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Winston
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Danmark
Mar 1999
time: 06:35
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quote:
Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Ominous silence on this thread...
Pekka, we need a status report. You too, Winston.
I, for one, will not mock you if you faltered. |
I'm still on it, haven't smoked now in nearly 6 days. As I posted in another thread however, it's about all I have room for in my life at this point. I have to focus extremely hard on staying on this narrow path that I've gone down, and I've cut all but the most necessary activities from my life so as not to tempt myself into smoking.
Not a fun thing to go through by any means, but contrary to my feeling about this just a couple of days ago, I'm now confident that I will make it, I will complete my transformation into a non-smoker. But it will probably take months before I can safely say to myself that I've made it.
BTW, I decided not to keep posting every day in this thread. It might get tiresome to some. I'll reply if people ask how I'm doing, otherwise I will not post on this subject.
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Lancer
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Oregon Coast, USA! or Bohol, Philippines!
Apr 1999
time: 05:35
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"Me, I'm close to entering day 4 now, and I think I'm coping quite well. It has really surprised me how, apart from the first day, the withdrawal symptoms have actually not been as bad as I had anticipated. Of course I have trouble being without it often during the day, and the hours seem to snail away sometimes when I focus too much on the craving that's still very much present. But overall, I think it's going better than expected."
Winston, this is great! Now it's six days.
Excellent. Now stick with it. Alot of people who don't suffer too much early on will get cravings several months out. Cravings that catch them by surprise, when they think it's been so long they can have just one...
Six days out though, that's really something, and encouraging to others.
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Pekka
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em seu burro dos pais!
Feb 2002
time: 07:35
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Yeah. The Day 1 is still not a huge one, I mean sure I feel like smoking, but it don't get bad. Second day is always kidn of bad and the 3rd way was BAD. But I'll do this, I have failed twice now, but I'm determined. I have many reasons, one of them bveing I really can't afford this habit either. And if I dont' stop now, I might never stop. I don't want to be a smoker for the rest of my life.
Japher, is the kid on the way, or are you planning to set it on the way? Anyway, it's a good decision. You know, that it's far more likely the kid ends up a smoker if both parents smoke? If both of them don't smoke, there's a chance that the kid don't end up smoker too. I think it's a good legacy.
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Natalinasmpf
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Why not feast your eyes on this instead? Feel the chili liberate your tongue as it pierces straight through your craving, surrounding everything!
Last edited by Natalinasmpf on 29-08-2004 at 09:15
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Winston
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Danmark
Mar 1999
time: 06:35
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Japher, you're off to a good start. Building one's motivation and making the decision to quit is by far the most important step of the proces. Lots of thoughts and fingers crossed, you can do it!
You too Pekka, hang in there. Now that you know how annoying it is to slip up and having to start over, try focusing on that disappointment if you're close to giving in again. Easier said than done, I know, but we have to stay focused on how much is at stake here.
I wasn't planning on telling people I'd quit before I felt I was truely over it. But yesterday, I talked to my mother on the phone and I ended up telling her. The way in which I did may hold a little extra motivation for some of us. We were talking about how two of her neighbours, both long time friends of mine also, had both been hospitalized with heart disease a few weeks apart and were now out of hospital and recouperating at home. Both men, aged 70 and 54, had been told by doctors to give up smoking immediately, and one of them, the 70 year old seems to be progressing nicely, he's given up the small cigars he used to smoke.
But the younger neighbour according to my mother simply can't stop smoking, even with the help of doctors and after having had artery-widening surgery of the heart. It's dreadful, he's locked in a spiral of feeling bad about the disease, wanting to give up smoking, stressing out and craving the cigarettes even more than before. He lost his wife not half a year ago and is under a terrible amount of pressure right now.
I could hear on the phone how this sad situation affected my mother, so I told her I'd quit to lighten things up a little, which it did.
But just think about one day maybe being virtually commanded by doctors to stop smoking, and then not being able to...
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