Do it- we will help you. What are you doing to gdet prepared for your quit date? It helps to have a plan.

This is the best thing you can do for your health and well-being. Kudos to your hubby./ Follow his lead. Think of how nice your kisses will be w/out stinking like an ashtray. Pick a quit date and read up on old posts. Let us know whenm you quit and we will all be here for you.

lol..oops...forgot to say, I haven't had a cig, in just about 16 hours and I am reading an Allen Karr book as well.

Also, not going outside to "the smoking section" and have cleared the car of butts.

Good Luck on your Journey!!! Here if you need and ear!!

Good Luck!! It isn't the easiest thing ever to do but it is foable. lots of love and support here.

Love 'n hugs,
Elsie

That should read doable not foable

lol Elsisue...I got what you were saying, I've quit before...last time was with my Hubby...this time is different some reason. I have yet to tell him, as I am only at 17 hours...but I know he may read it in here, and that's fine by me.

Thanks for your support all.

Nearly 48 hrs and still going strong...the Allen Carr book is helping. As are all of you fellow quitters.

THANK YOU ALL!!

Keep it up Maat, I think this time you have your mind set and will succeed. Good luck to ya and keep lots of water handy. hugs Jazzy

epiphany is exactly the word my doctor wrote i had had on the referral to the respiratory specialist. i had tried to quite before but it was different, saw it as a battle, to go without, to give up, to not have want i wanted or worse, to deprive myself of what i needed. nearly seven weeks since quitting, it was a very clear choice to stop full stop. no buts pardon the pun, the buts are defences, arguments, rationalisations (we use s instead of z in oz). i view the i want i want as a mini temper tantrum that needs to be ignored and it passes. give in to it and you create a monster.
yoga has helped. being sick was the catalyst but at the end of the day i made the decision to be a non smoker and as such, i am. not simple not hard, not easy not weak not strong none of that matters this time around so yes, a real epiphany that shifted something in my brain to see things quite differently.

I got caught off guard, too. I was only thinking about quitting again, had not made a commitment to the idea or set a date.
It just suddenly tumbled out of me with the question, 'why wait'?

I have to confess - I am not repulsed by the smell of a cig burning. I want to inhale it. But, I don't, I walk away.
quit date 08-08

ptriss & oztracey... YOU GO GIRLS!! Maybe we're part of the next wave of quitters...the epiphany girls. lool

I'm at 3 days, 1 hr and 22 min....and you know what's keeping me going?? At some point, really soon,(hopefully) it will be 3 days, 1 hr and 22 min. until I see my husband. And I get to hug him and kiss him, without the smell or taste of cigarettes on either one of us...