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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/20/2007 10:39:27 AM
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JimboFletch
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ORIGINAL: zingo
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday...2 days from now. I am planning on renewing my efforts for Lent. Imagine the celebration on Easter Sunday (it takes 6 weeks to break a habit - coincidently Lent is 6 weeks long!)...
I've always heard that it takes 3 weeks to break a habit.
Be that as it may, I guarantee you that you will not have mastered nicotine in 42 days.
Guarantee it.
Folks, we are not talking about a mere habit.
WE
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ADDICTS
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AS
LONG
AS
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LIVE!
Forget that and you will eventually be a nicotine junkie again - even after a year or more of being clean!
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/20/2007 10:47:25 AM
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Zingo, I'm with you for Wednesday.
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/21/2007 11:30:23 AM
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JimboFletch
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IT'S ASH WEDNESDAY QUIT-PROMISERS
By God's marvelous, bountiful and amazing grace and His endless strength:
I am at DAY 175 Nicotine Free. Day 272 since tobacco has touched my lips.
Remaining Clean... One crave, one hour, one day at a time.
My first Ash Wednesday in decades that began without nicotine cravings to control my day. THANK YOU JESUS!
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/21/2007 5:21:02 PM
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JimboFletch
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Just curious:
Did anybody follow through on their plans to quit today?????
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/21/2007 5:25:38 PM
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myckey
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No.
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/21/2007 5:31:58 PM
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JimboFletch
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Diane, it isn't too late. You can quit right NOW or whenever your last use of tobacco was. You've gone this long since a nicotine fix, you might as well make this the beginning of the journey.
There is no rule says you have to quit at midnight - I quit at 10:47 in the morning.
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/22/2007 9:26:38 AM
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JimboFletch
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By God's marvelous, bountiful and amazing grace and His endless strength:
I am at DAY 176 Nicotine Free. Day 273 since tobacco has touched my lips.
Remaining Clean... One crave, one hour, one day at a time.
Folks, this isn't complicated: Commit to one hour right now being nicotine & tobacco free. One hour. Do that for 120 hours and you will have broken free of the physical withdrawal and the nicotine will have left your system (usually by 72 hours, but for sure by 120).
From then on you are only dealing with mental craves - teaching yourself how to handle situations without the drug nicotine. Those cravings become weaker, more brief, and farther apart.
From that point on, Commit to one day at a time. POST THAT COMMITMENT HERE for accountability. During that day, deal with any craving that comes any way you can except by caving in to tobacco. Don't worry about staying free FOREVER, that's too much to deal with, besides scripture doesn't promise us tomorrow, that's in God's care. Just make it through one day, one crave at a time.
The worst thing you can do is wait for some fictional better day, hour, or minute or place. You will continue looking for it until you have contracted cancer or damaged your health - and lost decades of the kind of freedom God intends for you to have.
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/23/2007 8:53:42 AM
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JimboFletch
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By God's marvelous, bountiful and amazing grace and His endless strength:
I am at DAY 177 Nicotine Free. Day 274 since tobacco has touched my lips.
Remaining Clean... One crave, one hour, one day at a time.
It is really nice facing another weekend without that nicotine ball & chain to carry with me everywhere I go. I can even look forward to an entire Lord's Day without worrying if a service will last too long so that I'll start withdrawal symptoms before I get a nicotine fix - and did I get enough tobacco to hold me until Monday afternoon - all while singing praises about my Mighty God who will see us through everything...
Nicotine junkies can be pretty pathetic, can't we?
To coin a phrase, today is the first day of the rest of your life. If you haven't already, make it a day that, from this point onward, you'll face it in Jesus' strength, not with a tobacco crutch!
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RE: Exodus club... - 2/23/2007 11:01:47 AM
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JimboFletch
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ORIGINAL: JimboFletch - 12/29/2006 2:39:44 PM
I once smoked about a pack a day for about 5 years and quit cold turkey. Then, after more than a year of being clean, I caved and found myself once again hooked.
Now I'm 218 days off tobacco and 121 days nicotine free after about 30 years of use. (I did nicotine gum for 97 days.)
I've learned that 1) I am a nicotine addict and 2) I can never "just have one" ever again. I also have learned that I cannot quit forever, a year, or for a week. I can only quit one day at a time. (In the first 5 days without nicotine, I literally quit one hour at a time.)
