Quit Smoking! FIGHT ME!

[OldTimeAFLGuy]

3 hours ago, Bill from NYC said:

Try again Bro. You can do it!

 

...I have to do it...thanks for the support and encouragement my friend...

[Bill from NYC]

7 hours ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said:

 

...I have to do it...thanks for the support and encouragement my friend...

PM me if you need support.

 

I will never insult someone for smoking. Many people who do have their own demons. I don't lecture either but you will save a TON of money and your life.

[frostbitmic]

After smoking for 40 years I gave up cigarettes 2 years ago. Once in a great while I get a craving that lasts just a minute or two. Soon you'll get to the point where you realize just how bad they smell and that'll help you stay quit.

[Bakin]

19 hours ago, Bill from NYC said:

PM me if you need support.

 

I will never insult someone for smoking. Many people who do have their own demons. I don't lecture either but you will save a TON of money and your life.

Same. 
I’m not a success story yet but I can send you the book if it helps. 
 

UPDATE: Yesterday (day 13)

was very tough at points. 
I was so aggravated.

Normally, I'm a very relaxed guy but my family was annoying the Piss out of me and I wanted them all to just ***** off or become cigarettes so I could smoke them. 
 

I was cooking and when I had some down moments I really was craving. I breathed through it. But it was challenging. 
 

my sleep has been bad too the last 4 or 5 nights. I keep waking up at 4:30am. Most nights I eventually fall back asleep but like clockwork - 430am. Super annoying. 

Edited March 1, 2020 by Bakin

[OldTimeAFLGuy]

54 minutes ago, frostbitmic said:

After smoking for 40 years I gave up cigarettes 2 years ago. Once in a great while I get a craving that lasts just a minute or two. Soon you'll get to the point where you realize just how bad they smell and that'll help you stay quit.

 

...fellas, here is my profession to ignorance and sheer stupidity.....my late wife had severe emphysema, SEVERE.....get up to go to the bathroom and needed a cig before going back to bed...lit the next one with the previous one...signed her up for lung transplant consideration at Cleveland Clinic.....18 months of trips from Rochester before she was finally qualified when lung capacity dipped to 8%.....HIGHLY successful double lung transplant in April 2015......three days before we were due to come home for Memorial Day 2015, she suffers a debilitating stroke resulting in right side paralysis....clots formed around the jugular IV ...they left her unattended in her bed paralyzed, with no bed rails and she fell out, smashing her head on the floor and dying from a brain hemorrhage..because 10 days elapsed from stroke to brain hemorrhage, lawsuit was thrown out (Cleveland Clinic lawyers high powered?...naw)..BCBS paid $500K and this is how it ended up......

[Bill from NYC]

21 minutes ago, OldTimeAFLGuy said:

 

...fellas, here is my profession to ignorance and sheer stupidity.....my late wife had severe emphysema, SEVERE.....get up to go to the bathroom and needed a cig before going back to bed...lit the next one with the previous one...signed her up for lung transplant consideration at Cleveland Clinic.....18 months of trips from Rochester before she was finally qualified when lung capacity dipped to 8%.....HIGHLY successful double lung transplant in April 2015......three days before we were due to come home for Memorial Day 2015, she suffers a debilitating stroke resulting in right side paralysis....clots formed around the jugular IV ...they left her unattended in her bed paralyzed, with no bed rails and she fell out, smashing her head on the floor and dying from a brain hemorrhage..because 10 days elapsed from stroke to brain hemorrhage, lawsuit was thrown out (Cleveland Clinic lawyers high powered?...naw)..BCBS paid $500K and this is how it ended up......

What is BCBS?

54 minutes ago, Bakin said:

Same. 
I’m not a success story yet but I can send you the book if it helps. 
 

UPDATE: Yesterday (day 13)

was very tough at points. 
I was so aggravated.

Normally, I'm a very relaxed guy but my family was annoying the Piss out of me and I wanted them all to just ***** off or become cigarettes so I could smoke them. 
 

I was cooking and when I had some down moments I really was craving. I breathed through it. But it was challenging. 
 

my sleep has been bad too the last 4 or 5 nights. I keep waking up at 4:30am. Most nights I eventually fall back asleep but like clockwork - 430am. Super annoying. 

OK but this is progress. It will get better, I promise you. You have to pray and suffer through it and it will be well worth it.

[OldTimeAFLGuy]

26 minutes ago, Bill from NYC said:

What is BCBS?

OK but this is progress. It will get better, I promise you. You have to pray and suffer through it and it will be well worth it.

 

...it is Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield.......the national umbrella is Anthem Blue Cross........

[rockpile]

I started smoking regularly (inhaling) when I was thirteen. I knew I should quit but I was hooked like a crack addict by the time I was eighteen.

 

Fast forward. When I was 44, I was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. I began treating the MS but never stopped smoking. After a while I asked my doctor what he though my future would be like, like the far distant age of say 65. He said they might have a cure, but I would probably be sick or dead if I did not stop smoking!

 

I took that to heart and eventually quit within six months . It was the hardest thing I ever did!!

I started working out at the gym at work so my brain was beginning to associate work with working out, not work with smoke breaks.

 

Now I am sixty freaking six and they still have no cure for MS, but I do not smoke and do not want to smoke. I have slowed down, because of my MS, but I would probably be dead if I never stopped smoking.

[WhoTom]

I have a buddy who smoked since high school. He quit 16 years ago when he had circulation problems in his fingers, and his doctor told him that nicotine was the cause. He's in much better health, now. 

 

[BillsFan4]

I read that one of the things they’ve learned from COVID19 in China is that if you are 40+ and smoke, it raises your chances of dying by 8-10%.

 

I’m not sure if it’s true, but either way, use it as motivation to stay smoke free!! 

 

Thats a significantly higher risk. Say you are in the lower risk category, 2.5 - 3.5%.

Being a smoker above the age of 40 would put your risk at 12.5 - 13.5%, basically moving you into the highest risk category.

[bbb]

The subject line reminds me of this strange ad campaign from the 70s

 

[Seasons1992]

On 3/2/2020 at 1:41 PM, rockpile said:

I started smoking regularly (inhaling) when I was thirteen. I knew I should quit but I was hooked like a crack addict by the time I was eighteen.

 

Fast forward. When I was 44, I was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. I began treating the MS but never stopped smoking. After a while I asked my doctor what he though my future would be like, like the far distant age of say 65. He said they might have a cure, but I would probably be sick or dead if I did not stop smoking!

 

I took that to heart and eventually quit within six months . It was the hardest thing I ever did!!

I started working out at the gym at work so my brain was beginning to associate work with working out, not work with smoke breaks.

 

Now I am sixty freaking six and they still have no cure for MS, but I do not smoke and do not want to smoke. I have slowed down, because of my MS, but I would probably be dead if I never stopped smoking.

 

GOOD FOR YOU. We look forward to your reviews!