Maybe more than Christmas and New Year (winter solstice for others?), this time of year is a killer for me. Jews and Christians observe Passover and Holy Week/Easter during the same week this year, the weather in our hemisphere is FINALLY becoming a little more hospitable, and summer (my time of year!) is in the air. I LOVE this time of year, but interestingly, every blown quit of mine has happened in April or May. What's up with that? In the midst of new life, I continue to harbor a preference for death?
I'm not so nervous about facing the end of Lent, Holy Week, Easter, and my birthday (which almost always comes with Easter), but I'm aware of a certain -- well, uncertainty about the future. I don't quite get why beautiful weather, holidays of religious significance, and other occasions would make me want to smoke again. It's kinda dumb, really, but there it is. I continue to be my own greatest mystery -- but I guess it's what keeps me young, huh??? (Yikes. It better. Looking at the down-hill side of 60 in less than 2 weeks. Smoking (or something more dramatic) was supposed to kill me before I hit 30!)
peteg
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 2/10/2009 Smoke-Free Days: 53 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,650 Amount Saved: $596.25 Life Gained: Days: 9 Hrs: 19 Mins: 44 Seconds: 29
I live in the Northern Virginia/Washington DC metro area, and I heard that DC was giving away NRT when the new tax went into effect, but I don't have any details on that. I did see at the checkout line in my local grocery store, Marlboros were $6.99/pack BEFORE taxes, which would put them over $10/pack in VIRGINIA, the home of Phillip Morris!!
I am beyond mortified at what I was paying before -- if I were smoking now, I can't imagine how I'd begin to justify the cost! In many ways, I gotta thank our legislators for making sure I never go back to smoking!!
peteg
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 2/10/2009 Smoke-Free Days: 53 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,650 Amount Saved: $596.25 Life Gained: Days: 9 Hrs: 19 Mins: 47 Seconds: 54
Un-friggin-believable that those of us "of a certain age" bought this crap -- hook, line, and sinker!
Me, I am so NOT blaming the advertisers as much as I am standing in absolute awe of our naivete and willingness to believe whatever we want to believe!! And this thread didn't hit them all: "I'd rather fight than switch?" "Show us your Tarrytons?" "LSMFT?" No wonder young people think we're idiots.
Remember the "sample packs" you could get from the guy on the street corner or at the shopping center (pre-mall)?
Remember that the White House had special cigarattes for all of its guests? My parents actually had some real White House cigarettes, and I grew up in Southern California!! (Last admin was JFK, I think; I think Rosalyn Carter was the one who banned smoking in the White House, but it could have been as recent as Hillary Clinton.)
Some things really need to be gone.
peteg
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 2/10/2009 Smoke-Free Days: 53 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,650 Amount Saved: $596.25 Life Gained: Days: 9 Hrs: 19 Mins: 52 Seconds: 32
My experience with "weaning" is that it really prolongs the agony; it kept in a constant state of crave.
The alternative was to put the things down, use whatever help I needed; e,g, patch, pills, whatever, and know that the first 3 days are only 72 hours. After that, it really gets easier every day.
You can do this!
peteg
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 2/10/2009 Smoke-Free Days: 56 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,800 Amount Saved: $630.00 Life Gained: Days: 10 Hrs: 6 Mins: 44 Seconds: 52
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