I can hardly believe that another year is in the past..........where is time going and why do I keep looking younger? Hahaha
I never thought that I would celebrate the holidays without smoking after all these years but I did and I'm so proud of myself (and all my ex-smoking friends)!!
I'm hoping that 2008 will bring me continued improving health, that I can start a rigorous exercising program, can loose a few pounds, firm up what's already there, and add some years to my life.
I vow not to smoke "today", one day at a time I will make this a forever thing.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Here it is........ 2008
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eGlad to see you post again Mamaflo! I still need you old timers! Who would have thought we would ring in the New Year without lighting up? I went to dinner with friends. My one friend is really sick with Hep C and just finished treatment. She went out to smoke and it took everything I had not to want to go out with her. Not because I wanted to smoke, just out of habit. I am glad that I do not have an illness that requires me to quit smoking and drinking, yet I can't put it down. You don't have to answer if you don't want but I was just wondering if you had a health scare before you quit? I think 2008 will be a much happier and healthier year for us all.
Peace,
Diva
Actually Diva I did. After 36 years of smoking my doctor told me that my carotid arteries were in shit shape and I needed to quit smoking or have a heart attack or stroke. The decision was made then and there.
I was also pretty tired of the 5 minute cough that had developed over the last year - I don't mean I coughed for 5 minutes, I mean I coughed every 5 minutes the entire time I was up every single day.
It's a wonder isn't it that I still want to smoke.
At almost 100 days quit I know it isn't the physical side of quitting but the routine, the ahhhh, the boredom that makes me want to smoke.
I wish you great continued success with your Quit Diva!
Happy New Year!!!
jimmy said
dear mama flo-yes i had a blocked artery which caused a heart atta, an accident w/ Muritic acid which did severe damage to my lungs all in 10-06. took chantix for about 2 weeks could no longer tolirate the taste and effects of smoking so I gave up chantix and continued to smoke. I have COPD and I am coughing every five minutes. I blacked out at the wheel last christmas eve from cough attack. Crossed five lanes of traffic unconcience. I have not smoked since that nite know it is 1 week later and i am suffering from withdrawels. Cold Turkey is my method w/ my mind made up. I am afraid to take the chantix that i have left from before as it allows you to lite up. I am afraid to lite up.. Help Jim
MamaFlo, so good to hear from you again, and I'm wishing you the best in 2008. This will be a new year in another new way for so many of us.
Happy New Year!
Hey Jim, where can we reach you for help/encouragement, there isn't a blog listed or email, etc....
What has happened to you would have scared me shitless.
I could not have gone this long without the Chantix, I smoked for only the first 3ish days I was on it and then put the down.
I still want a cigarette, I don't think it's that I want to smoke - I sure as hell don't want to feel like I did ever again. So many things in my life are in an upswing now that I've quit.......to be honest, I'm afraid to go off of the Chantix.
I know what I really miss is the routine of smoking, it isn't the nicotine demon anymore, it's the damn routine I had everyday for 36 years!!
STOP, do whatever it takes to not light a cigarette ever again, the urges are less intense as you move foreword but I won't blow smoke up your pant leg and tell you it will be easy - Far from it brother!
This blog site has helped me tremendously, the people I've met online understand what I'm trying to do for myself, the encourage me, they support me the best they can but I have to come online and read what they have to say, I have to post what I'm feeling.
We'll be here, typing is better than smoking anyday!!
Here is hoping you go today without lighting up. (one day at a time helped me).
Mamaflo,
I'm kind of scared to go off the Chantix myself. I am gonna ask my doctor about the extended plan for longer term smokers and see what he says. This is my last month on the regular program. Jim, keep posting...you can do it!
Peace,
Diva
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