Venting...

Focus on something else or keep yourself busy doing some creative work. The more you think about what you are missing, it's natural that you will have more urge towards smoking. I promise you will not feel restless like this after one week.

DON'T GIVE UP!!!!!!!!!

Hi Morningstar. Just remember that all of your cravings will pass in time. I heard drinking lots of water will help flush the nicotine out of your system faster, too.

Good luck to you!! I am sure it is really tough, but I am proud of you - you should be proud of yourself too....think of how much better you will feel, and food will taste better too!! YOU CAN DO IT!! WE ARE ALL BEHIND YOU!!!

You'll save some extra bucks! lol

morningstar, have you tried "the patch"? I know quite a few people that it helped with the craving. My brother is trying the "gum". He says it's ugly and brown and looks like crack (LOL!) but it has nicotine in it so he doesn't freak out with the craving. I support you 100% and hope you'll feel better soon. I know I should quit, but I don't have that willpower. You have this. Hang in there.

I should quit too, more power to you. I was going to buy the prescription medication they have out now that works but it is $129.00 for a 30 day supply. OMG!!!I think I will have my husband get the medication under his insurance so that it is not so expensive and we both can quit together. He used the patch, that worked for him. Keep up the good work, I wish you great success.

ladybug

Thanks for the support everyone. So far, I've had a few sticks, but haven't given up and bought a pack yet. I've tried the patches, gum and lozenges in the past, but they didn't help much. I wish I could get the inhaler...that would probably do the trick.

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I've cut out my pop intake.........and I'm getting very bad headaches!!!!! GRRRRRRRR

My husband quit by taking Zyban. He hasn't smoked in 5 years!!! Good luck Morningstar, you can do it. Tweety, hang in there. The headaches will go away eventually. Caffeine headaches are the worst :(

Oh, am I finding that out.......I took just a sip the other day and boom my headache wasnt nearly as bad........GRRRRRR.....I've always been told they are the worst but I'm trying to change my lifestyles.........

Morningstar, hang in there it will get better. But until then I will sleep for the both of us lol j/k. I wish I had the willpower to quit. I just got a talking to by the doc. on wednesday about quitting. I told him that I can't quit for a couple of years yet. He asked me why. I told him my kids still live at home lol. He gave me the look :roll:

Tweety, your headaches will go away in a couple of days. I gave up soda almost 2 years ago and went through the same thing. I think they are worse than my migraines. I just drank lots of water (thats what I drink now) and took a bottle of advil where ever I went. Don't give in, because if you do they will only come back. But after your headaches are gone a soda here or there will not give you one again, only if you go back to drinking it on a regular basis. I was drinking about 3 cases of Mountain Dew a week (by myself :oops: ) But when I gave that up and just drank water I also lost 70 pounds.

Morningstar....I quit 5 years ago for a whole year...I should never have started again..:( but one of the things that helped me was: I brushed my teeth everytime my cravings got really bad...for some reson the taste of the toothpaste took it away!! And my breath was certainly sparkling clean!!!

Are you drinking diet Coke or diet drinks? I had to give up on those, because they'd sometimes make my hands tremble as if I were having an attack of nerves. Same with someone else I know. He used to lose sleep and get the shakes, he gave up Diet Coke and was back to normal.

From diet sodas??? Because of the caffiene?? I drink decaf diet soda. If I have too much caffiene, I trip out. God, I'm like a two year old. LOL! :lol:

Decaf and diet?? Eesh, no flavor and it goes flat when you open it... :-D Sodas are my biggest vice. I should quite drinking them, but I get headaches so bad I can't see and no amount of painkiller in the world makes them go away!

thatkind, I did it in "steps". Lord, it's like being an alcholic! LOL! :lol: First I stopped with the "hard stuff" (Coke) and switched to Diet. Then eventually switched to caffeine free diet. Baby steps. :lol: Same thing with sugar. Slowly weened myself off sugar. Now I use artifical sweetner. Baby steps with that one, too!

I NEED caffeine. Unfortunately I have an acid reflux problem, so I have to limit it. My dr. Said only 2 cups of coffee a day..But he never said how big a cup!

I love soda, could live on Coke in the can..None of that diet crap for me, tastes like toothpaste. Since I started seriously running competitively though, I pretty much had to cut out the sugar. So now I have one can on Saturday and one on Sunday..My reward for brutalizing my body with all the miles and those free weights.

fins, "tastes like toothpaste"! I'm cracking up! :lol:

LOL, well doesn't it taste like toothpaste? For some reason, no matter how much ice you use diet coke always tastes warm. Diet Pepsi is worse, though...It always tastes flat and has more of the toothpaste aftertaste.

fins I so agree!!!! 15 years ago I lost 110 pounds...soda was one of the things I just stopped drinking all together cause I could never get the taste of diet.I am a coke person and tried everything on the market...finally I just settled for my coffee sans sugar and plain old water...LOL

I heard that you can gain weight just by drinking diet soda, anyone know if that is true?

