Mercy - what wonderful news. You are exactly right. You never know who your quit will reach. I believe sometimes all it takes for someone who is on the edge of trying to quit is seeing someone else actually doing it. It makes the goal seem reachable. Awesome!!!!
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]6/12/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 50
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,250
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $250.00
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 6 [B]Mins:[/B] 45 [B]Seconds:[/B] 41
Mister Ed - what a wonderful idea!
1. The pleasure I see in my little girl's eyes each time she remembers - mommy doesn't smoke anymore.
2. Choosing something, anything else over my cigarettes. I look back now and realize how many times I told my baby you can't be next to mamma now, I am smoking; or, as soon as mommy smokes I will do this or that. I chose cigarettes over everything else. Now I am choosing the important things first.
3. I am not ashamed anymore. I was always ashamed that I stunk like cigarettes. Now that I don't smoke and I smell other smokers I realize how much more ashamed I would have been had I known just how horrible I did smell.
4. My strength in my quit led my husband by example to quit with me.
Wow....I could go on and on. New quitters, I know it is a horrible horrible addiction and it feels like you are giving up your best friend at the beginning, like you just cannot do this, but you can. It is the most important thing I have ever done in my life, or I guess you could say "for" my life. Please hang on. It does get easier. Fight through the craves one day, one hour, one minute, one second at a time if you have to. The craves go away. The pride you will feel when you have that first full day when you realize, "Hey, I didn't have a crave all day" is wonderful. YOU CAN DO IT!
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]6/12/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 50
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,250
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $250.00
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 6 [B]Mins:[/B] 47 [B]Seconds:[/B] 1
Hang in there Sara! My husband smoked too. After a few weeks of me not smoking, he quit too. I did not pressure my husband to quit. I went through some pretty bad times at the very beginning with him still smoking, but got great advice from the people on this site. The only thing I did do was shared with him what I was going through, just like anything else in our lives. I would tell him how it went that day, what my quit symptoms were, and finally after a few weeks how much easier it was, how much better I felt, how proud I was of myself. I believe I set an example for him and made quitting more reachable for him. Just remember, it is YOUR quit. Protect it. YOU CAN DO IT!!!
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]6/12/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 50
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,250
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $250.00
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 6 [B]Mins:[/B] 50 [B]Seconds:[/B] 41
Chris, you are doing great! The craves will slow down. It helped me to think of my little girl everytime I felt like I might give in. Snapped me right back to attention. I couldn't imagine what the look of disappointment would be on her face if I gave in. You can do it!
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]6/12/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 50
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,250
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $250.00
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 6 [B]Mins:[/B] 51 [B]Seconds:[/B] 3
Stef,
I completely relate with the fire. We have an RV on a lake and are down there every weekend. I agree wholeheartedly. Sitting around the fire does make you crave. I am 50 days out now and that is one of the few places I still think about it. There is alot of advice ou there to take yourself out of situations like that, but I could not imagine not sitting around the fire, so whenever I got the urge to smoke while sitting there I took the advice of some really great people on this site, crazy as it may sound I yelled at the craving. Mind you, not out loud as I believe people would have thought I had lost my mind, but I yelled at it in my head. It started being kind of funny. When the crave comes up now, I give it a little yell in my head and follow it up with a little laugh. My husband is in on the joke now, so he knows when I start giggling around the fire I have been yelling at my crave... :p
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B]6/12/2007
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 50
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,250
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $250.00
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 6 [B]Mins:[/B] 51 [B]Seconds:[/B] 42
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