Wow, thanks for all the great support and good wishes!!

It is all Very Much Appreciated !!

Also, one of our members has contacted me, and we are gonna buddy up and quit together. How cool is that ??!!

You know, I have only really met one of you cats on this forum in the flesh, so the support from my unseen friends here is even more special.

Thank-you all, I hope to meet each of you someday soon.

Kev

Congrats on graduating also! That is awesome to hear as well! Good for you! I am recently in college and a PSYC 101. We were talking about quiting smoking and the prof was saying that you have to get through that first 10 days. Focus on those! I'm sure it will still be hard but you can do it!!!

Cheers!

Curtis

You`ll still have a lite for us failed attempted, wont ya ?DOH

One thing that worked for me was that I picked a hated exercise to do in lieu of chewing or smoking. I picked pull-ups and push ups. I HATE those! And I couldn't even do ONE pull up when I started. But I just couldn't stop thinking about getting my nic-fix, and I was weak in body and will....I got mad about it. I realized I wasn't in control of my own life.

After awhile, between the anger, stress, tiredness and all the other little perks that go along with quitting nicotine, I actually started to rid my mind of the thought -because every time I'd think about chewing or smoking, I knew it would lead to more painful exercising! LOL!

I never converted into an exercise-addict. Once I rid myself of the urge to chew and smoke, I basically went back to normal life.

But, I bought a new bicycle and I am starting to ride it more and more. If the weather stays nice, I think I could really get into bicycling again. I used to love it as a kid...then forgot about them when cars came along. As long as it remains enjoyable, I could ride this thing a little bit everyday. It's actually really fun! It reminds me of that feeling I used to get when I was a kid -when a bicycle was basically your trusty steed! -much better than the feeling of coughing up lungers first thing in the morning!

I think a key to quitting is finding something that will make you angry enough to fight yourself and beat the sh!t out of yourself...until you win!...And then reward yourself with all the money you'll save....maybe that dream drum kit or old K Zildjian...?

I have heard replace a bad habit with a good one..

Also,drink lots of water..I really would recommend getting 6 -one litre bottles of Evian,and get it nice and cold........drink the snot out of that...you can afford it now! It will taste great and get you on the road to no nic!

Don't sit in the usual chair you sit in after dinner,if thats where you smoked after you ate .

Takes lots of showers!Hard to smoke in there!

Blair

Great stuff guys !!!

Thanks so very much !!

Hows it going Kevin?

I quit 2 1/2 weeks ago.

Hold fast man!

kevin

hope that everything is going good with the quitting. my wife never smoked a lot. but she did smoke. she put them down cold turkey about three years ago and has never looked back. you can do it.

one thing that i did for her that you can do for yourself. i figured up what she was spending a month on smokes and just gave her the cash to do whatever she wanted to do with it. its like extra money. you can use it to buy drum stuff!!

good luck man.

mike

Thanks guys, lookin pretty good.

I'm hurtin, but hangin in there!

Got a bag of lemon drops, it's helps a bit.

hang in there!

Work was the real tuffy for me, I started walking around the building instead of smoking.