My Quitting Smoking Thread

[eastcoastprincess]

Today is a great day I feel fully motivated and I know I can do this. Or as "babe" says I'm staring at myself in the mirror disgusted with myself.

Went to to the doctor this morning got the Champix script. My mom surprised me by getting it also. It's great my mother is quitting, my boyfriend is quitting and I'm quitting too! Let's hope we all make it out alive haha.

I don't think it will be that bad. All I know is I'm going in with a positive outlook.

For the first week I'm able to smoke because Champix doesn't start fully working until the second week to stop cravings. So I'm just going to cut down smoking at first not smoke full tilt like I did a month ago.

Im so happy I feel like I'm glowing. Lol glowing sounds like I'm pregnant.. I wish.

[rider014]

Good luck to ya

Today is a great day I feel fully motivated and I know I can do this. Or as "babe" says I'm staring at myself in the mirror disgusted with myself.

Went to to the doctor this morning got the Champix script. My mom surprised me by getting it also. It's great my mother is quitting, my boyfriend is quitting and I'm quitting too! Let's hope we all make it out alive haha.

I don't think it will be that bad. All I know is I'm going in with a positive outlook.

For the first week I'm able to smoke because Champix doesn't start fully working until the second week to stop cravings. So I'm just going to cut down smoking at first not smoke full tilt like I did a month ago.

Im so happy I feel like I'm glowing. Lol glowing sounds like I'm pregnant.. I wish.

I picked day 12 to crush my last one, days 9-12 they tasted like shit, made it easier by far. Definitely eat something before you take them though, or you will keel over with a severe stomach ache for about 5 minutes. Not a pleasant feeling, and get ready for the vivid dreams, enjoy them. Again good luck

[Ray]

Congrats Dita, Hope everyone is successful.

[Rockheart]

I still think buying drugs to quit drugs is crazy.

[eastcoastprincess]

I still think buying drugs to quit drugs is crazy.[ATTACH=CONFIG]69138[/ATTACH]

What's that?

[Rockheart]

What's that?

Nicotine juice for refilling my e-cigarettes.

No Tar and vitamins too.

There is little evidence that nicotine alone is actually harmful.
It is just addictive.
Some studies have shown nicotine to be a treatment for alzheimers.

[Guest]

Here we go....

Oh my gosh! Where do i begin?
Well, i know i sometimes write long posts, but i assure you it's only when i have something important to say.

This post is directed at Dita or whatever her name is (eastcoastprincess) and her family and loved ones.

(For the few {or many} people who don't like me for WHATEVER reasons, this post is NOT for you, so, please try to spare me all of your...oh, i dunno...sarcasm, maybe?..and you folks should know who you are.
Furthermore, i will not respond, whatsoever, to any one who knowingly or unknowingly shills for drug companies and the products they sell. So, you can save all your comments for your own threads.

If anyone has gotten to know me, they would know that i don't take Pharma drugs nor do i agree with them, unless it's a life or death situation and/or an emergency.)

And i don't need to be told how long the post is - i wrote it.



Hi eastcoastprincess (or as Ray calls you, Dita),

...as "babe" says I'm staring at myself in the mirror disgusted with myself...

...Let's hope we all make it out alive haha.

This long post was written with the softest tone of character, as i have a very soft nature.
I just don't want to be misunderstood.

First of all, i never said to you to "stare at yourself thinking disgusting thoughts about yourself."
You have misquoted what i told when i explained to you how i quite smoking in 4 DAYS. Yes, there is a "looking into your eyes" part of my method but that's not all it encompasses.

If all you have managed to extract from my several posts, in your other thread, about how i (after 30+ years of smoking) quit in 4 days, was to
"[misquoted] stare at myself in the mirror disgusted with myself..." then you really didn't understand all i had said.

AND i must admit to you, that there are several other factors which i didn't mention to you about when i quit smoking - because i did not want to overwhelm you.

I was thinking to myself that IF you were really intrigued by what i had done for myself, that it would have made some real sense to you and maybe would have caused you to have asked more and more questions. Then, i would have seen that my method was really making sense to you.

Look at it this way, please...it was as if i gave you the tough part, first, to see what your reaction to the method i developed would be, and then, if you accepted that and wanted to know more, then, i would have went further to explain exactly what i did when i quit smoking.
There's much more that just screaming at yourself, while looking into your eyes in a mirror. I never got into the "much more" - left out - information.

And you were quite polite and gracious with me, and maybe a "little" interested in what i was writing, and perhaps mostly "entertained" by me.
You did write that you do smoke, i think you wrote, "a lot of pot" (something to that effect, anyway), so maybe what i wrote was kind of an interesting pot trip for you because i attacked my nicotine addiction by using a severe psychological approach.
When one is high, things tend to look more interesting.

