I was a Smoker for 15 Years!!!
By ronita34
@ronita34 (3922)
Canada
February 10, 2007 5:11am CST
I have posted some discussions a few weeks about needing advice on ho to quit smoking as i have found out that i have rather severe asthma. I got alot of advice on going the will power route and i tried it and it worked for about 2 weeks but i have to say i was quite miserable. Unfortunatley about a week ago i gave in and had a cigarette and i smoked again for about 5 days and i felt so dissapointed. So the other night instead of coming on mylot as i usually do i seached for quitting smoking sites and OMG i found the cure. Well, i didn't but it has been found ... LOL!! I reccomend anyone that is trying to quit smoking to go to this site http://www.quitsmokingonline.com
it will change your life . It is a 10 day free course but i got through the reading in about 3 hours as i could not stop and you would not believe what it will do for you! I have been cigarette free since i finished reading day 10 and wow! Did you know that quitting smoking is 5% physical and 95% phsycological?? I had no idea that quitting smoking could be so easy and in order to get the full drift of what i mean you must read this 10 day course if you want to quit smoking and you will never regret the outcome. It is awesome so please save your life and those around you and you will never be more happy doing it!!!
http://www.quitsmokingonline.com
Thank you all for everything and now i know that i will remain smoke free!!!
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@sigma77 (5383)
• United States
10 Feb 07
Great going. Give yourself credit. You wanted to find a way to quit and you finally did. Just think for a moment, that 5% physical---95% mental applies to everything in your life. So, the next time you want something in your life, use the same formula. If it can work for quitting smoking, it can work for other things too.
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
11 Feb 07
Wow... That is an awesome thought and i personally do not think that i could have came up with that myself. I will definately be keeping that in mind as i have to start my Teaching Degree in September and i think that i need to be 95% dedicated phsycologically or i may have troubles ... LOL!!!
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@lauriefnp (5109)
• United States
10 Feb 07
I used that site when I quit and to this day I recommend it to everyone who will listen. The physical part is actually the easy part; it's over with in 72 hours. This free online course will address the cognitive-behavioral apsects of quitting, which are essential if you want to be successful. I re-read the course several times after I quit, and it continued to be helpful throughout the process. I also highly recommend the book "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" by Allen Carr; it's an awesome book which also reinforces the psychological principles of quitting. If anyone is thinking about quitting, they should begin the process with these 2 resources, which I feel are essential to success.
Ronita, congratulations on being smoke-free! Keep up the good work, 1 day at a time. You will never regret it.
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
11 Feb 07
I agree and i am glad that you are personally familiar with this site as i wanted to share the thoughts about it with a fellow mylotter!! I agree that it is ratder informative and i will never think about smoking the same again ... God Bless!!!
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@ledongrp (36)
• United States
10 Feb 07
That's awesome!!!. You have added years to your life at the minimum. Smoking causes a lot of problems we don't even think about. My wife was a smoker for a lot of years and she could never get pregnant. We read that it could be a factor so she tried to quit. She faltered a few times and finally went thru a quit course at the hospital. It helped but in the end it was her desire to have a baby that won out. She quit smoking and drinking, started working out and before we knew it she was pregnant. She's been smoke free for 12 years now.
I wish you continued success.
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
11 Feb 07
I thank you for sharing such a wonderful and successful story!! I am also glad that you two were blessed with children as some are not as fortunate. I for one had my daughters in mind while i was attempting to quite as i want to be here for them as long as the good lord will let me!!!
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@coolest1983 (281)
• India
10 Feb 07
Hi. Many thanks for posting this one to help me and several others like me trying to quit smoking. It's great that you have quited smoking in just three hours and by going through some written things.
I have taken my clue from you and will soon be visiting the site. I have tried so many times of my own but couldn't quit. I once again start smoking after two/three days automatically.
Hope your advice can help me too in quitting smoking as I have started hating it but ain't able to quit.
Good Luck for a smoke free life.
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
10 Feb 07
Thank you and God Bless!!! If you make it too this site and even read the first few pages your outlook will already be much different. I was amazed at the reasons that we stay smokers and it is the best and easiet way to ever quit smoking...Good Luck!!!
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@ConservativeArtist (201)
• United States
10 Feb 07
Thanks Ronita, I will go to the site and check it out. I know smoking is in the mind, and if I want to quit I can, and easily. So far, I just really haven't wanted to quit though, so any effort has been unsuccessful. My wife wants me to quit, though, so it is worth another shot!
Congratulations and I wish you the best!
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
10 Feb 07
Thank you and i sure do hope that you make it the site to check it out!! I think that if your wife wants you to quit that this is your best shot at getting it done and i for one as a former smoker urge you to check it out you will never regret doing so!!!
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@abhiroop85 (2826)
• Scottsdale, Arizona
11 Feb 07
you have set an example for everybody who smokes and trying to quit it.i hope your guise will drive them enough way to reach a smoke free world.all the best and have a good day.
