Guest guest Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 I'm with you, that was horrible to kick. I will never say I'm an ex-smoker, I just say I'm a recovered smoker. Who knows what the future brings. I can never say I won't smoke again. I only hope I don't start back up. Donna We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking. - Jimi Hendrix, Midnight Lightning --- On Sun, 11/1/09, Tameson <tamesonob wrote: Tameson <tamesonob Re: [veg_grp] i quit smoking Sunday, November 1, 2009, 4:01 PM Not so easy for me, put through the heroine addict rehab class (never touched heroine, but they said the two are very similar brain wise) and 2 years worth of anti-anxiety medication to do it and I gained over 50 pounds in the process. Tameson - >I quit in 96, easiest thing I ever did, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 I know for a fact I won't ever start back up if only because I don't want to re-live that personal hell. Tameson - " Donnalilacflower " <thelilacflower I can never say I won't smoke again. I only hope I don't start back up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 Being miserable never stopped me from doing anything LOL Donna We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking. - Jimi Hendrix, Midnight Lightning --- On Sun, 11/1/09, Tameson <tamesonob wrote: Tameson <tamesonob Re: [veg_grp] i quit smoking Sunday, November 1, 2009, 4:40 PM I know for a fact I won't ever start back up if only because I don't want to re-live that personal hell. Tameson - " Donnalilacflower " <thelilacflower@ > I can never say I won't smoke again. I only hope I don't start back up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 In a message dated 11/1/2009 4:09:40 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, tamesonob writes: Not so easy for me, put through the heroine addict rehab class (never touched heroine, but they said the two are very similar brain wise) and 2 years worth of anti-anxiety medication to do it and I gained over 50 pounds in the process. I count myself lucky I guess. Thanksgiving of 1991 I set my " quit " date of April 15, 1992. I started by cutting down where I could smoke, then I started cutting down how often I could have a smoke. The heaviest I had ever smoked was 5 packs per day and I only did that for about a year or so. I bought myself 3 weeks worth of transdermal nicotine patches and I knew they only help you break the " smoking " habit and do not in any way address the nicotine addiction. Once I got the " smoking " habit broken, and I did that in 3 weeks, I had the " joy " of addressing the nicotine addiction. I have been a nonsmoker ever since and after my 3 weeks of patches were gone I haven't used nicotine at all. My mother used to say I had an iron " won't " , mind you not an iron will. I refused to let that little white cylinder filled with aromatic (and poisonous) herb (and many chemicals) rule my life. I had a mental perception of myself as someone strong and I used as few crutches as I could since I know 90% of the battle is mental and the more outside crutches you use the more likely you are to fail. You have to go into quitting smoking determined to quit and with the full knowledge that it won't be easy. It can be done. I now spend less on medical bills than I used to spend on smoking. Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 1, 2009 Report Share Posted November 1, 2009 I hope you don't either. I learned in my EMT-B and EMT-I classes that nicotine is more addictive than heroin.....and I believe it. Nancy C. I'm with you, that was horrible to kick. I will never say I'm an ex-smoker, I just say I'm a recovered smoker. Who knows what the future brings. I can never say I won't smoke again. I only hope I don't start back up. Donna We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop. I mean cigarette smoking. - Jimi Hendrix, Midnight Lightning --- On Sun, 11/1/09, Tameson <tamesonob wrote: Tameson <tamesonob Re: [veg_grp] i quit smoking Sunday, November 1, 2009, 4:01 PM Not so easy for me, put through the heroine addict rehab class (never touched heroine, but they said the two are very similar brain wise) and 2 years worth of anti-anxiety medication to do it and I gained over 50 pounds in the process. Tameson - >I quit in 96, easiest thing I ever did, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 2, 2009 Report Share Posted November 2, 2009 In a message dated 11/2/2009 11:15:11 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, tylin10 writes: Now I see clearly how sick smoking was making me. If only I'd believed before I got COPD! Mary You and me both. I was Dx'd with COPD last year -- 16 years after I quit. Such luck, eh? Smoking sucks. Lisa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 2, 2009 Report Share Posted November 2, 2009 [Default] On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 02:12:48 EST, KalamalkaBC wrote: > I now spend less on medical bills than I used >to spend on smoking. That's the part that most smokers don't get. At least, I didn't. I thought I was just unlucky to be sick all winter with bronchitis. When I quit, for a time, I felt worse, but then the imiprovements began. Now I see clearly how sick smoking was making me. If only I'd believed before I got COPD! Mary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 2, 2009 Report Share Posted November 2, 2009 At least you started believing before your family had to pay for your funeral. Both my parents were smokers.....both died of lung cancer....my mom at 58 and my dad at 78, 11 years later. I have lost a number of aunts and uncles to lung cancers.....all were smokers. I have never smoked and have not lived around anyone who smoked since I was 18 years old.....and, thank God, none of my children smoke. But, I had bronchitis so many times as a child.....and I had other lung ailments when I was growing up. My mother never thought it had anything to so with their smoking.....or she would have quit.......now we know better. Emergency medical workers called people with COPD, " pink puffers " and " blue blowers " when I was in EMT training....because of the way they have to breathe. I so sincerely wish you had " believed " sooner. Tobacco is so deadly. Nancy C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 2, 2009 Report Share Posted November 2, 2009 [Default] On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:43:22 -0600, " Nancy Curtis " <nancihank wrote: >I so sincerely wish you had " believed " sooner. Thank you, Nancy. I'm sorry you lost your parents that way. I know what a burden it is on families. It's not just a self-destructive habit, it's also selfish because it deprives those who love you of your full participation in their lives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 2, 2009 Report Share Posted November 2, 2009 [Default] On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:49:31 EST, KalamalkaBC wrote: >Such luck, eh? Smoking sucks. Sorry to hear you got the dreaded disease. It's awful. That old ad says it all: if you can't breathe nothing else matters. I hope you have many easy days ahead of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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