6/12 Club

What is needed for me to become a member of the 6/12 club? I have the days, anything else? [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/22/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 189 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,843 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $992.25 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 35 [B]Hrs:[/B] 8 [B]Mins:[/B] 7 [B]Seconds:[/B] 28

HI !

Hi Wheezy I think its good that you are setting your quit date out there in Sept. Gives you lots of time to find and tame those triggers, reduce the cigarrette intake, get patches, if that is your choice, and prepared mentally. I think I gave myself about 3 weeeks prep time. Seemed to work be good for me. I joined and found this site, after a had already had 6 months of quit, I wanted to show you from my introduction post just how similar our situations are in terms of smoking and age. I did it, you can do it. There are a great bunch of people here that you can rely on. Must go now and do my daily exercise. We will talk again. This I am sure of. Introductory Post from some two weeks ago ----------------------------------------- Hi folks I happened across your web site and all you wonderful people who have the same goal as I "quiting and stickin to it". I smoked for 42 years since I was 12 and I am ashamed that I kept it up so long. I'm one of those who really enjoyed the pleasure of a cigarette. The years kept flying by and from time to time I thought about quiting but never did. In fact when I turned 50, I told myself that was going to be my quit day, but next thing you know that past and now I am 55. Well January 21, 2006, two weeks before my 55 birthday I quit and have stayed that way ever since. I am coming up on my 6 month anniversary and I glad I have you to share this with. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/22/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 189 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,843 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $992.25 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 35 [B]Hrs:[/B] 7 [B]Mins:[/B] 55 [B]Seconds:[/B] 35

Keep a Positive Frame of Mind

Thank you to those who responded and helped me to celebrate the milestone. After 6 months of quit, I have control over the beast. I do what I choose to do, and it does not include smoking at this juncture. Occasional urges come my way every two or three days but they are easily ingored. The serious urges are gone! What to expect along the way -------------------------------- 2 weeks, you are headed there, if committed you can make it. 3 months you feel pretty damm good. 5 months, it's almost heaven. 6 months you have the control and the power. Remember, don't well on the urges, use distractions to keep you out of harms way. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/22/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 184 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,767 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $966 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 34 [B]Hrs:[/B] 9 [B]Mins:[/B] 24 [B]Seconds:[/B] 19

Did you know....?

On my way home tonight, outside the building where people are allowed to smoke, five of my old smoking buds were puffing. As I passed within twenty feet of them, I had to walk quickly by because the smoke was really bothering my lungs. Sit back, observe and think, really think, about it, what the hell am I smokin.? Not good, time to stay quit. Did you know, that people who quit smoking gain weight not only because they may nibble more, but because their heart rate slows once the nicotine is gone. You burn fewer calories when you quit. So get out and do some type of exercise to make up for it you non-smokers you, yes you. Do you know, I had a resting heart rate of 90 bpm when I smoked, after 1 month it dropped to 70 bpm. Wonder how much living I lost.[font=Georgia]Text[/font][font=Arial]Text[/font] [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/22/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 184 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,774 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $966 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 34 [B]Hrs:[/B] 11 [B]Mins:[/B] 35 [B]Seconds:[/B] 37

I am just so fed up

Hi Darcy 42 days of quit. Let's see that is seven full weeks, 7 weeks. Do you realize how far you have come! Come on, you don't want to give in now. Can you imagine starting ALL OVER. Really, think about it. No way, I don't think so, it is not worth the agony. Stay calm, get control, don't dwell, distract yourself, look in your toolkit for urge control devices and pull some of those tricks out and put them to use. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/22/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 185 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,784 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $971.25 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 34 [B]Hrs:[/B] 14 [B]Mins:[/B] 24 [B]Seconds:[/B] 51

More bad days

Hi Darcy Just hang it there. You should know that you are doing fine. Smokes can't talk to you anyway. You need a friend or someone else for that. If you need to post while at work, during a break write what you want to say in Word or other Word processor, copy the text, go this web site and paste the text in the message. That way you will not be logged onto this site nearly as long typing out long messages.

