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Posted 1/21/2014 8:57 PM (GMT 0)
well think i'm gonna try my luck at the quitting smoking again.i have an appt. tomorrow with my family doc and going for the nicotine patches again. sorry off topic by i think i need some well wishes...thank you everyone..:)
Posted 1/21/2014 9:21 PM (GMT 0)
GOOD LUCK!!! Are you active?
Posted 1/21/2014 9:25 PM (GMT 0)
yep, have been for about 35 years now. i still have my e-cigarette so between that and patches, i should do pretty good. thank you. :)
Posted 1/21/2014 10:52 PM (GMT 0)
I quit in 1975 hardest thing I ever did! Never said I quit till I had went a full year without a smoke! Then a few years later I took up dipping snuff. That was harder to quit than smoking! That " just a lil pinch" between the cheek and gum, is one of the quickest and easiest ways of main lining nicotine, and it is a BEAR to stop, you might not be able to smoke every where but you certainly can dip just about every where! Even in the shower! so it is a very nasty habit and it is very difficult to stop. I did manage to stop in the mid eighties and I haven't used any tobacco since!

I wish you well and hope that you succeed! I worked on an Oncology unit, and seen allot of people with lung cancer, and my father and mother were both long time heavy smokers! My mother died of Colon Cancer at age 62 and my Father died of Lung cancer at age 75! I will tell you, it is not the way anybody should have to go!

Good Luck to YOU!

White Beard
Posted 1/22/2014 12:30 AM (GMT 0)
Want to wish you good luck quitting smoking!

I know it can be a bear!



M.
Posted 1/22/2014 12:45 AM (GMT 0)
Good luck to you! I have heard its not easy but its really what's best for your health... And think of all the money you'll be saving! Let us know if you need some cheerleading!
Posted 1/22/2014 1:28 AM (GMT 0)
You can do it! Quitting is so hard though! I quite after 10 years of smoking when my hubby and I decides to try and get pregnant.

They say the actual physical addiction/craving will be over in 3 days. The physiological part... That's a different story. Smoking is such a habit and becomes such a part of daily routine.

I sucked on a lot of straws when trying to quit. :) it's been almost 3 years now since I quit. Still get cravings every now and then (especially with coffee) but they go away. :)

Hang in there! Your body, wallet and family will thank you :)
Posted 1/22/2014 1:35 AM (GMT 0)
Good luck on quitting, I wish you the best! This is definitely something that I will be doing as well once I'm over the withdrawals of going off of the pain meds. I have a couple of friends that quit by using the e-cig and I want to try that but how safe is it? I know it has to be healthier than all the junk that is in a cigarette, right? Anyway, stock up on some hard candies to suck on, try taking up a new hobby that involves using your hands where you can't smoke and do it at the same time, cut up a bunch of nice crunchy veggies and fruits, etc. etc. We will all be cheering you on :D you can do it.
Posted 1/22/2014 3:50 AM (GMT 0)
thank you everyone. well between the two flights of stairs from the bedroom to the basements and i'm winded and the $6.13 i spent on a back of smokes. enough is enough. i've spent 5 day visits in the hospitals on more then one occasion and really didn't have to big of an issue with not smoking. if i can do it there then i figure i can go without at home. so i have my last pack with me here tonight and the plan is tomorrow when i run out. i've seen also what the cancers can do. lost my mother to throat cancer, my FIL to lung cancer and my grandfather died from smoke related illnesses. the best part is i'll fell better. thanks again for the encouragement...:)
Posted 1/22/2014 10:05 AM (GMT 0)
Mark good luck and wanted to add that I also had to stop after a new PM Dr was discharging patients who continued to smoke . He actually had several medical articles discussing the facts of how smoking contributed to CP.

Anyway I smoked 30 years and boy was it hard . Took several attempts to finally on Chantix made it. I was ultimately left with COPD and although better it was a little too late to prevent it.

I grew up in an era that found it relaxing and popular to smoke . A time when everyone was doing it and you could smoke anywhere even on the city bus and in the Court House ! Lol

Also born and raised in Ky which happens to be one of the largest growers and producers in the tobacco industry . Home to the RJ Reynolds Corporation and maker of the most popular brands . Every commercial and billboard asked you to support local economy and smoke !! Not so funny knowing now how many health related issues occur from smoking.

