G'Day !!

JR I just found this post as I was wobbling through the site. [url=http://www.stopsmokingcenter.net/support/viewmessages.aspx?forum=1&topic=26163]Quit Quit Quit Quit Quit - By Hummy[/url] [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 24 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 498 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $180 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 1 [B]Mins:[/B] 32 [B]Seconds:[/B] 11

A New Day

Great Job Chicken Stix! Congratulations on Thiry Days. That is one whole bunch a time. Congratultions on how much you have learned about yourself and how much you are there for yourself. Hooray Great Quit Phillip :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 24 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 498 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $180 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 1 [B]Mins:[/B] 36 [B]Seconds:[/B] 14

Gotta do it

Hello Determined. You have found a great place to get information, to share and be supported by others. Welcome to the SSC. There are lots of tools located to the left and the postings and threads of conversation are both informative and valuable. This site is open 24 hours and there are people from all over the world here. Take a look around. Read and read and read. Come in nd post and vent and use this site for all it has to offer. Create a plan for you quit there are several options and worksheets as well as a downloadable workbook in the area called glovecompartment. Take a look through this post [url=http://www.stopsmokingcenter.net/support/viewmessages.aspx?forum=1&topic=26163]Quit Quit Quit Quit Quit by Hummy[/url] Good luck and I look forward to hearing about your quit and the journey you are on. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 24 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 498 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $180 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 1 [B]Mins:[/B] 33 [B]Seconds:[/B] 44

Working it out to do my life different.

Day 26 Well well well. That is how I am and I must say that I am really happy. Something in the swimming clicked last night and I was able to breath, really able to breath. Once I got that I could really breath, I relaxed and in getting relaxed I was able to go farther and with much more power. There was a "Duffism" somewhere around here that was about getting on with life and not being so obsessed with the whole idea of not smoking (kind of relaxing into the water). I will have to find that again and save it into my printable journal. Over the weekend I am going to reward myself by putting together a book. Like a scrap book, full of writting, images and the roller coaster ride that this quit (NEW LIFE) is. That was another post, can you tell I do a lot of reading in this site. Roller Coasters. I love them, I scream and scream and scream into the wind, letting go, in a full stream way, into the force of the motion. I love roller coasters they are exhilarating. My nephew a couple of summers ago was visiting and we went to the not so local roller coaster park and spent the day. We went on 15 rides, a couple of them twice. About the third ride in he asked me why I screamed from one end of the ride to the other and I told him that I didn't want to hold in the scream or to bite it down and simply swallow it back; because, all of the terror of the ride would remain inside of me. I asked him to try it out and after a couple of rides we were both very excited and really enjoying going on more and more scarry rides. How is this like smoking or quitting smoking? Well, here goes. Smoking offers the body a place where it can bury, cover up a lot of what if feels emotionally. Masking feelings in the nicotine, or other chemicals in the brain. When we quit smoking we really start feeling, emotionally and physically. My mouth has never been so sensitive, just as my anger receptors and my sadness receptors have never been so alert. I think we get depressed around the thirty day mark because we get so busy trying to stuff the emotions and all of the feelings back into place. I know that for me in past quits and sometimes in this quit I can really get into a place where I say that all this feeling is just wrong and I shouldn't be feeling what I am feeling. Well that is ju

Almost two full days no Camels...

I do spend a lot of time here at all hours. I like the back and forth and the flow of information on this site. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 25 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 514 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $187.5 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 4 [B]Mins:[/B] 40 [B]Seconds:[/B] 6

Rd Man The Quit and all the Stories

There have been a couple of amazing posts in the last day or so. Yes they are bumps and I am really glad of them. [url=http://www.stopsmokingcenter.net/support/viewmessages.aspx?forum=1&topic=26163]Quit Quit Quit Quit Quit[/url] [url=http://www.stopsmokingcenter.net/support/viewmessages.aspx?forum=1&topic=23030]This Will Help You[/url] Lady thank you for noticing and the warning about romanticizing. This has been one of the main reasons for not being able to maintain my quits in the past. Lesson Learned. One foot in front of the other. Trying is Dying Phillip [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 25 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 514 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $187.5 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 4 [B]Mins:[/B] 40 [B]Seconds:[/B] 21

Almost two full days no Camels...

Hello Ronko Welcome to the Stop Smoking Centre. You have found a great place to get information, find others who are going through the same thing that you are going through, and get support to help you get through. I have been quit for 25 days now and it does get better, I can't say that it gets easier LOL :). All sorts of things work for different people in different ways, for me it was mini hard candies, I knew that I had to stay away from chocolate and the raw vegetables didn't work for me. There are lots of threads about dealing with the craving, do a search and they will come up. I am sure you will find your way. Good luck and again welcome. I look forward to hearing about your journey here in the SSC. Phillip :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 25 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 514 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $187.5 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 4 [B]Mins:[/B] 37 [B]Seconds:[/B] 50

Itchy Scratchy Throat

Thanks As I was talking about this over lunch and I came to where Shevie is, with that it has to do with a mucous thing in my throat. AND I am sure that my system is not producing nearly as much mucous material to combat what I was putting in with the smoke. So I am dried out. What an analogy considering this wicked pictures of the wrinkles in on of the posts today. No I am not a prune. I would not float nearly so well. Lady I am almost always dizzy. Now, this is something that I first felt in a quit that I did in 2002. And I went to the ends of the earth to have it diagnosed to find that it might have been vertigo and might have been an atypical migrane headache. Soooooo I am very much aware of the dizzy feelings and my tendency to panic over them. I think that something catastrophic is happening. I think that it is very much my body getting used to amount of clear air that it is getting. I worried so much in that past quit over what this symptom was that I actually went back to smoking to comfort the panic. Lesson learned! And yes I do intend to keep swimming. Thanks again for reading and for responding. I don't think that I have ever felt so cared for at any time in my life. Tying is Dying Phillip :p [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 25 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 514 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $187.5 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 4 [B]Mins:[/B] 35 [B]Seconds:[/B] 28

KNIGHTS OF THE EMPTY ASHTRAY UNITE

I'm here, still kicking (the habit) :p [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 25 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 515 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $187.5 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 4 [B]Mins:[/B] 43 [B]Seconds:[/B] 20

new

Hello Hoping, Welcome to the Stop Smoking Centre website and forum. You have come onto a great place for information, support and inspiration. Over on the left of your screen you will find tools and the community area. The posts that are in this forum are inspirational and very informative. This forum is also a great place to come and post to ask questions, find information or simply to check and see if anyone else feels or experiences the same things that you do. Good luck and I look forward to hearing from you and getting to know you in this quit smoking community. Phillip [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 2/17/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 25 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 514 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $187.5 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 4 [B]Hrs:[/B] 4 [B]Mins:[/B] 36 [B]Seconds:[/B] 46