Great to see you entering week 2 with such a good attitude.

Day 9... this morning was rough... 4pm - Cruisin'   

SMoke Free !

I can get thru 9 days   

Thx Philly

Nope.. or Ranger or Sir Smiley       

Day 10 - umm... I'm actually starting to believe I can pull this off..   We shall see how the next 10 days go...

SMOKE FREE !   

Nothing like a little self confidence to help you make it through the day. No doubt in my mind that you are done with one bad habit.   

Got any others that we need to work on?   

a little incentive to quitting,
my mom never smoked in her life, but my grandmother,uncles,father, and now myself (brother did but he is passed too unrelated to smoking)all did.
She died two years ago of a ruptured subarachnoid aneurysm (somewhere in the brain.) it was traumatic for both her (she stayed on this plane for almost a whole week after,but never regained consciousness)and for all of us. The doctors at Jefferson wills-eye in philly said they thought she was a heavy smoker, more than a pack a day, judging by the condition of her veins and arteries.
Dad quit 23 years ago aparently it had already affected her, I haven't been so successful yet.
and no I never smoked around her, out of respect. if we all hadn't smoked, maybe mom would still be around, or at least have had a fighting chance at recovering.

omg, youve quit smoking....... I personally think your wasting yr money on those stupid patches, but if it works for you then cool.....

Any addiction that requires quitting is a tough road, be it cola, tobacco, or even greasy food ect..... the last time i tried to quit, i broke down into tears every time i craved for a cig....

I know you wont be doin that......I REALLY do wish you the best. and I hope you can come out of this a winner.

Im on a health kick myself this year....started last week on a bootcamp for health, I now walk 2 hrs a day and eat nothing but raw diet......(just fruit and veges, no cooking nothin) and ive never felt so good in my life..full of energy ect......

I also recommend that you tell someone your close to that you've quit (you probably already have) and make yourself accountable to them, and let them also be your SOS. So if you feel like your going to go out and buy some ciggies, ect, you can ring them up and tell them what is going on, and they can talk you out of it, and stop you from smoking.

The problem with the use of patches is that they maintain the same number of nicotine receptors in the brain...only by gradually decreasing the amount of nicotine in the patch can one reduce the number of receptors and proportionately the severity of the withdrawal. Chantix has recently been reported to have sleepiness, and depressive ideation as side effects.

Try to avoid yo-yoing with the patches, vStyler: you're increasing the number of nicotine receptors. Talk to your M.D. about Chantix, because it takes care of those nicotine receptors in a different way.

Quitting smoking is the one case where being a quitter is admirable!

  

Been doing that here in Oz for a couple of years now... putting very graphic, off-putting images on cigarette and tobacco packaging. However, there's still too many who are ten foot tall and bullet proof... thinking: "Nah, that won't happen to me!"... as they continue to chuff away.

Thankfully, I woke up - of course that could be me - and I quit before it inevitably got to that... so keep up the great work fellas.

Don't wait John....you've come this far.....don't blow it now.....slap that patch on!

Guys the patch isn't the best way to quit. All it does is keep nicotine in your system. You need to rid yourself of all the nicotine in any form in your system to truly quit.

I quit cold turkey with the help of vitamin C, grapefruit and cranberry juice and lots of prayer.

Patch is workin great for me.. its a loooong course.. 12 weeks.. stepping down off the nicotine.

I tried cold turkey... failed immediately.

I can't afford Chantix and i'm not keen on its side effects anyway.. my dreams are bad enough already.

Evening 11... Beating it easily.

Smoke Free.