I wish you luck and my daughter and sil both stopped by switching to the E cigs .
Posted 1/22/2014 10:54 AM (GMT 0)
Good luck.
Posted 1/22/2014 1:27 PM (GMT 0)
Good lick!
Posted 1/22/2014 1:27 PM (GMT 0)
Hahahahaha. Good LUCK!!!!!
Posted 1/22/2014 1:52 PM (GMT 0)
Wanted to step in and add my good luck with this, hope you can quit, it's an uphill battle and I hope you win it...keep us posted...
Posted 1/22/2014 2:53 PM (GMT 0)
I first started working when I was 13 years old, when we had to get a work permit. The rural landscape of my home town at the time was prime tobacco growing area. So "the" job of the time for the summer was working tobacco.....stringing it, picking it, sewing it, packing it....

The industry was so massive there that they even bussed young workers up from West Virginia (I never understood that correlation, why there, why that far away, etc., but hey, it was a thriving industry).

Brutal conditions, that's for sure. It's amazing how different straight tobacco is from whatever it is they mix it up with to toss into cigarettes.

Point being,...When even the children were working in tobacco fields, I grew up in an era where practically everybody smoked. And if you did not smoke, you wouldn't dare complain about or to those around you who did!

Times have most certainly changed.

While I wished you luck already, I want to add it again (and again and again!!) because I know how tough it is to quit, ... and I know that it can often take several tries (usually does) ... and I also know how marvelous it feels once you do quit! You really do feel like you've got a whole new body!

My best to you!




M.
Posted 1/22/2014 11:50 PM (GMT 0)
I want to wish you good luck as well. We're all behind you. My grandpa passed away from emphasema. It was horrible. I've never smoked myself, but my father smoked in the house. I am sure that's why I have asthma.

love and hugs
Loretta
Posted 1/24/2014 3:01 AM (GMT 0)
I'm new here but I wanted to say good luck! I'm 32 and have smoked on and off since I was 13. Currently it's on but tapering down. Good luck!
Posted 1/24/2014 4:05 AM (GMT 0)
Hey Mark you mentioned that smokes were $6.13 a pack. I was thinking about that and when I first went in the Air Force back in the summer of 1969 A pack of smokes at the Base Exchange was 21 cents if you brought them by the carton at the commissary they were $1.90 a carton or 19 cents a pack. I guess they went up allot over the years, but back then my military pay as an airman was $127.00 a month before taxes.

White Beard
Posted 1/24/2014 2:56 PM (GMT 0)
Good luck
Posted 1/25/2014 10:49 AM (GMT 0)
Have you read "The Easy Way to Quit Smoking," by Allen Carr? It's an amazing book. I highly recommend reading it. It helps to change the way that you think about smoking.
Posted 1/25/2014 10:56 AM (GMT 0)
WB, I use to walk to the drugstore when I was about 6 and get my Dads Camel non-filters . He would give me a quarter and a nickel !! I got his camels and a piece of Bazooka bubble gum with the funny cartoon inside and have 2 pennies in change ?? Lol

6 years old buying cigarettes , in a drugstore , for less then the tax on a pack today . Things sure do change .
Posted 1/25/2014 6:57 PM (GMT 0)
Vickie, I remember the same thing. My Aunt would give me a written note so I could go to the corner store and pick up 2 packs of Viceroy (God I can't believe I still remember this), and I also got my Bazooka bubble gum,...loved the Bazooka Joe comic inside and the little message.

I couldn't have been more than 6 either.

Back when penny candy was actually a penny too!

Sorry to get off track, guys, but Vickie's post brought back quite a nostalgic feeling! ;)



M.
Posted 1/28/2014 12:05 AM (GMT 0)
How's it going?
Posted 1/29/2014 5:15 AM (GMT 0)
greeting everyone, haven't reporting in on my quitting smoking. mostly because last week when i was suppose to quit....i didn't or shall i say it didn't last long. eyes actually my appt. with my family doc
was cancelled and now is for tomorrow (wednesday) so i'll be getting my patches then. planned it
kinda right. have enough smokes to last til the appt. time. my e-gig will be charged and ready to go.
so at least i have a plan. (bonus)so i'll see how that goes.
have to share a quote i picked up a few years back. it goes "it's easy to quit, i've done it a thousand
times" that was from mark twain.
i recall my mother also sending me to the corner party store with a note about buying cigs for her. i was around 9 or 10. but i remember it well. oh how times have changed....
Posted 1/29/2014 10:24 PM (GMT 0)
well so much for plan A. went to my family doc and told her all about what was going on with the motivation to try to quit smoking. if ya ever what to make your doctors day, tell them you quit or want to quit. they just cheer right up.any way she was going to fax over the script. nice, works for me. so later this afternoon i go to pick up the nicotine patchs and the lady at the pharmacy says my insurance doesn't cover that.
mad so naturally what do i go and do, buy a pack of smokes. GRRR. the one thing you'd think they
would fill is a script for something to help ya quit smoking. guess not. so tomorrow i will call my doc and see
what kind of plan B would be. well there's always cold turkey...
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