Hi - new here
Hi everyone
I am new here - Indi told me about this group. My name is Lynne, I
am 32 and really have got to the point where half the time I don’t
even enjoy smoking - it is just something that I have done for so
long that it just seems part of my life now.
But I have decided it is a part I don’t want anymore. So from
tomorrow I am hoping to be smoke free.
Lynne
February 4th, 2003 at 8:29 am
Hi Lynne - just joining in to wish you a warm welcome here, and to
wish you all the best with your quit. Lots of help and support here,
you’ve found a great place to be. Look forward to hearing more from
you, fellow Brit !
bye for now
Pam
February 4th, 2003 at 10:22 pm
Hi Indi
Afraid that I don’t have ICQ, just MSN. Could not make chat as I was
at work. Do you have chat sessions any other time.
Lynne
February 5th, 2003 at 5:37 am
Hi Steve
Just willpower!!!!!!
Lynne
February 5th, 2003 at 8:43 pm
Hi Lynne - just spoke to Indi on ICQ - she asked me to contact you
about Chat.
We haven’t really got set times - we tend to leave ICQ or MSN ‘on’
and if we see each other online fix up to go to Spinchat. Time zones
are the pain, but around 9pm UK time (4pm EST) or later seem to fit
in with a few of us. Hope to chat to you soon,
bye for now
Pam
February 6th, 2003 at 1:15 pm
Hi Lynne,
I quit cold turkey as did a few others here. If willpower will get you
off nicotine and through the couple of weeks that are the worst of detox
and recovery, great. What about the other part of quitting, the behavior
part? Have you made any lists of reasons to quit, benefits you hope to
realize from quitting, and ‘things you hear the little voice say’?
Theres a post in the archives from 10/18 called ‘Liz’s Universal
Quitters Posture…’, maybe give that a read?
Hope today went smoothly for you. Let us know how it’s going.
Steve
www.cognitivequitting.com
February 8th, 2003 at 6:06 am
Hi Steve
My main reason for quitting this time is that me and dh are looking
into adoption and I think we have a greater chance if we do not
smoke. Also, I can feel the effects it is now having on me.
Yesterday we both went all day without any cigs then last night gave
in to temptation. Going to have another try tomorrow as I will not
be at work.
Lynne
February 8th, 2003 at 3:03 pm
Hi Lynne
Your reason to quit sounds really good to me and yes I am sure it will
increase your chances of adoption.
It is a hard thing to do - I know I’ve tried sooooo many times - from real
serious attempts (longest lasting a year) - to impulse attempts lasting 2 - 3
hours to half serious attempts where I did the planning stuff, set my date
and did a bit like you lasted all day then gave in.
This time for some reason I knew it was different for me - I read somewhere
(can’t remember where) that you need to have a personalised reason to quit
for the quit to have any chance of being successful. I guess avoiding open
heart surgery (or at least doing something about trying to avoid it) was a
personalised enough reason for me.
I was never much good at the old will power stuff (although if I had found
cog quit then I might have been) so decided to do it with the help of zyban.
I had tried zyban last year and lasted 3 months with the odd puff/half cig
here and there. So knew what the side effects would be like for me and also
knew that even with zyban I still had to do the leg work.
I so desperately wanted to become a non-smoker that I decided this time I had
to have the most up to date, jam packed toolbox I could find. Not only that
but I had to be prepared to use the tools.
I think I must know every answer in the book about nicotine addiction,
withdrawal symptoms etc. etc. But there is something different between
knowing them and putting them into practise.
So the best thing that ever happened to me was finding out about cog quit -
it really has made things sooooo much easier for me.
Can I suggest you have a look through the archives and also have a look at
habitsmart.com cos there is some real good stuff in there which has helped me
enormously.
After 40+ years of smoking and feeding all my feelings/discomforts with
nicotine/tar/smoke and all the other s..t they put in cigs I am eventually
finding other healthier responses to the needs and discomforts of my body.
So Lynne - keep on keeping on quitting - believe me it is worth it.
Namaste
Indi
February 8th, 2003 at 11:15 pm
This really nails it down. We can have all the knowledge/tools in the
world, but until and unless we’re prepared to use them in a timely manner,
those tools are useless.
Lynne, what was the ‘temptation’? Discomfort due to cold turkey
withdrawal? Can you describe the sensations? Have you worked out some
foundation statements for you?
Steve
www.cognitivequitting.com
February 9th, 2003 at 4:07 pm
OK, Steve/Pat/Pam; I think your job as coach is being threatened here. Indi is
a great motivator.
Anyway, on her comment about all the shit (you know me, out with it) they put in
cigs, I’ve heard from a few quit buddies that the cig manufacturers actually put
urine in the cigs!!! Now I have a visual to reinforce my quit - yuck!
Cat
February 9th, 2003 at 6:20 pm
Hi Steve
I think the temptation was there because I was at work (in a club)
surrounded by smoke and smokers and I had had a drink, then all
rational thinking sort of goes out the window. But tomorrow is a new
day - and a more healthy one I hope.
Lynne
February 10th, 2003 at 3:17 am
In a message dated 06/11/01 23:59:36 GMT Standard Time,
catmohan@… writes:
Oh Cat
I haven’t heard that one - hope not cos I can’t bear to think how many
gallons of somebody’s/something’s urine I must have inhaled in my time as a
smoker - YUK.
Don’t think there is much chance of me doing Steve/Pam/Pat out of their job -
I don’t have the words - experience and time that they have - but it will
come one day and then hopefully someone else can learn from me like I am
learning from them.
I think this is what recovery is all about - sharing our knowledge and
supporting each other through the bad times.
Cat - you will stop lingering at the cig counter - I don’t even think about
it now for some strange reason even in the convenience store where they;
stare you in the face at the checkout. But when I quit drinking I used to
linger longingly at the booze section. But then I didn’t have cog quit so it
was really just to ‘torment’ myself or ‘test my will power’ or something -
don’t really know and don’t really care now.
But you are using your thinking to reason out that you don’t want/need to buy
those things anymore so that can only be good - I think.
Have a good day Cat
love
Indi