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princessdeb
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45 year smoker

I've been smoking for 45 years!  I've tried to quit over a million times without success. I've been telling myself everyday for the last month that this cigarette will be my last.  I wake up in the middle of the night and drive to the corner and get a pack and the same cycle begins again.  Today at 10:00 AM I was fed up with myself.  I was at Wal-Mart. ...stomped to the trash can and threw away 1/2 pack of smokes, lighter and everything that has to do with smoking.   I went inside and purchased a box of nicotine lozenges and headed home.

I've been on this site reading as much as I can and downloaded Allen Carr's book that so many of you recommend. 

I've been okay today...9 hours smoke free.  The real test is going to be when I wake up in the middle of the night to have a smoke.  I gave the keys to the car to my husband... I've come up with a game plan and want this quit so bad!!  I've got to do this!!!  Smoking is killing me and I want to be Healthy and smoke free.

Thanks to all of you for being here and sharing your stories.

Deb

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Good for you.

This is a process. We smoked our whole lives.

The secret is making new memories without smoking. 

This is what distances ourselves from smoking until we stop thinking of it.

Careful with the lozenges. They won't make you think of smoking any less because that was a ritual and, you don't want to be popping a lozenge every time you would have smoked and become psychologically connected to the lozenge.

Cinnamon toothpicks

a straw cut into thirds to chew on or fiddle with

/blogs/jonescarp.aka.dale.Jan_2007-blog/2011/06/26/what-to-expect-in-the-first-four-months 

princessdeb
Member

Thank you so much for your input!  I will definitely cut up a straw...I will pop cinnamon Altoids too. Thanks for warning me about becoming psychologically connected to the lozenges.  My husband quit 4 years ago and used the lozenges for over a year...Now he's a tic-tac man.  

I'm off to go read the article you attached.  Thanks again!!

Lisaml
Member

Welcome, Deb!  I’m new at this, 151 days in. 

It’s no picnic but I’m finding that life is MUCH better these days, without being constantly in withdrawal and gunning for my next “fix”. 

I wish you well, I wish you health, and I look forward to sharing your success!!!!

You're welcome. I did wint o green lifesavers too.

Barbscloud
Member

Welcome to the Ex Deb.   I have also tried quitting many times and smoked for 50 years.   Stay close to this site and ask for help if you need it, when you need.  I recommend doing the daily pledge if you're not doing so already.  It really helps me stay the course each day.  

88DOF

You're doing all of the right things! Hang out here and read, read, read!

MarilynH
Member

Welcome to the community princessdeb‌, you've made the best decision that you'll ever give yourself which is the gift of LIFE, stay close because we're all here to help you in any way we, deep breaths and be willing determined and totally committed to succeed and you can and will be successful one precious Smokefree Day at a time or hour minute or even a second at a time but you must believe it and keep moving forward and stacking up your precious Days of Freedom so each evening you can look yourself in the mirror and smile and say yay for another Day WON ....

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it sounds like you've got your plan in place and are determined.  Please come here and blog or ask for help when you feel you're on the brink.  What saved me early in my quit was going into other members profiles and going back in time to when they first quit and reading their stories.  Also check out Relapse Prevention‌ and read some there also.

I'm looking forward to walking this journey with you.

Lori, 866 days of freedom (a former 43-year smoker)

TBenyi
Member

Hi Deborah and welcome!

I am pretty new here. I've smoked since I was 11 years old so that is (does math) 33 years now. Only on day 5 of my quit this time and have tried to quit many times, using many different methods. This site and what I have been doing seem to be working thus far. I usually haven't made it this far. I hear you about the waking in the middle of the night. For me it's also first thing in the morning. I can't sleep with the patch on.

What I found helped for those really strong cravings when I didn't have a patch on was the nicotine spray. It's by Nicorette. It doesn't taste great but it works almost immediately, where Nicotine lozenges and gum take a little while to get the full dose into your system.

I only use the spray first thing in the morning or if I wake in the middle of the night. The rest of the time I am using the patch and lozenge. I also find that sugar free gum and mints to suck on really help.

I hope this helps in some small way. Keep up the good work! Congratulations on putting your foot down and saying NOPE to cigarettes!