Tomorrow is February 21st. According to the almanac, that is one of the days in February that is a good day to quit smoking. A supportive friend suggested checking the almanac because a lot of people swear by it.

So far, Mandy and I are quitting tomorrow. I thought I would throw it out there to anyone else that wants to quit smoking. Sometimes it is easier to quit when you know other people are doing it at the same time. As they say, misery loves company!

If you would like to join us tomorrow on our quest for better health, let us know by commenting here. Actually, why not become part of the community too? There can be up to 100 writers on this blog. I would love to see this become somewhat of a quit smoking forum. We could all talk about our experiences and be in it together. You don’t have to be a “writer” to post here. Heck, I am not a writer, I just play one on the internet! Let me know if you want to write on the “forum” too and I will get you in.

Thank you Deanne for your well wishes. You sound like you are doing great! Your attitude and sense of humor will get you through it.

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I totally agree with you about the drugs and the side effects of them, most of the ones shown on TV have more things they can cause than things they can cure.
I sure wouldn’t like what those drugs were doing to you, I once took Buspar and it worked fine then several years later I tried it and I was so woozier and shaky I couldn’t even get up with out hanging on to something, so that was the end of those, I flushed them down the pot. I know you said you aren’t a hypochondriac but I think I might be to some extent, I mean I can’t even watch a medical show on TV with out getting the willies thinking that sounds like something I have, lol. I know it is silly. But even with that, I don’t like to take meds, there are a couple I guess I do need but not a lot, the point I am getting at is I am afraid of what some meds can do to a person’s body, and they preach all the time about how bad smoking is,
I guess the really best way to stop smoking is just to make up your mind and not touch another one, and I do definitely know how hard that is to do, I still have times I would sure like to have a smoke but I just tell my self that that isn’t going to happen and with in a few seconds I have given up the idea.
I think I am actually finely starting to feel better than I did before I stopped smoking, I was starting to think I have goofed up by stopping but now since I think I finely got over what ever it was that I had, I can breathe easier and not as short of breath.
I know one thing you have going for you is you really want to stop and maybe if you think of the positive things about not smoking it might help you. Just think of all the new shoes you can buy with the money you save, lol.
You remember how much accomplishment you felt when you stopped for those 5 days? Well you can get that back again and even if you fall off the wagon again, just keep trying and if you make it longer each time then in a while you will stop completely and you will pass the point of feeling you are compelled to light up when those urges hit. As I have said lots of times, it isn’t difficult for me to not smoke, in fact one of my daughters was just here and she asked me if I was sure it was ok for her to smoke, and I said sure, it didn’t bother me at all other than it kind of stinks.
Anyway, I am glad you aren’t on those meds any longer, I can almost tell from your writing that it was messing up your disposition you seemed more aggressive or something not the way you usually write.
Ok, good luck to all.
VernonI

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How to quit smoking with drugs? This post is dedicated to all you those who think that quitting smoking with drugs is a good solution to get rid of this life killing addiction. Many people still don’t understand that the problem of smoking is making the human kind more ill each and every day. Cancer is one of the most wide spread disease related problems that literally murders thousands of innocent people almost every year. So what can be done about it? If talking seriously, there are too many different kinds of interests that make the cigarette and tobacco market extremely profitable. It’s impossible to make the smoking addiction disappear once and for all from this world.

However, the other part of the smoking puzzle is also growing extremely large with the new health market products which make quitting smoking much easy and claim that the unique and only answer for this is acquiring the latest quit smoking pill, getting the awesome quit smoking medication and generally buying all the quit smoking drugs when they are possible to be acquire on this market. In my opinion this is extremely naive. People have to understand that the real solutions about quitting smoking is hidden in one’s desire to change something about his or her life, not in the so called ultimate product that can ease your pain.

Cravings are something natural when trying to quit smoking. If you are a serious smoker and while trying to make this addiction go away by reducing the nicotine dose on a daily basis and you simply don’t feel any cravings it means that something is terribly wrong because a normal person would simply die off some incredible pain that is making one go nuts. No folks, I’m not trying to scare you I just want to say that quitting smoking has to be hard in order for that person to realize the big step that he or she is actually making. It can be easy, because if getting rid of tobacco addiction would be so simple than coming back to it would be as easy as quitting so there must be a great balance in order to produce the necessary harmony.