No. Diet has no calories, no fat, no sugars, no carbs.

but by it being diet, a person tends to drink more; even though there is no sugar, so they say, the more you drink the more of the bad stuff there is. My solution, no soda of any kind. Just, for me, drink good teas, sugarless juices, good coffee, milk, water. Well, there it is, my lesson for the day.


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luke, well, if you've learned a lesson, our job here is done! LOL! Diet doesn't have anything in it though. Nothing. I don't understand how one can gain weight by drinking a lot of diet. There's a mystery in everything! I mainly drink decaf iced tea with artifical sweetner. So, I'll die like the lab rats do. Whatever. LOL! :lol:

very interesting, good ideal, I love tea.

I also have a weakness for sweet and low. I don't like any other brand..I think I like the artificialness (is that a word?) of it.

one of the things I learned you have to be careful of is the sodium content...now salt also makes you retain water which weighs more...so I know some diet sodas are high in sodium, maybe that's where the weight gain would come from??

yeah, there ya go. that makes since. Im switching to tea, milk, the good stuff. I need to loose weight.

The new medicine chantis is a very good medication for quitting, I was taking it and could have quit, my will power failed me. I want to start over again and see if it will work. For me I would have to decide just not to light up again with this pill, I am fine with that at work, but when I come home, I am a failure.

When I get around to seeing a doctor, I'll make sure to inquire about that. I used wellbutrin in the past...it didn't cut cravings at all, it just made cigarettes taste bad.

As to the diet sodas, someone told me the culprit is a part of the sweetener (a long chemical name I have forgotten). I saw a program on TV about food addicts, and one man was addicted to diet soda, 2 litres per day. That's over the top, but one day the man started going blind suddenly. He was taken to hospital and was told it was the diet soda over so long a period. He stopped drinking it and his sight was restored.

As to people gaining weight, well, maybe they think since there's no calories in the drink, they can eat a little more.

The chemical name is aspartine (sp??) I saw a similar program on tv to the one law student described, only in the one I saw airplane pilots were crashing planes due to the stuff.

Oh, thanks guys. Now I know I'm going to friggin go blind or crash a friggin plane!

When I was on the Atkins diet, I was told you should stay away from diet sodas with aspartame because it makes you feel hungry, therefore making you eat more.

ok, since we got the diet pop thing figured out, lets start on chocolate.....to much of this stuff will make u...................

have a healthier heart?? :D

yes, thats what they claim, but I know if I eat it after 5:00pm, I wake up around 2 in the morning. whats a guy got ta do?

Ooh, let me clarify, it has to be dark chocolate to be healthy!

as dark as night

ya know the astecks would sacrifice their young to have these dark coco beans, what would you give up?

About fifty cents

lol, snickers

Yes...it's the dark chocolate that is healthy for you...in small amounts...and lets not forget there is cafeine in chocolate..LOL....

MMMMM! Dark chocolate! Try a solid dark choclate bar with a glass of red wine..Even if you don't like one or the other. I'm not kidding you, it's better than anything. It's an almost sexual taste experience.

been there done that, then add some swiss or sharp cheader cheese, mmmmmm

I sometimes drop chocolate covered strawberries into my white wine...mmmmm

Ok..gonna add my own rant to this thread...I'm completely torqued tonight. My kids come home in T-minus 1 week...and I had a date Friday night...who expressed an interest in going out again tonight. Spoke to him at 4:30, said he was going to take a little nap and would call me later so we could get together. It's now nearly 9 p.m. I'm guessing we're not going out.

Why am I torqued? Ticked? Even a little miffed? Because my kids come home in one week, and I will not have much opportunity to date once they do! I love my kids, and have missed them terribly this summer..but having to cram 9 months worth of "single life" into 2.5 months hasn't been easy! LOL

Sorry...I guess I was really looking forward to this last "hurrah" tonight before the kids came home...and I'm bummed that it's not happening. :evil:

suebee, maybe your "date" slept longer than expected? Maybe he was REALLY tired? REALLY, REALLY tired? Hell, call him!!!!!!!

I DID!! GRRRRR....

sorry, just ticked. I called and left a message...and the fact that I got his voice mail means his phone is turned off, so yes, he's probably snoozing away. I sent him an IM online too...just told him I guess his nap lasted longer than expected. Guess I'll do some laundry and get my mind off it. :-(