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mattyb · Jan 12, 2009, 01:46 PM

... since I had a cigarette. The patches are good throughout the day, but its right about now (after the evening meal) that I could really do with a smoke.

Atheist · Jan 12, 2009, 01:58 PM

Congrats and good luck!! Smoking really is a horrible habit. My partner quit 2.5 years ago and never looked back. He looks much healthier now... amazing what that crap does to your body.

ghporter · Jan 12, 2009, 06:48 PM

Woo hoo! Great job. Keep at it.

SSharon · Jan 12, 2009, 06:53 PM

Don't worry about counting the days (unless it helps you) and just keep up the good work.

Laminar · Jan 12, 2009, 06:53 PM

Stay out of cat-related threads. History tells us that people who have recently quit smoking don't do well there.

Jawbone54 · Jan 12, 2009, 06:56 PM

Good luck with the rest of it. You'll love yourself when you've really beat this thing.

OldManMac · Jan 12, 2009, 07:18 PM

Good for you! I did it 37 years ago, after smoking for ten years, and I couldn't even imagine smoking now.

mattyb · Jan 13, 2009, 07:40 AM

Cheers people. Long way to go yet ...

dcmacdaddy · 08:33 AM

Originally Posted by mattyb

Cheers people. Long way to go yet ...

Yes. But you are up to 7 days now without a cigarette. One whole week. Pretty soon you'll be counting the weeks without a cigarette and before you know it you will be counting in months the time since you last had a smoke.

Good for you!!!

andi*pandi · Jan 13, 2009, 08:30 AM

keep up the good work!

Andy8 · Jan 13, 2009, 06:19 PM

très bien

mattyb · Jan 18, 2009, 03:26 PM

Today was a tough day. Today the wife was sick. I didn't put a patch on today. The kids were terrorists today. I wanted a cigarette really badly today. I got stressed really easily today.

Today is my twelfth day without a cigarette.

waxcrash · Jan 18, 2009, 04:15 PM

Congrats. I did the patch too and couldn't have quit without it. I started smoking when I was sixteen and smoked about 5 packs a month for the last 16 years. This last year was really stressful so I was smoking a pack a day. It was expensive as cigarettes here are $9 a pack and I just hated the way it made me feel. So I bought a 2 week supply of 21mg patches. I wore each patch for 24 hours. After the two weeks of patches I went cold turkey without any nicotine and started running 4 miles a day. I haven't smoked in 2 months and it's amazing how your smell and taste gets so much stronger. I have a bunch of friends who still smoke and want to quit and I keep telling them to go on the patch, but they don't believe me that it works.

Have you slept with the patch on? They say you have really vivid and weird dreams if you do, but I never had any.

starman · Jan 18, 2009, 05:55 PM

Spend more time in the hot babes thread. That should keep your mind off smoking

Ghoser777 · Jan 18, 2009, 06:17 PM

Well, I don't think that will help when he's "done" with the Hot Babes Thread.

turtle777 · Jan 18, 2009, 06:18 PM

-t

mattyb · Jan 19, 2009, 04:53 AM

Originally Posted by waxcrash

Congrats. I did the patch too and couldn't have quit without it. I started smoking when I was sixteen and smoked about 5 packs a month for the last 16 years. This last year was really stressful so I was smoking a pack a day. It was expensive as cigarettes here are $9 a pack and I just hated the way it made me feel. So I bought a 2 week supply of 21mg patches. I wore each patch for 24 hours. After the two weeks of patches I went cold turkey without any nicotine and started running 4 miles a day. I haven't smoked in 2 months and it's amazing how your smell and taste gets so much stronger. I have a bunch of friends who still smoke and want to quit and I keep telling them to go on the patch, but they don't believe me that it works.

Have you slept with the patch on? They say you have really vivid and weird dreams if you do, but I never had any.

No I don't sleep with the patch. The type that I have explicitly says to not wear it when sleeping. I've never smoked while sleeping so ...

Smell and taste are already stronger, the smokers in the office stink !!! My wife says that my clothes smell better. My daughter says that I smell better.

I've got a months worth of 21mg and I'm going to stay on that for a while. Then of course I'll go down to 14mg. I'm going to take my time getting off the patches, the last time that I tried giving up, I tried rushing it. Going through A LOT of chewing gum at the moment.

Jawbone54 · Jan 19, 2009, 12:51 PM

Keep up the good work.

Not smelling like death is only one of the many benefits.

dcmacdaddy · Jan 19, 2009, 01:18 PM

If my count is correct, tomorrow will be day 14 for you. And that means you now start counting the time without a cigarette in weeks instead of days. Keep up the good work.

PS: Think about how giving up smoking will extend your life. Now, you can plan to spend even more of your retirement years glued to the web wasting time in the MacNN Lounge.