Cigarrettes for Kilts

**KiltedBrewer** · 31st May 09, 04:45 PM

Keep at it Dan! As I said in my earlier post, my immediate family is three for three at quitting with Chantix. Keep coming here for support and you'll be done smoking before you know it.

David

**pdcorlis** · 31st May 09, 05:54 PM

Keep at it Dan - I doubt there are many folks who successfully made it stick on the first try. The prescription can help, but I think anyone man enough to wear a kilt can beat tobacco - at least that's what my doctor told me...

**CactusJack** · 3rd June 09, 10:48 AM

So Dan, How are you coming along?????

**Dan R Porter** · 3rd June 09, 10:51 AM

I am in day 5 of my starting card of tablets. I quit after day 7 so we will see how saturday goes. I was instructed to continue for the first 7 days. I am nervous but excited at the same time.

**Colin** · 3rd June 09, 11:19 AM

How does one start a life change and quit it in the same day?

I quit just over 3 years ago after many attempts. I found that cold turkey was the best as it was all up to me to do it. The patches, gums, zyban etc worked great until you stopped using them. I slipped a few times, but didn't use that as an excuse to give in, instead I used it as motivation to not do it again. It's hard work, but your bigger than cigarettes and tobacco.

It is a lifestyle change and you do have to change the way you do things and how you think. Your statement at the bottom of your original post says it all. Smoking was never your friend, it's just something that controlled how, when, and with who you experienced life. If a person tried to influence us like that we'd call it a bad relationship and not many of us would stand for it.

The trick is to use the time you are quitting to reestablish your routines. Change things up for the summer and you'll barely notice that tobacco didn't make the changes with you. Enjoy some picnics, take up a new sport (shocking how breathless you are in the start, but how much better you feel not long after) or start hobby that keeps your hands busy (making a kilt perhaps).

It seems silly now that I used to pay a crap load of money to make myself sick and possibly shorten my life span. Of all the foolish things I have done in 32 years, wasting 14 of them with cigarettes was the most foolish.

Keep with it Dan, weaker people have done it and made it through successfully. Be stronger than the addiction and you'll succeed. Checkout www.quitnet.com if for nothing else than the calculator of cigarettes not smoked and money saved.

Here's my latest

1171 days, 14 hours, 48 minutes and 50 seconds smoke free.

14059 cigarettes not smoked.

$7,032.00 and 3 months, 17 days, 9 hours of your life saved.

**Jaggy thistle** · 3rd June 09, 12:43 PM

I smoked for 50 years 40 a day as I was going to fly to California in November and knew I could not smoke in the plane so I decided to stop ,the week before we were due to travel my wife fell and broke her hipbut I stopped anyway . I could start again tomorrow but when tempted I think hoy short of breath I was and the notion goes away

**Lady M** · 3rd June 09, 12:55 PM

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**Dan R Porter** · 16th June 09, 10:09 AM

Day three and doing good!

Lots of cravings and the medicine side effects, to put it midly, really suck!

I have not been posting much here do to the fact I am trying to stay busy and keep my mind off of smoking, since Xmarks is one of my smoking triggers...

**ghostlight** · 16th June 09, 10:21 AM

You can do it!

**CactusJack** · 16th June 09, 10:40 AM

Originally Posted by Dan R Porter

Day three and doing good!

Lots of cravings and the medicine side effects, to put it midly, really suck!

I have not been posting much here do to the fact I am trying to stay busy and keep my mind off of smoking, since Xmarks is one of my smoking triggers...

Way to go Dan, Trust me the side effects will go away eventually. I have very few of them any more and it's going on 8 weeks this coming Saturday.
Hang in there, It gets better.