As you may have seen I signed back on today and will be setting my quit meter to 0 as soon as I can figure out how to do it. Last time around I was quitting after almost 35 years smoking 2 packs (read: up to four packs when things were really swinging)a day. I admit I am back to my two packs a day but maybe I'm hoping just a little bit that the 11 months I wasn't smoking would count for something. Anybody got any ideas on this. I've really been smoking full time since December. I know that there are a lot of you who have quit in the past and maybe have some advice to give.
How can I set my quit meter to 0 again?
I�m sure I'll be back over the next few hours - the anxious feeling is already invading and this is only day one.
Love to you all
Deck
Well here's one oldie who sadly to say from today sets back the quit meter to 0 and starts over. Yes I made it all the way to 11 months and then puff by puff crept back up to my usual 40 a day. I cannot believe I have been so stupid. How, to have gone through the hell heck and whatever other type of day and week, only to find onself back to zero in less time than it took me to get to my first day when I could honestly say I didn't miss a cigarette.
Again I'm going to need all the support I can get. My first and only quit last year was hell and I spent so much time here letting everybody here know about it. But honestly I believe that it was you guys who helped me get to the first 11-month-nicotine-free period in almost 37 years. Please guys help again.
Thank you for all your kind words and wishes. I got a lot of help from you last time around and I am hoping that you can do the same for me again.
What started me back again: Honestly nothing more than one puff, just to see if I could and get away with it. I didn't. I got another life sentence. I suppose another reason is that I didn't avoid smoke. Having been one of the rejected for a long number of years I really couldn't bring myself to ban smokers from either my office or my home and would allow anybody do smoke around me. I did not become a holier-than-thou ex-smoker who was going to make everybody's life a misery. I was very tolerant, realising that the smokers were in fact addicts. Sin of all sins I even let one into my home and heart. Yes, a new relationship with a reasonably heavy smoker. Could you ask for worse. Summertime was OK as outside was still a possibility, but wintertime at below 20�C smoking outside well you can imagine - mistake mistake mistake - But I guess this is me looking out the window for someone to blame instead of looking in the mirror to see myself.
Forgive the ramblings as it is still only day 2
Be in touch
Deck
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/4/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 2
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 95
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $26
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 9 [B]Mins:[/B] 17 [B]Seconds:[/B] 25
You're right about smoking being a disgusting habit, that is almost unbearable when you are not smoking and unnoticeable when you are. I didn't make any conscious decision to smoke it just crept up on me: like one says "a puff away from a pack a day" - really took on meaning when I went effortlessly from a few puffs here and there to 2 packs a day in less time than it took me to notice that again I was spending 10 Euros a day on smokes.
We are simply addicts and any contact with nicotine will bring us back to square one.
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/4/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 3
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 138
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $39
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 13 [B]Mins:[/B] 40 [B]Seconds:[/B] 52
It's day three and I feel almost like I did at the beginning of my last quit i.e., short-tempered, fat, lacking concentration, ready to chew anybody out. One good point is that I can't really say I am having any cravings. I mean I have had some cravings but small sharp ones like I had after about six months into my last quit. But please somebody reassure me I'm not going to put on as much weight this time as I did last time. I put on a total of 26lbs and I have managed to hold onto every single one of them.
Nobody found the humour thread to bump it up??
Lots of love to you all
Deck
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/4/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 3
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 138
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $39
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 13 [B]Mins:[/B] 39 [B]Seconds:[/B] 42
I guess I'm really into *****ing today. I mentioned weight gain in one of my posts and I think it was Melanie suggested I go to the weight problem forum. Whine -- it is unavoidable that one gains weight when you stop smoking or so it seems. Normal to gain 10 - 15 Lbs - I gained already 26... and that despite the fact that when I last quit I started jogging, went regularly to the gym, got my heartrate down to almost marathon status - yes to well below 60 beats. (I must say I enjoyed telling all my healthy - never-smoked friends that I had a very healthy heart- although most of them did not agree that I had one at all) And still I put on weight. However, what really makes it an issue is that I can no longer fit into all those reward clothes I bought myself whilst in the throes of successfully quitting. Now that I am quitting again I guess I'll just have to stop wearing any until the weight gain levels out.
But hell if this keeps up it will certainly be easier to jump over me than walk around. But you know I have two cartons of cigarettes stashed away so I could also go back to smoking - which is worse on the heart being a smoker or being overweight? Joke - Joke �� :)
Of course it is being overweight :eg:
Smoking is just minor cancer-causing, disgusting, expensive, foul-smelling, idiot behaviour to be encouraged in those wishing to age before their time so that at least when they die young they will look the part.
Today is just day 3 - wait until I really start to go crazy.
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/4/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 3
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 150
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $39
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 14 [B]Mins:[/B] 45 [B]Seconds:[/B] 21
Think of it one day at a time. don't worry about being successful in the future. Succeed today and then concentrate on tomorrow. Becoming accustomed to success can only be done over time.
Best of luck
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/17/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 2
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 105
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $26
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 10 [B]Mins:[/B] 27 [B]Seconds:[/B] 50
Welcome to the site. Believe me I shared your feelings regarding clubs - etc., but when I really needed help in my last quit which lasted for 10 months, it was a real help to be able to find such ready and willing support at any time of the day or night. Now that I have slipped back again I am hoping to find the same moral support that got me from a 3-pack-a-day smoker for 34 years to "0"
Best of luck
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/17/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 2
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 105
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $26
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 10 [B]Mins:[/B] 28 [B]Seconds:[/B] 22
Hi All
Can I just crawl back in among you folks. Yes it's me again. The onetime 10 month quitter who just couldn't resist that one puff which got him right back up to where he had been in less than the time it took to notice what was happening. Yes after 34 years at 3 packs a day, I went through all of the stages, in quitting, and believe me they were many. Tears, anger, why me? who cares? just leave me alone in my misery type situations all for nothing. That was the end of 2005. Of course having quit once I believed that all I had to do was decide to do so again. No way. I just couldn't do it. And of course if I was feeling bad at not being able to quit again, I was feeling even worse given that every time I quit my weight shot up. I went back on the cigs but never lost the weight. Now I am back hoping that I can succeed again. Looking forward to receiving your support as I really need it.
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/17/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 2
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 103
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $26
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 10 [B]Mins:[/B] 24 [B]Seconds:[/B] 8
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