Hello to the two newbies.
I totally understand what you mean. I've been using the programme for two weeks now and have only just managed to get the IM to work. It's not in the 'glove compartment'!! First you should go through the programme on the left of the screen then your stats will come up each time. For the IM click on the 'Launch' button on the Home page. It takes ages but a little 'cute box' thing comes up and you can write messages but I think you have to click on a few names to be your 'buddies' first. Try it on me - or on Phil, he seems to now what he's talkiing about!!
Good luck and well done for dedciding to go with the quit.
Gen
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/28/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 15
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 243
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �105
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 1 [B]Hrs:[/B] 23 [B]Mins:[/B] 48 [B]Seconds:[/B] 29
Something has happened to my 'Launch' button. I go to the Home page and press and nothing happens. I think I looked earlier so maybe somewhere in cyberspace I am still connected but am lost....
So I don't know everything either.
Gen
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/28/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 15
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 245
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �105
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 2 [B]Hrs:[/B] 0 [B]Mins:[/B] 10 [B]Seconds:[/B] 27
I can't get launched either.
Hope you are still smoke free - it is 13.30 hours, Thursday in Britain.
Gen
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/28/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 15
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 245
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �105
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 2 [B]Hrs:[/B] 0 [B]Mins:[/B] 10 [B]Seconds:[/B] 44
Hi Phil
This is a great thread. Caused some rippling of feathers because no-one here wants to really admit that they would (except one naughty contributor)but that is really fair enough. Why else are we all here! It's too soon for me to be messing with thoughts of what if... but I WAS the one who mentioned in one post that if I was desperate I COULD go to the shop and get some fags. It's just a personal thing. A coping thing. I know you were not being serious and there is nothing worse than people getting on your case for making a ponderous suggestion/question/remark but you did ask.
Gen
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/28/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 15
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 245
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �105
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 2 [B]Hrs:[/B] 0 [B]Mins:[/B] 12 [B]Seconds:[/B] 47
I've always cried at the slightest thing - adverts, films, anything so I've not noticed any real change. I am still quite high most of the time with the whole quit thing and am trying to be busy, busy or just shut down and lock everything out but today I had a really stressful phone conversation with a utilities provider person and I was so scared I was going to cry and ruin my arguement and then not be able have a cigarette to make me feel better. So, instead, when it all got too much I just excused myself from the conversation. I'll write a letter instead.
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/28/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 15
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 245
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �105
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 2 [B]Hrs:[/B] 0 [B]Mins:[/B] 13 [B]Seconds:[/B] 37
Hey. I'm thrilled that what i wrote yesterday appears to have got through somewhere. Never mind couselling and advice on stopping smoking, I need those same services for using this website.
Anyway. Somehow I am through. Don't know where the confessions box is but I had one cigarette yesterday. I had it and I didn't really want it. It is like saying goodbye to a very dear old friend. Can't quite believe that I will say 'This is it. I am not going to smoke again'. Felt bad after I'd had it. Didn't really enjoy it at the time but it is like a rebellion. I know I should stop, that it is good for me to stop - for loads of reasons - but I don't want to be seen to be giving in to the pressure.
Does that make any sense?
I first smoked aged about 8 or 9 and then around 15 I started taking it seriously. I smoked then till I was 26 when I had hypnosis which worked well enough for me to stay off the fags till I had had two childen. Then, when the second one was about one year old (23 years ago) I started to have the odd cigar. This increased (with my drinking) to about 5 cigars a day with supplementary cigarettes. Then I had a dramatic curtaillment to my drinking career and ended up in hospital. When I came out I started on the cigarettes full time and have been smoking 15/20 a day since then.
Today it is lovely and sunny here. The weather I would associate with sitting around in the sunshine having a drink and with that, of course, a cigarette. Since stopping drinking three years ago I have had to get used to not having that 'pleasure' and to now not have even a cigarette makes it even harder.
The up side of it all is that the whole thing, although obsessional - to the point of dreaming about it - is liberating and energising. Just got to keep to the positives.
What do you say?
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/26/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 2
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 36
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �14
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 7 [B]Mins:[/B] 7 [B]Seconds:[/B] 21
Hello hempfield,
Bit late entering this discussion but I was pleased to find your posting (I'm still struggling with the site and spend inordinate amounts of time wandering around it trying to work out what to do).
I first told my best friend about the whole quit thing and at first she was pleased for me - and impressed at my 'cold turkey' approach because she has been on the gum for 5 and a half years. Then I told her about this site and today she doesn't want to talk to me about it cos I've got my 'new smoking friends'... I told my Mother yesterday that I was giving up and she didn't respond AT ALL and my partner doesn't seem moved one way or the other, except I suppose he's cut down a bit. I haven't actually said anything to my daughter but she and boyfriend don't seem to have noticed that I am not smelling of smoke any more which is interesting. I called the local Health Centre to find out about a support group and they sent me a leaflet and it had the WRONG NUMBER on it so I couldn't get through.
I suppose, in the face of such indifference one is tempted to say ' Why bother?' and I just took an old guy to his clinic. Approaching 90, smokes 15 cigarillos a day and drinks a half bottle of rum with peppermint.
Only on day 3 so still missong it like mad.
Genevieve
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/28/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 2
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 37
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �14
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 7 [B]Mins:[/B] 15 [B]Seconds:[/B] 8
Checking in. Well done everyone. Aren't we all doing well.
Have a nice day - whichever day it is for you.
Gen :)
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/28/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 37
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 595
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �259
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 20 [B]Mins:[/B] 41 [B]Seconds:[/B] 37
What is this spouty - or nozzily -thing? I don't seem to have one and I really feel I should! Laughing louder.
Gen :)
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/28/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 41
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 659
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �287
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 5 [B]Hrs:[/B] 9 [B]Mins:[/B] 25 [B]Seconds:[/B] 9
Phil
Think this one is in the wrong place. amlooking for Mr Ed and his race but can't find it. I had a fiver each way on him.
Gen
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 3/28/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 41
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 659
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] �287
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 5 [B]Hrs:[/B] 9 [B]Mins:[/B] 26 [B]Seconds:[/B] 55
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