I will admit that when i tell people how i quit smoking in 4 days (after 30+ years of smoking), you know?...they tend to look at me and finally say, "Well, different people have different methods that work for them.. and everybody has to find a way that they can feel comfortable with when quitting smoking...and"... blah blah blah ad nauseam.
I tell them, that they are correct - what works for me can't work for everyone.
But, you know what?.. a year later i see them still smoking while i still haven't touched one. I tell myself, in my mind while i watch them smoke. 'Well, if smoking and dreaming about stopping gives you THAT power to have A CHOICE to tell me that "everyone has to find their own way"...well, enjoy that cigarette - i say all of that to myself, in my head, don't forget - i, obviously, don't tell them that.
They don't want to know - they want to think they know what's best. Alright, I let them be.

In the other thread, you got kind of fed up with what i was saying about smoking, and you even asked to drop the topic, and you invited others to discuss the other topics that you initially mentioned to be discussed instead of "how to stop smoking".
And THAT's is okay. I am not angry, insulted, offended ..whatever. I, sort of, chuckled to myself, thinking..."Well, okay. I tried to help her."
But, i had to go back several days later to edit out all of what i started to explain about how i stopped smoking - i had to remove the unfinished method which was never fully explained.
I do hope i managed to leave the thread intact so that it makes sense to the readers. No one would know by your responses that i edited out large chunks of my text.
In my opinion, you weren't interested in my very drastic (but very effective) method of how i quite smoking.

I edited out large chunks because i didn't want for anyone to get the wrong idea of my method (which was not fully explained). Don't forget, Dita, i started with the toughest part to see what your reaction would be...and your reaction was to drop the subject and discuss other things you mentioned in your thread title.
It's all cool, with me.
I really would have hoped it would have really got you passionate, but i failed to stir your passion.
You are looking for an easy way to quit smoking, and there is none.

It has to start with the smoker being as passionate about quitting smoking as someone who has had quite enough of an abusive ex lover to realize that ya have to simply FORCE yourself to walk away from all of that abuse. There's no magic pill, or patch, or secret body lotion to make someone stop loving their abusive ex boyfriend who is by all accounts simply bad for the others health. Do you know how it is when you leave a scum bag boyfriend?..., it's really simple, you refuse to answer the phone when he calls; you peek through the curtain to see if it's him again trying to weasel himself back into your life and you don't let him know you're there; you change your phone number; and/or you move away and DON'T tell him or his friends where you moved to; you get your brothers to really beat him up if he keeps coming back to try to maipulate you; you call the cops to arrest him for stalking you...we do WHATEVER it takes. We have to do what we have to do for OUR own health.
AND, if that means literally forcing oneself to hate someone (or cigarettes) because that person is bad for the health, so be it!
There's no doctor's prescription for that. We must turn our head away and change our thoughts and talk to ourselves NONSTOP until we REALLY get it, and when we do finally get it, we NEVER go back again, we must move on, happily. That's how people finally divorce each other after years and years of loyal servitude to a scum spouse. There's no pills for that. Willpower is stronger than any pill - we know when we are REALLY ready.
Now, my method involves LOTS of constant will power but there was more and i never got around to explaining it. I shared something very personal with you and this forum and i only took it away because it seems to have fallen into the view of blind eyes that were searching for an easy way to quit.

I am writing all of these words, here, only because of what i have quoted at the beginning of this post. All these words only address where you mentioned my name and how you misquoted me. And i want to REPEAT to you that i am not angry or resentful or anything negative in my motives here, so, do not forget that, please. I try to love everyone. There are some folks in my life, however, who i find difficult to forgive because they...well, that's another story for some other day - far away from now - if ever.

The second part of what i quoted above is related to the misquote because you say "...if we make it out alive." and then you lol.

I am so afraid of that last statement about making it out alive and how it's linked to your misquote of my stop-smoking-method especially how it's all linked to this Chantix prescription that you show in the photo.

I do not want my name to be associated with you using that (Pfizer) Chantix drug, and linking it to the method that you misquoted, and then, hoping you stay alive.
I will, now, explain why i am writing all of this to you and i have to say that the tone of this entire post is to be taken as if i am speaking softly and as caringly and tenderly as someone who loves you - like a loving mom or a caring family member. Okay? I want to really stress that because words often get taken the wrong way.
I just really need to make it known to you and everyone that i don't endorse or condone you linking what i have said in the other thread (which is now no longer there) to Chantix.

Here's why:
The Chantix drugs success rates are based on very questionable studies from Pfizer and/or any other company that makes, sells or pushes these or any other drugs onto doctors to push onto to the public - YOU.

I have included the FDA statement on Chantix for you to read so you can be FULLY informed of where i stand on that drug.

