Well here we are, 2nd attempt.... - Page 2

Sailor Steve · 05-13-07, 03:19 PM

What can I add but...good luck!

Rose · 05-13-07, 10:36 PM

Good luck!

The Avon Lady · 05-14-07, 01:25 AM

You go girl! Don't look back. Generations of future Penelope Greys will be ever thankful.

Penelope_Grey · 05-14-07, 10:35 AM

Well the first hurdle is done. I went Sunday smoke-free! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, I am expecting to be a doddle but when Saturday comes around next, I will have to watch my step.

Letum · 05-15-07, 08:36 PM

Link

Keep you will strong and good luck!

CCIP · 05-15-07, 08:42 PM

Good luck and keep at it!

I'm ever thankful that I've never even been tempted to smoke, though my dad's been there when he was my age, and my brother's girlfriend's been there not too long ago, and both of them pulled through and quit.

Good idea starting this thread too. Helps kind of keep yourself in check with all the people watching/wondering :p

ASWnut101 · 05-15-07, 08:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey

Well the first hurdle is done. I went Sunday smoke-free! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, I am expecting to be a doddle but when Saturday comes around next, I will have to watch my step.

GOOD!!! KEEP GOING!!!

In fact, take this advice: If for some reason you find a pack of ciggerettes in your house, take them into your back yard and set them on fire (In a fire pit, of course). Run quickly back into your house to watch them burn, with you free of smoke. Go ahead and pat yourself on the back.

GSpector · 05-15-07, 08:49 PM

Well; Penelope, I have faith in you. Good luck.

Just remember, nothing worthwhile is ever easy.

If it helps, Pearly whites are hard to see through yellow stains.

I-25 · 05-15-07, 09:27 PM

i wish you the best of luck!

i convinced my girlfriend to quit about 6 months and so far so good. but its gonna take a lot of will so keep it up i wish you the best of the best and dont give it!

bookworm_020 · 05-15-07, 11:04 PM

Good luck and keep going.

It will be worth it in the end, both health wise and financialy as well.

moose1am · 05-17-07, 08:04 AM

It took me a few times before I eventually stopped my three pack a day habit.

Two things:

Keep your hands busy
Try the nicotine patch for the first week. It really does help take the edge off.

I quit smoking in 1993. 14 years ago. I am 55 now and have high blood pressure due to all that smoking over the years. I started when I was 18 and a Senior in High School. I barely smoked at all back then but by the time I was working full time and out of college I was smoking 2 packs a day of the light cigarettes.

If I can stop anyone can do it.

Hang in there as it's MIND OVER THE POISON.

Hope this post helps.

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Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey

At stopping smoking. Yep, about half an hour ago, I smoked what I hope to be the last cigar I ever smoke. I already stopped with my occasional cigarette on Friday's so now its the cigars.

To that end, I have threw away my cigar box, my lighter, ashtrays, the whole lot! Chucked out. Gone. Bye bye. C ya!

Yes this time I'm really going to give it a fighting chance, my mental focus is strong, and my will to do well is there. It will be hard because of my father still smoking, but, well... I gave up nagging him to stop when I was 10, because I knew it was a waste of breath.

So wish me luck. And if I can get through the weekend, and the following weekend, as that is when I light up. I think I will be sorted. I am lucky in as much as I only smoked on the weekend, it was not a daily thing, but I want to seriously sort myself out before my 20th birthday.

This is step 1.

Penelope_Grey · 05-19-07, 05:32 AM

I am genuinely touched and overwhelmed by the support. Subsim is a top community, well its weekend time again, and I cna say today I am feeling it, that anticipation of smoking tonight is creeping onto me and by tonight I am going to be extremely edgey and probably foul tempered.

I made it through yesterday ok, but tonight will be the test. I know I can crack it, I have to crack it. I refuse to fail.

I have a plan for tonight, it involves Silent Hunter 3, I am going to sit and play that for the evening so that I am busy and that I don't have time to think about smoking and I am hoping for results. I may even give the very buggy SH4 a try.

I'll do anything except smoke.

Skybird · 05-19-07, 05:41 AM

If you really have smoked on Fridays to Sunday only, like you described, you probably are not physically depending on smoking, and it is close to impossible that you feel a chemical addiction every sxeven days, and four days inbetween you don't. So, it may help you to remember that you are just challenged by a bad habit - nothing more.