So why do you think that people continue to purchase quit smoking drugs so often, especially on the internet? Do they actually believe in all that is being told to them about the huge effects that are going to help every smoker out there quit smoking without experiencing at least the basic nuances of cravings? Well, I can’t surely say much about this but it seems so. People actually are afraid to take important decisions in their life and when doing something that important as overcoming the tobacco addiction then just want to secure their success and not to feel any pain. Being afraid is not an option and you should be that person that understands it if you want to succeed in your smoking cessation attempts. You should be paying more attention to natural ways to quit smoking.

That’s why most drugs to help you quit smoking are probably going to reduce the usual pain that a smoker is feeling, but won’t solve the whole addiction problem in the long run. I would like to suggest that before purchasing any quit smoking drugs you have to carefully analyze all the secondary effects about that particular medication. Search for reviews on the internet because you’ll be surprised about how people write about these issues. Those who are trying to sell you stuff will be hyping it up like always but you can also stumble upon many different honest reviews that will show you the right way. Anyway, quitting smoking is about not giving up and continuing to struggle until success.

Now if you want to find out more about drug detox feel free to visit my friends website “Spiritual River” – a great resource that is going to help you get rid of any drug addiction. Patrick will definitely give you some solid advice.

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Quit Smoking Calculator Honest Review

A quit smoking calculator is basically a software that let’s you track results and realize how much money you spend on nicotine or how many hours of your life you give away when inhaling an x number of cigarettes. This is interesting and I would like to talk about quit smoking calculator today as this is an interesting feature that many websites offer and we would like to provide more information and make some things clear if possible. However, it is well known that people usually don’t take action even after searching a quit smoking calculator on a website and visualizing some results about their smoking life time activity. Well, what can we do about it. It is the human nature and we are too ignorant to consider new offers and make things really happen. This is not true only for those that can act fast and don’t really fall in the trap of the quit smoking market. On our quit smoking news site we are looking to publish the latest industry news and in the future we are going to review the well known quitting programs. So stay tuned because more interesting information is coming up. You can also call your friends and family – all those heavy smokers. Still considering our how to quit smoking methods ineffective? Read further.

There is definitely more to say about the quit smoking calculator. Unfortunately, we might praise ourselves a little bit that we do okay with writing long ramblings and very informative post on quitting smoking and the secondary effects of quit smoking medication but we do not have the necessary knowledge (yet) in programming and web design (as you can already probably notice from the poor ugly template of this blog. We are trying to help people quit smoking and we are not interested in fancy lookouts. It is what it is – if you understand please accept it if you don’t please leave a kind comment and feedback and take your future voyage in the world of internet quit smoking programs. Please take a close look and observe that we are very attentive and publish each and every comment because we understand that our readers have the right to see things in their way. We receive good comments, bad comments but generally people praise us for the work that we are doing her and for our zen like quit smoking methods.

The idea to write a post about quit smoking calculator came in our mind the moment we realized that this a good way to reach more people and help more smokers out there kick the habit. With that in mind we started to query our big search engine with the quotes term “quit smoking calculator” in order to get some good websites and see if people are really willing to promote that kind of method and to see if it really works. In other words, we would like to introduce you to a revolutionary vision on realizing how bad is smoking for your health and for you to see that it requires not only knowledge and information for someone to start his smoking cessation campaign but also making a commitment and following it till the end is crucial. This is the main benefit that a quit smoking calculator can offer you after all. If you disagree please write us an email or ask some questions in the comments and we will be more then happy to answer you all.

If you ever stumbled upon hypnotherapy as a method to quit smoking then you might probably see that it has a very interesting approach towards the psychological aspect of making the patient realize what is really happening to him. The quit smoking calculator is in some cases as a tool to open the eyes of many and make they feel the real danger behind smoking. A few months ago when we just launched this blog we had a huge banner with “every eight seconds someone dies from tobacco”. We did this on purpose and analyzed the bounce rate of people that really have a need and would like to find out more tips to help them quit smoking. We noticed that people got scared and run away and that is basically because everything that is being done is being done with the purpose in mind of every method being humble and treating them as patients. Our zen like quit smoking approach verbally beats people and make them ignorant and a little bit naive and so forth and so on. This is how we work, this is our method.

