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Originally Posted by scrapple

Hey Kitty!
Kudos to you to be out with your decision. I posted reasons earlier because it truly is a struggle. Now I'll tell you what was helpful for me. Find a quit buddy. My brother in Wi and I did it together. I used chantix. Yes, many have bad dreams. Me on the other hand, had really vivid funny ones! I picked a date beforehand and made all my preparations. I probably had about a half carton left the night before my quit. I gathered a few friends around me and burned the suckers in a grill. I spoke to how they helped me at times in life, what a good friend they were but now I moved on (I know, sounds hokey, but it was really helpful). I smoked some while I did this, said what I was not going to miss with each one. 20 cigs to a pack x 4-6 packs-- it was a cathartic process. By the end I was crumbling them and burning them and really wanted that part to be over. Then I hung up a few meaningful pictures (being the visual person that I am). One was the silhouette of Keith Richards with the cigarette hanging out of his mouth and smoke twirling up. The other was the Marlboro Man riding off into the sunset with his cowboy buddy saying: "I miss my lungs, Bob." Then there was a drawing that a 7 year old girl that I camped with made for me that summer and finally a lung velocity test that I volunteered for and marginally passed. I also joined a website Quit Smoking All Together: the Web's Largest Quit Smoking Community which was very helpful. The actual Big Day was a Friday so after work, decided to face my demons, made my self my favorite alcoholic beverage, sat in my favorite spot outside where I would have my Friday afterwork cocktail and taught myself to crochet! I made some pretty ugly scarves those first few months but it all worked. I often thought of picking one up every now and then and for whatever reason, that quit worked for me :where the others didn't in the past. You can always post mail me if you need to. I don't get on every day but will respond to you when I can. Best of luck!

Very kewl.

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