The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

[Montana Jim]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

It's way easier if you have someone's hand to hold.




You know... figuratively speaking.

 

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[aa battery]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

HELP !! now i gotta stop pronto...aa

 

[trikikiwi]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

aa Mate,
You know you have friends here. All you have to do is stop having that first smoke of the day. Keep pushing it's time away and you will find you will congratulate yourself, for every minute, hour, you push that time out.
Might work the first day, might take a week.
Go for it.
Mike

 

[Mona Lisa]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

HELP !! now i gotta stop pronto...aa

It's way easier if you have someone's hand to hold.




You know... figuratively speaking.

I'll hold your hand, aa! You can do it!

 

[mpostma]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

I congratulate all of you that are trying to quit!

Would like to share a story.

Just over a year ago my father was diagnosed with lung cancer. He is not only still here, but has passed his one year with not a sign of live cancer cells. Of course he is lucky. He has been through chemo, and has lost his left lung.

While he was recovering from his surgery his best friend went from here in Michigan all the way to Texas to visit him.
On the way home he was having trouble breathing. Went to a hospital where he was found to also have lung cancer. That was in May.
Three weeks ago I went to his funeral.

The statistics are not with those that contract the disease. Of every 470 people diagnosed with lung cancer today 20 will survive to the 5th year. Not an old statistic, from earlier this year.

My father in law died from complications of emphasema. But not before he spent the last two years of his life on oxygen.

I truly wish all of you the very best. I thank god I never smoked. I would be one of those that would have a very hard time kicking the habit if I ever started.

Good Luck,
Mark

 

[michigan michael]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

Wish I would of caught this topic earlier. Jim sent this link to me. How many of you are still smoke free? My last smoke was Jan. 31st 2009. Quit with the chantix
Take care everyone!
MM

 

[trikikiwi]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

Wow, This is cool that the thread still exists and continues to assist.
I'm Mike, I'm nicotine free since 3rd November 2007.

And a big Thanks to TNet's Members.

Just do it: it's about the only thing in anyone's life that there is no excuse for not doing it. Stop Smoking.
That way, we can all talk to each other here for as long as our natural existence continues.
Mike

 

[Montana Jim]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

Blast from the past!

Hang in there MEMORIAL MAGNET!

I'm glad you're still the ambassador of "quiting smoking" Mike!

 

[Montana Jim]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

No smokes since Nov 1st 2007 for me. That comes out to almost 2 grand not spent on those tasty smokey treats

Awesome! I knew a bunch of us could do it...

Also - that avatar is freaking great!

 

[Mona Lisa]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

Congratulations, Jim, on going two years smoke free. I'm so proud of you. I'm looking forward to spending our lives together.........and helping you spend the money you would have spent on cigarettes.

Congratulations to everybody whether they quit during "The Great Treasure Net "Smoke-Out" or any time for that matter. Here's to good health!

 

[BuckleBoy]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

Congratulations, Jim, on going two years smoke free. I'm so proud of you. I'm looking forward to spending our lives together.........and helping you spend the money you would have spent on cigarettes.

Congratulations to everybody whether they quit during "The Great Treasure Net "Smoke-Out" or any time for that matter. Here's to good health!

Replies like this are the Real treasure on this forum.


Best wishes to both of you, and a BIG congratulations to Jim.

 

[pygmy]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

We should remember smoking is the top cause of preventable death.
http://healthhabits.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/the-top-12-preventable-causes-of-death/

 

[Skywola]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

Really? I thought it was stupidity!

 

[pygmy]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

Really? I thought it was stupidity!

Show me the IQ pill !

 

[bill-USA]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT"

Good luck, think i'll keep puffing tho.

You can choose either course, and I saw no need to quit either.

I had my last cigarette on the way to the hospital for a cardiac catheter so they could check my arteries visually. After 42 two years of Pall Mall non-filter. I didn't get out of the hostpital till after they had done a quad bypass, and opened and cleaned out one of the carotid arteries in my neck.

They said there was too much risk to do both carotids at the same time. I had to schedule the other cleaning for later.

I had a full carton of Pall Mall on the counter in the kitchen and kept them there for six months. After the first three months without them, I stopped having morning coughing spells. After six months without taking a pack from the carton, and without lighting anything else available to me, I pitched the carton in the trash. That was eight years ago. Twice this year, I have reached for the non-existent pocket that used to hold my pack of smokes. It is a tough habit to break, but it can be done.

