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catsmeow
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Posted: Jan. 11 2004,12:38 pm |
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I'm ready to share with you all the gift I gave myself and my loved ones, including HD & the KH's, for Christmas...
I quit the day after christmas and have not had a smoke since. I won't lie and say it has not been the hardest thing ever, but I had to do it.
How I did it...
I wrote out a plan. I had a goal that was bigger than just quiting smoking, and a part of that goal required me to quit smoking as one of the steps in the plan.
I gave myself two quit dates, a hard date (12/31/03 and a soft date 12/25/03). I logged the times of each cigarette I smoked. I tracked that and concentrated on the tougher times. I cut back one smoke p/day until my goal dates. So that by 12/30/03 I would smoke my one and only last cigarette. With the dates I chose I had to purchase one more pack of smokes between my soft cut off date and my hard cut off date. When I ran out of smokes the day after my soft cut off date, I just decided to not buy that last pack. I knew if I didn't quit then, I would not be able to.
Now, I must also share that I had my doc give me an antidepresant to help with the crankiness, which for the most part works, but I still get cranky, but not as bad as I did the first time I quit.
I use to smoke menthol so I eat mints like they are going out of style. When I feel that need I just take a deep breath and hold it. It gives me that minty taste I was use to and feel like I'm smoking. It's been getting better and better every day.  I might be cranky and insecure for a few months, but at least it is temperary and I will live a longer life with the people I love in the end. (Assuming I don't get hit by a car)
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catsmeow
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Posted: Jan. 11 2004,12:56 pm |
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Oh, I forgot to mention that I started with a carton of smokes and separated the packs with the amount of cigaretts I could smoke for that day for each day of my plan. When I got towards the end, I started to cheet and smoke my cigarettes that were to get me through the last day of my hard cut off date, well, that's when I decided not to buy that last pack, I figured, I smoked them early, so I lost them.
Another thing I had to do was change the way I thought about them. I had to make myself realilze that they are as bad as a drug and would I want someone doing drugs or abusing alcohol in my life? The answer was no... I don't so how could I ask someone else to accept this drug into thier life let alone any children they have? And I also had to ask myself would I want to marry someone that I know is going to die a long agonizing death? Again, I had to answer no., So... Basically I had to change my way of thinking.
Good luck. And if you relaps.. remember this... Don't think "oh well, I smoked so I guess I couldn't quit" BS... you can quit, just give yourself a new cut off date. And keep doing this until eventually it takes. Also I think it helps to get the drugs from your doc.
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Posted: Jan. 12 2004,5:14 am |
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to both, keep it up!.. 
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.. .... So no more smokes for me .
,well not a problem 
