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jessie8
Member

A smoker looking to quit

Hello all, I am proud to be back on becomeanex.org again. I am currently still a smoker but looking to quit soon. I started smoking again after a yr of being smoke free. Lifes wonderful stresses got the best of me. Its not easy to not give in when you feel like life is too tough to deal with that you gotta release your fustrastions some how. I remember how it all started too. Majority of my friends are smokers and when I would hang out with them and talk I would have a smoke or two and thought to myself. Nah I got this under control. But I didnt. I lost my strength and willingness to stay smoke free.  I guess my first mistake is hanging out with my friends that smoked when I was stressed. Over all tho I plan on quitting and I hope this time I can realize that when I am stressed to perhaps come up with another way to cope instead of hanging out with smokers. I will be an active member of becomeanex.org even if I am not a non smoker, I am building myself up to that day. Until then I am glad to be in this state of mind 😄

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anna64
Member

I too recently returned to this site this week and have set my quit date for tomorrow.... so far the people that have welcomed me are great!!  Very encouraging too.... I hope you will some day sooner then later be able to set a quit date  :O)  I'm here if you need an extra friend  Best Wishes to becoming Smoke Free For Life!!!  Keep the good attitude, it really does help!!  :O)

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val31
Member

I hear you I quit for 12 years and thought I could smoke again for awhile, guess not I became a smoker again on and off for the last year. I now realize I just can't smoke! It's too easy to become addicted again.

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jim117
Member

Hi it is good to see you here  at becomeanex. We are here to help you in any way we can.  If your are having problems with anything get on and blog with the title of help.  I f you have any need or desire to put a picture in your avatar area, or put a clock on your page, or put a picture or animation on a blog an maybe there are some other things you would like to do on your page or your blogs.  If you would like to know how to do those things, go to my page and sc roll down almost to the bottom and there you will find a whole list of things that you can do.

 

If you are having physical urges, what is good for that is patches or pill some nicotine come down medicine.  If you are having mental urges, I have a couple of ways that I do to handle them.   If you are watching TV and you have an urge go somewhere else like go out to walk the dogs (if that applies), If you are washing dishes and you have an urge, go an clean the bedroom.  Well you get the idea on that way.

 

There is another way that I use also.  It is called the 10-10-10 method.  It goes

 

10 seconds from now will this urge  make me sick?    Yes/No

 

10 Minutes from now will this urge  make me sick?     Yes/No

 

10 Hours from now will this urge  make me sick?         Yes/No

 

If you are smoking and answered yes to any of the above  you could be getting sicker than you know.

 

If you answer yes to any of those then get on this site and ask for help.  I guarantee you will get help from more than one person.  You will also get different kinds of help and you may not understand all of it that concerns your situation.  But in one or two blogs you may also say aaaaaaaaaah haaaaaaaaaaaa  that is what I was looking for.

 

Don't ever give up on your quit.  You can do this.  Don't be doing this quit for anyone besides yourself, because it is your health that is in danger.

 

If  you are having problems and need more help try reading some of the links below. Also if you wish to put a clock on your site or anything else that will also be listed below also.  If you need any help doing anything else.

 

http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/Allen_Carrs_Easy_Way_To_Stop_Smoking_Download_free_PDF

 

http://quitsmokingonline.com/

 

http://www.whyquit.com/joel/dayzero.htm

 

http://www.whyquit.com

 

http://www.whyquit.com/whyquit/A_FreeRelapseInsurance.html

 

These are some interesting blogs that may help you as you move forward in your quit!

 

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/blogs/doney-blog/2012/01/04/its-so-crazy

 

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/blogs/Maggie_quit_8-1-2010-blog/2011/06/10/things-to-do-instead-o...

 

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/blogs/Breakinthechains-blog/2011/06/26/the-world-is-new-again-rep...

 

Stuff For Your Page

 

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/blogs/Maggie_quit_8-1-2010-blog/2011/06/05/posting-graphics-edite...

 

For those of you who want a clock but don't know how, here are some instructions that I made. I gave them to my pal Louise, but then thought 'why not post them in case others need help'?! 🙂

 

Anyway, just my bit of info for the moment. Here ya' go!

 

Here's how:

 

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/blogs/ohwellmaybenot-blog/2011/04/29/how-to-get-a-countdownup-clo...

 

Some people have been having a lot of trouble getting into http://www.freeflashtoys.com but if you use the following it should not be a problem.

 

Just click this link: http://www.wishafriend.com/countup if you need a countup clock. If you need a countdown clock go to http://www.wishafriend.com/countdown

 

https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/blogs/jonescarp.aka.dale.Jan_2007-blog/2011/05/09/how-to-post-a-p...

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