Arrrrgh! I need a cigarette!

[Taverner]

Someone talk me out of it...NOW!!!!

[DoBotherMe]

1. The urge will pass, try not to obsess

on it. One day at a time. D ; )

[lukasahero]

2. It's not need, it's want

You don't "need" it. You can do this. Get up and do something, grab a piece of gum, take a walk. Don't give up!

(Did that help? :))

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. Go outside and walk around.

[jane_pippin]

4. NO!

:spank:

(Today is my Quit Day. Inspire me, Taverner.)

[Taverner]

5. Hmmmm inspire you...

How about, you don't want to be a pathetic wreck like me?

[jane_pippin]

10. Lol. No, I mean stay strong, you can do this.

I'll take being a pathetic wreck if it going through it means I'm done smoking.

It will pass, you'll be ok.

[ronnykmarshall]

6. Think about red states and tobbaco donations to Repugs.

That what keeps me from smoking.

[Goldmund]

7. Run, Forrest, run!

That's how I dealt with my cravings.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

8. Let Olbermann talk you out of it...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

‘So,’ I thought, as I was hunched over, spitting blood into the garbage can in my office, half an hour before the newscast, ‘this is it — this is cancer.’ It gets uglier, I understood that — so ugly that those who've survived can't even describe how much uglier it gets.

Still, that imagery that I want to have stick in your mind, is pretty good: They've just had to cut something out, from inside your body because they think it's cancer. And because it doesn't heal up right away, every couple of hours the coagulation breaks and your mouth fills up with blood — and all of a sudden, hunching over a garbage can, spitting it out, is the best available option.

---snip---

But that's not what this tumor was — the one that for five very long days had me convinced I had cancer. This is from me smoking pipes and cigars for 27 years. And if you work for a company that produces or sells pipes and cigars and you are recoiling defensively and saying ‘you don't know that’... well, let me quote Robert Novak — "bull" — I do too know that.

The place where this thing grew on the roof of my mouth, is precisely above the spot where the end of the cigar, or the tip of the pipe, would sit, nearly every time I've smoked. I've been smoking — with the first place the smoke connects with my tissue, right in this one spot in my mouth — since Jimmy Carter was President. So, yes, biologically speaking, smoking caused that tumor. Behaviorally speaking, I caused that tumor — period.



"Keith Olbermann, up close and very personal."

[LynneSin]

9. Find a picture of your son and stare at it for awhile

:hug:

You can do this!

[Taverner]

11. Unfortunately, he's what made me want to smoke

LOL

[miss_kitty]

12. Me too.

And i quit in '98. I have to make a choice every day not to smoke. And I am pretty much self-indulgent, so it's shocking to me I have not had even a drag off a cigarette since 7:30 am 26 Feb 1998. Not even when they told me I had cancer. But I look at each day I don't smoke as a trophy. And the really strong cravings will pass. For the most part. It's different for everyone. Basically, you need to talk YOURSELF out of it, and I know you can.

Go take a walk, exercise, have a glass of milk. Get a turkey sammich.

Good Luck. :hi:

[MalibuChloe]

13. I have been wanting a ciggie ever since Peter Jennings died!

I haven't had one since January 1 and when I heard that Peter Jennings had quit for TWENTY YEARS and had a relapse during 9/11 and STILL got cancer, I was just like, "ummm...why bother quitting? i could be smoke free for twenty fucking years and have a few and then drop dead like that twenty years meant nothing!"

but the reason I haven't smoked is that I now find the smell disgusting, I don't want it anywhere near me, I remember the phlegm and the coughing and how quickly I tired on the treadmill.

All that and it doesn't even give you a buzz.

[kick-ass-bob]

17. The way around this thinking is that you never know at what point it

affects you. It may already have, true, but it may not have yet either. And if you start again, you may hit that point that starts the abnormal growth.

[Cathyclysmic]

14. The urge will pass and get less everyday

then you will not have to go thru this again

[Talismom]

15. You're doing great! Keep it up! You're gonna feel so much

better and so proud of yourself when the craving abate! Don't be down on yourself for the cravings--they're some of the hardest to get through. I've heard that heroine addicts find nicotine cravings harder to get through! But you're gonna do it and it will be getting better really soon, so just get through this one!

[quisp]

16. interesting factoid...

the craving for a cigarette lasts 7 seconds. The longer you go without a cigarette the longer the time between cravings. So when you first quit you're having cravings that overlap, so it's very tough.

But the longer you go the easier it gets. When you do get a craving just take 3 deep breaths and get back to what you're doing.

I've been quit for 4 years. You can do it too!

[kedrys]

18. Hang in there, and don't cave!

You can do this! My mom's been quits for over 12 years, even though my dad still smokes. No cigs for you! :hug: