Re: Moral Support Needed
Posted: August 26th, 2009, 10:07 am
Excellent to hear!windsor wrote:Feeling a little better every day.
-=OUR HOUSE=- A Forum for Fans of Duke Sports
https://crazietalk.net/ourhouse/
Excellent to hear!windsor wrote:Feeling a little better every day.
Good news! Keep doing what you're doing......windsor wrote:Feeling a little better every day - was back at the dr for a follow up (review blood work et al) - my chest x-rays are clean, my lungs sound better already. Woo Hoo. Oh, and my cholesterol is still obscenely low.![]()
![]()
As long as I stay on the no smoking bus I appear to have dodge a bullet and NOT done any potentially fatal damage.
Some bone loss (no shock there - 50, small boned, lactose intolerant smoker) drug for that - stay on chantix - stay off cigarettes - live to be a 100.
windsor wrote:Feeling a little better every day - was back at the dr for a follow up (review blood work et al) - my chest x-rays are clean, my lungs sound better already. Woo Hoo. Oh, and my cholesterol is still obscenely low.![]()
![]()
As long as I stay on the no smoking bus I appear to have dodge a bullet and NOT done any potentially fatal damage.
Some bone loss (no shock there - 50, small boned, lactose intolerant smoker) drug for that - stay on chantix - stay off cigarettes - live to be a 100.
windsor wrote:Feeling a little better every day - was back at the dr for a follow up (review blood work et al) - my chest x-rays are clean, my lungs sound better already. Woo Hoo. Oh, and my cholesterol is still obscenely low.![]()
![]()
As long as I stay on the no smoking bus I appear to have dodge a bullet and NOT done any potentially fatal damage.
Some bone loss (no shock there - 50, small boned, lactose intolerant smoker) drug for that - stay on chantix - stay off cigarettes - live to be a 100.
OMG. POTW!!!!Ima Facultiwyfe wrote:That's the way, uh huh, uh huh, we LIKE it!!!!!
Love, Ima
You can't be serious... :oops: :roll:Sue71 wrote:OMG. POTW!!!!Ima Facultiwyfe wrote:That's the way, uh huh, uh huh, we LIKE it!!!!!
Love, Ima
devildeac wrote:You can't be serious... :oops: :roll:Sue71 wrote:OMG. POTW!!!!Ima Facultiwyfe wrote:That's the way, uh huh, uh huh, we LIKE it!!!!!
Love, Ima
It's cool when you discover new abilities like that. One of my favorites was my sense of smell got much better.windsor wrote:Ima - Disco Queen![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
In other news...came home from work yesterday and it was POURING...decided to fetch the mail - so I ran (as fast as my chubby middle aged arse would go) to the mail box and back into the garage. Was all the way into the kitchen when it hit me...I wasn't breating hard...at all...not even a little.![]()
![]()
![]()
(I know for most of you that doesn't seem like much but that is HUGE to this ex-smoker)
CameronBornAndBred wrote:It's cool when you discover new abilities like that. One of my favorites was my sense of smell got much better.windsor wrote:Ima - Disco Queen![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
In other news...came home from work yesterday and it was POURING...decided to fetch the mail - so I ran (as fast as my chubby middle aged arse would go) to the mail box and back into the garage. Was all the way into the kitchen when it hit me...I wasn't breating hard...at all...not even a little.![]()
![]()
![]()
(I know for most of you that doesn't seem like much but that is HUGE to this ex-smoker)
I am even more impressed with your accomplishment! To quit smoking, though your husband continues to, is certainly more difficult than doing it with non-smokers in the house.windsor wrote:CameronBornAndBred wrote:It's cool when you discover new abilities like that. One of my favorites was my sense of smell got much better.windsor wrote:Ima - Disco Queen![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
In other news...came home from work yesterday and it was POURING...decided to fetch the mail - so I ran (as fast as my chubby middle aged arse would go) to the mail box and back into the garage. Was all the way into the kitchen when it hit me...I wasn't breating hard...at all...not even a little.![]()
![]()
![]()
(I know for most of you that doesn't seem like much but that is HUGE to this ex-smoker)
Mine too - probably shouldn't have told Mr. Windsor (who is still smoking - outside AND not leaving his cigs or butts in sight) that he stinks.![]()
Good way to look at the two car issue. Hopefully, seeing you successfully becoming a non-smoker will give him incentive to become one.windsor wrote:It has actually been a little easier to quit with him smoking than it was the times we tried to quit together. I am not wondering if he is 'cheating' (meaning of course I can 'cheat' too). He agreed to relegate himself to the great outdoors and not leave his cigarettes or butts in sight (I'm sure I could locate them if I looked - but I don't have to walk past and see them sitting there)
The only issue we've had is driving (like I did he smokes a lot when drives). We've taken two cars a couple of times to get around this.
