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Queen, You will find all the support and help you want right here at this site, but you have to work hard also you just have to make sure you practice N.O.P.E [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]8/8/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 97 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,261 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $485.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 12 [B]Hrs:[/B] 16 [B]Mins:[/B] 16 [B]Seconds:[/B] 44
17 years ago 0 1160 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Hey Former,You sound like a quitter to me. you just dont know it yet. Read,read,and read. This site will be more help to you than you ever imagined it could be. You sound like me when I first quit. Now here I am 132 days later and much better. I am not worried about quitting or smoking. I am getting close to finding the normal smoke free me. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]7/4/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 132 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 2,640 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $528.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 17 [B]Hrs:[/B] 13 [B]Mins:[/B] 43 [B]Seconds:[/B] 41
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Queen, Welcome to the SSC and congrats on quitting smoking. Unfortunately, you are right. Chantix is a great aid but you'll still have to work at it to keep your quit. To get you started, we strongly recommend you begin working through the exercises in your glove compartment. We also encourage you to browse through our past and present discussions as these are equally a great resource of quit information. Don't hesitate to ask questions and be sure to keep checking in. Danielle, Bilingual Support Specialist
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Former Queen of Smoketown and if thats they way you want to remain you take one step at a time,spend a lot of time here because the people here will help you every step of the way.They convinced me and you can see how far I've come. :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]3/20/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 238 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 4,284 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2,380.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 54 [B]Hrs:[/B] 7 [B]Mins:[/B] 45 [B]Seconds:[/B] 46
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Queen of Smoketown, It is scary. It is normal to feel as you do right now. It's OK to feel that. This is a one day at a time process. Don't look to far ahead - stay in the now - this day. I promise not to smoke today. You can do this! And Yes the rewards lie ahead. You too can be free. Lizzie :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]4/23/2003 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 1665 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 24,975 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �6,243.75 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 166 [B]Hrs:[/B] 12 [B]Mins:[/B] 23 [B]Seconds:[/B] 10
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17 years ago 0 3207 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Hi Queenie, I loved your post. Honest. You can do this if that's what you want to do. The quit workbook is very helpful and I recommend it to help you get "in the spirit". As for your mom quitting cold turkey 30 years ago. There were way fewer chemicals in cigs back then, so quitting IS harder physically these days. So there!..lol Chantix has helped many of us, including me, a 36 yr smoker, up to 2+ packs a day. It's a very very good thing you're doing for yourself, physically, emotionally, and financially. Plan some rewards - for each day, for each week, and then some big ones. Right now, just pamper the heck out of yourself. Buy special beverages, but also drink lots of ice cold water; take relaxing baths and showers; rent good movies; get some new lotion. We'll all be here to help you. Try to remember Not One Puff Ever. If you feel like you're gonna cave, post a message here with HELP in the title, go take a shower, and come back. Most likely there will be at least one person here by then to talk you through it. Deal? [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]3/22/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 235 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 9,400 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1,598.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 32 [B]Hrs:[/B] 20 [B]Mins:[/B] 37 [B]Seconds:[/B] 25
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hey Queenie, I didn't want to quit either, when DH came home with chantix, I got some too, a week later we both quit - love the tailpipe of an exhaust pipe, that is it exactly!! Where were you during the beginning of my quit? LOL, I needed that. So that was 200 hundred days ago. No smoking for us after day 7. I gotta agree with Rusty, don't worry about this now. One hour at a time if that is what it takes. I worried about this too btw. This exact thing. I lived on this site. I read for hours. I didn't post alot at first because I was hanging on by a thread, but I read tons. The search bar is great, type chantix in there. I was terrified of going off chantix too. It was no biggie, but I should have weaned, check with your dr on that btw. What I can tell you is this, you want to quit enough to post, to ask, you are strong enough to do this. Take it slow and easy, if you dr is okay do all 12 weeks, when you are ready you will do it just like we did. If you have a moment, you can take a pill, I have taken 2 halvsies this past summer, and I almost took one tonight. stay close - read read read Sue [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]5/3/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 193 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 1,930 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $337.75 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 18 [B]Hrs:[/B] 9 [B]Mins:[/B] 35 [B]Seconds:[/B] 12
