20 Little Friends In My Pocket

[The Albatross]

Okay so far so good and in my sleep I retrieved two of the most mean, toxic, God-awful persons I have ever known ... and one was around and really life miserable physically and emotionally around the time I started smoking cigs at about 14. So I named this quit Karlyn. 179 to go.

 

[The Albatross]

Okay I'm having problems getting past 36 hours. But not giving up... 180 days to go. Restarting today. Got an unexpected change that will affect my pay... and my hours and had a mini freak out. I really need to find another job.

 

[Chrissyy]

I quit just over a year ago after smoking for 8 years. I read so much about quitting smoking on the internet and I found one article that really helped, but unfortunately I can't remember where I found it.. Sorry! It basically said about how smoking won't make me happy and stuff, and every time I was craving one I would just say to myself about how much I wanted to be happy and about how it wouldn't help etc.

Admittedly it was easier for me because I quit when I had a chest infection and couldn't smoke anyway for the first five days..

 

[intothelight]

I am going to keep cheering you all on. I had my last cigarette on January 4, 2012. The thing that made me quit was cancer. It's not lung cancer, but I figure one cancer is enough to deal with.:D

All I can say is I will be standing here cheering you all on!!

 

[Innordinate]

Can't seem to quit right now. I'm using my smoking as a time out period though, that's probably why. Its a good excuse to get away from the kids and whatever. So, I need to find a new time out method. Something else to do for a few minutes instead of smoking.

 

[The Albatross]

Good observation... me too. Maybe somewhere, if we can do the right search we can find an article about that.

 

[Innordinate]

I come on here when I smoke. I might have to stop coming on here so I can quit. :meh:

 

[Nighthawk]

Ohh that is rough. If you are associating smoking with the forum. All I have managed is not smoking full cigs. So I am still at a half a pack a day. I don't think I am ready to give up the monkey. But having some more control over it would be good.

 

[The Albatross]

I can say I have cut down too... to about a half a pack. I have had 24-36 hours without any, but have not had much success in making my quit a priority. I'm sort of stuck at the moment, and know part of that is my mindset. But I'm right in there swinging. At some really core level, I am not though as optimistic as I was during my longest successful quit (5 years). My relapse was in conjuction with my last traumatic break. But that is no reason why I can't do this again. Scratching my head at the moment... but I really need to get this and quit.

 

[Innordinate]

I can tell I'm about to quit because I've started smoking a lot more than normal. From half a pack to over a pack a day. I always do this when I'm about to try to quit something. My wife noticed the pattern first, a long time ago, but I always seem to 'overuse' something right before I quit.

Sort of like, I'm trying to get as much of it in as possible before it's gone for good.