Waste of gas - yeah - but I can buy 2 gallons of gas for the price of one pack of cigarettes so I'm still way ahead
I think it will - he has noticed I'm not hacking up a lung every morning like he isDukieInKansas wrote:Good way to look at the two car issue. Hopefully, seeing you successfully becoming a non-smoker will give him incentive to become one.windsor wrote:It has actually been a little easier to quit with him smoking than it was the times we tried to quit together. I am not wondering if he is 'cheating' (meaning of course I can 'cheat' too). He agreed to relegate himself to the great outdoors and not leave his cigarettes or butts in sight (I'm sure I could locate them if I looked - but I don't have to walk past and see them sitting there)
The only issue we've had is driving (like I did he smokes a lot when drives). We've taken two cars a couple of times to get around this.
Waste of gas - yeah - but I can buy 2 gallons of gas for the price of one pack of cigarettes so I'm still way ahead
Keep up the good work.
Definitely has to be on his time table for quitting to be successful. At least he has cut back - a very good start.windsor wrote:I think it will - he has noticed I'm not hacking up a lung every morning like he isDukieInKansas wrote:Good way to look at the two car issue. Hopefully, seeing you successfully becoming a non-smoker will give him incentive to become one.windsor wrote:It has actually been a little easier to quit with him smoking than it was the times we tried to quit together. I am not wondering if he is 'cheating' (meaning of course I can 'cheat' too). He agreed to relegate himself to the great outdoors and not leave his cigarettes or butts in sight (I'm sure I could locate them if I looked - but I don't have to walk past and see them sitting there)
The only issue we've had is driving (like I did he smokes a lot when drives). We've taken two cars a couple of times to get around this.
Waste of gas - yeah - but I can buy 2 gallons of gas for the price of one pack of cigarettes so I'm still way ahead
Keep up the good work....that I have more energy and I'm breathing better...and haven't been miserable (like we both were on the patch AND on the gum AND cold turkey) when he's ready he'll do it. That's the things about smoking (or quitting anything I guess) YOU have to be ready for your own reasons. If you aren't you'll probably fail. Right now he still has excuses (start of a new school year - too stressful with new Principal and admin changes) of course with school back in session he is smoking WAY less (can't smoke on school grounds) and moving all the way outside instead of the screen porch or garage has cut him down some too since it is an effort to go smoke he's only smoking the ones he really wants. Without me there smoking too there is also no incentive to stay and have another one. ...he's probaby cut his intake by more than half since I quit. Any reduction is a good thing...and gets him that much closer to tossing them completely.
This is all really great to hear. Continued vibes from Atlanta.windsor wrote:I think it will - he has noticed I'm not hacking up a lung every morning like he is...that I have more energy and I'm breathing better...and haven't been miserable (like we both were on the patch AND on the gum AND cold turkey) when he's ready he'll do it. That's the things about smoking (or quitting anything I guess) YOU have to be ready for your own reasons. If you aren't you'll probably fail. Right now he still has excuses (start of a new school year - too stressful with new Principal and admin changes) of course with school back in session he is smoking WAY less (can't smoke on school grounds) and moving all the way outside instead of the screen porch or garage has cut him down some too since it is an effort to go smoke he's only smoking the ones he really wants. Without me there smoking too there is also no incentive to stay and have another one. ...he's probaby cut his intake by more than half since I quit. Any reduction is a good thing...and gets him that much closer to tossing them completely.
I have been told by several 'formers', that the quitter needs to have open access to available cigarettes in so as to prove themselves best able to refuse the temptation. As the temptation becomes less and less taxing, it becomes a natural thing. My father stopped, cold turkey, back in 1980. Right up until the day he died, he said he wanted one so badly he felt as though he could eat one. I've heard of those that stopped and had available smokes around to refuse, didn't feel the way my dad did.windsor wrote:It has actually been a little easier to quit with him smoking than it was the times we tried to quit together. I am not wondering if he is 'cheating' (meaning of course I can 'cheat' too). He agreed to relegate himself to the great outdoors and not leave his cigarettes or butts in sight (I'm sure I could locate them if I looked - but I don't have to walk past and see them sitting there)
The only issue we've had is driving (like I did he smokes a lot when drives). We've taken two cars a couple of times to get around this.
Waste of gas - yeah - but I can buy 2 gallons of gas for the price of one pack of cigarettes so I'm still way ahead