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Welcome!! You have come to the right place. We all have our horror stories to share so don't appologize for writing yours. Congratulations on making one of the best decisions of your life!! [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]1/8/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 308 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 4,620 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $1,293.60 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 28 [B]Hrs:[/B] 13 [B]Mins:[/B] 53 [B]Seconds:[/B] 33
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Welcome! May I call you Queenie? What a post! And everyone here will be able to relate to it. You've come to the right place because here we are, a bunch of addicts propping each other up when we need propping up. Others will be along soon, but I just want to get this in: you talked about your concern. I translate that into "fear." Don't be afraid of that fear: acknowledge it, study it, accept it. Then don't smoke. Don't smoke for just one hour. That's all you have to worry about. Not tomorrow, not next week. Just now. You don't have to make any promises or commitments, except to you and not smoking right now. That's the only choice you have to make, and I think you can do it. Glad you're here! Rusty :) [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B]12/13/2004 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 1064 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 29,792 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $3,724.00 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 150 [B]Hrs:[/B] 2 [B]Mins:[/B] 39 [B]Seconds:[/B] 1
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17 years ago 0 1 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
A few months ago I was camping with my boyfriend. We were across the road from a family with two small children who were playing on scooters and bikes. As usual, BF and I lit smoke after smoke...I mean, what ELSE is there to do while camping? Meanwhile complaining about being too tired to hike. Telling people back at work about the great time we had smoking...I mean CAMPING. At any rate, the kids across from us must have noticed because they started playing a little game...called "I'm the King of Smoketown." The little girl would respond by saying she was the Queen of Smoketown, the Mayor, the Princess of Smoketown...whatever, until they couldn't think of anything else and an argument ensued. BF and I laughed but later it haunted me. I was the Queen of Smoketown. I have wanted to quit since I started. I've smoked casually (on weekends, at parties) since I was 18 but made the transition to pack-a-day smoker 5 years ago when I got a divorce. I'm also a recovering alcoholic and I said goodbye to that addiction nearly 4 and a half years ago. I know quitting is one day at a time but I've never had any luck quitting for even a day. I use every excuse in the book, especially my alcohol addiction, as a reason to keep smoking. Drinking had immediate, disastrous impacts on me, my family, my friends, my work. Smoking makes you a social outcast a few times here or there...but what the heck...hang out with more smokers, right? I've made a bunch of cool friends that way, RIGHT?! Smoking makes me just as much of a liar as drinking did. I've lied to my mom (who quit cold turkey in 1976 after smoking for 18 years and is so holier-than-thou about it I could scream). I lie to my friends about how much I smoke. I've rejected potential boyfriends who didn't smoke because not smoking while I was around them was a DRAG (har har). Add to that the extra $50.00/month my health insurance makes me pay to be a smoker, and the $200.00/month on smokes, the stench of my coffee/cigarette breath only a dinosaur could love, the thrice-yearly bouts with bronchitis...I get it. I want and need to quit. I'm on Day 7 of Chantix and was smoke-free for 48 hours before I decided to throw all caution to the wind and have a smoke. It sucked, as usual, because the Chantix makes me feel like I'm sucking on the exhaust pipe of a car. But I'm concerned now. I'm worried that I will keep taking the Chantix and still give in. I need the collective willpower of this group to help. Like drinking, I can't do it alone. I don't think about drinking very often today...once in a great while, even around people that are drinking. And there was no drug for that. I want to be that way with smoking. I wouldn't even mind one day being a person that gets ticked off when I have to sit too near the smoking section in a restaurant. I don't want to be the person who has to unhook his oxygen tank to go inside a Turkey Hill to buy smokes. The Chantix is GREAT...it's a million miles away from the blind rage and horrific anxiety that I got every time I tried to quit for a day. Let's face it, I quit almost every time I lit up. I usually spent the whole smoke hating myself for lighting it and promising to quit. Now is the time to make that reality. But I'm worried...I'm worried I'm not fully committed, and what is it going to take to quit, beyond the Chantix? A lot of people said they weren't even going to quit but their doctor told them about it and they thought "Oh, what the heck". That's sort of what happened...I hated smoking but I wasn't necessarily desperate to quit yet...just loathing the habit. Sorry for the long story but I wanted to get it all out. Any help and support would be hugely appreciated.
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