smoking or Not.......

[Cassandra]

2dream, maybe it would help you to keep a backup cigarette like I did. A couple of days after I quit smoking (back in the early 1990's), I found a cigarette under the back seat mat in the car.

(This may sound gross to non-smokers, but if you are smoker, this would have been a perfectly good cigarette. LOL)

I was determined to quit, but... well you know how hard it is. I told myself I would hang on to that last one in case I ever got to where I REALLY really wanted one. I put it up in the top of my closet and every once in a while, I would think to myself that I wanted a cigarette. But then I would say, "oh well, I don't want it THAT bad yet. Better save it a little longer."

Anyway, I ended up hanging on to that security cigarette for about two years. I think I ended up finally losing it in a move.

This may sound a little corny. But it helped me a lot to know I had that one in case I needed it. I never had to experience that anxiety over being "out" of cigarettes. I was never out. I was just savin' it.

Cassandra

 

[curly_kate]

That's exactly how I quit! I realized that every time I thought, "I'm NEVER going to have another cigarette AGAIN," I automatically wanted to smoke. So I said that if I REALLY needed one, I could have it. I just kept thinkingI didn't REALLY need one.

Funny how people have quit in so many different ways. You just have to find what works for you.

 

[shareneh]

Way to go all of you who quit, it takes courage and I commend you

 

[roosmom]

Cassandra I would have smoked, smoked, smoked that cigarette.

2dream, we love ya, come on....you don need dem stinkin cigs

 

[dacjohns]

Cassandra I would have smoked, smoked, smoked that cigarette.

2dream, we love ya, come on....you don need dem stinkin cigs

That sounds like songs and movies.

 

[2dream]

I am doing better. Still cheatin. That filter thingy helps. I am not sure I will ever completely lay them down. Everyone I work with smokes, DH and DD smoke. I stopped completely for 4 days. Now I am smoking about 6 a day. 2 at work and 4 at home. Nights are the worst. Funny, I always thought that morning coffee cig would be the one that got me. Nope. I do good until about lunch time.

 

[roosmom]

ya know, if ypu can get down to three a day, am - lunch - pm then you could leave it at that. I know how hard it is.

dac, maybe we should write songs, lol.

 

[dacjohns]

http://www.martystuart.com/ZLyrics-STC.htm



"Badges, we don't need no stinkin' badges."

 

[roosmom]

http://www.martystuart.com/ZLyrics-STC.htm



"Badges, we don't need no stinkin' badges."

I remember that song, and the movie...well not the name but the line

edited to add uh, it was a movie right dac?

 

[dacjohns]

The movie is "Blazing Saddles."