We also published some articles that were hard to read on this blog as also and experiment and we came up with the idea that it doesn’t have any effect. Smokers are extremely nervous and they are looking for someone to talk to them kindly and not to irritate them. Everyone that visited the website and read the uninteresting article felt bad and left in a matter of five seconds and there is no mystery why. It is just because they feel so suspicious that they are heading the wrong way and in the subconscious someone is telling them to take another cigarette, light it up and inhale the smoke. This is alright – it just works this way. There are many natural ways to stop smoking out there but we are tying to show people the one that we used to overcome nicotine addiction and that one was making an iron will and a proper commitment that takes the words at a totally another level. It is just a matter of time till people start to realize that no quit smoking prescription is going to help them achieve the same level of understanding and results as a good proper decision can help them. All we can do is wait for the world to change and still work in the meantime, after all, it is all about the money results in the quit smoking calculator.

For all those who tried acupuncture to quit smoking after realizing that they are spending more then 40% of their monthly income on cigarettes and on the quitting smoking industry products we have a good offer. Please listen carefully. There is no best method or trick or report or hypnotism method to save you from smoking daily. It’s about our will, it’s about your own decisions and it’s about things that work fine. We are not trying to impose any ideas as being correct or wrong we are just trying to show you something that works and something that people should really consider from time to time. It just has to be so and we are now trying to make it happen.

So, is a quit smoking calculator a good way to make you realize that there is basically nothing wrong with your life. Yes, it is. In fact, it might give you enough data for you to realize that if you are really working hard to make that money so that you might understand that each time someone is telling you something you must go and ask them for their opinion. It is simple as that. There are no best ways to quit smoking, most of the things that happen to you in life are the results of your own actions.
For example we are going to use one of our previous posts that digged a lot of comments from our users and regular readers. It is called giving up smoking side effects and it rocked away everyone with the information provided there.

So are we joking? Not at all. Do you feel that it’s time to change something in your life? Yes you probably do. Do you have the necessary will to start and make the first step? Probably not. Well then, our blog is not just a simple quit smoking blog. It is a different zen link approach towards getting rid of nicotine dependence and it works as far as we remember. It really does, and people are proud and people are having good results and people are going to live a smokeless life from now on. You have nothing to lose even if you are a beginner. Make the first step. Try it out. Quit smoking now! Break this habit. Change your life.

If a quit smoking calculator can help you do this then give it a try. It really worth the deal, it really does.

God bless,
Charlie Rotario (ex-smoker for more then 20 years)

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Originally posted 2010-03-19 15:53:03. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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In the basis of clinical studies, not everyone increases its body weight when they tend to stop smoking; however, the average weight gain is about 10 pounds. The gain in weight could be manifested when someone has smoked for 10 to 20 years or smokes a pack or more a day. Water maintenance may cause an unreliable weight gain of up to 5 pounds in a week after stopping the bad habit, but mind you, this is not a real weight gain. Your body will go back to normal in due time.

Even if you increase your weight when you stop smoking, the health risks of smoking are greater, you would have to increase your weight over 150 pounds to make your health risks as high as when you are smoking. You can see the difference when you stop smoking.

Some of the most important factors of preventing increase in weight when you stop smoking are;

1. Physical Activity

• In order to prevent the increase in your body weight at this point in time, you need to change your lifestyle and become more physically active. When you engage in some physical activities while on the verge of quitting smoking, may remind you how much smoking slows you down, manifesting poor performance in those activities. You will have a little trouble in breathing or coughing during exercise may then be experienced.

• Engaging in physical activities will not only help you to control your body weight, but will also supply you more energy. It will also enhance your health and naturally will take you mind off smoking. It will also help relieve the stress and mood swings that can manifest as a result of withdrawal from the addictive substance.

• What you can do at first is to try to perform at least 30 minutes of physical activities on frequent days even if it is in shorter increments. You might think that physical activity comprises only of planned exercise, it may also include taking the stairs, gardening, playing with children, etc.

2. Healthy Eating Habits

• Included in the change of lifestyle is your healthy eating habit. It can gradually help prevent increase in weight and also you will feel better as you stop your smoking habit. However, changing your way of eating too quickly may increase the stress and tantrums you feel as you try to quit smoking. Eating variety of foods everyday is a proper way of starting, and eating regularly so you never get too hungry.