I will never "be cured" and I will always be one cave away from slavery again.
That was my first post in this thread. Had those of you who were thinking about possibly finding a perfect day to begin planning for getting rid of tobacco if the spirit and flesh were willing ACTUALLY began your quit, you'd be a DAY 56 - close to 2 months clean with all of the worst BEHIND you.
I have been posting to try to encourage you to get onboard, but it seems that this is becoming a Jimbo Blog to quit molly-coddling folks who prefer the weed to freedom. Well, I have better things to do.
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RE: Celebrating Freedom from Tobacco... - 3/3/2007 8:48:52 PM
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Hang in there, i smoked for 30 years, i quit, Jan 14th 2006 so i am on my way to 14 months!!! Praise the Lord!
Pray pray pray and pray never ceasing! PRAY
change up your habbits, before i quit, i stopped smoking at my favorite times, after meals, in the car, first get up etc. i only smoked when it was inconvienient, when working on the 9th floor, i would walk down the stairs and then walk to the smoking area and smoke, i only took one cigg with me so i would not be tempted to smoke 2
i started taking zyban about 10 days before quitting,
i used the nicotine patch, for 6 weeks,
i started walking for an hour everyday, and really noticed the improvement in my lung capacity!
i would like to say that all made it easy! But like you all know who have quit, it is hard no matter what you do!
Like another poster said, the first 3 weeks are the hardest! a month is a good milestone, but you will want to give yourself a prize! Dont, it is not worth it, they dont taste good and they make you sick! (learned that from previous times of quiting)
I Feel so good now, i never think of smoking, anymore, one of my coworkers smoke, and whew does he stink! hahaha, he used to apologise all the time, i told him that the stench kept me from wanting one 
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RE: Celebrating Freedom from Tobacco... - 3/8/2007 10:49:07 AM
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I though I could never quit smoking, but I have been free of this habit for 15 years. IT IS POSSIBLE TO QUIT!!!!!!!!! ATTENTION ALL OF YOU WHO SMOKE, YES YOU CAN QUIT!!! I know that your body and mind are telling you the opposite, but don't pay attention. Listen to the one that said I came to set you free! KEEP TRYING!! The day will come when you get to conquer the habit and I pray that it happens soon and as it happened to me that now I cannot stand anyone smoking close to me, now cigarettes stinks.
ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!!
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RE: Celebrating Freedom from Tobacco... - 3/23/2007 10:53:18 AM
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I have smoked now for more years than I want to admit to anyone.
I have quit many of times. I have quit because of my daughter wanting me to...and have broken her heart because I have started back up. I did that twice.
Well today I am quitting again! I have the patch.
Please prayer for me and keep this thread going for those us that need support.
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RE: Celebrating Freedom from Tobacco... - 3/24/2007 3:12:07 PM
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Debi092552
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NeedHim4life, how are you doing?
Queenie2716-keep us informed...your experience will help us all.
I have not quit yet, but I am gaining encouragement from all of you that have posted on this site, so please keep the thread going! I want to be one who is counting the days nicotine free! Will it ever happen? Someone posted that their parents quit after 40 years, if they can do it so can I and so can you. I am now looking at this dirty, nasty ash tray that is placed next to the computer. I would really like to get rid of it! Does any one else panic at the mere thought of being without your cigarettes?
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RE: Celebrating Freedom from Tobacco... - 3/26/2007 1:34:20 PM
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NeedHim4life
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NeedHim4life, how are you doing?
Debi,
Thanks for asking!
I am smoke free. I did fall off the wagon a few days....God's love brought me back to reality.
I prayed for deliverance for God to take the desire away....not just to quit...because truth be said...I liked smoking on some levels. Once I prayed for the desire to lift...the smoking need left.
A friend sent me this:
A major part of spiritual warfare is resisting the devil's enticements to compromise on God's principles. We give the powers of darkness a definite advantage when we do anything that actually compromises the intimacy of our fellowship with God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit. Worldliness is anything attitude or occupation that makes your heart just a little colder towards the Lord. It happens when you love something that you would not want the Lord to interrupt you as you pursue it.