The FDA states quite clearly that Chantix causes side effects which can include depression and suicidal thoughts!! AND there are more side effects, but i will leave that for you to read for yourself within the two pages i have included which explain it all. Advise your mother and boyfriend to read it all, too.

Please do not incorporate any thing i have wrote, which might still linger in your memory about how i quit smoking.
With Chantix in your system, i don't want to be responsible for putting ideas into your head that a stupid, dangerous drug might cause you to act upon.

Is that clear? I really hope so.

And to all the people who like to blindly believe (like sheep) whatever garbage the drug companies say about their drugs and how i am a nut of some kind for questioning Health Canada because they know what's BEST for the public, you guys can save it, please, because i really don't want to read that crap, and i won't read it!

Just remember this, please...before anyone tries to lecture me on the topic of Big Pharma!... EVERY drug that has ever been RECALLED by the FDA and/or Heath Canada because it caused death or other major health issues for the patients who used those drugs, WERE ALL APPROVED by the FDA and/or Health Canada. No drug ever reaches your local pharmacy unless it's FIRST approved.
And if it's approved, why are they recalled? Simple, money is MORE important to THEM than YOUR health and safety. If they really cared about OUR safety, how does a drug that gets recalled ever get to market in the first place.

Dita, i really think you should read what the FDA says about this Chantix drug before taking it because i've noticed...uh...well, the back of the drug box in your photo is covered by your prescription label. Wow! What are they trying to hide from you? If there is a pamphlet inside the box, get the magnifying glass and read it carefully.

I am not selling ANYTHING to you, so i will not benefit from you not using that Chantix. I am not trying to burst your enthusiastic bubble, either.
You will benefit.

Anyway, i spent ALL THIS time writing as best as i could just to let you know that i am trying to watch over you, a bit.

AGAIN, i don't want to think of you taking this Chantix concoction and trying to use my mirror method of verbal abuse and logic to quit smoking.

Here are the links:
http://open.salon.com/blog/xylocopa/...expected_event

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/ucm276737.htm

Much love and respect,
Babe,

[eastcoastprincess]

Nicotine juice for refilling my e-cigarettes.

No Tar and vitamins too.

There is little evidence that nicotine alone is actually harmful.
It is just addictive.
Some studies have shown nicotine to be a treatment for alzheimers.

Really for alzheimers? I'd love to see that study to be honest. As for e-cigarettes anything in general i'm just sick of smoking. I've been cutting out all the bad out of my life for a couple years now.. slowly.

I'm now just replacing cigarettes with fitness since I haven't been active ever since I was pre-transitioned.

Much love and respect,
Babe,

Thanks babe! And please call me Heidi. That is my real name. Dita was my hooker/stage/porn name that's the only reason why Ray called me that name since that's the only way he knows how to address me.

But it's not a big deal since no one knew. Heidi is my name, and within a month it will be legally my name Heidi. I don't like how on the east coast the name changes are so backed up that instead of getting my name changed like the states and have it issued within a month you have to wait 5 months to get it changed in Canada. Because its not a priority as the government has told me.

It wasn't a priority but going out in public and someone looking at my ID and giving me the confused face saying "Your not Anthony" ..yeah not a priority my big fat ass!

[eastcoastprincess]

I was wondering what to call you. I was going to suggest "Vivica".

as a girl's name is a variant of Viveca (Scandinavian, Old German), and the meaning of Vivica is "alive; war fortress".
Read more at http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Vivica#Eu8KWWdQ0oChXOoZ.99


You got the blonde hair and you are quite lively my dear.

Lol I was never german!!! Come on plotter you silly goose.

Im scottish, irish and norweigan. I lied saying I was german and russian for a few years just to make more money when I escorted. Like lets just be real right now lol.

Vivica sounds like a russian whore name for sure though

[Guest]

Natural non smoking aids made by Mother Earth (no relation to Pfizer)

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Heidi,

That's a nice German name.

ORIGIN AND HISTORY
The name Heidi is of German origin. It is a diminutive of the German name Adelheid, meaning "noble, kind, honorable," or "exalted nature." It is primarily used in English, perhaps due to the influence of Johanna Spyri's novel, Heidi.

POPULARITY
Heidi is a fairly popular name in the United States. It first appeared on the top 1000 chart in 1939 (two years after the release of the Shirley Temple film Heidi), but it did not really begin to gain popularity until the late 1940s. Heidi's highest position was number 60 in 1974, and it has remained in at least the top 400 every year since. In 2006, Heidi ranked at number 295.

