Stop Smoking Support Thread
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Good job! We made it through another day!
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Judi, I am ok with fleeting thoughts, too. Congratulations to everyone who added another smoke-free day to their lives. For those who are still working on putting down those dastardly nicodemons, keep considering all the benefits to giving it up.
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Hey ladies , hope everyone is having a safe 4th of July just popping by .. I am still a mess but soon I hope .. working today .. Hope Jo gets better soon ... Love and Miss you all
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Happy 4th of July to all of my bc friends south of the border. Really, really warm up here so I'm assuming it's the same for all of you. Yikes, it is hot. Enjoy your day.
Lisamarie 68, good to see you again. Don't be a stranger!
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Hi everyone, it has been very quiet of late, how is everyone doing? suffocating from the heat in WNY area, MaddyMac, how are you doing? I hope you have been doing a lot of R&R and feeling better each day.
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Karen, it has been very quiet hasn't it. I thought with it being July 4th that people took a few days off to make it a long weekend. Hopefully, people were by water to make the heat a little more bearable! Hope you had a great one!
So this is not all in vain, I haven't succumbed to having a smoke, ha, ha!
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I'm here. Cravings today. Toughing it our with cookie dough ice cream. ;-). One month on Sunday!!!
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Congrats Beckers!!! And Judi H too. I don't want no stinking cigarette. Ugh. No sense coming around here Nicodemon. We have no use for you here!
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JudiH, Beckers, and dunesleeper, you are all conquering the Nicodemon, stay cool today and smokefree if you are where the hot and humid temps. are. Beckers, one more day and you are a 1 month non-smoker, way to go girl!!! Karen
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Hi Girls , I just got to say I admire everyone here . I know I need to stop beating myself up , but I am so sad
that i picked up the cigarette again . I am having such a fight even worse than before I quit . I put the patch on then not even 24 hours later I rip them off and go to the store and buy a pack again , only to feel like a complete failure all over again . I have 3 cigarettes left today and once again I will put the patch on . I need to get strong and fight the fight . i dont wanna be a smoker , I dont want any more cancer . Today my uncle arrives for vacation from Florida and he is in end stage COPD and he has to carry oxyegen and he knows he is close to dying . I dont want to be like that. I just dont want to die ... I know i am whining .. and it sucks but I also know I have found compassion and strength through these boards. especially here . I love you all and ty for putting up with me . 0 -
Thanks! Never thought I could do it. Was kinda eating my way through some cravings, which is not good cause I am very ER+ and need to get rid of this estrogen filled fat. Overall, I am sooooo happy not to be a slave to cigs anymore!
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Beckers, way to go. You are probably past the biggest hurdle! Dunesleeper, way to go too! As I have said before, I don't want a cigarette, my brain says another thing. There is no desire, just the brain saying it. Oh well, I'm out with smokers tonight so it will be interesting .... mmmmm smell the smoke!
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Going to Vegas Sunday. Taking my binky for sure!
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JudiH, be careful where liquor is involved andd a bunch of smokers, who you are used to smokong with, it was the only time I slipped and smoked one bumed cigarette. Take care. Karen
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Thanks for the support and hugz, Karen and Judi and Jo. They really do work, don't they? Given that they are "virtual", they are very comforting and effective
Happy retirement, Dunesleeper! What shall you do, now that you are a lady of leisure?
I don't know who came up with "nicodemon", but that's a good one. I have been fighting very strong demonic urges, but surviving.
Sorry you are still struggling Lisamarie. Keep at it. You can do it.
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Thanks Maddymac , I got online today with NY Quits and they are sending me more patches and I spoke to a quit coach today . little baby steps but I am getting there .. my exchange surgery is July 19th and I know I need to stop . not only for that but for me . I also am going to stay in manhatten 16th and 17th going to the Yankee game so excited and the hotel i am staying in is non smoking and as is the Yankee stadium so I really want to be on my way for that as well. the NY Quit line helps a lot . I am so glad they are here for me too ...
i need to use my quote again " Just For Today I Will Not Smoke " 0 -
Lisa, I never thought I could quit. It is so tough and the first few days were so long and I was thinking about them constantly and then it started to get easier. You can do it too. Patches and electronic cig helped the first week then PS said no nicotine, not even second hand. Then I bought the no nicotine electronic cig. I know it's so hard. Hang in there.
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Staying cool and nicotine free here in hot Baltimore. No real cravings. It reallly does help to be too poor to buy them. LOL. If it works, then poverty shall be a blessing!
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Something to be said about that. Do you ever justify spending $$ cause of what you are saving since quitting? Ha!
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LOL Beckers. Of course I used to do that. I'm actually so poor now that I cannot do that. However, this is temporary (hopefully). I'm hoping it will only be for about six months. I need to get OK'd for disability retirement, so I am getting all the documentation together and will send it or take it to them. I have to wait until July 26th for the damned shrink though, so that puts me another month away from approval. The people in that office are such asses! Hell, that's why I haven't been there for a couple years, or at least over a year. Because I have not been there for a while, they refuse to supply documentation without seeing me; and they would not see me until July 26. The mental health issues are the primary reason for my claim of disability. The bc put me over the edge, but the depression and anxiety have made it so hard to work for many years. Ugh, I dread going to that office. It is a dreadful place. I get depressed and anxious just thinking about it.
Not going to think about it. Ugh!
