Quitting smoking

[GeorgiesMomma]

She said if you search quit smoke it will come up. Again, good luck and keep us posted

[Christinee]

Originally Posted by GeorgiesMomma

She said if you search quit smoke it will come up. Again, good luck and keep us posted

Ok will do. And thanks for asking her.

[GeorgiesMomma]

You're welcome!

[yorkietalkjilly]

Oh, yes, the money saved will be huge. A windfall. You can do it! When I was at work and I would get the urge at first to smoke, I would open a cold diet Coke and pour it over ice and think about how I would exercise and work out once I got home. I would plan how much longer I thought I might could go on the treadmill and how many more healthy lung cells I would have developed by evening time by skipping the cigarette I was thinking about. Skinnier, fitter and healthy lung tissue - those became my goals. And I never did gain the 5 - 7 lbs. they say you gain - in fact, I continued to lose more weight as I got fitter and healthier. So it was a win-win for me. Go out and make it a win-win for YOU.

[Christinee]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

Oh, yes, the money saved will be huge. A windfall. You can do it! When I was at work and I would get the urge at first to smoke, I would open a cold diet Coke and pour it over ice and think about how I would exercise and work out once I got home. I would plan how much longer I thought I might could go on the treadmill and how many more healthy lung cells I would have developed by evening time by skipping the cigarette I was thinking about. Skinnier, fitter and healthy lung tissue - those became my goals. And I never did gain the 5 - 7 lbs. they say you gain - in fact, I continued to lose more weight as I got fitter and healthier. So it was a win-win for me. Go out and make it a win-win for YOU.

Awesome. I love to hear about someone who quit and didn't gain weight and got fit instead. That is for sure a goal for me. I have put off quitting in fear of gaining weight when in fact it is completly controlable.

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by Christinee

Awesome. I love to hear about someone who quit and didn't gain weight and got fit instead. That is for sure a goal for me. I have put off quitting in fear of gaining weight when in fact it is completly controlable.

And for when urges to put something in your mouth to busy it just get overwhelming, I kept strongly sour dill pickles, sugarless chewing gum and rice cakes for low calorie crunching and drank water until I almost drowned. In my case, very quickly the urge to smoke became associated with walking on my treadmill or my low cal snacks rather than a cigarette and in my case, my mind began to anticipate getting one of those things when it craved a cigarette, rather than the cigarette itself! And as the nicotine cleared my body, the urge to smoke did too. Be sure you don't drink so much water you get low on sodium as I did once or twice so if you are going over 8 glasses a day, have blood tests from time to time to have your sodium chloride checked.

I keep forgetting that I did smoke almost 1/2 of a cigarette the March or April of 1989 when I learned our office accountant had quit and I was going to have to add her duties to mine for how ever long it took to interview and hire another - but that was only after my boss handed me a lit cigarette, I guess to ease the blow. After those puffs and putting it out, I was horrified that I had let myself slip up like that and made myself a promise that that would never happen again and it never has. I've had many worse shocks and my share of bad news since and not once have I smoked. So even should you slip up, don't let is deter you - use it to reinforce your commitment never again.

[Christinee]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

And for when urges to put something in your mouth to busy it just get overwhelming, I kept strongly sour dill pickles, sugarless chewing gum and rice cakes for low calorie crunching and drank water until I almost drowned. In my case, very quickly the urge to smoke became associated with walking on my treadmill or my low cal snacks rather than a cigarette and in my case, my mind began to anticipate getting one of those things when it craved a cigarette, rather than the cigarette itself! And as the nicotine cleared my body, the urge to smoke did too. Be sure you don't drink so much water you get low on sodium as I did once or twice so if you are going over 8 glasses a day, have blood tests from time to time to have your sodium chloride checked.

I keep forgetting that I did smoke almost 1/2 of a cigarette the March or April of 1989 when I learned our office accountant had quit and I was going to have to add her duties to mine for how ever long it took to interview and hire another - but that was only after my boss handed me a lit cigarette, I guess to ease the blow. After those puffs and putting it out, I was horrified that I had let myself slip up like that and made myself a promise that that would never happen again and it never has. I've had many worse shocks and my share of bad news since and not once have I smoked. So even should you slip up, don't let is deter you - use it to reinforce your commitment never again.

All great advice. Thank you. I will use it.

[celstu1]

BEST of Luck!!!! I'm with you, I am looking into quitting now too! Its a gross habit that really does take control away from you!

[Christinee]

Originally Posted by celstu1

BEST of Luck!!!! I'm with you, I am looking into quitting now too! Its a gross habit that really does take control away from you!

Do it!! Do it!! We can do it together. I know, YOU have to be ready or it won't work. It really is a bad habit.

[Christinee]

I have been smoking since I was 15! I'm 35 now. That's a long freaking time!

[Christinee]

To you guys who have been quit for a while, do you still get cravings? Even years later? My friend told me it's been 5 years and she still does. I'm not looking forward to having them forever.

[107barney]

No I never have cravings. I did on and off for a couple of years, but that was in the early days.

[Harrysmum]

Oh good luck...I know it's difficult...

Just remember this word: NOPE

N...NOT
O...ONE
P...PUFF
E...EVER

You CAN do it....Sally x

[Christinee]

Day two. Feeling good. Woot.

[yorkietalkjilly]

I do not have cravings and didn't have once the initial 2 or 3 weeks was over and those were not severe for me. It is like my body was working so hard to try to keep up with my hard exercise program all it wanted was air, water, food and rest to keep up. I think it craved what it most needed to just exist after those first 3 weeks and the nicotine was gone. Plus, I'd determined in my head I was just done - done with smoking - however bad it got I wasn't going to cave to that habit anymore. I was so over it headwise. But I think that exercise and praying for strength mightily helped keep my will stronger than the drug of nicotine.