What is wrong with me? How could
something like this have such complete
power over me? I feel like I don't have
any control anymore...Which I know isn't
true. I know I can change my
behavior/actions. It's just so hard.
Being addicted to something sucks.
I'm not giving up, though. My goal is to
put an end to this once and for all this
week.
I can't chew that nicotine gum. It's just
too gross. Lol
it's back to the drawing board for me,
folks.
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Spirit
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 387 Location: Canada
Posted: 05-14-06 07:49am
Did you quit?I hope so! :)
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maggiek
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 14 May 2006 Posts: 40 Location: canada
Mum Gave Up Posted: 05-14-06 22:49pm
My mum who is 55 gave up last year. She
had been smoking since she was 18. She
had an asthma attack and was really in a
bad way and ended up hospitilized for a
week. From then on she has not touched
another cigarrette. She is too scared to
touch another one!
I hope you find the will to give up, it is
hard, I have been told but don't give
up.
Maggie
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Spirit
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 387 Location: Canada
Posted: 05-16-06 05:53am
Yea, we all know about heart disease,
cancer, asthma and emphysema and yet we
still smoke? The scares, real as they
are, are still not enough to finally quit.
Neither is the baggering we get from well
meaning loved ones.
What will finally do it?To say to
ourselves, "enough is enough!".......For
me it's my age.........In the range for
heart attacks and can feel it acting up.
When it hits home and the true reality is
right in front of your face...........I'm
going to quit and it will be this
year!!!!!!!!
Is that vague enough???Thanks maggie. :)
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Spirit
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 387 Location: Canada
Posted: 05-16-06 07:37am
Thanks, i'll check out the website
later.........Gotta go to work.
Undertaker............Yikes, hows that for
a username...........Gave me the
heebiejeebies!Lol. Welcome to this site.
:)
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Spirit
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 12 Mar 2006 Posts: 387 Location: Canada
Where Are You? Posted: 05-22-06 06:35am
Hey nathalie, what happened? Good or bad,
i'd like to hear from you. Keep trying,
just having the desire to quit is the
first big step. :)
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rinsha
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 17 May 2006 Posts: 305 Location: Alabama
Posted: 05-22-06 06:39am
Never give up! I know alot of people in
my family have tried the patch and the gum
and say its horrible. Maybe if you find
something else like some other type of gum
to chew something sweet maybe to take your
mind off smoking. :!:
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Makoto
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 263 Location: Japan
Posted: 09-04-06 23:09pm
The patch or nicotene gum is not the
answer. Getting rid of your need for
nicotene is the answer. Patches or gums
just prolong the need. It actually causes
you to suffer more. You cant smoke, but
yet the need for nicotene continues longer
than it would just by not smoking at
all.
Cirgarettes, chewing tabbaco, patches,
gums, are only different ways to deliever
nicotene. It is the nicotene that you
need to give up,not just the cigarettes.
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lisa r
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 16 Location: South Carolina
I Know All About Failing Posted: 07-25-07 22:02pm
I just can't seem to quit either. I have
all the reasons in the world to
quit....but like alot of others I smoke
on. I've lost 2 grandfathers to lung
cancer, my dad have a massive stroke then
cancer, he passed away this past Dec, he
was diagnoised with cancer after the
stroke first bladder then bone. My own
health is soooooo bad and still...
sometimes I think I have my own death
wish. It's selfish to continue to smoke
when you know it is killing you right? I
have a beautiful son 20 yrs old and he had
begged me to stop smoking since he was old
enough to realize it was a "bad" thing. I
did quit one time for 2 weeks after my
dad's stroke, it was a really bad stroke,
took his speech right side paralzes, it
was terrible he had been a smoker before
the stroke and he used to grab for my
cigarettes and try to break them, that's
when I call my doc. got a prescription for
Chantix and actually quit for 2 weeks.
Then one afternoon I got the call that my
dad's cancer had spread to his bones and
we needed to take him home and put him
back in bed and keep him comfortable,
immediately after I hung up the phone I
almost broke my neck trying to get to the
store to buy some cigerattes and have been
smoking every since again.
