Don't give in.

You can do it, girl.

You can do it! Good luck, Carrie.

Shorty said:

hey you, how've you been?

ice water, baby. when you get the urge, drink ice water. I don't know why it helps, but it does.

i will have been a non smoker for 9 months on Friday.
My advice would be to take one day at a time,the first 2 weeks are pretty hard
but it gets easier after that, i promise you.It took me about 10 attempts to give it up and this is the longest ive went without a smoke for about 15 years.
I dont think i'll go back now.
Even if you do lapse its important to remember "dont give up giving up"
im sure your going to do great,think of the money you will save

muirdo said:

I quit 10 months ago!

Ace said:

i'll tell you what though,i have dreams where im smoking in them and then
when i wake up i feel really guilty until i realise i was just dreaming.
its really bloody weird

I had quit for a year and a half, then started again about a year ago. I am preparing to quit again. The biggest lesson--don't think that you can have just one. It doesn't work that way.

Stay with it, Carrie! It is one of the best things you can do for yourself.

thats wonderful!! u can do-i know u can

sweet said:

Can we do it? YES WE CAN!

GO GURL !!

sent you a little sumthing through org notes

Good girl! Hang in there!

And if you should have a relapse, don't give it all up, just get through more hours between that and the next time. If you keep doing that (ie. stretching out the time between relapses) eventually you'll be a nonsmoker.

That said, don't relapse. Come yell at us instead. We can take it!

eVeRsOlEsA said:

hey! I've been GREAT! How've you been! How's the apartment?

I'm so glad I never ever started. I have seen so many friends suffer over this shit good luck baby, think about how much better your lungs and body will feel without yucky smoke in it

HamsterHuey said:

I saw! Thank you!!
I will look when I get home.

bluesbaby said:

True! You have to live your life like a recovering alcoholic. You're a recovering nicoholic.

I wish I could quit, too.

But it's so difficult, I'm really rooting for you, Carrie. I hope I can follow your example one day.

Shorty said:

I'm in a house now and things are great thanks

Ace said:

That actually wasn't my experience. I've done three and four months respectively, and gone back to them.

30.5 hours.

This sucks.

Well done, but you did the worse thing possible and started a thread about it.

Keep up the good work though. I'm so poor right now I've had to cut back dramatically and I'm not that far from not being able to justify buying them, such are my financial woes at the minute.

angelfishseven said:

I thought it would help me, cause I'd feel stupid if I caved after I posted about it.

But now I don't think I care. I want to SMOKE!!!!




PS - I haven't yet. We'll see.

CarrieMpls said:

I know you wanna smoke Carrie. And your gonna do what you want anyway, no matter what anyone says to you. And that's OKAY.

But just know that, You CAN do this!!!!

CarrieMpls said:

You would feel stupid, because you would BE stupid! And we know how we feel about stupid people! Reminder: we think they're STUPID. DON'T DO IT!

HereToRockYourWorld said:

Awesome Carrie!!
Lean on all of us for support..
We love you and we are glad you are doing this for yourself.

U can do it girl them nasty companies putting n more chemicals to make it even harder then ever to quit is messed up... so show them U got the power and they need to quit to keep people hooked..... glad i quit 8 yrs ago .... not easy but it was to damn cold to smoke outside so i said what the hell

CarrieMpls said:

Aaaaand?