I did it!! Yesterday I smoked my last smoke at 1:00pm. I went to the sore...bought the patch and slapped it on!!! Hubby quit almost a year ago so I have some good support. I am doing great with the exception of a few moments today when I was multi tasking and got overwhelmed and lost it....I was angry and sobbong at the same time. I just went loopy!! It was about 1/2 hour from the time I was to put my next patch on when it happened...I was so upset I said "I need a smoke!!!" Then in the same breath I said "God please help me I want to be a non smoker so bad and do not want to have to go thru this again later if I do smoke now." I continued crying for a bit but calmed down and reached for my arm to feel the patch for some reason....Well...it had fell off!!! No wonder I was so nutty...I remember picking up this clear plastic thing thinking it was the backing off the patch so I thru it in the garbage....WRONG...it WAS the patch.....that was 6 hours earlier!!!!!!!!!! I held it together...slapped another patch on and laid down while hubby gave me a relaxing footrub!!! I felt better in no time!!! I hung in there and I am so gld that I did. I want a smoke every time I turn around..out of habit... but as hubby told me to do I keep reminding myself that I am a non smoker and I do not smoke anymore...between the patch and talking to myself I am doing just fine.
My plan was to quit on Saffires b-day on the 7th of January but I decided it was time yesterday...so I went for it!
Wish me luck...I cannot wait to breathe easier and smell purttier too!!!!!!!!!

I am so proud of you Dorrie!

I quit on August 4th, 2007.

So that's one year.....4 months and lots of days.....and I still feel good, and I still don't crave a cigarette. That's a little fib.....I do crave one occassionally, but that craving only lasts a few moments and then it's gone.

I have not once seriously felt like lighting up a cigarette since that day I decided to quit!

I too went with the patches and found them very effective. If you're worried about them falling off again, just put tape around th edges so they can't!

I am now an ex-smoker.... and that's the way it will stay! I will never go back to smoking after doing so well for so long.

Well done Dorrie. I am so proud of you!

Wow, Dorrie! You're a NEW woman for the NEW year!!!

Proud of you!!!


*sniff *sniff

Yep, you smell purdy!!!

Thank you ladies!!!!

How's it going for you, Dorrie?

Hi Twink! It is not easy but not as hard as I though either. I have alot of cravings...everytime I "finish" something ie. a chore. dinner..sleeping, showering...I crave a smoke. I have a HOBBIBLE cold right now...antibiotics did not get rid of it. I am throwing up phlegm and have been for a week...I spend alot of my night in the bathroom gagging. Apparantly qhen you quit you can spit up alot if phlegm...I am tired of it. But smoking will not help it so I won't go there!! I am a non smoker now and as hard as it is...that is the way I want to live!!!!!! I need to be around for my lil Saff for a long time...so I need to get as healthy as I can. One very odd thing...I thought I would eat and eat...not...I am really not hungry at all..I get busy instead...and I have never been one to sit and relax..then I would likely get bored and munch!!