Stop Smoking Support Thread
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Beckers! Good to hear from you!
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Beckers,
Glad to hear that your surgery went well!!!
Lol, Karen! Just checked, you'll have 19 months this Thursday!!!!
We just got back yesterday and the beach was just as glorious as I remembered it from last year!! Had a few days where the weather didn't totally co-operate. Some of the storms that moved through were a little intense but, no all day rain days..... Besides, I always say... Your worst day at the beach is better than your best day at home....lol!
Felt like crying when it was time to leave but, hopefully will return next year.... Looking out my window this AM looking for my ocean view..... sniffle......
I have lots of laundry, cutting the grass and grocery shopping to do today so will try to get caught up here later!
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Karen- lol .... You left your consonants out!!! Hurts to laugh!
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Beckers. LOL. Wow. I think it is really wild that your doc checked for nicotine levels. Now, heal well. Take it easy.
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Dear Seaside. sorry you had to leave that beautful, restful, smells wonderful beach. I remember it being so hard to leave, someday with Powerball winnigs... I think that would be your dream also. Everyone has been doing well with the non-smoking days increasing. Beckers and I discovered we were on the same pain medication, she couldn't read English and I left all the consonants out of my speech. My DD thought I was a scream. I was in hospital for a total of 8 days, was so glad to come home. Karen
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Hey all y'all -
Karen, glad you are mending, mending, mending.
I, meanwhile, have failed to get back on the horsey, so I guess I need my quit date erased. I had 8 weeks, and blew it all on an emotional backflip. SIGH! I will pop back here when I'm trying again.
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Oh MaddyMac, don't give up so easily. So you had an "emotional backflip". Don't wait until you are trying again. We are all here for you. "Come on back"!
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Maddymac, it will be helpful to you to keep reading here. You never know when just the right thing gets said that will give you the incentive you need.
I'm still smoke-free, but I don't claim any credit for it. lol. I'm simply too poor now to buy them. My budget has a shortfall of $100 a month without the expense of cigarettes, so any craves I get have no choice but to be quickly extinguished. There's an up side to being poor.
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Still trying to join your group. I was doing good on the chantix and then I got sick on it and quit taking it. Now Im completely back to square 1. So depressing to be controlled by a monster while another monster is eating away at me. Im so scared that I wont quit and that the chemo wont work because of it. I guess I will be startig chemo in a week or 2 so I have to find a way. Has anyone tried hypnosis. Its the only thing I havent tried. Hugs to all
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melmcbee ..........Since i joined this group I never told anyone that I smoked yesterday I had my first round of chemo after that all said and done of course first thing i do is light up I had 3 smokes I got home feel asleep when i woke up i had a breaking point after watching all the chemicals going into my body yesterday I said enough is enough I have not had a smoke since 6 pm last night so far so good nor do i want one we will see what happens but as it stands...................I want this chemo to work Hugs to all whom struggle
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Madymac, melmcb, annde - just want to encourage you to hang in there and don't ever stop believing that it is possible for you to quit. I want you to know how good it has felt to be stopped on so many occasions as I've gone through this massive surgery. Or I think it is more that I haven't had to feel like crap and that shameful feeling because i smoke. I just want to hug you because I know how absolutely horrible that is and feels and I want you free of this. Everyone can share what they used. I used nicotine patch and ecig for one week (only because I had to get nicotine out of my system fast for upcoming surgery.) then I had an ecig with no nicotine for a "binky" as the people on this thread taught me. Helped on many occasions. I had a date set or "last pack" rather. That night I stayed up til 2:30 am to smoke them all and I had tears streaming down my cheeks while I smoked the last one. Sending you all my best wishes as you prepare for this. You can do it!
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Annde, I see you have quit. These first days can be looooooong! But, the days will pile up and you will be counting weeks, where I'm at (9 - yay!!!) and before we know it, we will have months. Hang in there today.