Feel like bragging

Marie Now this is really a milestone! We are so very, very proud of you. We ALL know that six weeks of quit is 42 BIG, BIG, BIG, BIG, BIG days. 7 week is straight ahead. Confidence and success builds on itself. We are here to help you get through week 7 which is just right around the corner. Week 8 is our next goal. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/22/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 185 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,789 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $971.25 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 34 [B]Hrs:[/B] 15 [B]Mins:[/B] 55 [B]Seconds:[/B] 28

More bad days

Niks, The urges come and go. I had some major urges in the first week of my fifth month. Could not explain it. I didn't caved nor should you. Your good, get your mind off it. Take a nap, walk, self talk.... get the tools out! [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/22/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 186 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,801 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $976.5 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 34 [B]Hrs:[/B] 19 [B]Mins:[/B] 44 [B]Seconds:[/B] 41

Those new to it and those not so new

Those new and not so new I wanted to briefly share my quit scheme with you. This routine worked for me, although I realize that everyone quit is different and your quit has to be tuned to yourself. You get that individualized help on this website from the SSC professionals and other non smokers here. I just hope that you can gleam something from my quit experience. I smoked for many, many years. Before I quit, I first decided that I was going to try and quit. I did not know if I could do it, I liked smoking all too very much. Before setting a quit date, I tried to determine my smoke triggers that I had accumulated over the years. You know, a smoke to get up with in the morning, one to drive to work with, a few more to socialized with other smokers at work, don�t forget about that smoke needed to talk to someone on the telephone, or the one needed after dinner, or the one or several that accompanies alcohol, or the one for walking the dog. I ordered a box of patches to be ready and developed my toolbox of urge fighters. I used self talk, carrots and celery, hiking, weight lifting, walking, climbing stairs, downing water especially while driving�. Over a two week period, I reduced my intake from 15 to 20, down to 4 per day. To reduce, I just picked some triggers to focus on and when the urge came, I denied myself those cigs using my urge fighters from my toolbox. I stayed at 4 per day for about as long as I could stand it and that was about two more days. It was now or never. If I did not quit now, my cigarette intake was going to go up and then I would lose the opportunity. I set my quit day for the next day, use a 7mg patch for about 3 hours per day for about 3 weeks. I fought many battles along the way. I can honestly say I don�t know why I liked those things; I do not want them anymore at all. Hope this can help you somehow. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/22/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 186 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,799 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $976.5 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 34 [B]Hrs:[/B] 19 [B]Mins:[/B] 9 [B]Seconds:[/B] 54

Two Prime Example of how to do it Right

Hello Friends I�m glad that you have made it here to this website. There are lots of strong willed and able people on this web site to help you stay the course with your quit. I would like to point out and congratulate two of these people in this writing, Marie and Darcy. Both Marie and Darcy have 43 day quits going. Simply wonderful! That is over 1000 hours. I suspect that both Marie and Darcy have been very busy over the course, denying themselves something that they thought they treasured. They both have their act together. Darcy quit was in full test yesterday as noted by her posts. After 42 days, her quit was tested by stress in her life. She was threatened by an onslaught of heavy urges. She fought hard and furious against these urges and as of today she is still a go. Her practice of denying herself from day one, gave her the strength to carry her through. Darcy knows her triggers, the events that tell her to light up; she has an urge control plan. Darcy is one strong person and Marie is as well. Congratulations Darcy and Marie on a job well done. You should be feeling really good about yourselves at this moment. What to do and what not to do --------------------------------------- Know your triggers; make yourself a toolbox that contains trigger fighters. Do not dwell on the urges, distract yourself, use self talk when the urge strike, �GO AWAY, GO AWAY, DON�T BOTHER ME� GO AWAY, GO AWAY, DON�T BOTHER ME� Don�t even thing about going back to smoking if you have made it through the first week or so. Don�t do it, it is too hard to go back and do it over again, too hard, don�t do it, too hard, don�t do it. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/22/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 186 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,797 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $976.5 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 34 [B]Hrs:[/B] 18 [B]Mins:[/B] 18 [B]Seconds:[/B] 3