Kitty, perhaps you could find a support group to join. That might be helpful since you would not feel alone in your attempt.

Man, I appreciate that. This IS my support group. Gotta meet you. Yell when you come to town.
25 hours.
Kitty

http://http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/28/cdc-anti-smoking-ads/2018121/
graphic reality can help change the stupidity of knowing but denying reality...I quit.
this is the story behind the ad we've all seen on telly.

Dee, I quit 26 hours ago....I'm unstinkable! thanks for your post girlfriend.
Kitty

Congrats on making it thru DAY 1.
I think you should commit to posting your progress each day at the same time....making you accountable to all your supporters on TOTV. ( It really helps) Also, there are several free apps to help quit smoking that you might want to look at. Also look at meditation apps....some are really good.
Good luck. I'm rooting for you.

Okay, here are some non health-related reasons to quit smoking: 1. You won't have to know where your purse is every single moment of the day. 2. It is so inconvenient to smoke anymore, as almost nowhere in public is it allowed 3. You will no longer feel the ill-disguised disapproval of other people, making you feel like a second-class citizen. 4. Your dog will no longer be subjected to secondhand smoke when, hearing that "certain" kitchen drawer open, he comes running, knowing "we" are going out to the garage for a ciggyboo. (He won't smell like smoke, either.)

I felt so free after I quit.

Patches! I suggest patches! I wore them off and on for a year. At the end I was cutting them into little bits, until finally I felt I no longer needed them. I didn't care that you were only supposed to use them for so many weeks. I did whatever it took.

another thing: don't start a project that, in the middle of which, you would normally take a ciggy break. Like painting a room, cleaning a closet, etc. If you need distraction, do something entirely new that you've never associated smoking with.

Good luck! You are a lovely lady, Kitty!

I thank the person who invented the drug 'Chantax'. I was a chain smoker from 1970 until 2006, I smoked 2-1/2 packs a day. I had quit twice for six months but had given up coffee and beer both times, and regressed as soon as that first beer.

My doctor gave me a prescription for Chantax in December 2006. I got it filled only to make my wife happy. I had no intentions at the time to quit smoking. Within five days I never touched another cigarette. Unlike most aides, this drug contains no nicotine. It blocks the receptors in the brain that grave nicotine.

Since then, my life has totally changed. I doubt I would be living in TV if I hadn't quit, what's the incentive. Now, I make sure I do some form of exercise everyday, whether it's working out, which I'm in the middle of right now, play golf, play softball or go for a walk.

If you really want to quit, get the prescription. The only negative is since it is playing games on the brain, Chantax may cause nightmares, which is what happened to me. However, when you are able to quit cigarettes, you're willing to put up with that during the short time the drug is needed. 30 days is all I took of Chantx. That was six years ago.

John, the patches caused nightmares too. But it was worth it. I would suggest getting any help available--try it all! Chantax didn't help me, but the patches did. so I guess I needed that little jolt of nicotine. My friend used chantax. I am happy it helped you, and maybe it would help Kitty, too. You never know until you try.

Thanks so much Cyndy, you are in the know...I felt so guilty when Emma wanted to be loved on and the smoke made her sneeze. very helpful post.
Kitty
ps the sunflowers are sagging but I still love them...:mademyday:

I take your post to heart. I will do as you suggest re posting. thanks for the reminder to meditate, I KNEW that, but now I'll do it.
Kitty

thank you so much for sharing what worked for you. feeling alive in the workout is something I'm working towards by swimming and dancing. Doing the opposite of killing oneself feels really good. I've been smoking 6 months and already have nightmares, but I think they come FROM knowing I was sawing off the limb I clung to.
Especially thank you for the exercise encouragement...great post. thanks,
Kitty:ho:

I don't smoke, but wanted to offer my congratulations on the first day of your new life without cigarettes! :a040::a040::a040:

Woot to you too Pooh, and what a loveable character you are!

why quit?
 

This is my son, Will, age 33, on a trip we made to my bro's in NC.
He just called to tell me how the elderly neighbor's cows got out and how he rounded them up and fixed her fence. I'm so proud of him...a great soul.
I brought him up with bedtime stories of his being a hero on a tractor called "Big Red"...that could fly and do his bidding in magical adventures of rescue.
Why quit? look at him...
Kitty

Remember what forum the original post is in.....Support Groups....a section where members hopefully help and encourage other members to deal with or face difficulties, be they physical, mental or spiritual.

Ontrack has PM'd me his support...hurray! Everybody is on my team!

http://http://www.quittingsmokingsto...tting-smoking/
really, nosebleed and quitting...I'm feeling weepy at 30 hours, but not bleeding...going out tonight! staying up past my bedtime.
K.

Real and honest people, with integrity and ethics.....deserve support. :thumbup:

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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. :thumbup:

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Please accept my apology for my previous post. If I were aware that you were talking about quitting smoking I would have never posted in your thread.

