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Topic: I wanted to share the moment....
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Azalaksh
Knowflake Posts: 6485
From: New Brighton, MN, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted February 07, 2006 12:25 PM
 
Having a smoke-free day, hon??  'Z IP: Logged |
pixelpixie
Knowflake Posts: 5301
From: Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted February 07, 2006 12:53 PM
no, I found one and smoked it.
There, I admitted it. But it sucked.I hate that I stashed them.. such addictive behaviour.
But the book I am reading is incredible.
I consider myself a non smoker now.
That one I had is gone, therefore can't tempt me.
Done.
Gone. Sure, I could've just put it in the garbage.. but I didn't. My daughter has the stomach flu too, little poor baby.
I have been laying with her all day.
We both feel like crap. IP: Logged |
Yang
Knowflake Posts: 2296
From: A temporary home
Registered: May 2004
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posted February 07, 2006 12:54 PM
Anyone for a smoke?  * only joking*IP: Logged |
lioneye68
Knowflake Posts: 6062
From: Canada
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted February 07, 2006 02:54 PM
Hey, Pix - good on you, girl. I smoked my last smoke on New Years Eve. Haven't had a single slip-up since then either. When you're ready to quit, you most certainly will. Focus on getting through the first 2 weeks, and it will become much easier after that. Actually, at first you have to focus on getting through each half hour. You fight each urge as it comes. Find a distraction that keeps your hands busy. My floors were spotless during my first two weeks. Lol... keep it up, Pix. And if you have a slip up, you just start over from that point forward. love, lion IP: Logged |
Azalaksh
Knowflake Posts: 6485
From: New Brighton, MN, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted February 07, 2006 03:07 PM
Hiya pix ~No worries about smoking that one you hoarded/stashed. It was the last hurrah, wasn't it?? It was the cig sent by the Universe to show you just how much you hate smoking and how icky it tastes!! I hope you and Princess C.W. feel better real soon..... K'Z IP: Logged |
AcousticGod
Knowflake Posts: 11943
From: Pleasanton, CA, USA
Registered: May 2005
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posted February 07, 2006 03:39 PM
I honestly can't believe it, but it's been just over two years now.Reading that article I posted made me want to feel those feelings again, but even going on the patch would be too expensive. I've been surprisingly good about smoking, too. Like I'm certain I could have one and not turn back into a smoker (because I had done that a previous time that I'd successfully quit), but I haven't.
My roommate still smokes in the house, and it really annoys me, so I stay pretty much in my own room most of the time. I got an air filter for myself too, though I probably need to change the filter now. IP: Logged |
LibraSparkle
Knowflake Posts: 6034
From: Vancouver USA
Registered: May 2004
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posted February 08, 2006 12:44 PM
Good for you, AG!  I've quit a million times too. Longest I've gone is just over two years... then came some big stress, and I broke down and smoked. I've quit with each of my pregnancies, only to start up again once the baby was no longer breast feeding...  It's so dumb!Pix Pix, don't be too hard on yourself. How are you doing today? IP: Logged |
pixelpixie
Knowflake Posts: 5301
From: Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted February 08, 2006 03:46 PM
Thanks for asking... getting through the moments...
I am okay though, Haven't had one nor do I *technically* want one.. like, of course my body/addictive behaviour wants one, but I don't physically want to smoke one...Cold turkey is better if you can do it ( having done everything else to try to stop) It terrified me before, the idea that I could just 'stop smoking' just like that.....
But I did, so I guess when you're ready it'll happen.
I'm not scared either. I think this one will take. I haven't told ANYONE IN MY LIFE REALLY, AS I DON'T WANT ANNOUNCEMENTS (oops, capslock) but I am confident I can handle the real world sans smokes. IP: Logged |
LibraSparkle
Knowflake Posts: 6034
From: Vancouver USA
Registered: May 2004
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posted February 08, 2006 04:10 PM
Good job! Keep it up. You are inspiring. IP: Logged |
ribbons of color
Knowflake Posts: 109
From: USA
Registered: Sep 2005
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posted February 08, 2006 04:11 PM
Wishing you all the luck in the world.Sending Light and Love,
ribbons of color IP: Logged |
Johnny
Knowflake Posts: 2056
From: Colorado, USA
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted February 08, 2006 08:20 PM
You go girl!IP: Logged |
pixelpixie
Knowflake Posts: 5301
From: Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted February 08, 2006 09:08 PM
I should mention as well, Princess CW is doing much better now, although she now has a wet cough.  No one is smoking around her....  So I dunno.... one of those things. She was so so sick, I was worried. She had a BAD stomach bug.... it knocked her on her butt.. and that kid doesn't stop for anything, and even last night, she bolted out of bed to throw up. But today she woke up feeling a lot better, only now with a cough. ( her immune system needs to stick to a sector already) IP: Logged |
cancerrg
Knowflake Posts: 2668
From:
Registered: Dec 2004
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posted February 09, 2006 11:29 AM
wish you luck !!!! may be i am a bit late you gotta wish me back ! its been six days that i last smoked , i just dont wanna restart . i hate it !
i hate my momentous weakness . IP: Logged |
lovely*
Knowflake Posts: 2141
From: CA
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted February 10, 2006 02:09 AM
pix, could you try to smoke a lil pee oh tee to curb cravings?IP: Logged |
pixelpixie
Knowflake Posts: 5301
From: Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted February 10, 2006 02:20 PM
I have cohn-sih-door-ed that, Loverly one, and have not ruled it out completely, although I am not as functional as others, due to my lack of abundance in the said topic... I tend to be affected.
