4Sep2010
By cojy | Permalink | Report
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Quit smoking and chew tobacco !!!
To all the people that are quitting and want to quit, go for it. I started to smoke when I was 13 and over the years added chew tobacco I tried to quit a few times but was not really committed. I quit smoking about ten years before I quit the chew tobacco. That was a real problem, so I replaced one bad habit with a worse one, Chew was like giving up Heroin.
One night in Oct 2007 I said this is the last chew, no patches or gum just cold turkey still quit so what I,m saying don,t think about replacing one form of tobacco with another, by the way I was 75 when I quit.
I'm not in NZ , sure wish we would have had a support group like you have. I hope no one minds my joining your group. I still think about chewing now and then.
good luck. COJY
One night in Oct 2007 I said this is the last chew, no patches or gum just cold turkey still quit so what I,m saying don,t think about replacing one form of tobacco with another, by the way I was 75 when I quit.
I'm not in NZ , sure wish we would have had a support group like you have. I hope no one minds my joining your group. I still think about chewing now and then.
good luck. COJY
Far out. My father gave the tobacco away at 70, he's coming up to 84 and i know it was hell for him but he was old school and nevr said a word. Like him i quit cold turkey as i dont see the point of replacing nicotine with nicotine..in any form. That was 4 months ago and i still really miss that big first drag that hits the back of the throat then the glazed eyes and the hit of wellbeing..but what the hell, one drag means the walk to the drugshop to buy more and i cant be having it...
Hey Hang in there after four months your over the hill so to speak, the crave is short duration , big drink of cold water helps.Your right about the replacement patches but if you need the help to quit do it.
cojy
No I wont be going back to the nicotine. I'm very glad to be free, no longer have the anxiety it caused, not to mention the lungs/cough/flu fears and the money ive saved is nice...
way to go rubytuesday, it only gets better you have the right att. you will make it . I was lucky so far after all the years of smoking and still in good shape. Just got the pictures on our late night news about the quake in Christchurch, hopefully it is only Property damage. By the way how much are cigs in NZ they are aroung six US dollars on the low end.name brands a lot higher.
Think Christchurch Ok, just very shocked..we all expected Wellington to cop it.
As for the price of cigarettes here- lots. I used to smoke rollies and a 50gram packet is now $41.00..can you believe that. I think tailor mades are maybe $15 a pckt. Not sure but you have to be rich now to have a nicotine habit here.
Wow cojy...we love having new people in ...this is a real team here where everyone thinks of each other ...the help team hahaha...lol...any ideas are great to help with our journeys...amazing...the world of computers................
Yep the kiwi spirit is 1000% thoughts with our chch lot
It is great to be able to comunicate half way around the world with people trying to quit or have quit, but nice to talk about and support each other this is important.
Were now getting pictures of the damage in ChCh mostly on the Drudge report . Good luck
Hey there Cojy - how exciting to have a visitor from another planet...oops I mean country lol. Great to hear what's going on in your part of the world. As you know here in Chch it's a bit messy at the moment - but still a great place to travel (doing my bit of Tourism NZ here lol). We still have a sense of humour and are extremely grateful that no one was killed. It's made it easier with the mild weather we've had so far as rain and high winds were forecast....thankfully the weather men got it wrong..again! lol
Hey minty fresh, thank you for the excepting a visitor from another planet. :-) This is pretty neat talking by computer half way around the world and to the Southern Hem. I'm in the upper mid west of the States by the shores of Lake Michigan. Going into fall right now.
I was looking this morning at a few hundred pictures in CHCH I understand that is where you are. It is amazing no one killed so far as the early reports. But the damage looks to be extensive.
I was in one quake in Japan in 1954 at night also was quit a shock as not use to have the earth moving.
I always thought NZ and Aust. would be a great
Vacation. It is great you can still smile and laugh after what you just went threw.Hope it isn't enough to think about lighting up lol.
Sounds like we have the same weather men .
Hey cojy!!!! welcome!!!! so cool to have another long standing smokefree person to give advice and support!!!! and from someone so far away!!! how cool is that!!!!! considering our little country is like .5 of yours lol!!! welcome aboard me hearty!!!!
Hey Captinhook thanks for the welcome. Isn't it interesting how trying to quit is Kind of a International thing!! Let me restate this " Not trying to quit, but quiting." The thing is I thought I could add to your group, was a long time user, 62 years of nicotine and I made it, thought it may give other people Hope. I know the craves and all you are going threw but in the end it is well worth it, my sense of smell is so keen, I can smell my neighbore when he lights up he is up wind to the west half a block away it has a funny smell , I don't really miss it any more but still think about it. Hard to belive I have five Sons and none have the habit, they hated me smoking , scared them because when our Surgon
general came out with the warning on smoking they were very young , well enough of my rambling, it is nice to talk to people that know what we are going threw and what we all have to remember, there is no such thing as just trying one Cig or even one puff.
As far as the size of our country, yes we are huge but a lot of very nice people, and what I understand about NZ is small country with a big Heart :-)
Fifteen more days to my Three year Ann. Tobacco free .
The Yank cojy
HI Every One today, The 10th of Oct is my three year anniversary. Works out kind of neat 10-10-10 and it was 11pm when I took my last chew.It really seems like it was a life time ago.I think about it very seldom any more but not craving or any thing like that.but I will still count the years now tobacco free. So hang in there it is quit a ride.
cojy
been a long time sense I have been on, layed up with respetory problems.Still tobacco free
I logged on to try and find out if Minty and Ruby, Captain Hook and Others In CHCH are Ok funny but that was my first though when I heard the news of a quake again in the same city. The picture are devistation is tearabel, Our thoughts and Prayers are with you.Stay Strong.
Cojy the Yank, USA