For each of you who care enough about yourselves and your families to finally stop , I congratulate you. It can be done, but you need to want to stop. I now breath freely, seldom ever cough, and I'm not getting any younger, but I feel better than I did ten years ago. While I smoked.

Stay with it, you and your familiies will both be winners!

 

[pygmy]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

A great inspirational story with emphasis on the family. Reminds me of compulsory wearing of seatbelts. A death affects many. Also in the near future when health care is universal, your
quitting will have saved the tax payers a lot.

 

[Tnmountains]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

Big Congratulations to everyone that quit.
I quit about 15 years ago and then... had a dip one night bought a can of skoal. I thought its ok,,,wrong..... I eventually thought if I tried chewing tobacco there was no way I would continue with that. Wrong ! Its the nicotine pure and simple. I hate it my beautiful girl friend hates it. I still have great cardio hike and climb and fence olympic style Sabre but still am not nicotine free.
This thread inspires me to climb a little higher. Wish I had of known you guys back when.
The funny thing was after a church council meeting we were hanging around shooting the bull and that was when I tried that skoal and bought a can on the way home.
Smokeless has been much harder that the cigarettes were.
TnMountains

 

[diggummup]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

I quit about a year before this thread started. It'll be 3 years on Nov.25. I don't miss it a bit. Not to mention the price of a pack of ciggs is crazy nowadays!

 

[Montana Jim]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

Congratulations, Jim, on going two years smoke free. I'm so proud of you. I'm looking forward to spending our lives together.........and helping you spend the money you would have spent on cigarettes.

Congratulations to everybody whether they quit during "The Great Treasure Net "Smoke-Out" or any time for that matter. Here's to good health!

Thanks Lisa, and everyone, for your support - two years smoke-free and still ticking along.




Lisa - I'm looking forward to spending our lives together too!

Before too long I'll be carrying your books to school for you.

Oh yea, don't forget your moonboots snowmobile boots - it gets kinda cold here.

 

[dogcaught]

Re: The GREAT TREASURE NET "SMOKE-OUT" (November 1, 2007)

Don't know if I'm late for the party here but am giving it a go also. I have smoked for about 16+years. I managed to quit in early 2007 until about mid 2008, then had a mishap 7 states away, "unsupervised", in a bar, and started the nasty habit back over again. I know I need to quit. I know how to quit and what has worked for me in the past to quit. I know what mistakes I made last time I quit. I don't smoke in my house or around my wife or children. The kids are 8 and 5 and honestly have no idea that i smoke. If i'm home with them all day, I don't smoke that day. I would occasionally sneak out the back door after she put them to bed at night.

The last time I quit, I used a combination of the gum and the patch. Apparently this is not a good idea. My arm was shaking so bad from nicotine OD one day that I couldn't get my wallet out of my pocket at a store. I also made the bad mistake of sleeping with the patch on. Like chantix, this causes extremely morbid dreams, which I remember vividly to this day. A week and a half ago I bought a box of nicorette gum because I was home all day and a little stressed. Needed my fix. Since then, I have been chewing like crazy and smoking very little. I notice the only time I go for a smoke is due to the mental ques: Driving and while at work. I have been getting better about replacing the smokes with gum during these times and smokes just don't taste the same, in fact I feel a little sick now when I light up. I know this is a step in the right direction.

I already know that the hardest part will be giving up the gum. Last time I went through this, I used it for twice as long as recommended on the box. The worst thing about the gum is you have to quit using nicotine twice: First through cigarettes, then through the gum. I know I have to step down the doses in the gum until eventually replacing with regular gum, but I recall last time stepping down, then back up, then down several times.

Then comes the next phase: when you have been nicotine free for "X" days, or "X" months, or "X" years. At this point smokes are the last thing I thought about. My sinus problems were gone. I was never out of breath. Circulation was great. There was extra money in my bank acct. Now it has been so long since I had beat the addiction that I forgot how powerful of a drug a cigarette was. Surely I had gone this long. I call myself a nonsmoker now and had beat the powerful addiction. Surely just one smoke in a bar 7 states away, in Salt Lake City with a few buddies couldn't start me back into a habit that me and my wife fought so hard to beat together. A habit that she still has beat to this day I might add. Well you guessed it. A year and a half after picking the habit back up, I am still sneaking out the back door.

But I've taken the first proven (for me) step with the gum and am going to give it another go. Sorry for rambling, but I appreciate the support and it helps knowing others are going through the same. Thanks for this Thread! JJ