Fish · 05-19-07, 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey

Well the first hurdle is done. I went Sunday smoke-free! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, I am expecting to be a doddle but when Saturday comes around next, I will have to watch my step.

Best reason for a young girl is you won't get that old wrinkled skin some smoking woman's have?

Penelope_Grey · 05-19-07, 05:22 PM

So far so good, I have made it through satuday, was there in my mind, cigar... smoke.... mmmm smoke....

But no, I have resisted. and I am feeling throughly happy.

05-13-07, 03:19 PM	#16
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	What can I add but...good luck! __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

05-14-07, 01:25 AM	#18
The Avon Lady Über Mom Join Date: May 2005 Location: Jerusalem, Israel Posts: 6,147 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	You go girl! Don't look back. Generations of future Penelope Greys will be ever thankful. __________________ "Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women." - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria, Speech before the UN, 1974

05-14-07, 10:35 AM	#19
Penelope_Grey Sea Lord Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: UK Posts: 1,893 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Well the first hurdle is done. I went Sunday smoke-free! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, I am expecting to be a doddle but when Saturday comes around next, I will have to watch my step. __________________ I SURVIVED THE FIRST EVER SUBSIM WEREWOLF HUNT - and... I actually won the game for the humans too!

05-15-07, 08:36 PM	#20
Letum Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: York - UK Posts: 6,079 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Link Keep you will strong and good luck! __________________

05-15-07, 08:42 PM	#21
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Good luck and keep at it! I'm ever thankful that I've never even been tempted to smoke, though my dad's been there when he was my age, and my brother's girlfriend's been there not too long ago, and both of them pulled through and quit. Good idea starting this thread too. Helps kind of keep yourself in check with all the people watching/wondering :p __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

05-13-07, 10:36 PM	#17
Rose Grey Wolf Join Date: May 2006 Location: New York City Posts: 966 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Good luck!

05-15-07, 08:49 PM	#23
GSpector Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Colorado Springs Posts: 676 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	Well; Penelope, I have faith in you. Good luck. Just remember, nothing worthwhile is ever easy. If it helps, Pearly whites are hard to see through yellow stains. __________________ Specter

05-15-07, 09:27 PM	#24
I-25 Commodore Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Bavaria, Germany Posts: 629 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 0	i wish you the best of luck! i convinced my girlfriend to quit about 6 months and so far so good. but its gonna take a lot of will so keep it up i wish you the best of the best and dont give it!

05-15-07, 11:04 PM	#25
bookworm_020 Navy Seal Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast Posts: 5,966 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Good luck and keep going. It will be worth it in the end, both health wise and financialy as well. __________________ "There is always one person in any organization who knows whats going on, That person must be fired"

05-19-07, 05:32 AM	#27
Penelope_Grey Sea Lord Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: UK Posts: 1,893 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I am genuinely touched and overwhelmed by the support. Subsim is a top community, well its weekend time again, and I cna say today I am feeling it, that anticipation of smoking tonight is creeping onto me and by tonight I am going to be extremely edgey and probably foul tempered. I made it through yesterday ok, but tonight will be the test. I know I can crack it, I have to crack it. I refuse to fail. I have a plan for tonight, it involves Silent Hunter 3, I am going to sit and play that for the evening so that I am busy and that I don't have time to think about smoking and I am hoping for results. I may even give the very buggy SH4 a try. I'll do anything except smoke. __________________ I SURVIVED THE FIRST EVER SUBSIM WEREWOLF HUNT - and... I actually won the game for the humans too!

05-19-07, 05:41 AM	#28
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,632 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	If you really have smoked on Fridays to Sunday only, like you described, you probably are not physically depending on smoking, and it is close to impossible that you feel a chemical addiction every sxeven days, and four days inbetween you don't. So, it may help you to remember that you are just challenged by a bad habit - nothing more. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

05-19-07, 05:22 PM	#30
Penelope_Grey Sea Lord Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: UK Posts: 1,893 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	So far so good, I have made it through satuday, was there in my mind, cigar... smoke.... mmmm smoke.... But no, I have resisted. and I am feeling throughly happy. __________________ I SURVIVED THE FIRST EVER SUBSIM WEREWOLF HUNT - and... I actually won the game for the humans too!