You can do it! If you conquered the other addictions!

Drink alot of water and acidic fruit juice like tomato and orange juice the first week, it helps to flush the nicotine out of your system.

I smoked today...mea culpa..I have had 3 cigarettes...at odd hours. 7:00/9:00/11:00 I normally would have had half a pack.

I think one of the reasons I want to quit so badly is that to me smoking is a death wish. Each cigarette is saying I want to die. I don't want to die!!!!...LOL I like living too damned much. I felt good this morning on the way to work...cranked up the radio LOUD..."Ain't No Mountain High Enough" was on and I sang on the way to work.

I feel so much better already, did not have my normal coughing fit when I woke up. The old body trying to tell me something isn't it???

By the way I am not one of those people who thinks that if I quit you have to quit too. I know what it is like to enjoy your cigarettes.

Quitting is an individual decision. I am at a stable place right now, son is doing well, marriage good, job good, all systems are go for doing it. If things were't like that I would hesitate. But, right now is a good time for me. Each person is different. I am at my window of opportunity.

I managed to quit for two months once and the only way I did it was to get on the treadmill for 45 minutes- AS SOON AS I GOT UP- to avoid the 1st smoke of the morning. Just climbed on in my pajamas and started running!

Obviously that didn't last long- still smoking! But a coworker told me today that cigarettes are going up to $10 per pack!!!!!!!!!!!!! So maybe that's a good thing- because at a pack and a half a day I will NOT spend that much on cigarettes! No way! Exercise (even though I hate it), eating normal meals, and going out to non smoking places helps. Cold Turkey works the best for me. But, as I said, I still smoke, so what do I know! LOL