My personal health issues as I stated
cancer runs in my family both sides all
four grandparents and now my dad. I am 39
years old, I have a bad heart, aortic
insufficency from mild to moderate in one
years time; the other 3 valves also
started leaking in that years time. I
currently take 5 pills a day for right
sided heart failure. I have digestive
problems, ischemic colits ( stoke in
colon), diverticulitis it just goes on and
on. I also suffer with back problems, and
extra vertebre in lumbar region, arthrtis,
bulging disk laying on a nerve root,
stenosis. I also have a cyst in my brain
(arachnoid cyst), massive miagraines. As
I am sure if you've read this far you can
see I have EVERY reason in the world to
quit, but why don't I???????? You know
sometimes I amaze myself as to just how
stupid and selfish I am. I know it's a
crutch for me and sometimes when I think
of how I feel from day to day with all the
health issues, I just think I'm doomed
anyway, which I know is a cop out, but I
don't know what to even think of myself
anymore.
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lisa r
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 16 Location: South Carolina
I Know All About Failing Posted: 07-25-07 22:10pm
I just can't seem to quit either. I have
all the reasons in the world to
quit....but like alot of others I smoke
on. I've lost 2 grandfathers to lung
cancer, my dad have a massive stroke then
cancer, he passed away this past Dec, he
was diagnoised with cancer after the
stroke first bladder then bone. My own
health is soooooo bad and still...
sometimes I think I have my own death
wish. It's selfish to continue to smoke
when you know it is killing you right? I
have a beautiful son 20 yrs old and he had
begged me to stop smoking since he was old
enough to realize it was a "bad" thing. I
did quit one time for 2 weeks after my
dad's stroke, it was a really bad stroke,
took his speech right side paralzes, it
was terrible he had been a smoker before
the stroke and he used to grab for my
cigarettes and try to break them, that's
when I call my doc. got a prescription for
Chantix and actually quit for 2 weeks.
Then one afternoon I got the call that my
dad's cancer had spread to his bones and
we needed to take him home and put him
back in bed and keep him comfortable,
immediately after I hung up the phone I
almost broke my neck trying to get to the
store to buy some cigerattes and have been
smoking every since again.
My personal health issues as I stated
cancer runs in my family both sides all
four grandparents and now my dad. I am 39
years old, I have a bad heart, aortic
insufficency from mild to moderate in one
years time; the other 3 valves also
started leaking in that years time. I
currently take 5 pills a day for right
sided heart failure. I have digestive
problems, ischemic colits ( stoke in
colon), diverticulitis it just goes on and
on. I also suffer with back problems, and
extra vertebre in lumbar region, arthrtis,
bulging disk laying on a nerve root,
stenosis. I also have a cyst in my brain
(arachnoid cyst), massive miagraines. As
I am sure if you've read this far you can
see I have EVERY reason in the world to
quit, but why don't I???????? You know
sometimes I amaze myself as to just how
stupid and selfish I am. I know it's a
crutch for me and sometimes when I think
of how I feel from day to day with all the
health issues, I just think I'm doomed
anyway, which I know is a cop out, but I
don't know what to even think of myself
anymore.
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Hollyberries
Extremely EHEALTHy
Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 1851 Location: Lead, sd usa
Thanks: 1
Thanked:0
Posted: 07-25-07 22:23pm
Quitting smoking is very very hard. I
know. It took me about 4 tries before i
quit all together. I am going on 7 months
smoke free. I didn't use any gums, or
patches. I just quit. It didn't help that
smokes were going up to 5+ a pack, and 20+
a carton. I had been smoking for almost 10
years, and it was tough. But i had to do
it for my family, and for my baby. I am
not 18 weeks pregnant, and i got pregnant
soon after i stopped smoking. I'm not sure
if that had anything to do iwth it, but
who knows! There are a lot of help lines
out there, and i agree the gums suck. But
if you put your mind to it, and you WANT
to quit you will. I wish you the best of
luck~!
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