My mom just picked me up some 'Dolistop', which is a homeopathic remedy for some of the withdrawl symptoms.. because sometimes it gets really hard ( it is something I have done my entire adult life) I don't know what to do with myself. I do not want to gain ten pounds either.
no no no no no no.
But it seems like I am working on that, with my candy consumption. ( quick, plentiful, satisfying in an empty way)It is my fifth day now.
I have a 'Valentine' date-weekend coming up, where I am looking forward to going to museums and restaurants without having to plan an outside stop. I love that part.. I can enjoy things like others, without worrying when my next smoke will be, and planning/panicking for it.
I rationally don't want one.. but I still feel like one every few times a day. Some overwhelming.. others tolerable.
Working through it.. it does help to unload about it though, so pardon my eternally bumping this up. I feel....'mature'.
Like no more excuses sorta thing. I saw your little lovely in Mr.AG's thread.... awwwwwwwwwwwwww. what a little bumpkin. :kisses for lovely's kiddies: IP: Logged |
noreenz
Knowflake Posts: 1229
From: No.CAL
Registered: Feb 2004
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posted February 10, 2006 03:07 PM
Pix....sorry I missed this! I give you all the strengh in the world, you can do it!!!!
Best wishes!!!Lion-eye!!! Right on!!! Good for you!!! Ag- good for you tooo!!!! and to anyone else I missed that may have mention quitting!!! IP: Logged |
spellbound
Knowflake Posts: 140
From: Illinois
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted February 10, 2006 04:53 PM
Pixie,I wish you all the luck in the world on quitting. I too have picked my birthday as my quit date (march 8) and have been slowly trying to wean myself. I smoke mostly out of boredom (and addiction) and it really stinks. I didn't even start smoking until I was 21. How stupid was that? Anyway, I hope that you are successful and are much of an inspiration. Let's be quit smoking buddies because I will definately need lots of reinforcement. My husband, who smokes too BTW, says it's all mind-over-matter. I guess he's right, but I don't see him quitting either. (He says he's not ready to, so I guess that makes a HUGE difference) I just hate feeling toxic..and cigarettes definately are. I just have to keep telling myself, no!! Which is a hard thing for a pisces like me. Spellbound IP: Logged |
ariestiger
Knowflake Posts: 1136
From: UK
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted February 10, 2006 05:18 PM
You go, Pix!!My dad quit smoking a couple of years ago, just like that - after having smoked since the age of 6 (Yes. Almost 60 years), and after the doctor told him his system could no longer take it. 'Twill be worth it in the long run. AT IP: Logged |
ariestiger
Knowflake Posts: 1136
From: UK
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted February 10, 2006 05:20 PM
Double post. IP: Logged |
pixelpixie
Knowflake Posts: 5301
From: Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted February 10, 2006 05:47 PM
Thanks for considering me an inspiration.. that's funny, because I know what you mean, as examples in my own life of people who have 'beaten it', but to picture myself as one of them, well, I guess I am technically in that category now.. and I am so pleased about that.Your dad smoked from the age of six?
ahhhhhhhhhh... I couldn't imagine.
I have since about thirteen....
and am truly addicted.. I just look at the addiction differently,. something has changed.
I will be * gasp* thirty this year. My son was talking about his birthday present a few minutes ago, and i said. " I wil not acknowledge talk of your birthday, because if I do, then that means I am acknowledging the fact that I will be thirty a month before your birthday, and I am not ready to go there yet.
He just sorta' laughed at me and said "okay ... If you choose to get me a present anytime.. for something, you know.... I'd like........" I am now sort of singing/moaning every once and a while as a vocal output of my need to express something missing.
I am in an opera.
a non-smoking opera. IP: Logged |
pixelpixie
Knowflake Posts: 5301
From: Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted February 11, 2006 01:59 PM
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I am officially pre menstrual.
don't try to quit smoking if you are pre menstrual and your husband has planned a nice weekend.
I have been so bitchy.. but honest about it.
he actually called me a psycho.. nice guy, really under*friggin*standing.
He can kiss my ass as I smoke. IP: Logged |
lioneye68
Knowflake Posts: 6062
From: Canada
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted February 11, 2006 08:59 PM
go do something else, pix. I'm sure you've got something else to do.IP: Logged |
pixelpixie
Knowflake Posts: 5301
From: Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted February 12, 2006 01:09 AM
Yeah, oops.
Back on the wagon though...
I just had to have a little loving instead of yelling. Energy needs to be spent.IP: Logged |
Swerve
Knowflake Posts: 1249
From: London
Registered: Nov 2002
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posted February 12, 2006 06:15 PM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1899398465/ref=wl_it_dp/203-8382236-2694331?%5Fencoding=UTF8&coliid=I3SYBMUV9JEO47&colid=3PAATG44QPI58 read this book babe, you won't believe these guys Swerve IP: Logged |
pixelpixie
Knowflake Posts: 5301
From: Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted February 13, 2006 02:14 AM
Looks promising, thank you!
I will see if we have it over the pond.The book I am reading ( okay, I put it down, albeit guiltily) is awesome for putting addiction in perspective as well.. but right now ( this week.. okay, I am a woman.....) I don't want sense, I know I will pick it up again in a few days and really hear the message, but right now I choose to be blind again. I have promised myself I will give it up before March, so I shall.
Thank you for all the encouragement. IP: Logged |
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