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Post by BAZ on Feb 12, 2007 22:28:18 GMT -5
I know this subject has been brought up quite a few times since I joined the board. I had a little scare last Sunday morning and without getting into too many details I think my heart was trying to tell me something. So I chucked my pack of Camel Lights in the garbage, where they belong. 8 days and I am never going back. If you are struggling, you aren't alone. If you are still hooked, you aren't alone. Unfortunately it takes a lot to give it up and I would never preach to someone to give it up. But Godspeed if you do, we are all better off without 'em.  |
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Post by Toad on Feb 12, 2007 23:10:31 GMT -5
Indeed you are. Glad I never started, cause I have a hard enough time quitting sugar - I never would have been able to stop smokes. I'd get checked out by a doctor were I you. My dad started smoking in high school and smoked until his mid-forties. He finally quit and 2 years later had the big one. If the damage is already done, you need to know.
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Post by Cher on Feb 13, 2007 0:06:42 GMT -5
Woohooooo BAZ!!! WTG I'm proud of you. I'm still hanging on, July 24th will be my two year mark. I can't go back, I promise my grandkids I'd never smoke again and I won't. I can find plenty to do with the $$ those things cost. Now if I could just get my hubby to quit, things would be good.
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Post by lbowman1 on Feb 13, 2007 0:14:28 GMT -5
Awesome BAZ! You can do it.
Just think all that money you're not spending on cigs can go toward buying more rocks! How's that for incentive?
Lori
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Post by Condor on Feb 13, 2007 7:09:21 GMT -5
Congrats, BAZ. I hope you make it the whole way through. I tried quitting rock tumbling, but it's fruitless. Everywhere I go I see ROCKS, ROCKS, ROCKS! Seriously though, I'm sure it is difficult. I'm sure the first few weeks will be the hardest. If you can get through that, then you'll be on your way. Good luck.
Condor
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junerev
spending too much on rocks
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Post by junerev on Feb 13, 2007 7:22:44 GMT -5
Quitting was the hardest thing I've ever done.....except maybe sending my daughter off to college. It's well worth it though. I used to have bronchitis every winter, from November throug April. Now I rarely get much more than a cold now and again and usually that's when someone else is sick and then I get sick. I watched my mom struggle from COPD for a long time and the last time I saw her she was on a ventilator and she weighed 75 lbs. I don't preach to people because I know how I felt when people preached to me. Good luck, I hope you're successful.
June
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Post by Tweetiepy on Feb 13, 2007 8:04:29 GMT -5
As a kid my friends & I tried rolling our own smokes, using kleeneks, scotch tape, paper & that stuff you find it boxes of chalk - well that turned me off forever, - like smoking a log!  My MIL quit after one of my kids, then much younger, told her it smelled like "poopy" in her mouth and that's why she wouldn't kiss her! It's been a while and she never started again (of course she can't afford to anymore either) My thoughts are with anyone quitting a habit - I'm still trying to lay off sweets too! |
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blarneystone
spending too much on rocks
Rocks in my head
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Post by blarneystone on Feb 13, 2007 8:56:37 GMT -5
Good for you Baz and all the rest who've broken the habit!! I hate to admit this but I have the addiction too.  I know I need to quite and it's my intention to kick it this year. I'm so proud of my wife who put them down several months ago before her back surgery. I've quit several times in the past but picked it up again for some reason. Damn Nicotine addiction is insidious!! I may have to take something to help me quit....  |
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Post by pho on Feb 13, 2007 9:00:57 GMT -5
You can do it Baz. I smoked for well over 40 years and quit. It was hard but I did it.
The method I used is this: When I wanted a smoke I would tell myself..not right now..in two hours...or I'll wait until tomorrow and get a pack.... it worked for me. How you go about quitting is going to be up to you. Do what it takes to quit. I promise ya one thing..no-one is going to call you names for being a quitter...
Pho
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drupe
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by drupe on Feb 13, 2007 9:08:49 GMT -5
Way to go Baz and all the others who have quit. It can be done. After getting up to over 3 packs a day, and the Doctor telling me I had cancer of the larynx, I finally quit 22 years ago.
Well no cancer just a severe burn but the Dr. said I could comeback in about a year and I'd have it for sure.
That was my clue. I tossed those Benson & Hedges and haven't smoked since. Got to admit the smoke still smells good to me. But It was my time to quit so I did. When its your time to quit you will be able to do it. Under the right circumstances your will power will come through. Those of us who finally quit did it so can you. If other dope is this hard to quit, I really have sympathy for addicts.