• One good tip is to not try to prevent smoking during a stressful period. This can intensify the said stress that you are experiencing that can lead to eating extra snacks, especially over the holidays when more food is on the table.

1. Management of cravings

• • The moment you quit smoking, it is very crucial to learn on how to reduce your cravings for both cigarettes and food. Based on clinical studies, a craving only lasts for 5 minutes. And if you can fin a way to distract yourself in a matter of five minutes, the craving will naturally pass.

• • Find alternative worthwhile activities that can be a replacement for smoking. Be sure that you are also using your mouth and hands on those activities. You can replace snacks by eating fruits or chewing gum to satisfy any sweet cravings. Keep your hands busy with drawing, sketching, doodling or whatever you want just to distract your craving.

• • Try to drink less amount of caffeine; the wrong connotation is that several people think it will make you feel better; caffeine can worsen the jumpy nervous feeling that may be in coherence with nicotine withdrawal.

• • Always remember the acronym H.A.L.T – never let yourself get to Hungry, Angry, Lonely or Tired.

• • Decrease your tension by meditating, doing a YOGA exercise, taking a walk or taking deep breath. Find some alternative that will replace smoking as a way of relaxation which can be transformed in to a hobby.

• • Seek for encouragement and support; talk to your best friend when you get the craving to smoke; talk about something worthwhile other than the topic of smoking.

• • Create a list on when and where you are most tempted to smoke, and try to list healthy activities you can substitute when you have the urge to smoke. Try not to dwell on things that is related to smoking; activities that can provoke you from smoking such as drinking or socializing in a bar. Do not eat when you are not hungry.

• • If you are besiege or uneasy about trying to stop the habit of smoking, try to talk with your doctor about nicotine replacement with the use of nicotine gums and patches. This process can prevent a relapse. To add to that, nicotine gum can also help in reducing the weight gain.

1. Positive attitude

• When your mind is on the verge on quitting the bad habit of smoking and healing your body, your exercise and eating goals will become easier. When you stop the bad habit, you can breathe and get around faster. You will realize that nutritious foods such as fruits and vegetables tastes way better when you are not smoking.

• Maintain a positive outlook in life and try not to panic about a minimal weight gain; if and when your body weight increases, your healthy habits will be the key on regaining back your normal weight. If you need more guidance with regards to this issue, consult your doctor or general dietician.
• Always think big, be confident that you are making a healthy and beneficial choice.

Originally posted 2009-03-29 14:39:31. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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Being the hypochondriac that I am, I sure would not like the side effects of that med. And I talked to two people about smoking or not smoking actually, one is the guy that brings our shop towels , he had been a non smoker for 5 years now, and he did it the same as I did, just put them down and not let himself pick one up again, he said he thinks the only way to quit is not using the patches, gums and all the rest,, you just have to be able to tell yourself NO,,, and mean it, and stick to it .. I know that is hard to do but I kind of tend to agree with him.
Then the UPS lady was there today and she is wanting her hubby to stop smoking as he already has some copd. She mentioned the med you are taking and she said she has hear some bad things about it,, and from what you just said, I kind of think it has some unpleasant side effects. In some cases the cure is worse than the ailment..
I wish what ever frame of mind I got into that night I decided to quit would happen to you and everyone else that is trying so hard to stop smoking,, I already said this before but as much as I smoked and for as long as I smoked it was really not that difficult,, I pretty much just told myself , enough was enough and in a way I even kind of dared myself by leaving my cigarettes on top of the frig, so every time I opened the door to get a soda or anything,, there they were,, right at eye level. As a matter of fact, they are still there,, way too stale and strong to smoke now anyway.. but as I said,, I am stubborn and once I make up my mind on something I intend for it to be just that way .
I don’t know, maybe slap yourself on the cheek every time you want a smoke.. lol.. well better not.. might look like you were in a prize fight after the day was done.. lol.
I think I said I didn’t use any substitute but I think in a way I did.. I like peanuts in the shell, so I got lots of those and when I would be here at the computer I would crack and eat them, that is something that takes two hands pretty much so that kept my hands busy, if I ate canned peanuts I would still have one hand free to smoke with… I now one guy that is now hooked on sunflower seeds since he started chewing on them when he stopped smoking.
I know it seems like I am writing a book but if I and help anyone in any way to stop smoking I would love to do that, and it is rewarding to me to get to say , I don’t smoke anymore,, that isn’t to say I look down on smokers, and I never will, I feel they don’t have many rights anymore and I don’t feel that is fair at all .
Well, good luck to all . Vernon

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Originally posted 2010-03-24 15:38:12. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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I am smoking again. There’s just too much going on right now for me to focus on it. I admit that I’m weak but I’m not giving up. I’ll get there again.