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Happy Saturday Morning Everyone - I haven't posted in a while and thought I should get caught up. Been dealing with Tamoxifen issues lately. Had to have another hysteroscopy and a D&C this year - grrrr!! Four days into recovery started bleeding and having cramps. This did not happen last year. Started freaking out and called the doctor. Had an appt for Tues for the path report but ended up seeing him yesterday afternoon. He said the bleeding was normal and that is should go away within the next week. Had to go buy panty liners - are you kidding me?? I haven't had those in my house for over 4 years. Anyway, turns out the doctor removed a 3 cm polyp - so huge which was most likely caused by Tamoxifen. What is supposed to help at one end is trying to kill me at the other end. He had the path report and it was B9!!! Woo HOO! We talked about a hysterectomy next year - I think this is the way I am going - I don't want to do the D&C crap for the next 4 summers. Turns out my insurance will pay for the hysterectomy just based on the fact I am on Tamxoifen therapy - wish I had researched this sooner - I would of had that done this year. Oh well, now I know. Now am going to focus on getting my recon revision done on Aug 6th. Have a great day ladies.
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Jo,
What an ordeal. Glad you are ok. Happy I had hysterectomy long before BC. Sounds like Tamoxifen has some SE's. From what I read, it sounds easier to tolerate than Arimidex (or whatever it's called). I will know soon enough!
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Beckers - I have tried Arimidex and Femara - they are definitely not for me. Way too many stomach issues with both. Hope you do well on Arimidex.
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Hey Jo, I'm so happy to hear the news - B9! You have to be doing the happy dance, for sure. What an ordeal you have been through and then, more surgery. I don't know how you get your head around it.
Like you, I've been blessed with good news! I went to see my MO on Tuesday and I'm now in the "wellness group". Which means, I'm in a group who's cancer is less like to reoccurr. Now talk about doing the happy dance. Now, I only see my new MO every 6 months and after 2 visits and all is well, then just every year. If you had told me this at the beginning of this journey, I doubt I would have believed it. I just wanted two things: to go back to the way I was, or to be like those who are where I am or now deemed a 5 year bc surviror and off of drugs. Woo hoo, too!
Dunesleeper, take a deep breath and keep doing it. Even though you hate going to the place because it is such a downer, the faster you get there, the faster you are out. Then, you won't be "poor".
Karen, I didn't break down last night. Funny, I looked at the "smokers" but it seem like a dream or fog. I never even thought of having one or sitting right beside them. I think that when I get stressed, I revert back to my old thinking of "I need a smoke". So, I just have to get less stressed about things. As if!
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Judi - Congrats on now seeing your MO every six months. You are going to wonder what you will do with all the free time - the time you will have not sitting in doctor's offices. I also see my MO every six months and will stay on that schedule as long as I am seeing him. That is jus the way he is. My DH has had cancer twice - last recurrance in 2007 and he is still seeing our MO twice a year. We do have the same MO but don't have appts at the same time.
How do I get around all this crap? Take it one at a time and like this last episode with the D&C and such - once I am past it, I tell myself I get to close another chapter in my BC journey and for me that seems to allow me to feel as if I am really moving forward.
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Hi Jo, been off the computer for a few days , so I just now got the news of B9 - don't you just love that word, it even sounds like a good word!! I know I used my binkie like a fool during the time I was waiting, bet you did too, it's a lifesaver for sure. We have been having a heat wave, humidity and no rain for the past week, don't know how you do even hotter temps., it just drains me, I do a few errands and then I am a couch potatoe, sitting in front of the AC unit. Tomorrow it is supposed to drop into the high 70's and be less humid, maybe I'll even get on that bike, it's been too hot to get on it. Need to lose AI and quitting smoking weight, I put on 20 lbs.! JudiH, so glad you made it - it can be a real temptation. hugs, Karen
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Hi Jo! You are so right about the extra time. Last time I was there, a woman I was talking to just received the news about been seen once a year. Her little lips quivered and she was so upset. I told her that this was good news but, in my heart, I knew how she felt. We are so used to someone seeing us that we are scared when it stops. Funny, I somehow knew I would get bc, and now I somehow know it will never reoccur. I'm like the energizer bunny .... keep going, going, going! It must be a sixth sense or something. Amazing about your dh. See, we are all the same ... going, going, going.
Karen, I too need to lose the Al/quitting smoking weight. I was down 2 lbs. but think it has somehow made it back to my stomach. Tomorrow morning, off to do a quick workout and some yoga. I'm going on the bike for 15 minutes - I'm sure I will be tired. I told myself, that's it. My X-mas I want to be down 10 lbs. Aren't I funny!
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Jo - WONDERFUL news. I was just signing on tonight to wish you good luck Tuesday. B-9 Rocks. Beckers - A month is a huge milestone. Congrats. Judi - glad to hear your good news too. LisaMarie - remember the "little engine that could"? I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.....and eventually....I thought I could. Just keep trying. Your turn will come. Karen - I didn't gain weight when I quit smoking due to a heavy duty exercise program, but 15 lbs sneaked up on me after BC. I've been going to water aerobics 3x a week since May but no time for anything else since this is our heaviest time at work. I'm 2 lbs down, 2 lbs up - over & over again.
I get to PARTY on Tuesday. It's the 5th year anniversary of my quit date. I've said it here before - I'll always be a smoker, just not one who smokes. I never thought I'd make 5 days, let alone 5 years. I seem to have done it so I know all of you can too.
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MinusTwo - 5 years is absolutely incredible. You are such an inspiration for the rest of us.
Judi - I don't think I would have a problem if I did not have to see my MO again. He is really nice and really cute but I can always find something else to do with the time I spent in his office. I really liked it when I saw my GP every 3 months and my gyn once a year - and of course the dreaded mammo. That schedule was liveable. I could go back to that in a heartbeat.
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Me too Jo, me too!
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