When we yield to sin, we lose a measure of divine boldness and spiritual authority and the faith which comes from a close and intimate walk with the Lord. Yes, there is always forgiveness as long as we don't harden our heart and become totally unrepentant, but we lose time and opportunities in spiritual warfare by sinning. We will never know what we have missed out on by those times we yielded to sin. Perhaps some people are in hell now because of our disobedience to the Lord.
It was/is a powerful message...We need to look to the cross....see yourself giving Jesus your cigarettes & need / desire for them. He will lovingly taking them away...no condemnation....only love for you.....give it to Him...He is all we need...His grace is sufficient and the healing is ours...He bore our sins and we ARE healed....we need to walk out our faith.
I will pray that you all find Jesus’ resurrection power and stand firm in quitting for life....He gives us that choice minute by minute...choose life & death...I seen cigarettes as death and seeing people who smoked for many years...they looked like death....I want life and to renew my youth in Him!!
LOVE YOU ALL & YOU CAN DO IT FOR JESUS WHO LOVES YOU MORE THAN THOSE NASTY LITTLE CIGARETTES!!!  hugs in Him!!
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 3/31/2007 10:40:25 AM
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I wasn't sure where to post this. Mods feel free to change as long as links are correct.
I know of a few people here that are looking to/trying to quit smoking. I think we need a support thread where we can encourage each other without being browbeaten for smoking.
I have been smoking for the better part of 23 years. I tried to quit again today. It's sickening, I give up after a few hours. I don't understand why it's so hard.
Please anyone else who is struggling please post.
Well, quitting comes in stages rather if you think about it. I was a smoker for 15 years. I started when I was young (about 12). I think we all need to understand WHAT it is that we are inhaling. This is why I stopped ( been smoke free for 3 years). After trying to quit over and over during the last 5 years of my smoking, I would find myself very frustrated that when I quit , I'd only pick it up again. This is where the frustation comes in b/c you want to quit, but the addiction has a lot of power over you.
The ciggarette WANTS to destoy and does every time you take a puff.
It contains over 4,000 blends of chemicals and most of them are KNOWN cancer causing agents.
Everytime you "light up" imagine your hair falling out and that you hooked up to 5 different machines BARELY alive...all you have is your last breath...Are you going to waste it on the smoke???
Lastly, everytime you breathe the smoke in you are inhaling RAT POISON. This statement right here is all I had to hear to finally make me quit. I looked at my daughter and realized I could not be a representative of cowardness. I had to be a STRONG roll model. In order to be viewed as "strong" you have to be a self sacrificial individual. You have to DENY yourself of what you want. In otherword: SELF CONTROL :)
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 4/26/2007 1:37:00 PM
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I am not a smoker...will never be...the sight and smell of it literally makes me feel like I'm going to go into cardiac arrest. I start coughing and sometimes to the point of getting sick as soon as I am around one...I can smell one a mile away my hubby and my mom say. Well, my mom started smoking a long time ago, but I remember a time when she didn't. I was a child though, so I know that it isn't something she's done for her whole life or for longer than 28 years...cause I'm 28. Anyway, I have done so many things to encourage her to quit...from printing off things about smoking and putting them on the refrigerator with magnets, to putting those little bombs in her cigarettes...I used to hide them and her lighters, but she always reminded me that she could just go buy more...and then I'd get in trouble...well, now she has three grandchildren...my three children. I am even more strict about smoking around them than I am about myself. Those of you who have quit or who are trying to quit...do you have any advice of what I could say, do, show to my mom to encourage her to quit? Her dad died of enphezema (sp?) earlier this year...a long time smoker as well... Her mom has had problems and had to quit smoking at an early age or her doctor told her that she would be on oxygen for the rest of her life...which wouldn't be much longer if she continued to smoke. She sees all the medical problems...they have touched her heart, but apparently not strong enough... I really want her to quit..............
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 4/26/2007 2:34:39 PM
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...do you have any advice of what I could say, do, show to my mom to encourage her to quit? Her dad died of enphezema (sp?) earlier this year...a long time smoker as well... Her mom has had problems and had to quit smoking at an early age or her doctor told her that she would be on oxygen for the rest of her life...which wouldn't be much longer if she continued to smoke. She sees all the medical problems...they have touched her heart, but apparently not strong enough... I really want her to quit
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there's nothing you can do to make her want to quit. Except pray.
