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All the Quitters!

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Have noticed quite a lot of beepers have managed to quit smoking!! Yay to us!! Are you all as thrilled to have beaten it as I am? I loved smoking (was really good at it, ha) but ugh, ended up finding it quite depressing as it had such a hold over me. So very happy to have kissed it goodbye :)
How about you?
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condrads 2 u!!!keep it up.
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yeah, i was a great smoker! and now i am a great non-smoker....it's been 7 months and it feels great!
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Oh, I will..been ages now.
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It was so easy.....once the nagging stopped, I realised I could choose NOT to smoke :-)

It took 30 years but I been smokeless since 25 September 2004
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Well done!
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i'm glad i quit smoking too. except for one thing, i had to have a ciggie while out drinking yesterday. thankfully i dont normally drink, so i shouldn't normally want to have a ciggie. i was dissappointed in myself for asking someone for a ciggie. another thing was that i was supposed to get extra money out of our funds each month for me to spend as i wish, cuz of my expensive ciggie expenses. so far i haven't seen it, its absorbed into our expenses budget. thats kind of a bummer, but i am still very proud of myself that i don't smoke ciggies anymore. my clothes don't smell, my house don't smell, and best off i don't cough like crazy. i was a pack a day smoker, so for me this was a good health decision.
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HOW did u do it! Help whats the secret. Lemme know. tks for the post.
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Congrats to you, isn't it a great thing to beat..I'm 38 days smoke free today and feeling absolutely great. I've done it before for 2 years and I'm praying this time it's permanant.
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Yep, totally.
I've become one of those hideous born-again nonsmokers- get all crankypants if I catch a whiff of smoke anywhere, tut-tut at smokers in the street etc haha
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#7 a few different things you can try
1. read Allen Carr's The Easy Way to Quit Smoking

Or ask pdoc if you can take Wellbutrin (which can lessen cravings)
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I can smell a smoker from 100 metres upwind.

Ex-smokers ...... who would have 'em !

:-)
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:)
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I wore a nicotine patch, and whenever the cravings got really bad, I'd suck on a nicotine lozenge. By the time I'd finished the lozenge, the craving was gone...
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When you get to my age, there ain't much that you got left to give up :-)
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Hmmm, now I think of it I'm getting dangerously low on vices..must work on acquiring some new ones.
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