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Thank you Beckers No smoke yet today I slept most of the day I feel ill could be the chemo could be the not smoking but no matter what it is it must be a good thing :-)
Hugs
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Memmcbe, don't be afraid to join the group. The support here is amazing. Others here can guide you on the smoking/chemo thing ... I can't because I didn't have chemo. But remember, we were all in the same boat ... and it all depends how we row where we get. But we will get there ... don't be so hard on yourself. As they say .... one day at a time!
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Congratos to ALL that are trying even if they slide at times. It's not a true step backwards but insteada hiccup in the road.
Just for today I did not smoke!
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Thanks to everyone for their help. I think I will try to get that ecig thing tomorrow. Cigs are just tasting bad. I hate the hold they have on me. I know if I dont quit before chemo it could be detrimental to me. Path report came back 8 out of 15 positive with extranodal inasion and macrometastesis. I sked the breast surgeon about whether she was gonna go back in and take more nodes and she said no that chemo and radiation will take care of anything that is left. Im so tired of feeling like a worthless piece of cr*p. I am a xray/ c.t./ mri tech with almost 20 yrs in the medical field I should know better. Hugs to all
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I did hypnotherapy to help me quit smoking. Highly recommend. I am 3 months no cigs.
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Melmcbee, don't ever beat yourself up. I too am in the medical professional but I looooooved my smokes. I think all of us here and all smokers looooooved their smokes yet hated it at times. Quitting is one hard thing to do but once you get in the groove it's not all that bad. And, as Beckers said, it's start to become easy and you can actually forget how long it as been since you had one. Quite honestly, I hate the fact that I smoked as long as I did, yet I loved the fact that I did smoke .... it was me. Weird but we all think of ourselves smoking and why we did it. Who knows! But you too will be on the way and even thinking about quitting, makes you successful and on the way to being a nonsmoker!
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Had another great day smoke-free.
I wish I had not cheated those few times because now I don't know my actual quit date. However, my official date was February 11, so dang, I have 6 months already!
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Dunes, I vote that you just minus the days you smoked.
Melmcbee, Im in the medical field too and was actually a rehab therapist helping paatients after strokes, etc. Talk about knowing better. I was a closet smoker. Colleagues didn't even know. I love that you are sharing these things because it just reminds us all of where we are or have been in relation to smoking. It's such a beast but you're getting there...I can tell. Yay! You will do it. Hugs.0 -
Thanks Ladies for your support. I just woke up yesterday and decided not to buy anymore. I ran out about noon Yesterday. Ive been listening to Joe spitzer videos on youtube, He has them set up per day of cessation. Im also trying to find videos on lymphatic manual drainage cause my rt arm is hurting and swollen from the dissection and I keep lying on it lol.
Rebecca do you know any websites I should look at for lymphatics info.
Thanks everyone.
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http://www.stepup-speakout.org/index.htm and you go girl!
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Thanks galsal for the link.It has a lot of info on it. I think it will keep me busy. Hope everyone is having a good day.
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another smoke-free day done.
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Melmcbee - congratulations on smoking your last pack!!! Woohoo! How are you doing? Deep breathe and just keep thinking about that chemo. For me it was the surgery. I just couldn't smoke with all of this healing to do. Now I'm so glad not to be. I pray I can stay quit!!! That is the same website above I was going to provide you. so....we all made it another day!
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Same here, for me it was the reconstruction surgery. It's a new day, so just for today I will not smoke!
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Im trying to get there. I think I have smoked 6 cig since friday morning. Its not enough but its something. Im so sick of the grip its has on me. Its depressing.
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Well melmcbee, I will say congrats! Only 6 ciggies since Friday morning. I would say that is something to congratulate yourself on. How many would you have have before ... for me it would have been a pack. So, you are succeeding. Never, ever despair. You are on the right road!
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Today i was tempted, but I made it through another day smoke-free.
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I was a 2-3 pk a day smoker. omg thats soo embarrassing to admit, lol
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