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quit when you want to. find the motivation, then do it. ill be here for you....i hope.Tipsy, I'm going to attempt to quit again soon -- I plan to use this thread to let out some steam from time to time -- keep up the good fight
Great idea.....PM me for my paypal account #. I am taking cash donations!I am setting up a savings account for my son that I will put $5 a day in (or a once a week deposit of $35+) to show some of the fruit of this quitting.Reading this thread is like watching a car wreck, I just can't turn away. While part of me wants to say:
"Tipsy, go ahead, just have one last cigarette for old time sake"
The other part of me wants to say:
"Tipsy, you are doing great. Just think about the extra time you will be able to spend with your kid(s), and one day hopefully granchild(ren). Don't voluntarily cut your life short for a temporary nicotine satisfaction"
Honestly though I am pulling for you. Cigarette smokers are not high on my list of people I root for, because I feel you are all weak minded fools. But if there was a way to force you to stop (short of death) available, like maybe via pill or something, I'd donate some cash to the effort.
G'luck!
please see my sig or click here for Livestrong if you want to donate more than to just Tipsy (although he is a worthwhile cause
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very honorable but if people want to help they should click here!
edited to add: don't mean to harp on contributing to LAF but my friend's mom just passed away a few weeks from lung cancer after being diagnosed 2 months ago (at the time 100% healthy by all appearances). LAF has some great systems in place to deal with the battle including their free binder book that shows the steps to fight. Great operation IMO.
I've tried everything else. I deserve to be yelled at & have someone be rigorously honest to me 24/7. Whom better than one of my own personalities?YOU ARE WEAK TIPSY!
The Lance foundation is a great org to give money too. I won't knock you for harping on it.very honorable but if people want to help they should click here!
edited to add: don't mean to harp on contributing to LAF but my friend's mom just passed away a few weeks from lung cancer after being diagnosed 2 months ago (at the time 100% healthy by all appearances). LAF has some great systems in place to deal with the battle including their free binder book that shows the steps to fight. Great operation IMO.
Me? I don't want to donate anything to anybody.please see my sig or click here for Livestrong if you want to donate more than to just Tipsy (although he is a worthwhile cause
I really appreciate the offer man. You have been very supportive during this battle. I will accept the money, but only as a contribution to some charitable org.I guess i'll choose the Lance Armstrong Foundation as what I would prefer ya'll contribute to.I realize, and in no way intend to insinuate that you need the money. I'm sure you don't, and it's only $10.However, if you know that there's 15 people that want to help your son, and they're waiting on you to see if they can do it, I think that's a bit of extra motivation, and that's all I was trying to do.
My offer stands, but I'll in no way try to force you to accept.
You almost completely failed to get the point, but carry on.Ok beaver, in the last year my money has gone to cancer research, diabetes research (grandmother died of it), the AIDS crisis in Africa, as well as my tithe. I'm not here to brag, but if I want to help another FBG out with a measley $10, it's none of your business. Let's see what charitable organizations you support before you start running your buck-toothed mouth.Good of you to judge me trying to help Tipsy out though. . .really Smoo, that's just top shelf. You should be proud of yourself.
Back on track. . .anybody else?
Edit. . .
(had to use that emoticon for Peens sake) Went to bed very unhappy with myself.Day 3. The energy started coming back. Cravings started coming down. But when they hit, they were just as tough as the first two days. I felt like I would burst out of my skin at any moment on Tuesday. Finally took some advice from the FFA & took the kid out for a mile walk or so. Also had some aggression therapy with the banana trees in my back yard for about an hour. Eventually went to the restaurant and spent the first hour of my shift watering the plants outside. Managed to only snap at my employees in the last hour of the shift. I heard one of them say, "I liked him better when he was a smoker" as I was walking out of the kitchen. I came back later and told this new cook that I too liked myself better as a smoker. But I had to quit and he had to suffer through with me or find a new job. what a #####. 
This is the kind of stuff I don't want to go through again. Being a raging jerk to everyone around me is not something I really enjoy. Being so gripped up that I have to go outside & butcher poor defenseless banana trees with a Chinese cleaver isn't cool. Needing to eat an entire jar of peaches, and 1/2 bag of croutons, 2 ham sandwiches, a box of Melba toast, and 2 liters of coca cola just won't cut it anymore.Rant over.
you said yesterday you had one on day 6 or so and some puffs another time. sounds like you are still "trying". but to each his own. for me...no nicotine whatsoever or it is time to start over. My quit date reflects just that.86 hours since I 86'd smoking!
