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[valorie]

Hello out there, Just finished my profile and here I am. I am trying to learn how to quit smoking. The one thing I realized is that I live in a home where everyone smokes. This is going to be so hard. I have been smoking for 18 years and have never even tried to quit before. I enjoy it too much. But I also realize that it will have severe consequences maybe not now but later down the road. I already suffer from shortness of breath from the simplest tasks. I know that quiting will be a great achievment for me, its just getting there thats the hard part.

[manofsteele]

Hey Valorie,

Super Choice being here....

The EX plan can really help you prepare how to handle smoking triggers because is you cave in to the triggers you are back to smoking. So please do your research there and get yourself prepared.

I also have established some groups here that you might find helpful. I came from another online smoke free support group and many of us here have multiple year quits and help others follow the same paths we followed that worked so well for us.

http://community.becomeanex.org/group/dailypledge

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Daily Pledge - Quit Party Central - Relapse Traps
Game Room Quit Reasons - Thanks and Praise
Tough Luv - Words of Wisdom - Find a Quit Buddy
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Great Reading - http://www.tobacco-facts.info/
For a Free Quit Keeper - http://dedicateddesigns.com/qk/

YOU CAN DO IT ... we can help .....just ask !
5.4 Million die due to smoking related causes every year.
That's 2000 times a 9/11

Hope you find this helpful ....

peace !

[manofsteele]

Hey Valorie,

Super Choice being here....

The EX plan can really help you prepare how to handle smoking triggers because is you cave in to the triggers you are back to smoking. So please do your research there and get yourself prepared.

I also have established some groups here that you might find helpful. I came from another online smoke free support group and many of us here have multiple year quits and help others follow the same paths we followed that worked so well for us.

http://community.becomeanex.org/group/dailypledge

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Daily Pledge - Quit Party Central - Relapse Traps
Game Room Quit Reasons - Thanks and Praise
Tough Luv - Words of Wisdom - Find a Quit Buddy
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Great Reading - http://www.tobacco-facts.info/
For a Free Quit Keeper - http://dedicateddesigns.com/qk/

YOU CAN DO IT ... we can help .....just ask !
5.4 Million die due to smoking related causes every year.
That's 2000 times a 9/11

Hope you find this helpful ....

peace !

[valorie]

Thanx Cindy! I need all the support I can get! Oh and congrats to you also! You got the monkey off ur back. Lol

[belinda2]

I just finished my profile and set my date today too. Here's wishing all of us enormous success and continued good health

[Giulia]

Hey there new "friend." Welcome a'board, Valorie!

This is a grand place to hang out when you want to quit smoking. A whole bunch of crazy, wonderful, caring, hard working quitters, present, past and future. Ahhh, you only smoked for 18 years...piece of cake. I smoked for over 35 and I quit. What does that tell you?

I enjoyed it too. But I'm enjoying not being a slave any more, and enjoying being able to smell things I've never smelled before, and no more morning phlegm, and I can sing without sounding liked a scratched up record.

You are very right about the severe consequences ahead if you don't stop. Shortness of breath is just the beginning. It's the things they Don't talk about that are more affective in keeping me quit, not the Big C or COPD, or all the ABCs of diseases. Like my dentist saying he point blank will not do implants, for example, on people who smoke. Says's it's a waste of their money, they'll just be back in for new ones shortly because of what smoking does. Same is true of the healing process after operations. It affects your eyesight - the links between smoking and eye disease is strong, including cataracts and age related macular degeneration. It affects the circulatory system. Smoking doesn't kill you fast, it kills you slowly, wee bits at a time. And we don't feel it. That's what's so insidious about it.

Read all you can on here. Some will recommend other sites to check out, and books to read. Do. The better armed your are, the stronger your armor for the fight ahead. Yeah, getting free is hard, but you can see thousands are doing it on a daily basis here, one minute at a time. You can be one of those.

We're here for ya!

Giulia (2 years 3 mos +)