My Last Cigarette!

[Pekka]

oh yeah spoken like a true communist.. that failed once and forever.

Unlike winners. I fail, all the time, but I keep on going stronger. There's no true success without some low points. Makes a greater impact. And that's just what I'll do. I've made up my mind about this anyway. A way or another, I'll be smoke free soon.

And Japher, if you need any help for motivation or anything on your low moments, just post, I'll whip you out of it.

[chequita guevara]

It's not a motivator, dumbass. Just a little reward from one ex-smoker to others.

[Urban Ranger]

A great motivator is to have a friend beat the living daylights out of you whenever you restart Not this slapping around BS, either. More like haymakers to the solar plexus.

I also read somewhere there's a new sustance that you can take that will make smoking taste truly awful. Seriously

[Winston]

Nice gesture from the forum far left relic there.

And as long as I'm feeling mellow, I think Pekka deserves a big for starting this thread in the first place. I've thought about it often this past week, I'm apparently giving up smoking mainly because I said so on an internet message board, everything else I've tried having failed over the years. Crazy!

[Pekka]

yeah that's because you got pressure on you now. Plus, I think few other individuals are also making progress, so it's good to be on the same stages through the battle.

[Urban Ranger]

Peer pressure.

Sometimes you can use it to your advantage.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
To those about not to smoke, I salute you!

Here's a little incentive for you all. Any of you who make it six months without smoking can have me put something you want (anything within forum limits) in my sig (cig ). Not Winston, however. He can chose a new avatar for me. It's an honor system, so I'm hoping you don't start smoking and then trick me.

Good luck guys. Here's to making me look like a total fool.

I've got 16 years and six months of it. Can I put something in?

[chequita guevara]

No, you don't smoke.

[Winston]

*Bump*

I want to know how people are doing out there. Monk, Japher, Emperor Fabulous, Pekka, Kidicious, Japher's wife and Monk's pet turtle! Are you ok?

I said I didn't want to post here daily about myself, but this morning I passed the 10 day mark, which I just wanted everybody in the whole wide world to know.

And contrary to my original plan, I'm off the patches as well. For 4 days now. I don't feel like I'm tempting fate, since I can always go back if need be, but so far I've managed without them. I woke up Thursday morning and the patch had fallen off during the night, so I thought I'd see if I could go without them. So far so good...

Enough about me. Monk's turtle is what we're most concerned about!

[-Jrabbit]

Winston, you rock. Now that you've made the leap, stay off the patch! You're almost totally there.

Pekka, hang in there and keep trying, man. You can do this. Remember, nothing worthwhile is easy.

[Natalinasmpf]

I woke up Thursday morning and the patch had fallen off during the night, so I thought I'd see if I could go without them. So far so good...

Neo-Pavlovian conditioning + doublethink + willpower

[Winston]

Ok, since I'm apparently the only one who's still on this thing (or wants to post here saying as much), and considering this thread will soon sink very quickly, I'll just bump it one final time to say the following.

*) Tomorrow morning it'll be 2 weeks without smoking for me.

*) I now feel I'm past it, and I don't see myself ever going back, primarily because I cannot risk the detrimental effects to my health that will eventually show themselves in force. I don't doubt this for a second.

*) In the unlikely event that I should start smoking, I'll let you know by mentioning it somewhere in a posting. I don't want people who took a sincere interest in my struggle, to keep thinking I've quit if in fact I haven't.

*) Lastly and most important of all, I want to send a big THANK YOU to all of you who've taken the trouble of giving advice, encouragement and shown your interest by posting your own experiences and the like. Or who've just simply posted anything in this thread, because it has all helped me to break free of the addiction I was under for so long.

Thanks again, this place is really special and you guys are great motivators.

And good luck to anybody out there who wants to end their habit. We can start up a thing like this again anytime there's a need for it. I know I'll be there trying to help out the best I can, and so will a lot of other guys here.

[Serb]

Well done

[ricketyclik]

Winston, remember this: cigarette manufacturers add over 100 addictive substances to tobacco, each of which has their own half life. If you find yourself craving 3, 6 or 12 months down the track, it is because your receptor sites have had one of these substances metabolised out of them.

I only say this so you know what's going on; knowledge is power.

Good luck

[Az]

Good luck, winston.