you are a big help

Robin...you are gonna get it boy

i do what i can.. but think day 3 you'll really start feeling much better..

are you trying to get me there sooner with that promise

""""a relaxing staisfaction after having sex..""""""


oh maybe you are

oh boy tongue

everytime you feel the urge to smoke - kiss a close friend

if you don't any close friends, you will by the time you finish

come now - just put it out of your mind - you are strong, you are invincible, you are woman!!!!!!!!

Not nice remedy... but it did help me to quit bitting my nails.

Take a rubber band and put it around your wrist. When you get the urge, lightly snap the rubber band.


Gum, gum and more gum.

I am sure it was already mentioned... keep your mind and hands busy... reading, needle point/sewing....

Try to avoid triggers and change your schedule. If you get up and smoke a cigarette and then get in the shower... get in the shower first.

Otherwise, good luck and you can do it! After the first 3 days it is no longer physical but psychological!

thanks Fran..I think

Good ideas Tanya...thank you. I think my hardest time is in the morning with my coffee. out of habit I sat outside with my coffee and the whole time I kept thinking something was wrong. A few minutes later I realized that I wasn't smoking with my coffee

I have known someone who quit drinking coffee while they quit smoking... I have no idea how she did that!

I am NOT given up caffeine

I don't even go shoot pool because I know if I have some beers and there are other smokers...I'll smoke

so in a sense I am giving up beer too

to all of the support in this thread!!! and to all the encouraging emails I have received as well!!! Just proves how wonderful the people on this site are!!!

ya should have just asked me - M2 is the place to be.

*think you should try my idea* sounds like fun

also heard those hard candies and gum should be used when you want a smoke

anyone try the patch?

I don't do gum...but I have cinnamon candy

I have heard some people that tried the patch...the nicotine was too much for them. So I don't know

I am smoking again... but when I have quit. Drinking could be a tough one. But you will get use to it... but give yourself sometime.

Though, drinking has been a trigger and derailed me after not smoking for 3 years!

Be strong! You can do it! I will be quitting soon too! Working on healthy eating.... next yoga and work-out tapes... and quitting smoking will be right behind it all!

alcohol the real and true gateway drug

just a thought

but hey ..........

I believe that there is no gateway drug... give the circumstances, environment, etc... we all have equal capacity to use any and all drugs.

Keep it up girl!

Bite bite bite!

Is that enough or do you need more aversion therapy?

There's a yellow rose in Texas that I'm gonna see

Nobody else could miss her not half as much as me

She cried so when I left her it'd like to broke my heart

And if I'd ever find her we never more will part

She's the sweetest little resebud that Texas ever knew

Her eyes are bright as diamonds they sparkle like the dew

Gimme talk about you Clementine and sing of Resalee

But the Yellow Rose of Texas is the only girl for me


Where the Rio Grande is flowing and the skies are bright

She walks along the river in the quiet summer night

I know that she remembers when we parted long ago

I promised that I'll return and not to leave her so

She's the sweetest little resebud...


Now I'm going back to find her for my heart is full of vow

We'll do the things together we did so long ago

We'll play the banjo gaily she'll love me like before

And the Yellow Rose of Texas shall be mine for ever more

She's the sweetest little resebud...