Five days without a cigarette! Ask me anything.

[maveric]

Surprisingly its not as badas I had anticipated. This time I REALLY want to quit.

[skypilot]

1. Where are you hiding the bodies?

*

[maveric]

15. My patients, at work, are all still breathing.

And I havent kicked my kids out of the house yet.

[tk2kewl]

2. Congrats!

I am 2 months. Good luck. I found week 3 to be the most difficult.

:toast:

[Beware the Beast Man]

3. Excellent! Five days here too!

I came perilously close to cracking today, though.

[maveric]

18. Persevere my friend.

F**k the tobacco companies!

[Beware the Beast Man]

20. Exactly. Now it's all up to the pharmaceutical companies.

I'm on Nicorette.

[maveric]

25. They're a lesser evil.

And sometimes they actually help people.

[LiberalVoice]

4. I quite for six weeks.

It was HORRIBLE....I wish you the best of luck! It's a terrible habit and I really should try to quit again.

[maveric]

21. You've gotta do it! Its worth it.

Think of the money you'll save, the years added on to your life, and the fact that your not supporting the fat cats in "Big Tobacco".

[LiberalVoice]

37. I know I know

I really wanted to quite too! I mean once I was passed the first week(the next longest amount of time i'd quit is 4 days) I figured I was doen for good. but no sirreeee bob!

Bastards :evilfrown:

[SheepyMcSheepster]

5. you want a smoke?

:silly:

congrats!

[maveric]

23. Actually, No!

Its scaring me that its too easy this time.
Maybe I'm still under the "pink cloud"?

[XNASA]

6. Can I have your lighter?

[maveric]

26. I'll e-mail it to ya.

[mtnester]

7. WHAT have you done to overcome that "empty hand" issue

that seems to be the hardest thing for me to get past. It is not the actual "smoking" I have trouble dumping, it is all the "ritual".

Suggestions? I am down to 5 a day and cannot seem to lose the "what do I do with my hands" thing.

Be nice!

[CornField]

11. Have you tried holding straws cut to the right length?

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

17. Thats part of whats helping me

BurtWorm Suggested it, and it REALLY HELPS

[mtnester]

24. No, but that is a good idea...the right size in diameter

and the sensation of air moving through.

Great idea! Thanks.

[maveric]

27. Plastic coffee stirrers. I chew them.

My co-workers tell me that chewing the stirrers is just as filthy a habit as smoking. But then again, they are all smokers.

BTW, Healthcare workers are the most unhealthiest lot around. 90% of the nurses and CNA's I work with smoke.

[arcane1]

8. Sweet!!! Just recently quit myself..

hang in there!!

:yourock:

[bigwillq]

9. Do you feel you snack more?

Congrats on trying to quit. I wish I could.

[maveric]

28. I want to, but I use Halls, sugar free, mentholated cough drops.

When I want a smoke or a snack substitute I pop a Halls.

[bigwillq]

30. I'm guessing you smoked menthol-

I do too, Newport Lights.


Well best of luck to you.


Got any more tips? I would love to stop in 2005.

[maveric]

36. Marlboro Menthols.

Kinda funny, but I had a dreal last night that I bought a pack of smokes and they were Newports, and I was wondering why I did that.

[bigwillq]

40. Cause Newport's are what the "cool" people smoke

And then we get cancer and die.



Stay strong.

[msgadget]

38. Good idea!

And, the air must be positively whistling through your sinuses! You know, yoga breathing is also a good thing when you run out of Halls.

[CornField]

10. I'm just over 9 weeks now.

You can do this! Each day I would wake up and declare war on the little buggars -- they are my enemies.

Have a look at: http://www.quitmeter.com

9 weeks, 3 days, 14 hours, 24 seconds
1,331 cigarettes not smoked
$183.01 saved

[maveric]

29. Congratulations! I've saved about $25.00.

Since here in SoCal, Marlboros are $4.89 a pack, with tax x a pack a day.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

12. Day 5 for me too!!!!

We rock!

Congrats

[maveric]

31. Indeed we do!

:yourock:

[hollywood926]

13. Are you having chest pains?

I am off fags 5 days, too, and I'm having chest pains, but they locked the thread where I was whining about it. :-)

You can quit. No problem.

[maveric]

32. No, but I'm coughing up a lot of crap.

The cleansing process.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

14. Are you proud of yourself?

Or are you damn proud of yourself?

Which ever it is, I'm damn proud of you! WTG!

[maveric]

33. Damn proud!!

I quit for 18 years and took it up again at age 40, 8 years ago. Been kicking myself in the ass ever since.

[ewagner]

16. No pipe since 12/12/04

No tabacco cravings but I keep REACHING for my pipe out of habit....

[Cobalt Violet]

19. You can do it.

Your doing great. I does get easier.

[fluffernutter]

22. do you sleep better?

[maveric]

34. Yep!!

And its great!

[msgadget]

35. Good work! Are you eating more?

[maveric]

39. Not really, although I want to.

the Halls cough drops help me there.

[Pharaoh]

41. Way to go maveric

I am on my 5th quit

this has got to be it for me, I quit on dec17th and then smoked 3 packs over the xmas weekend.......but have been clean since, I suck on the nicorette lozenges and eat alot of sunflower seeds,
I'm a mailman and my truck is full of sunflower shellsB-)

DU helps keep my hands busy:toast:

[msgadget]

43. I'm so proud of you!

:hug:

[jswordy]

42. Have you heard the Mark Twain quote?

"Quitting smoking is easy. I have done it hundreds of times."

Good luck.

[maveric]

44. Love that quote. Thanx.

[bigwillq]

46. I use that line a lot (nt)

[thinkthin]

45. Smokers

After 40 years I finally gave it up. You can do it.
No cigarettes for 1 1/2 years.

[maveric]

47. If you can do it I can do it.

You are an insoiration,my friend.