When you started the thread in the manner you did, it was like waving a red flag in front of a bull. There are some pretty awful remarks about us "evil" smokers already on the board. You are correct it has nothing to do with me, again my apology.

Kudos to you.

I think Pooh hit the nail on the head by pointing out that Kitty's original post was in the support group category. Most of us just head to the bottom of the home page, to "most recent posts." I think some of the responders didn't realize that this was in the support group category, and erroneously assumed it might be an attack on smokers.

Thanks to Pooh for pointing out what category Kitty posted in. She doesn't need to be slammed, and I'm glad all have realized she was just asking for support "in all the right places." And thanks to those who realized that and apologized for their original responses.

And Go Pirates. Oh, whoops... wrong category.:ohdear:

Go Kitty go!!!
 

Congratulations on your decision to quit smoking. I have never smoked but can relate to your struggle. I am addicted to sweets!!! Please keep us posted on your progress and when you are feeling weak or just need some encouragement, there are plenty of people on this forum who are willing to listen and give support. Stay strong and much success!!

Wow, It's been 72 hours. Woke feeling edgy with a fresh nightmare in mind. Enemies all over a house I was in, deceitful, menacing, finally pulling guns, knives, seemed a very long tiring dream and I was surviving and doing harm to the evil unkillables. Awoke exhausted. Thanks to all for your support esp to those who apologized.
I read back over these suggestions for support when I need an idea...like meditate NOW!
hugs,
Kitty

Good reason to quit? Mom died recently at age 82, after having quit 15 years earlier, after having smoked from teenage years to 70's. She was always afraid smoking would reach out and get her after all, and it did. She developed tonsil cancer which required radiation treatments, which destroyed her ability to eat and drink, which then required a tube placement in her stomach for hydration and nutrition. As she loved to cook and eat, one of her greatest pleasures was taken completely away. And I don't even mention the miserable aftermath of radiation to the neck.

She was such an active, positive woman. Vivacious, fun, kind, and my father's best buddy. But for smoking, she should have lived for many more high-quality years. It's the saddest thing in the world.

thank you Parker, that's the reality of smoking. my chainsmoking cousin died in his
50's of copd, gasping for breath thru his already dead lungs.

Kitty, your portrait is worth a thousand words. I'll be wishing you success on your quest. It isn't easy, but it is worth it. My sister is on the e-cigarette and thinks it is a Godsend.

Three days...Great job....Keep up the good work !

I am craving this morning. Glad for the tether of this thread to boost motivation thru potential embarrassment....breathe deeply please...

Mainlander, I am no longer a smoker. I smoked for 6 months before and as I moved to TV. I'd like to say the moving made me insane, but that's an understatement! There could always be an excuse for smoking, but it's still just an addiction to a chemical...I quit!:wave:

I know you would have supported me if you knew my secret. I just wanted to see what would happen without me begging for support-- a little pride I guess. anyway, people can be awful about anything anytime...but you did a good thing with this post. heartfelt appreciation...you stepped up, most eloquently.
thanks,
Kitty

i'm reading over this thread to get all the goodie I can out of it for today, and my son Will's face is the most motivating, of all the nasty pix I posted of cancer, which the research says makes you jump out of the river of denial.
My eyes light up seeing my sweet son....You are enough reason to quit..
I love you baby,
Kitty

Dee, wanna go see Iron Man 3???

Love to your mo-in-law, smoking was very sexy in the bogart movies day. who wouldn't want to do it? nobody knew that the snake had such a bite and denial of truth comes with the addiction.
I lost both my parents to tobacco. yet I started smoking again 6 months ago, we are in vessels of weak flesh.
I'm sorry that you are in this situation of loss that you are helpless to fix.
Maybe there IS nothing you can do. My mother refused to use oxygen and died from lack of it. It hurts...it really hurts.
Kitty

Hi Kitty just interested in knowing if you succeeded in not smoking anymore? As a ex smoker of 40 years I understand how hard quitting can be. I hope you stayed strong and got that monkey off your back.

Yes, I quit.
It was not by any strength of my own. In church at, Grace Tabernacle I sensed God urging me to surrender the cigarettes. I handed them to a Pastor, and there was no craving after that, I was "done with it"...
thanks for asking.
Kitty

Way to go Kitty! I've never smoked but I know it couldn't have been easy to quit. Keep up the good work!

and God bless you head to toe. I can't wait for you come here full time. What a lovely woman you are...and bless your family too.

I can't wait either! Especially since we have so much snow and ice! And, we are suppose to get a lot more snow on Wednesday and again on Saturday! Will this winter eve end?.

Oh I'm so happy to read this. I don't smoke anymore but do use the electronic e-cigs. I've been using them for two years and just about ready to give it up too.

Give yourself a huge pat on the back for quitting! Stay strong and don't give into temptation to smoke. Its a temporary urge and passes quickly.