Hi, Amber,
One of my friends couldn’t stand the smell when she was pregnant (she quit).
She and her husband had lived in their apartment for 10 years, and they both
smoked, although mostly outside. She rented one of those carpet shampooers
availalbe at a grocery store and shampooed her carpets a couple of times. You
could try Febreze on the curtains, or one of those home-drycleaning kits.
Good luck!
Harper
Hello Everyone, My name is Kim. I have three Boys 19,11,9. I just
turned 40 not long ago and I have to tell you When you’ve smoked for
25yrs a pack a day and you can’t breathe Hellllooo it’s time. No
seriously, I believe everyone as their time. I’ve been trying to stop
for two year’s .I went for 6 mths at one point. Believe me You learn
something new each time u slip or relapse. Like for example when I
went those 6 mths I felt great !! Then I got soooo pissed off about
something that I picked up a smoke. Only to feel sick !! Yuck! I have
16 day’s today and I want a smoke so bad !!!!!!!!!! I was wearing the
patch only 14mg so I felt I was cutting my intake in half,which I
was.However I stopped the patch 3 day’s ago. Soooo now can u
understand where I’m at. I’ve been cold turkey for three day’s and I
feel like shit !!! Hope I don’t offend anyone But…It’s the truth.
My thoart is on fire,I have headaches, My emotions are running
rampant,which I believe might be at the expensive of my relationship
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I wish I had more time lately to put in my 2 cents worth, something
at which I’m really good (whether asked or not). Making out the
lists, doing the ABC’s, comparing quit aids…. <sigh
me miss those good ole days… NOT!!! Although I enjoyed
the ‘conversations’ and interaction with the group, I am so glad I’m
past those previously mentioned stages because that means I’m past
all discomfort that comes with a quit. And all of you will be there
too, sooner than you think. For me, the quit was initially all-
consuming, it consumed my time AND my mind. But I think that, for
me, I needed to spend that time on my quit in order to get past all
those plateaus that we occasionally talk about here. So, I guess the
point I’m making is to keep on posting, comparing, writing, thinking,
and questioning. The time is well spent.
There were two things I wanted to share today.
The first is that on the radio today, there was a lady comedian
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I am still hanging in there, almost 3 days now, but life is throwing
me some curve balls. Long story, but over the past 24 hrs I’ve
gotten two bits of VERY good news. It’s better than bad news I guess
but it still makes me want to smoke for all kinds of reasons…
1. to celebrate
2. both bits of good news also make me verrrry nervous
3. what if something goes wrong, I must be dreaming, this is TOO good
So far I am just telling myself, “Yes this is all good, let’s just
see what happens, and either way you will be so much happier as a non-
smoker!” I just wanted to point out here that it isn’t only BAD
things that make you stressful.
Marian
Hi,
I have been lurking here for four or five days, also have been
reading at www.cognitivequitting.com, I studied RET briefly about
fourteen years ago.
A little about me..I am 47 years old, live in the midwest, have a
husband (ex-smoker, quit 4 years ago) and a soon to be twenty one
year old son (smoker).
I have smoked for 31 years. I was diagnosed with COPD 2/00, I didnt
believe that I had it, was in denial. Afterall, I was still able to
mow the yard, walk aerobically, do pretty much what ever I wanted to
do. I would have at least two bouts of bronchitis or sinus
infections that would lead to bronchitis each year. I am currently
recovering from a sinus infection and bronchitis. During this time I
was sick, I have decided to quit smoking again. I have tried three
times, each time making it to the seventh or eighth week and then I
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Smoked my last cig around midnight last night - its now nearly 5pm.
I’ve worked on lists - foundation statements, when and why I smoked -
I feel I’ve been much more aware of so much this past week, and was
cutting back on smoking pretty easily once I realised that half the
time it wasn’t really about smoking. At this point I don’t feel like
I own my head, let alone my brain, i feel so spacey and restless. I
can’t sit still or concentrate very well. But, I’ve been here
before and know that this is temporary, and that the mists will
lift. Thanks for the chats Pam and Steve, helping me marshal my
thoughts together. This is all disjointed, sorry, I’m just writing
as it comes to mind.
Hope to be more coherent next time! by the way I decided to go CT
and get this detox out of the way. More next time,
anita
Anyone around tomorrow around 3pm EST? Been a few annys this week
which it’d be nice to celebrate - Char, Cat, Jan, Terri, Indi - and
maybe there’s more. Steve’s out of town this weekend, but maybe
there are a few more ‘oldies’ around who could come over?
Pam
Hello all. Just found this group so thought I’d jump right in. I
just passed my 7th month smoke-free but am having TERRIBLE cravings
last week and this. I’ve also just begun to have the smoking
dreams. They don’t alarm me only seem to made the cravings worse.
Any insight? Thanks. Connie
PS-I’ve been smoking/drinking for 30 years and gave up alcohol two
weeks before the cigs (quitting both so closed was unintentional, I
assure you!)
Hi
This subject always makes me smile - I cannot believe how sensitive
my nose has become since I quit smoking.
I’m a bit like Cat, don’t and never have liked the smell of stale
cigarette smoke.
But since I quit I really like the smell of newly lit cigs. Only the
first smell cos then it really makes me feel sick.
When I first quit if someone lit up as I walked past them in the
street I almost drooled and think I tried really hard to inhale it to
get my perceived pleasure fix.
Very soon after quitting I could smell all sorts of things, in the
beginning walking past smokers in the supermarket used to make me
feel sick, partly cos of the smell and partly cos I was ashamed at
how I must have smelt to people especially to my grandchildren - it
must have been awful for them when I sat them on my knee for a cuddle
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As my sense of smell returned, I found that cigarette smoke burned my nose
and eyes. Within a short time I had no desire to be anywhere near smoke.
When I quit, most coffee shops in Toronto still allowed smoking. There were
many I’d walk into and immediately leave. The smell of cigarettes, aside
from burning nose and eyes would ’stick’ to donuts too and made them rather
unattractive.