MarylandQuitter

I started mine while still smoking and after about a week smoking made me very nauseous; to the point that I couldn't smoke unless I wanted to get sick. I was on the meds for around 3 weeks or so. When I went off the meds, there was no desire to smoke, any additional cravings etc. :)

Nope. Lurkers? Newbies? You on the train today?

You know, that guy on 1st base. :)

Welcome to the forum! Glad that you've made the decision to completely quit nicotine. You can do this just like millions of other people have. I would recommend that you start my reading the Newbie Database, reading all that you can on the forums and start watching Joel's Video Library from the beginning. I had initially quit using Wellbutrin XL and it worked. Check in each day, at least in this thread and chronicle your quit even though your still smoking. It would be nice to watch you succeed from the very beginning. When is your quit date?

Why do they split it up like that? I don't recall any other series doing that but then again, I'm not a big "series" watcher.

So we have to wait until Feb for it to start back up?

Is it really Paddys? Just doesn't have the same feel to it.

The coffee is free!! Grab a hand and we'll pull ya up on the train and you can sit a spell. :)

Forgotten? Far from it. I know it's hard at times for you to check in but check in as often as you can. Glad to see you still smober! What's new?

Fear generally stops us from realizing our full potential. Fear of moving, a new job, school, marriage (reason to be scared about that! :P ) and all sorts of things that once we face the fear, it really wasn't as bad as we made it out to be (childbirth is probably worse though, lol). Quitting smoking is the same deal. To afraid to quit and the fear is generated by the addiction and junkie thinking.

It's been cold here but two days next week it's supposed to be mid 60's!!! I'll be outside doing some yardwork while jamming to some RHCP!! Woot-Woot!

You've been awesome since day one and I'm so thankful that not only you're here, but also that you're nearly a year quit! Only a few short weeks and you'll be back in the states with your man. Lots of good things on the horizon. :)

That is wrong on so many levels! lol

The tickers have been fixed (last Friday) and are tracking properly. I did the math on mine and it's correct. Everybody's tickers are tracking properly now. :)

Bravo!! :)

Relapses are always planned and I'm so glad that you posted this because if you continue with this notion that smoking is going to somehow give you stability or that you're going to be comfortable with yourself again if you smoke, well, we all know where this kind of thinking leads to. Is it possible that you're still believing that smoking somehow benefits you? There is no benefit to smoking. None.

I'm actually in Havana right now and need to climb to the top of the church. lol

We just bought my son an XBOX One and although he has Madden 15 figured out already, it's hard as heck to learn the stupid controller. We got the bundle with Assassin's Creed Black Flag and also Unity and right now I'm learning Black Flag because I love to read about pirates, whaling, and especially privateering. :) Very cool game, even though I don't know what I'm doing...yet. :)

The Dead. It's on tonight. :)

This is a very important point about thinking that you knew at some point that you would go back to smoking. I think this is the reason for many early relapses. Then, you took control of your life and shoved the cigarettes back to hell where they belong. I guess what I take away from your comments is that if you're going to have a successful quit (never to take another puff,ever), you can't straddle the fence. You have to make a firm decision to quit and stick with it no matter what. You know what, I think quitting was easier than becoming addicted in the first place. My first cigarette as a preteen tasted like crap, made me feel like that and I did not like it. But I wanted to be a smoker so I kept at it until I was conditioned to be a full-fledged addict. In comparison, quitting was much easier because I felt better when I quit!

Evelyn, check in every so often to keep your mind focused on your quit if you need to. Please post in this thread as often as you need. No matter what, don't take a puff!! Come here instead. Besides, you're so much stronger than you were a few months ago I think you may just find this situation easier than you think. :)

I can definitely relate. I had a smoking dream a few months ago and it was so real that I was reading the forum here for a few minutes before that feeling that I smoked finally left. It wasn't until my strong cup of perfectly brewed coffee sparked me back to life that I knew all was well and so was my quit. :) Dreams can be so real and smoking dreams are no different but have powerful effect on us because we place such high importance and have much pride in our quits. Dreams Of Smoking This video discusses the common experience of dreaming about smoking after quitting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_gZx_6hq0I Related article: The smoking dream http://www.ffn.yuku.com/topic/12468

So many times smokers are afraid or discouraged to try quitting because they hear horror stories of how awful withdrawal is but in reality, things are rarely as bad as we build them up to be in our minds. You could tried to quit in the past and found it difficult but this time it could be easy. The opposite if also true but make this your last quit and you'll never have to quit again. Some people who quit say they will never smoke again simply because they don't want the first fews days of quitting. My first quit was pretty easy and when I relapsed for ~one week, I found it harder to quit! The pull of the addiction was very, every intense and it actually scared the heck out of me because I had never felt the addiction so powerful before. I knew that I had to quit that night or else I could run the risk of being a smoker for the rest of my life, shorter as it would no doubt be.