You can do the Uncle Buck 5 year plan. Cigarettes for one year, cigars for another year, then onto chew, then snuff and then finally the gum for a year!!
I smoked for 7 years. Quit after I got engaged and that was over 5 years ago. I went to one of those cessation classes and learned a few interesting things. If you smoke a pack or more a day, then it takes 3 days for the body to completely purge itself of the nicotine. After that, there are no more physical cravings for it, it's all psychological after that. What gets most smokers is the actual habit part of it. They compared smoking to being like a best friend. It has been there everyday of your life for the past how ever many years that you have been smoking. There are days when you don't even see your family, but smoking has always been there. So it's emotionally like losing a best friend. When I quit, the times that got me was when I would normally smoke: After meals, in the car, etc. Those were the times when I would reach into my pocket for the pack and when i realized that I didn't have any, panic set in. That's when it was hard to hold on. But, if you wait just ten minutes, the thought will most likely leave your mind and you'll forget about it. After about 4 days, I was pretty much done. No patch. No gum. Nothing. And I think that it's the best way to do it. You have to A.) want to do it and B.) demonstrate some guts and be tough. Then it's easy. Good luck. I no longer smell bad, my wife thinks that I'm a pretty great guy for giving it up for her, I save over 25 bucks a week which is $1300 per year, and I can taste my food!! Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Ihrig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 12:43 PM Subject: keep on quitting smoking > this thoroughly sucks. > i have been smoking since i was 11. > since i returned from the honey moon i am determined to quite. > > but it does not seem to be taking. > have quite about 4 times in the last week! > > can make it 2 + days. > > been trying the gum, nicoderm & combinations of both. > then just when i think i am getting some where, a manager will say something > so grrrrrr......... > that i find the closest cig & regretfully smoke it. > > now it finally tastes & smells bad again. > i am determined to kick, but am starting to get frustrated at quitting > quitting? > > any one here do it? > with or with out nicotine aids? > > > -paul > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
