Your body will need some time to heal and recover from your years as a smoker. Give it time to heal and use your brain to create some solid coping strategies in the mean time.
Sorry, Nicoteen... most likely meant Godfather but it did evolve into English to describe an "Old Man" or "Foreman" - wish I could afford to get the Online Oxford Etymological dictionary... I always want the exhaustive "full" story!! Forgive the brain fart that produced that long-believed story of mine about the derivation of "Gaffer"....
Patrick
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 1/18/2008 Smoke-Free Days: 196 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 4,900 Amount Saved: $2,205.00 Life Gained: Days: 36 Hrs: 10 Mins: 25 Seconds: 16
Hi, Nico. You're going to be okay. You're reading the older posts and then writing in your own feelings about them. You just have to understand that your craving for cigarettes is the addiction talking at you. Bear in mind that nicotine is a very powerful drug and that it can nag nag nag away at you to be fed. Don't weaken. Stay alert to sights and sounds and smells of cigarettes and walk the other way. At some point you're going to have to tell your buds what's up - just be cool about it and say you have to walk "over here" until they've finished...
Keep on reading through the archives when you get antsy... maybe you're one of the lucky ones like me who took the medicine (Chantix) and did the programme and read and posted all day - leaving no time for smoking or for regrets!!
Patrick Gaffer ( Gaffer comes from the Old Norse for Grandfather: as in Gaf fader or nicely slurred = "gaffer". Gold star fer you for joining Stop Smoking Center - you're wise beyond yer years, young person!!)
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 1/18/2008 Smoke-Free Days: 196 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 4,900 Amount Saved: $2,205.00 Life Gained: Days: 36 Hrs: 10 Mins: 21 Seconds: 34
Hi Trooper... We learn by trying and doing, Some of the things I thought would be the "hardest" without a smoke in my hand..... well I put more into than it was. I also told myself wow.. you just did that, reward yourself with self talks and pats on the back.. Fell proud you got thru............... fill in the blank) without a smoke.
To me each challenge I ovecame, I tried to recognize it.. and be proud of myslef.. and I enlisted my husband.. So the next time getting over the same challenge became easier.
I so wish I could make this easier for you, I have been in your place with most of my other quits.
Bonnie
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 2/10/2008 Smoke-Free Days: 168 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 2,856 Amount Saved: $571.20 Life Gained: Days: 24 Hrs: 2 Mins: 6 Seconds: 42
Thank you all for your support and encouragement. I am reading the book again and I have also joined the sister site, Depression Center. My holidays are over and tomorrow I go back to work. I'm trying not to terrify myself about that but my head is not in a very positive place right now. I working on that.
I'll be back soon.
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 7/19/2008 Smoke-Free Days: 8 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 88 Amount Saved: $38.72 Life Gained: Days: 0 Hrs: 23 Mins: 44 Seconds: 5
Find that corner of your mind where you know that this addiction has had a grip on you all these years. Now find that spot where your secret strength lies. Bring these two spots out into full consciousness and let the fight begin. You're NOT crazy!
Patrick
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 1/18/2008 Smoke-Free Days: 190 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 4,750 Amount Saved: $2,137.50 Life Gained: Days: 35 Hrs: 7 Mins: 30 Seconds: 29
Maybe you should read the book again. I know you can not bargain with yourself. I have set my quit date but I haven't finished the book and your not suppose to quit until you read it. It might take a couple of times reading to set some things in. You have to get you mind turned around, but has always been my problem when I quit. I can't think of anything else but having one. Now after all the quits I have learn that you have to reverse your thinking. You have to get it out of your mind, can't drill on having one just makes it worse and you can't beat it that way. I have learned that. DJ
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 7/28/2008 Smoke-Free Days: -2 Cigarettes Not Smoked: -32 Amount Saved: $-5.84 Life Gained: Days: 0 Hrs: 0 Mins: 0 Seconds: -13984
I'm just trying to figure out how to get one without buying a whole pack.
That's the one you have to work on. There is no "one" cigarette - otherwise we would stop at "one." As soon as you start bargaining with yourself, then it will make you more jumpy, nervous, panicky, weepy because you are now entertaining failure and just looking for a bad enough reason to excuse yourself. How do I know? Because we have all done it.
Do not despair - it can take some time to get the mindset right. People can take several goes before it works for them - the main thing is to learn from the experience - do not think of it as "failure".....think of it as "practice." Think about why you smoke and what other things you could do to help get you through your trigger points.
Don't give up on yourself. We certainly haven't. We have seen people succeed after thinking they never could.
Best of luck to you.
Lizzie
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 4/23/2003 Smoke-Free Days: 1920 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 28,800 Amount Saved: �7,200.00 Life Gained: Days: 197 Hrs: 12 Mins: 48 Seconds: 2
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