I Quit, Quitting!

I just needed to update everyone on my progress, I haven't quit yet! I give up! My body sucks and My brain sucks more! I wish it was soooo easy.

The Fact is I don't think the time is right, that or I really just don't want to stop smoking for some reason or another. When I do...you'll be the firsts to know.


More RANDOMNESS TO COME...

Officially Quitting Smoking

According to stqp.org in about 20 minutes after my last cig. I will have already started healing my 15+ year abuse to my body. It looks like it's going to take longer than I thought to fully Quit and heal, but I am ready...I am scared...but I am threw feeling like crap, looking like crap and wasting money for something that just doesn't make me happy anymore!

• In 20 minutes, your blood pressure and pulse rate decrease, and the body temperature of your hands and feet increase.
• Carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke reduces the blood’s ability to carry oxygen. At 8 hours, the carbon monoxide level in your blood decreases to normal. With the decrease in carbon monoxide, your blood oxygen level increases to normal.
• At 24 hours, your risk of having a heart attack decreases.
• At 48 hours, nerve endings start to regrow and the ability to smell and taste is enhanced.
• Between 2 weeks and 3 months, your circulation improves, walking becomes easier and you don’t cough or wheeze as often. Phlegm production decreases. Within several months, you have significant improvement in lung function.
• In 1 to 9 months, coughs, sinus congestion, fatigue and shortness of breath decrease as you continue to see significant improvement in lung function. Cilia, tiny hair-like structures that move mucus out of the lungs, regain normal function.
• In 1 year, risk of coronary heart disease and heart attack is reduced to half that of a smoker.
•  Between 5 and 15 years after quitting, your risk of having a stroke returns to that of a non-smoker.
• In 10 years, your risk of lung cancer drops. Additionally, your risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas decrease. Even after a decade of not smoking however, your risk of lung cancer remains higher than in people who have never smoked. Your risk of ulcer also decreases.
• In 15 years, your risk of coronary heart disease and heart attack in similar to that of people who have never smoked. The risk of death returns to nearly the level of a non-smoker.

So In the same time it took to get to this point, it will take me to fix it!
Thank God, I  have that option.

Keep up with me and others through this blog/posts/comments and follow. I will update and post new posts daily and maybe even hourly.

Countdown to my first 20minutes starts.....NOW!
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Day 1- started off ok, coffee helped stomach upset and headache.  Managed to get outta bed and see the kids to the bus. I found my cig. butt stash in the minivan ashtry. I took out the biggest ones and dumped the rest. I don't know why i have them, but they sort of make me feel empowered to have them. I don't want to smoke a butt. cuz if i do that i will have to start healing all over. grrrrr (8:22am)

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Day 2-honestly...IT SUCKS! but i am trying really hard to keep myself busy and not sit in one spot for very long...my house is getting cleaner buy the minute, so all-in-all not a bad day. Keeping it together is harder today. My brain wants one thing and my body does the opposite, not sure what that's about. (12:58pm)

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Day 3-GRRRRRRR! I WANT A CIGARETTE! but...I know that, it's just the nicotine talking not me! My morning coffee didn't work this morning, not sure why but i drank a whole pot hoping it would help. I did notice one thing though. I don't feel so dry and dehydrated, it might be the gallons of water I've been drinking and all that peeing I've been doing. My children are involved with my quitting smoking and I think that helps...I mimmick what they do...they don't smoke so I am learning what they do by watching them. (when they are home that is). When they are at school I clean...and Clean and CLEAN some more. Oh, and I lost 5lbs in the last 3 days. woot woot! (12:16pm)

Quit smoking diet plan

It's November 02, 2009 and today marks the beginning of my 999,999th time trying to quit smoking.

I want to believe that everyone who has quit smoking before me has the "RIGHT" idea about how to do it, but...I have been to this rodeo before, (haven't we all?). This blog will document how I do it, or try yet again to do it.

The diet plan part in the title is about the latest in quit smoking "crap" like diet plans on the market today, there is not quick fix for quitting smoking either. Marketing and quack products for sale these days is on the rise. I can buy diet pills and weight loss bull off the shelf, and now I can do that to quit ciggies. It's all crap! I have tried it all for both. True it's worked for some but i believe it's the "mind over matter", factor of the individual who is trying the gimmick.

If you are in "the quit smoking zone", i like to call #999,999. This is when you've had enough of ciggaretts and how they control you and make you feel like crap, the money it soaks you for and the time it takes away from you and your loved ones. Right now, I'm in the ZONE, AGAIN!

Here's my story:(long story short)
I started smoking about fifteen years ago, around when my oldest daughter was 8-9months old. The breakdown of my first marriage, and the freedom that came with it lead to parties and bar flying. With that came drinking and socializing. As the process of separation and being a single mother set in, the pressure got heavier. My mom offered to watch my baby girl so I could have a mom's night out with my sister and some of her friends. Drunk, I told someone to pass me a smoke, it was a Marb. light but I didn't care, it was what it was. I smoked it! and then another and then another and then I made them stop so I could buy my own. Yep! HOOKED, in a matter of hours. By the next morning, I had gone threw most of the pack I bought and knew I would need more. There marks the addiction. I knew what it all meant, my mother had smoked most of her life and I hated it. I was always riding her about smoking. I was an active girl, running, cheer leading and track in high school and now I was a smoker just like her. CRAPPPPPPPPPPP! But, didn't care at this point, it was what it was. It was mine! Not my soon to be ex's not my moms, not my childs', MINE! It was all about making myself happy and relaxed, something I could control and own. That's what I thought anyway, little did I know that 15 years later, i wouldn't have control, I wouldn't own anything, not relaxed, and it would effect more then myself.
I have calculated approximately how many days I have smoked and how much money it's cost me.
15 years. 365 days a year. 5,475 days averaged to $10.00 a day (cig. prices flux.) = ARE YOU READY? $54,750.00 I say...HOLY FRIGGING CRAP! No joke! That number doesn't even cover the Diet coke that went with my cigarettes...add another $27,320.25 for that. CRAP, CRAP, CRAP. My addictions have cost me big, $87,545.25 ish. When you put it on paper, or here, the puter screen, that's two average household incomes in 15 years! Then there is the amount of Taxes on those packs upon packs of cigs! No Wonder why the Government doesn't want to put a ban on cigarettes.

I want so much to QUIT! I also want to loose weight,(who says cigs. help curb your appetite? Tell that to my 185lbs. hiney) lmao! seriously?

As I sit here typing out the first section of my blog, I am smoking my LAST pack of basics,(fingers crossed). I am hoping many will want, wish, and hope for the same thing I am. Smoke freedom, and a smaller azz! lol I won't bog you down with statistics, although I am one right now. I am also not going to endorse ANY fad quit smoking gimmick or diet plans. I am going to share how I am doing and hope you all do the same!

Good luck to US ALL!!

*as of this moment I have 13 cigs left in my last pack,I have no official quit date but, I will keep you posted for the day how it goes and throughout the next few days, months, years even.

I can tell you right now, I am excited but very scared. I know what "they" say will happen and how I'll feel but like I said in the beginning...I'VE TRIED THIS BEFORE!

Please leave your comments, encouragement for myself and others who are quitting. Every pat on the back will help.