Threads that go bump int he night
This not the most recent thread about quitting smoking, biut is was the easiest to find.
Many of us have either conquered this addiction, or strive to conquer it.
I turn 56 on Friday, and I have mostly been a smoker more than 40 years. I impacts my health, and not just recently.
Better late than never. I have some supports planned for me, and it is funny that this thread from 2009 slotmaster recommends Allen's Carr's book, I plan to finish reading it this weekend. A friend of mine quit cold turkey with it, her son quit but has gone back, and her daughter I have a PDF of this available if anyone else would like it. Just pm me.
Sometimes you need to make your own luck, and there is no better place for me to start than by quitting smoking.
My daughter just turned 30, and I would rather she did not have to bury me before her sons are teenagers.
She's got enough on her plate.
If anyone would care to link to one of the more recent threads, I'm jiggy with that.
I do know that those with support are more successful at quitting. My fellow CMs are available 24/7. Not each and everyone one of you, but I can come here and talk, and I am pretty sure with the next 48 hours some else will talk back.I did see a quit smoking counsellor this week, and I got some nictonine replacement and I set my date for the day after my birthday. I had considered setting on my birthday, but no. I however will run out of smokes either on the 20th or 21st, and that was the plan last weekend when I only bought one carton (a week's worth) instead of two. We go biweekly.
I will bumpty bump this again very soon. A few words of encouragement are really helpful.
We are really lucky we get two new years a year... the calendar new year, and our own birth anniversary. Always a good time for change, or at least to revisit that was the year that was.
I do plan on using an e-cig on my path to redemption. Plus, I do have some pharmaceutical help. Less than 10% of my cigarettes give me pleasure, and it's been that way for a lonnnnng time.
I did not totally agree with my friend when he said the basis of ALL addiction was you were addicted to more, but nictotine is a greedy sumabitch.
Allen Carr's book points this out pretty vividly to people that so not yet know that. I have not yet finished reading it, and I think I delayed finishing it to some degree over the past few months, because I was not yet willing to leave that bad relationship.
Thank you in advance for those of you share your struggles and triumphs here.
I need this for my life, and it is not easy. I ask for a whole lot all the time, but from many people so it gets spread out some. I don't ask very much here at CM, or at least not recently.
It takes a lot of time to post, and post thoughtful and considered replys. But a WTG or a thanks whatever choice is there in this thread will help to not think I am talking to dead air.
Writing things out is very therapeutic.
I have joined barely over a handful of forums over the years, it was a conversation on my porch today.
I should and may join a quit smoking forum, but I already know and trust you folks (well, many of you).
Thanks again for indulging my working it out process.