@smartguy71 (265)
• Pakistan
10 Feb 07
u shud SMOKEFREE 4rm telebrands i think it will hep u
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@trouble4u2avoid (2915)
• United States
13 Feb 07
Congradualtions on your success. Thanks for sharing the site. I plan on reading it tonight as soon as I get my little one off to sleep. I have been trying to quit myself. I went to hypnosis a few years ago and they were the one's who instill it's all a state of mind.
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
13 Feb 07
Yes in fact in the 10 day course it also talks about hypnosis. Take it from me this needs to be read by as many smokers as we can also get to read this. It is almost a guarantee that you will succeed once you finish reading day 10. Also let me know if this helped you at all keep us updated!!! Good Luck!!
@fabwisp (1327)
•
10 Feb 07
Congratulations to you. You should be very proud of yourself. I've been smoking 15 years as well. I tried to give up using the patch and lasted a month. Then it all got too much and here I am smoking again.
Well done you.
*big hug and pat on the back*
Its no easy task giving up!
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
11 Feb 07
That is just it though!! IT IS EASY if you would just take the time to read the 10 day FREE quitsmoking course you will know just how easy it really is. I am not joking you need to read this and i assure it has helped 64 million including me try it because we all have soo much to gain!!!
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@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
10 Feb 07
We went shopping tody so yes but even those who have quit should at least read the first few pages it is awesome. I had no idea that the hardest part about quitting is the fact that you are made to believe this. It is soaked into your brain all the time that if we quit that it will ultimatelty stop the universe from spinning.... LOL!! I am laughing now because it was all really so simple. If you read eve the first page you would know what i mean!! God Bless!!
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@cassidy22 (2974)
• United States
17 Feb 07
I wish you the best and know that even though we have never met, you have MY support in your fight to quit smoking! It's probably a very hard thing to go through, but my great grandma did it cold turkey after smoking for 70 YEARS!!!! It eventually did take her life, but I was proud she finally gave it up. Best of luck to you, you won't regret it!
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@gigisexy (219)
• Philippines
10 Feb 07
thanks for that great information..I am a smoker too and my kids advice me to stop it ASAP coz it wont do any good to me..I will go to that site and try to read it and get some ideas how will i do it that wont affect me so much and do it gradually..wish me luck..
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
10 Feb 07
Good Luck!!! If you do in fact take the time to read this 10 day course you will be a non smoker and quitting could never be more easy than by taking this 10 day course!!! If you want to quit you should seriously find the time to get there and read you will be amazed by the results!!!
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@sasklily (240)
• Canada
13 Feb 07
Thank you, I will be checking this out; I've smoked for fifty years and know I have to quit, but it is very difficult.
I once started using Zyban, and that would have worked quite well, I think, if I had been more determined.
So it is in my mind every day to quit, just need a little boost.
Thanks again.
@harry_ndhuz (1273)
• Indonesia
11 Feb 07
I'm really a hard smoker now. And I feel really stupid when I'm not smoke, it's too bad. I want to stop this bad habbit, but I don't know how. Any good ideas?
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@talktokumar (88)
• India
11 Feb 07
Very good wishes to your new smoking free life. I hope you will stick to that you will never smoke from now. I am very happy that you understood the ill effect of smoking. But I feel sad also by thinking so that you spend good 15 years of your life with this poison. I advice you that you should take some Yoga practice to rebuild your health.
@cwilson26 (2735)
• United States
10 Feb 07
Congratulations. I am really happy for you. I have been smoking for 14 years and I will check this out. Thanks for letting all of us know. Me and my husband both need to quit really bad because we are both highly addicted and it is so expensive anymore. I hope you stay smoke free! :)
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@labesi (22)
• Philippines
11 Feb 07
you should try nicotine candies to relieve your agitations, drink plenty of water, you might really gain some pounds because of eating instead. my psyche for quitting smoking is. i don't want to be depended on some things because they say the habit is acquired on young adults ages.
@aquag85 (53)
• India
11 Feb 07
dear,i think it s nt by any doctor,nt by any psychologist.if u have will so u is d 1 who protect frm dis to u.make a will nd u see d results.i know its nt possible bt its nt impossible tooooooooooo.take my advice,when u will have curosity to take jst hit d tree by hammer,and after sm days u see dat tree totally destroyed.dis is as same as our body.so plzzzzzz
quit dis habbit.i just requst u ,cnt order bcoz m toooo younger dan u.so plzzzzzzzzz
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@atrocious (209)
• Nepal
10 Feb 07
In my case smoking is more than 95% mental for me. I smoke not because my body desires it but because I see other people smoke. When I am alone, I never smoke. But when I am with my friends who smoke then I feel like smoking too. I will try the website that you gave and I hope that it will help me quit smoking for ever.
@ronita34 (3922)
• Canada
11 Feb 07
I think that this site will in fact help you quit smoking and also help you to know that yes quitting smoking is in fact 95% phsycological and 5% physically for all of us. No one differs in this ratio and once you finish reading or even begin for that matter you will know exactly what i mean and i guarantee as long as you stay open minded about it than you will also reamain smoke free! Good Luck!!!
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