I have to have some bait to get you down here! (please don't beat me BSR...i have a wife too!)Any chance you'll send a piece of Key Lime pie?????
You would have a point if my goal was to never have another cigarette again. That's not my goal and never has been. My goal is to not purchase cigarettes or smoke regularly. 2 cigarettes in 3 weeks is far from "regularly". I know a great many non-smokers who occasionally bum a smoke from a buddy for a quick rush. I am one of those people. I'm exactly where I intended to be.
again; to each his own. I spent the last 2 weeks before this current round of quitting "not buying any". That led me right back to buying them within a week and a half. you have stated your goal is to not spend the money on them. good luck with that. I hope your nicotine habit is less strong than mine...which forces me to spend the money even when i don't want too just to shut that voice up. But again, it sounds like you don't want to be a nonsmoker, just a non purchaser of smokes. To me, that is the definition of addicted.
I am calling myself out tounge in cheek style. I am proud of myself so far. I just cannot afford to be holier than thou or become complacent at this point. Its far better reading to see me yell at myself too! Enjoy!
I think you missed the part where I've had 2 smokes in the last 17 days. I could convert that to hours for you if you like.I'm not trying to belittle your personal progress, I'm just saying you're going to have to trust me when I tell you I'm not getting uncontrollable cravings.
This is what it was like for me when I quit. . .I only smoked for a couple of years, so when I quit, yeah, it was tough, but I could have a cig and not jump right back into it. . .heck, had a couple last week, paid for it in the morning workout, and now have no desire to do it again.
I'm not trying to belittle your personal progress, I'm just saying you're going to have to trust me when I tell you I'm not getting uncontrollable cravings.
I'll never be able to have one again. Nature of my addiction.I think this can work.I smoke maybe 5 cigs a month. I don't get addicted and make sure i only do it while out having a drink or something.
I want to mention at this point that I am not trying to convert others into my program here. I am fine with whatever you choose to do, but have to adhere to strict nosmokingever policy for myself. I had 2 or 3 years without smoking once when I was 20 - 22. One night of drinking & having a couple led me right back to where I am today. Quitting as a 20 year old was much easier back then. I had only been a smoker for 6 years or so, and definitely didn't smoke as much as I have been until recently.
True, i was never a heavy smoker. It's probably different for someone who has smoked heavy for years.I mainly just use a smoke to get a quick rush when drinking to wake me up.
Do you have an addictive personality by nature? 'Cause I don't. I smoked because I liked it, and there may have been some chemical addiction, but at 17 days that's gone now. So I'm not having trouble not smoking, and I can have one now and then and not feel the need for another. But if you're a naturally addictive person, then it would of course be more difficult.This is what it was like for me when I quit. . .I only smoked for a couple of years, so when I quit, yeah, it was tough, but I could have a cig and not jump right back into it. . .heck, had a couple last week, paid for it in the morning workout, and now have no desire to do it again.
I'm not trying to belittle your personal progress, I'm just saying you're going to have to trust me when I tell you I'm not getting uncontrollable cravings.
Like nobodys business. Just ask Domepatrol.
props to you then. i hate to wish this on ya, but i hope you stay poor enough so smoking isn't affordable to you.
Ah, it's not just the cost, although that's a big part. I also started cycling again, and I quickly realized "I should be able to cycle farther than this. I shouldn't be this out of breath already." So that's another impetus for the change.props to you then. i hate to wish this on ya, but i hope you stay poor enough so smoking isn't affordable to you.
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you are addicted. once an addict always an addict. you used to smoke 15-20/day and now only a few a month. doesn't matter. you're still an addict. i'm a smoking addict. i used to smoke a pack a day and now only with friends drinking. it's actually hard for me NOT to smoke around smokers when i'm drinking so i acknowledge I'm an addict and try to make a rational decision - I usually end up smoking and regretting it the next day. unfortunately now I feel like a good buzz has to include a smoke which is BS.
i put your info in to the silkquit meter as a midnight sat night (really sunday) and smoking 25 cigs/day. here you go:Three days, 16 hours, 10 minutes and 18 seconds. 91 cigarettes not smoked, saving $17.22. Life saved: 7 hours, 35 minutes.Hour number 87 has come & gone. And I didn't even have a craving!
Well said GP.
