smoking!

[Jim Little]

smoking - what can i say i guess i should not be doing it but have for so long, my fear of giving up is putting on weight and suffering from stress, and withdrawal, thats what happened last time i gave up - what should i do? 

 

[Rising_Suns]

Best way to stop is to wean yourself off of it. I smoked 2 packs a day for about 4 or 5 years straight...even smoked newports for a year or so. It took me a couple years, but i evntually cut down to nothing...and it was pretty painless...didn't have to think about it much...just kinda grew out of it as i grew stronger in my faith....The main thing that had me was habit, but as soon as i weaned myself out of that environment, it was easy to wean off of smoking.

I also never gained weight when I stopped smoking....but if you want to cut the weight down, eat clean..don't use smoking to do it..smoking doesn't do much for weight anyway. If you eat clean and keep your daily calories down you'll lose more weight in 3 months than smoking all the cigarettes in the world will.

 

[carmen]

I will pray that God will leaded you and help you give up smoking.

God delivered me from smoking. Just stopped and never had any withdrawals,
weight gain, nothing. Praise God.

 

[AnnMercy2]

Jim, I know what your going through because I'm going through the exact same thing right now. I'm a smoker and I want to quit but maybe my want is not big enough or something I don't know. I will admit that I like smoking, but at the same time I wish I never started and could just quit now. I've quit twice. The first time was with the drug welbutrin and the second time was cold turkey. The welbutrin was amazing and it took all my cravings away, I didn't even desire a cig one time. But I ran out of the medicine and started back smoking. That lasted a short time. I didn't have the money to continue the perscription, the ones I had were samples the doctor gave me. Anywho, I quit later on and quit for nine whole months. I didn't even want a cig when I started back that time, I was just straight stupid, that is the only explation for it, just plain stupid. And now deep down I really really want to quit but I really really don't know what it keeping me from it

I'll be praying for you in your struggle, I pray you do quit and quit for good.

In Christ,
Anna

 

[Jim Little]

thanks guys,

Anna maybe we could set a date and work towards cutting down for that date and then go cold turkey!! let me know

 

god bless and thanks !

 

 

[Blessed-one]

so quit smoking is not impossible!

i'm praying for both of you.

 

[AnnMercy2]

Originally posted by Jim Little
thanks guys,

Anna maybe we could set a date and work towards cutting down for that date and then go cold turkey!! let me know

 

god bless and thanks !

 

This could work, but both of us have to be fully ready to do this. I'm really afraid of quiting and I don't fully know way. Maybe it's because I've quit other times just to go back and start again, I want to quit for good and never never pick one up again and I don't know if I can do that. I mean I quit for nine whole months and I'm now back to where I started. I'm afraid of failing again

Anna

 

[Jim Little]

Originally posted by AnnMercy2
This could work, but both of us have to be fully ready to do this. I'm really afraid of quiting and I don't fully know way. Maybe it's because I've quit other times just to go back and start again, I want to quit for good and never never pick one up again and I don't know if I can do that. I mean I quit for nine whole months and I'm now back to where I started. I'm afraid of failing again

Anna

 

i guess the next thing is to select a date and then start cutting down, when do you think would be a suitable date? i'm worried now!! but we gotta do this anna!

 

[AnnMercy2]

This might sound like a long time, but I was thinking cutting down date, maybe November first, and total cut off date December 31st. This gives us two months of cutting down, and maybe even before the total cut off date, we might just quit! Who knows. Anything is possible with the Lord. All I know I REALLY REALLY want to quit. And your idea sounds great! And remember it is okay to fail, if one of us fails the other one will lift that person up, and if both fail at same time, the Lord will lift us up. It is normal to be anxious and afraid. But remember this is a goal we have to reach, but at the same time, we've got to be remember that the Lord will guide us through this and we will make it. The Lord has enough faith in us, but do we have enough faith in outselves? We can do this, I know we can and with the Lord guiding, we will DO this!

Anna

 

[Jim Little]

sounds good anna, 31st of december is the cut off then!  give me a mail anna jim@jimlittle.co.uk and we can have a think about how we are gonna do this!! it's sooooooo werid thinking about not smoking but i know its a bad habit and it has to go!!

 

 

 

[coastie]

I'll pray for you guys.

I quit over a year ago. I had to quit cold turkey because of a kidney problem. Occassionally on a night watch when I'm having a hard time keeping y eyes open, I'll bum one from a co-worker, but I don't want them anymore.

It's good practice, once you quit, or cut down, or whatever you do, to brush your teeth after each smoke. When you do that you don't want to get rid of that clean feelig in your mouth.

I guess, what keeps me from starting up again, since my kindney's better is just the fact that I got tired of stinking and waking up in the morning with that nasty ciggarette taste in my mouth.

Zach