All those things you've been doing have probably actually made her more stubborn to keep smoking. I know that her health is at stake, and trust me....she knows that, too. People who have an addiction do not think logically about the effects of their addiction. If she hasn't quit on her own yet at the threat of an oxygen tank, I don't know what to tell you. It's hard, I know, but she has to want to quit on her own. Take it from me, she does not enjoy feeling like a failure or a disappointment to you. She does not take it lightly when she lets you down.
I'm not saying you should encourage her to keep smoking. I think it's more than okay to simply say that you do not approve of what she is doing to herself and leave it at that. Do not nag her. And pray for her! Don't write off prayer! God knows you love your mother, and He understands what you are feeling. Take your concerns to Him, and ask Him to show you what you should say and/or do. He will have a much better answer than I.
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 4/26/2007 4:59:29 PM
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You know, I know that you are probably right, but I don't feel like she cares if she lets me down or not. My dad has even tried to get her to quit. She has claimed many times...I'm quitting at Christmas, that'll be your daddy's Christmas present...or I'm quitting on our anniversary...that's what I'm giving to your daddy. I will praise her for that, and then when I ask her later how it's going, it's not anymore. She never even tried. I even offered to buy her one of those patch treatments before I married, but she told me that if I bought it, she wouldn't use it... Could it be that she doesn't want to quit? Why wouldn't she? I know that she's addicted...and I guess I don't totally understand addictions, but how could you keep doing something that most likely killed your dad and almost your mom? Not to mention the health problems others in our family have had from it. I will pray for her, and I know that God knows... I just feel like I should do something... something more.... I don't want to tell my children that they will never see grandma on this earth again because she smoked herself to death.
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 4/26/2007 5:18:44 PM
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Sweet_Tea_No_Lemon
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ORIGINAL: HappyMorning
She has claimed many times...I'm quitting at Christmas, that'll be your daddy's Christmas present...or I'm quitting on our anniversary...that's what I'm giving to your daddy. I will praise her for that, and then when I ask her later how it's going, it's not anymore. She never even tried.
I've done this many times myself. All smokers do, I'm willing to say. I told my husband it would be his Valentine gift, my dad his birthday present, etc. etc. Did I want to quit? Yes! I cannot tell you how hard I cried and how much of a lowlife I felt like when I would give in.
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Could it be that she doesn't want to quit? Why wouldn't she?
Don't get me wrong. I'm sure she wants to quit. A part of her is disgusted with smoking. Then there's this other part of her that doesn't want to quit....well....different smokers have different ways of viewing this. Some of us feel like smoking is a part of who we are (espcially for those who've been doing it for years). They cannot picture themselves without being a smoker. Some of us feel like, "Yes, I know it's bad for me, but that won't really happen to me." Denial is a key part of addiction. Some of us simply don't want to quit because the withdrawal is so terrible.
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how could you keep doing something that most likely killed your dad and almost your mom?
Because she doesn't see herself being affected that way. She's probably thinking, "That's them, but not me." She doesn't associate her smoking with the effects of their smoking. I know that's stupid, but that's how addiction works. You would not expect a heroin addict to give it up just because another drug addict OD's. They have to realize, on their own, that they need to quit.
I'm sorry for what you're dealing with. I dealt with these same feelings with my own mother. A few years ago, I started smoking myself.  So I understand both sides of the coin.
You say you want to do something "more," but prayer is the most powerful thing you could possibly do for her! Don't just pray that she quits. Pray that she gains the courage she needs. Pray that she realizes she's not "meant to be" a smoker. Pray that smoking starts to disgust her. Pray for God to reveal Himself to her. Nothing you do on your own is going to be half as powerful as prayer.
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RE: Quitting smoking support thread - 5/6/2007 4:36:03 PM
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Those of you who have quit or who are trying to quit...do you have any advice of what I could say, do, show to my mom to encourage her to quit?
Get over it!! Face your own problem with it; love her for who she is, not for what she does or doesn't do, or for what you can benefit by getting your way. The fact is, this is between her and God---maybe He continues to allow her to smoke so that you have to deal with what comes out of you; stop trying to control her. The more I'm huffed and puffed at, the more I'm nagged, the more I want to smoke because otherwise it becomes very hard to hold my tongue from using very bad language by saying things that would be more harmful than smoking ever could.
Those of you who are trying or plan on quiting in the near future take my advice:
DON'T TELL ANYONE!!! See how long it takes them to notice.
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