Smoking update.............Again

[Jeremy A]

Well its friday and I wanted to tell you wall about my week.

My wife was not feeling well all week, and she was pretty craby all week. I seem to be a little short temperd myself latley. So we had a couple night of fighting after work... Thats life, we work our crap out, talk it over, then kiss and make up.

The last time I quit smoking this along with my grandfather haveing cancer is what pushed me over the edge.

We, I had some very, very tuff moments this week. This has been the hardest week so far, in some ways. But in others it was the best week yet. when I want to smoke now it only lasts a short time, then I am fine.

So here's the update
One month, four days, 8 hours, 18 minutes and 56 seconds
(more enargy to walk the shrore line)

1293 cigarettes not smoked
(No more Bait smelling like smoke)

saving $226.42
(more Lures)

4 days, 11 hours, 45 minutes, of fishing added to my life.

[EricCO]

How many packs did you fire up a day?

[Butch]

Tough times huh....

Hold on!

Congrats!

[Jeremy A]

LOL, not a single smoke in over a month Eric. :)

[ddt]

JEREMY.
Great,your over the hard part,just
remeber,when things get tough,smoking
won't make it better.
Think walleye//open water//
ddt

[Jeremy A]

Just Got Really hard....

Was layed off this afternoon

[RANGER]

DON'T YOU GIVE UP! I don't care what happened, smoking will not change a damm thing. Besides, if you lost your income how is smoking going to reduce expenses???????????? You've come this far - remember - there was a time you couldn't LIVE without a smoke for an hour!! LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!!!! Besides, I have children who are probably older than you - 30 - 28 - 26. My two boys' (30 and 26) are 6'3" and 6'5", respectively and over two hundred pounds and I can kick their butts AND THEY KNOW IT!!!!! DON'T YOU MESS UP OR I'LL COME LOOKING!! LOL! }>

I made it and I have been smoking for over 40 YEARS!! Get your head out-of-your-butt and THINK this one through! Go smear a wet, full, ashtray on your face and kiss your wife, mother or BABY and ask yourself, "What if I reversed this situation"?

Jeremy - DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




RANGER


"KEEP YOUR LINES WET, YOUR POWDER DRY and THE BEER COLD"

[Jeremy A]

Ranger your just to effing Coll.

Thanks for your words

This day sucks, and stress is out of controll, but I am not smoking. Not going to start either.

Just having huge urges from #####

Thanks for the encuragement

[Hydro]

When I'm not fishing the PWT, I'm a substance abuse councelor. 15 years worth of horrible stories about self destruction, illness, and progression of the disease. For some reason our brain only thinks about the good side of using, which is actually a false perception. It's very similiar to Anorexia. The brain creates this fantasy about how good it tastes, you light up and hack for two minutes until you can burn the bronchial tubes enough to tollerate the smoke again. Meantime the smoke curls up and hits you right square in the eyeball. Now there is some pure tobacco pleasure. Unfortunately, the brain emits chemicals that lead to these thoughts that glamorize the use so it's not as easy to quit as most non-users think. You have come up with a great support group though. You have almost made it through most of the secondary withdrawls and another month the psychological war fare should settle down.. Good luck and one day at a time. You might try to break some of your rituals of using as well. it may help. Don't go in the store you usually brought your smokes at. Plan something special for after meals and usual smoke times... ie. Walks relining the rods etc...most of all reward yourself for recovery...jobs come and go but we only get one set of lungs.....You will be a better angler now that you don't have to have one hand on the cig...Hang in there.

[ddt]

Jeremy======Don't smoke,it won't help a
##### thing. Just one more
thing to deal with,& you
don't need that.things will
work out,they always do.
(HAVE FAITH)

ddt

[bagman]

Set a goal...I bought a new depth finder with the money I saved in the first couple months after quitting...

Good luck.

[Bo]

Last cigarette-Dec.27-1989. The smell of cigarette is repulsive.If you get to jittery, ask your doctor for "Buspar", it relaxes you and takes away the anxiety.

[ole man]

when you quit one drug it seems like one needs something else--try casting a line and letting us know whats hittin---good luck

[Ron Anlauf]

It got so bad when I quit my wife told me to go have a cigarette because I was so onry, but I got over it and things couldn't be better. You've come this far, you might as well go the rest. The first month was the hardest and it does get much better. I went cold turkey, (didn't have the patch then), and chewed toothpicks for relief. You do get to the point where you have no more cravings and they become a real bother when your around them and they make you feel like your suffocating. Hang in there, it's worth it.

Ron Anlauf

[John N]

Ranger, your problem has always been that you're too bashful to say what you really think :)
I quit around 15 years ago. After trying a few times. Tough snake to kill, but well worth it. There are a few times a year that I'd love to burn one, up in Canada when a few of the other guys pull out a cigar, that sort of thing, but I wouldn't dare. If I smoked one cigar or cigarette or pipe today, I'd likely smoke 30 or 40 cigarettes tomorrow. Good Luck Jeremy. John.

[Hydro]

I know how this is going to sound but you have to be careful of the Buspar too...It is a Benzodiazapine which also has addictive properties. Other Benzo's in this class include Valium and Librium. I would prescribe fishing and lots of it... Every time you get a craving, go to a 12 step meeting. Your meetings need to be held on the lake!!!

[WAeyes]

In my case, fishing was very difficult for me for a few months after I quit. I associated fishing with smoking and probably smoked more while I was fishing than any other time, especially when the fishing was slow. It took a long time before I felt comfortable out fishing without them. One big positive, no smokey fingers on your baits.