My throat feels like crap and my breathing is bad. I went for a physical the other day and passed with flying colors. I guess I’m healthy at the moment. Hopefully I can quit someday while I’m still healthy.

I’m thinking of trying again on Monday. We’ll see!

I feel like I have that smell again. That awful stale stench of an ashtray. How appealing. Even though I’m smoking at the moment I think I’ll continue to write. It helps with stress and my struggle to get back to being a non-smoker. It’s so easy sometimes to forget why we were doing this in the first place.

Heather was supposed to fly into Key West this weekend for vacation and to see my brother but it looks like it’ll be postponed. How crazy is this weather??? I’m just glad that she didn’t get there before the hurricane hit. Now I just hope my brother evacuates.

It’s been an exhausting day and week. I can’t believe it’s only Wednesday. I need a vacation. I think I’ll wait until after hurricane season.

That’s it for tonight considering I’m too tired to type.

Note to Ellen: I’m so sorry to hear about you Mother in Law. You are so strong to be able to get through such a tragedy and not smoke. My best to you and your whole family.

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I was talking to a friend who is still a smoker recently about the UK ban on smoking in enclosed spaces. Naturally he feels quite miffed that he is now unable to light up while at the pub and expressed his annoyance at the pressure he now feels to quit the habit.

“If I gave up of my own accord then that would be fine.” he said; “But the fact is that I still enjoy smoking, so why should I quit just because the government say I should?”

I think the defining message there is that he still ‘enjoys’ his cigarettes. Of course, what he really means is that he is very much addicted to the nicotine in cigarettes. The so called ‘enjoyment’ is simply the body’s gratitude for getting another fix of a powerful drug it has become dependant on. Trust me; I was a smoker for 23 years and I have been there!

Anyway, my point is that if you are a smoker looking for help on quitting, don’t expect to find a way to stop the ‘enjoyment’ or wake up one day and decide that you don’t like it any more. It does take a certain amount of willpower to quit, even with NRT or other support, but it can be done as I have proved. Just be realistic about it and don’t kid yourself with excuses.

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Originally posted 2010-03-14 16:26:29. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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I will be quitting on 01/01/06. This is my last quit. Going back to smoking has not helped me lose the weight that I have gained so why bother smoking. It’s making me sick and I hate it.

I was asked by about.com’s Terry Martin to be a guest blogger on their website starting in December. What could be a better incentive above the ones I already have. This will be my last quit because this one will be forever.

My blog on about.com will begin on 12/15 and I will post the link here once I get started. In the meantime I’ll continue to post here and try and cut down to get ready. A new Years resolution will be a good way to quit I think. I don’t think I’ve made a New years resolution before. If this one works I’ll never need to make another one. This one will be to save my life.

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Originally posted 2010-03-26 15:34:56. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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Hey everyone,

Thought I would drop a post on this group blog, just to introduce myself and my progress in trying to quit smoking.

I made the decision to quit in early February, having been a smoker for over five years. Going from smoking one pack a day to nothing at all was a real challenge, especially as I’m in my final semester at university – probably the most stressful period in my life that I have encountered thus far. The first month was the toughest; all my friends would pop outside the pub for a cigarette and I’d be left inside on my own – those are the times when you really feel like giving in. But I persevered and kept focussed. Then came the set-back of having an influx of job rejections (I’m trying to find a graduate job at the moment). However, I stuck to it and didn’t give in. Not once. No matter how much I wanted to smoke, I just took a deep breath, and said to myself ‘No’.

I now haven’t smoked for almost 2 months. I think I’m over the worst of it, but you never know what’s round the corner. However, I’m confident of achieving success.

If anyone needs any advice on how to quit – I’ve come up with a few exercises that might be of help. Let me know if you’re interested; I’d be happy to help.

Anyways, hope all is good.

Joey

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