Help from you lovely x-smokers

Well I have got the withdrawl over with.
Now it is the psycological part and i need to shut my mouth.
Everything i am thinking is coming out of my mouth.It isn't pretty this week.
My family needs to deal with it and get over it.
I have has a 1000 reasons a day to have one puff and i eat a carrot.
I have welbutrin here .
I am afraid of antidepressants....(PAXIL WITHDRAWL)awful.

Oh i think i am turning into the Easter Bunny!!!!!
Anne
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GIRL, YOU ROCK!!!!!!! Today is your 6th day?????:) I hope no one makes you mad on purpose!!! OH MY! You are tough as nails as I know this isn't easy, but you are DOING IT!!!!! THERE ARE NO REASONS to have a puff...NONE!!! YOU ARE DONE WITH SMOKING!!!! BYE-BYE!!!! No going back now...EVER!!!! EVERY REASON to have a carrot, a meatball, a gumball, a sandwich!!!! Eat those carrots...be the Easter Bunny, it is o.k.? LOL! Have fun! YOU ARE ON YOUR WAY AND YOU ARE AMAZING!!!! Your family will get over it. You will be fine and keep telling yourself this too because afterall, it is true! You are one defeating woman!!!!!! Stay true to yourself and keep thinking positive!!!!

Charlotte~~
 
You made it through day six! Whoo hoo! It only gets easier now. Within a year, you'll have days on end where you don't even think about smoking. That sounds like a long time, but it's not as bad as it seems, because every day you'll look bad and think . . . well, it wasn't as hard as it was yesterday.

For me, the next step was getting through things I had never done without smoking. Things you don't do often. Every time I did something I had never done before without smoking, I would think about it again. Oddly enough, I wasn't tempted. I just thought about smoking a lot at times like that.

Here's something funny -- to this day, I still LOVE the smell of smoke. Some people can't stand to be around someone who smokes while they're quitting, but it actually helped me. My husband smoked for several years after I quit, and it always smelled sooooo good. I still walk through those little crowds of people smoking outside of buildings and take a good, deep breath. I don't want to smoke, but it does smell good to me. I have also gotten so sensitive to the smell of smoke, that I can smell a smoker's house when I ride by one on my bicycle, and I can smell someone smoking in a car from my own car behind them.

Oh, here's another plus. Some people think that getting your sense of smell back will make you want to eat more. Ha! It's just the opposite! Because you can actually taste the subtleties of food, you will find yourself more satisfied by it, rather than eating more trying to get the taste you remember. Sort of like smoking one of those really low tar light cigarettes -- you smoke twice as many or draw twice as hard trying to get the flavor from it.

You're doing super!!! Quitting smoking is the hardest thing I've ever done, and I've lost close to a hundred pounds four times in my life. (Yeah, yeah, I know. I'm a mess. Most of my major accomplishments in life have been having to STOP doing something bad rather that starting to do something good.) Losing weight and maintaining a loss was like climbing Everest in high heels, but it was nothing compared to quitting smoking. You're on your way. Keep checking in. We're here for you.

Shari
 
>Here's something funny -- to this day, I still LOVE the smell of >smoke. Some people can't stand to be around someone who smokes >while they're quitting, but it actually helped me. My husband >smoked for several years after I quit, and it always smelled sooooo >good. I still walk through those little crowds of people smoking >outside of buildings and take a good, deep breath. I don't want to >smoke, but it does smell good to me. I have also gotten so >sensitive to the smell of smoke, that I can smell a smoker's house >when I ride by one on my bicycle, and I can smell someone smoking >in a car from my own car behind them.


OMG, I sooo get what you are saying!!! It's sooo true! ALL of it! :+
 
Hang in there Easter Bunny, you CAN DO THIS!!! Don't forget to hop while crunching those carrots, you'll also benefit from a little cardio and sweat.:)

Keep posting...
 
I'm not an ex-smoker, but I have dealt with co-dependency issues. Any sort of co-dependency (any compulsive behaviors/thoughts) fall under the same tree, just different roots.

I love Melody Beattie's book The Language of Letting Go. A book of daily meditations -- little spiritual morsels that build the foundation of a stronger you.

Try not to beat yourself up (or anyone else!), keep seeking gentle support, and breathe in good vibes.

Warm thoughts to you!

;)
 
>Hang in there Easter Bunny, you CAN DO THIS!!! Don't forget
>to hop while crunching those carrots, you'll also benefit from
>a little cardio and sweat.:)
>
>Keep posting...


I exercised like a freakin' feind while I was quitting smoking because it was one of the few things that I just COULD NOT possibly smoke while doing!!!! LOL

Well it's been 22 hours since the smoking ban went into effect in Jersey...I wonder how people are taking it? I should turn on the news...
 
RE: Anne -- how ya doin' today?

Just checking in to see how you're doing. Does it seem even the tiniest bit easier today?

Shari
 
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