I agree that those statistics are very depressing. And I tell you, I think they are just talking about me! For the last 10 years, I have tried to quit at least once every year. I tryed everything and nothing. I think that I am just so fed up with it now that this is it. My mom is soooo sick with COPD and I have lost two uncles with heart problems and strokes and blood clots. I'm tired of dealing with it and I need to get to where there is something else to think of besides smoking and smoking related illness. So I'm sure that soon, I will be there. I have to be the 5%.
Anyways, if all that is true, who is a mathmetician? If 5% quit, and I heard the stat of 450,000 a year die, If we could get no new people to start, how long would it be untill there would be none left?
Has anyone ever heard a stat of how many new people start every year?
Just curious,
Mama
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/1/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 14
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 587
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $79.8
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
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Hi Roro,
It's good to meet you! We all know how you feel but the funny thing about this is that in 10 min, or in 10 hours you will feel differently. It's like the weather here in Houston Texas, if you don't like it, wait awhile, it will change!
Just hang on, read your replies and between replies read other peoples post and soon enough you will go to take a sip of water and suddenly say to yourself "oh, I feel better!"
Hang in there,
Mama
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/1/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 14
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 582
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $79.8
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
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Hey, this is Mama two weeks later! I made it this far do you believe it! Cold Turkey, Two whole weeks!!!!
I don't believe it, my kids don't believe it, my dogs don't believe it, my mom doesn't believe it, this is soooooo unreal to me!!!
Here I am, not a lick of nicotine in me!!!!
Mama
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/1/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 14
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 580
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $79.8
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
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Oh yeah and I didn't smoke. I have two weeks today do you believe it!! I don't!!
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/1/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 14
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 578
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $79.8
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 1 [B]Hrs:[/B] 12 [B]Mins:[/B] 49 [B]Seconds:[/B] 3
I weight 130.4, no gain, no loss, just what I wanted and I got to go to olive garden!
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/1/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 14
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 578
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $79.8
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 1 [B]Hrs:[/B] 12 [B]Mins:[/B] 48 [B]Seconds:[/B] 43
When bad things happen, I think we have to remind ourselves that not smoking didn't cause this and it certainly isn't going to help the situation to smoke. We have to remind ourselves of this because that is the way we used to deal with it but think back, it didn't really help did it?
Anyways, there is one thing to think about too. Those kids, if you do end up having to have them for a time, do not need to go from one addicted household (the prescription drug addict) to another (nicotine addict) You could choose to be the one person that they know not enslaved to any drug, totally free! What a great gift to give your neices and nephews!
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/1/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 14
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 578
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $79.8
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
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Well, breaking free, I know I am only at two weeks but I think I can speak to addiction a little because I come from a severly alcholic family, with long tradition of alcholhol, prescription drug and smoking addiction. I beat the curse of alcohol only by never trying it. I have never ever had a bit of alcohol in my mouth for any reason. Not cough surup, vanella extract, listerine, nothing. Not ever. That is the only way that I didn't get addicted to alcohol. My genes dictate that if I did, I would become addicted to it.
I don't know what addiction you say you have beat but I do know without a shadow of a doubt that alcoholics have craves after many many years, that is why you have the ones with 20 years sobriety that all in a sudden start drinking. If you talk to them, it really wasn't all in a sudden, they had been having the craves for years and because they deny that they have them, don't talk about them, don't acknowledge and deal with them they eventually cave to them.
I expect to be a nicotine addict all my life. I will never be able to get away from that and I do expect to wish I could smoke. Hey, I wish that they would invent a lovely cigarette that was full of vitamines and super good for you! but that won't happen and we have to face it. I saw a movie one time about time travel, I don't remember anything else about the movie except that they came from the future where the air was so bad that then they traveled to our time with cleaner air, they had to smoke to make the air breathable for them. a dream come true for a nictoine addict! Also, not going to happen.
I have never heard of any addiction where there is never a desire for the substance after a month or so. And I think that I have dealt with just about every possible addiction.
Mama
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/1/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 14
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 578
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $79.8
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
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Ann,
I'm sorry I didn't see your post yesterday too!!! I am still trying to learn how to navagate around the site.
The only thing I have to add to all the great advise you have already gotten is that it passes. I have had to learn that the hard way. I am just now at two weeks and still I can be fine one min. and the next horrible. But then the next I can be fine again.
It's kind of like the weather here in Houston texas, If you don't like it right now, wait a while, it will change.
Love,
Mama
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/1/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 14
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 575
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $79.8
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 1 [B]Hrs:[/B] 12 [B]Mins:[/B] 35 [B]Seconds:[/B] 55
I have never used it but would like to learn, add me too.
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/1/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 15
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 635
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $85.5
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
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Breaking Free,
I am very very happy for you that that is the way it is for you and I wish it were like that for each and every one of us. Unfortuanatly, I can tell you for sure that it is not like that for most. If it was, no one would smoke anymore,like allan carr says.
The thing is that most of us need a lot more support that just the one month or however long it took you. It's just not that simple for most of us. And if comming on this website makes it possible for some of us to guit, hey at least it's not another drug or something harmfull.
I don't know what makes it easy for some and not others, but I do know that I must not be the only one because many people on this website have expressed the same feelings as I have had, and besides, it must not be quite as easy and you say or why would you have felt any apprehension upon quiting and why would you have smoked all those years?
So anyways, I must stay here and get the help I need because I still can here that horrible weed calling my name. I don't know when, or if, it will ever stop, but I do know that it is very bad for me to answer. That does not make me weaker than you or inferior in any way, It just makes me different from you.
Love,
Mama
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/1/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 15
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 635
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $85.5
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 1 [B]Hrs:[/B] 16 [B]Mins:[/B] 25 [B]Seconds:[/B] 36
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