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Post by takilasunrise on Feb 13, 2007 9:55:22 GMT -5
Good job, Baz! Keep it up! I bet you will feel better everyday! I have never smoked, but I can imagine how hard it would be to quit.
I wish Earthdog would quit! I know nagging or pleading or threatening won't get him to do it, but I wish (and I pray) he would get the desire to. It's gross and expensive not to mention it's killing you. He got into such a bad coughing fit last night that I had to grab his plate of dinner from him so he wouldn't drop it. His daughter tells him quite often he needs to quit. Please quit, if not for yourself, at least for your daughter! She needs her daddy. Don't you want to see her graduate school, get married, enjoy your grandchildren? And I would think being able to go on rockhounding and motorcycle trips would be an incentive with all that money you would save and being able to work without getting winded!
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Post by texaswoodie on Feb 13, 2007 10:01:20 GMT -5
I've smoked for 37 years now. I started the year I was married. ;D I've tried all the nicotine replacement therapies that have ever been invented and it had no effect. My wife and I have now started on Chantix and it seems to be doing some good. I've gone from 2 packs a day to 10 cigarettes a day in 2 weeks. And there has been little pain compared to cold turkey. I highly reccommend it for anyone trying to quit.
Soon to be ex smoker, Curt
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Post by takilasunrise on Feb 13, 2007 10:03:53 GMT -5
Hey, Texaswoodie, what is the Chantix and how does it work?
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Post by texaswoodie on Feb 13, 2007 10:15:27 GMT -5
takilasunrise Chantix is a new prescription pill that blocks the sensors in your brain that love nicotine. It's had an extremely good success rate. Ask your Dr. about it.  |
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Feb 13, 2007 10:48:11 GMT -5
COngrates Baz-
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Post by rockyraccoon on Feb 13, 2007 10:58:02 GMT -5
way to go baz! my hubby and i started on the patch this past weekend. jonje and joie are a step ahead of us and i'm waiting to hear how step 2 goes so keep up the good work you guys!
kim
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erbojones
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Post by erbojones on Feb 13, 2007 11:02:04 GMT -5
Good luck to you BAZ - hey what about fashioning yourself a rock-based cigarette dummy. You could puff away on your thunderegg replacement till the cows come home!!!
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Post by BAZ on Feb 13, 2007 18:47:47 GMT -5
Thanks for the support, at least it's good to know we aren't alone eh?
I heard on the radio someone telling a story that he heard from a guy that was hooked on Heroin. The guy said it was harder for him to quit the cigs than it was the needle! Now there is something to be said for that story.
GO QUITTERS!!!
And for all of you who never started, good job. I've smoked since I was 16 and really never felt hooked, I could quit whenever I wanted to and did. But in the last few years it has been a lot harder. I'd go months buying smokes and try to quit to no avail, but last Sunday that was it. I guess like a lot of you, when you know, you know.
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Post by krazydiamond on Feb 13, 2007 20:50:29 GMT -5
i started smoking when i was 14, went on smoking up to 2 packs a day until i was 44. sometime 3 packs if i was out partying. my tongue was black after a night like that. i wanted to quit, tried a few times, just couldn't get the will power. friends died, i kept smoking. then one day, i just said, "yep, enough". i did the patch, it was the hardest thing i'd ever done. come November 2007 i will be smoke free for 7 years.
a very good friend of mine (and she is a few years younger) has just come back to her home to die (hospice) from lung cancer. her only son just turned 12 years old. her doctors diagnosed her with pneumonia at Thanksgiving...gave her antibiotics.......didn't do an MRI until after Christmas, by then it was too late, she was terminal.
not to beat a dead horse here, but you give up for yourself, and not anyone else. you can't be goaded or chided or forced or prodded. you give it up because you finally admit you aren't immortal and that you don't want to die of something stupid.
the real upside to quitting is you don't smell like "poopy" anymore.
KD
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Post by Cher on Feb 13, 2007 21:12:41 GMT -5
Another day Baz that your Mrs hasn't had to kiss the ashtray. ;D Keep it up, you can do it. I need to check into that Chantix for my husband, I would so love him to quit.
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I know I need to quite and it's my intention to kick it this year. I'm so proud of my wife who put them down several months ago before her back surgery. I've quit several times in the past but picked it up again for some reason. Damn Nicotine addiction is insidious!! I may have to take something to help me quit.... 
