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!!

Yeah , you go girl!!!

are you taking any vitamins?
They might help - I'm sure they will -- cigs deplete many vitamins from your body.
A good multiple, C, and others would be a good start if you aren't taking any.

Wishing you continued success! You sound very determined... AND you have a wonderful reason to want to be around for many years to enjoy that precious babe! HURRAY FOR YOU!

Dorrie, I found a change in routine also helped me ... like what areas of my house or even at work, triggered smoking for me.

For instance......I would have my first cigarette in the mornings with a cup of coffee in a certain spot at home. What I did was change the area that I had my first coffee.

ie: When I smoked, I would go outside with my first coffee and sit in "my smoking chair". When I gave up, I'd have my first cup of coffee in the living room.....or some where else....totally unrelated to cigarettes.

Same at work. I'd have my tea breaks and lunch in totally different areas to those where I once would light up a cigarette. I'd be sitting with non smokers then, and that helped to curb the urge.

Another thing was : I'd always show my patch to co-workers when they asked if I'd go for a cigarette with them (I wore it on my arms lol! ). I'd say thanks but no, I've given up, and show them the patch. They need to see that patch so they know you're serious, and you need to show it to them for the same reason.

Good luck Dorrie. We're all behind you.

Today has been a hard day. I had an awful sleep last night as I was up choking up yuck most of the night. I got motivated a little later than I planned this morning as well; We all went up to hubbys parents place on Monday for christmas...I had to leave early in my car with Saff as she had a supervised visit with her mother. As I drove the 2 hour drive home I was having a hard time staying awake I was so tired. This has been going on for weeks..not just since I quit..I have had a terrible cough and it only seems to be getting worse so I have a doctors appointment tomorrow. I am pretty sure I have pnemonia...I have had it before and this feels alot like that minus the high fever. I am having a hard time with alot of stress right now and being so darned tired is not helping it!! I need a good sleep but every time I lay down there is so so much congestion in my chest and I start to choke. I woke myself up wheezing loudly last night several times. Also, the patch is drying my mouth out so bad that it only takes a few minutes from when I have a drink and bam ..I am coughin again! I am tired and uptight all the time...
tonight it all got to me and I pulled my patch off and lit a smoke outside. I only had a few drags and then came back in...I went back out with a tea and lit it up again..I was enjoying my tea but choked and choked and did not enjoy the smoke at all... I do not want to smoke but the stress got so high..to boot I am diabetic and my sugars are out of control due to my cold and cough and my doc is trying me out on a new med that I do not find works well at all....my sugars are always really high. I feel like *****. I put my patch back on because I know that I want to quit. I am going to finish up here and then take a pop off my inhaler and cozy up to my brand new pillows and try to get some sleep.
Sorry all you supportive friends....please do not give up on me...I need my cheerleading squad!!!!