every time I re-fill, I take one of the rubberbands and put it around my wrist....

Api

My Milage:

My Quit Date: 12/6/2008
Smoke-Free Days: 31
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 1,240
Amount Saved: $558.00
Life Gained:
Days: 4 Hrs: 2 Mins: 47 Seconds: 41

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