doctor visit thursday

thank you so much for your reply I know the terrible feeling of watching my own dad suffer with this disease he did quit smoking cold turkey when he was 50 and never went to the doctors until after my mom passed we had to convince him they did find he had emphazima he was 79 a year latter he was put on oxegen and before the tank he was an active man then when he had to carry the tank everywere he went he kinda gave up felt like a burden he slowly died everyday then at 81 he passed away so you would think that me seeing this would have gave me a jolt but it didnt I can say however last night I went to bed only had 3 ciggerettes left normally I would have ran to get more but no It is now 10.30 the next day and I proudly still have 1 left so I really do think I can do this say a prayer for me Im to young for this thank-you  hugs

thank you for the reply so far today Ihave only had three ciggerettes and for me thats a mile stone I dont have any left in the house and trying my best not to run to the store(actually drive if I tried to run Id be laid out on the road)lol a little humor anyway Im going to try and try again Ive done it before years ago so I know I can do it now thank-you hugs

Way to go! One of the things that help me a lot was what they called the 4 Ds of quitting: Distract, Drink water, Delay and I forget the last one. When you get the urge to smoke, distract yourself with doing something (my place was incredibly clean and neat for the first couple of weeks), take a drink of water or tell yourself you're going to delay having a cigarette for another 15 minutes. When I was quitting, I read somewhere that a craving tends to not last more than five minutes at a time, so if you can make it through those five minutes, you're good for a while. Of course, you'll have those five minutes of cravings all the time, especially the first three days, but hang in there.  They become less and less frequent.

Another thing that helped me was to separate what I wanted from what the addiction to cigarettes wanted. Every time I thought I wanted to smoke, I rephrased it and said to myself that I did not want to smoke, it was the addiction that wanted a cigarette. Realizing that I wanted something different than the addiction wanted made it easier to fight.

I would say the last d you couldnt remember is dont( LOL) seriously I dont know what it would be but it made sence right .and you are right my house never been so clean its funny I do find it hard when Im on the computer not to light up and I play alot of computer games and the dam thing would only burn out sitting there anyway so why should I bother to light one up anyway thanks for the support Im going to do this no matter what it takes    

I hear you - my hardest times were the computer and when I was on the phone. But you get there, one situation associated with smoking at a time.

Please let us know how things go?

thank-you so much for replying and It makes it seem a little eiaser and fun to know someone elese out there is desperatly trying this addiction do you know that trying to quit smoking is harder than an heroin addict quitting that its true read up on it thats crazy and the really sad thing is my insurence and proberly most others will pay for an addict to go through rehab and get meds free but I have to pay 170.00+70.00+50.00 dollers for a CO_PAY for the meds my doctor just perscibed last week well needless to say I could only afford the 50 doller one last week this week I will pay for the 70 dolller one and then the week after that the other now how is it suppose to help my illness like that Im almost scared to find ouy if they would even cover the oxegen i f I end up on it this country and there ins thingy is crazy they would rather pay you to quit your job and go on social security disability than help a person get healthy and I pay alot for my ins premium at my job anyway I wish you and your husband the best and I would really love to here from you again so we together can give a little support  keep up the good workI know we can  hugs

Ohhhh yeah, it is very, very very, hard to quit!  It's as hard...if not harder than lossing weight-when you have a real weight problem that is. And i have that problem too! G-whiz

-i'm full of problems.  Whell 1 problem at a time! I have already give up on the weight thing,lol.

It is going to be a hard journey, but we can do this...people do it all the time.