Heidi is also popular in other countries:
199th - as a girl's name in Norway (2006)
304th - as a girl's name in Canada (2005)
380th - as a girl's name in Sweden (2006)
474th - as a girl's name in Catalonia (2003)
679th - as a girl's name in Australia (2003)
1397th - as a girl's name in Belgium (2005)

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ANYWAY, getting back to .
How to quit smoking using natural herbs found in health stores or online.
There are a number of herbs that can help you kick nicotine addiction:

Lobelia
Is a very powerful herb that helps to calm the mind and relax the body. It has helped many people to control their cravings for nicotine. Lobelia is also reputed to have the effect of making cigarettes taste very bad.

St. John’s wort
One of the best known herbs for promoting a positive mental attitude–something people often need help with during the early phases of becoming a non-smoker.

Black cohosh
Is commonly used by women to help them stay balanced during their monthly cycle. However, it is also known to be a safe sedative that relieves nervousness and anxiety, which makes it useful for the irritability, restlessness, and nervousness associated with quitting smoking.

Blue vervain
Has been referred to as a natural tranquilizer and as such it can be used to calm the nerves. It can also be used for insomnia.

Catnip
Has a soothing and relaxing effect on the digestive system, and helps to relieve diarrhea, flatulence, indigestion, upset stomach, and headache. Catnip also has antispasmodic properties that make it useful for abdominal cramps as well as chronic coughing. Catnip is also good for alleviating sleeplessness. Catnip’s antibiotic and astringent properties are also beneficial for treating colds and bronchial infections.

Hyssop
Has the ability to help with clearing mucus congestion in the lungs associated with COPD. It also has been known to alleviate the anxiety and even hysteria that is sometimes associated with smoking withdrawal.

Korean ginseng
Is one of the most popular herbs in the world for stimulating energy and helping the body to deal with stress. This property enables ginseng to help alleviate the fatigue and anxiety related to quitting smoking. Ginseng is known to help reestablish balance in the body’s systems, which can be helpful to smokers as their bodies adjust to the absence of nicotine.

Motherwort
Has properties that enable it to act as a sedative, inducing tranquility in times of anxiety associated with quitting smoking.

Oat straw or oat seed
One of the best remedies for stress, nervous debility, and exhaustion, especially when associated with depression (a common affliction in people who have recently quit smoking).

Peppermint
Has a relaxing effect on the muscles of the digestive system, combats flatulence, and stimulates the flow of bile and other digestive juices. The volatile oil in peppermint acts as a mild anesthetic to the stomach wall, which helps alleviate feelings of nausea. Where headaches are associated with digestion, peppermint may help. Peppermint also eases anxiety and tension.

Skullcap
Contains plant compounds that help the brain produce more endorphins (naturally occurring chemicals that promote feelings of well-being). This is believed to enhance both awareness and calmness. Skullcap relaxes states of nervous tension while renewing and reviving the central nervous system.

Slippery elm
Is rich in nutrients and easy to digest, making it an excellent food during times of digestive discomfort, which can sometimes accompany smoking cessation. It works with the body to draw out impurities and toxins, assisting with the healing of the entire body.

Valerian
One of the premier sedative herbs used to aid people with anxiety, stress, and insomnia. Valerian also acts as a muscle relaxant. Valerian is clearly one of the herbs of choice in smoking cessation to deal with the issues of insomnia, restlessness, and anxiety.

[eastcoastprincess]

Blue vervain
Has been referred to as a natural tranquilizer and as such it can be used to calm the nerves. It can also be used for insomnia.

Isn't that the stuff they talked about in the show The Vampire Diaries that they used to kill the vampires well tranquilize them momentarily... That's ironic.

I liked that you showed me the herbal ways. I copy and pasted that into my iphone notepad. It's a good thing to keep at hand.

Thanks again Babe your a gem.

[eastcoastprincess]

I posted this status a couple minutes ago on facebook. Today has been a productive day for me.

Well... until I called my gay bestfriend and wished him Happy Birthday. Then he randomly shows up with a bottle of Chardonnay to my apartment. Haha, long story short I'm kind of buzzed. Oh well at least I was productive earlier.

ANYWAYS I've only had one cigarette and a half so far today since 6AM. Screenshot is attached to the reply. I edited my last name out of the facebook status for my own privacy nothing against anyone but I don't want my last name public I hope everyone understands.

Off to go smoke the other half of that one now since the wine is getting to me.

XOXOXO

[Ray]

Sorry Heidi. Heidi is a nice name.

[eastcoastprincess]

Sorry Heidi. Heidi is a nice name.

No need to apologize Ray. You didn't know it's not your fault.

Isn't it great to deal with me sober Sorry for being such a cunt in the past. You didn't deserve my mentally unstable rants from the years 2010-2012. If anyone deserves a apology that is you.

Hope your having a good New Year XOXO

[Guest]

An encouraging comment for tonight.

Hi Heidi,

I was walking through the laneway, and passed the IGA near my place, today.
There were several employees (cashiers and stock boys) standing outside on the loading dock, smoking cigarettes.

They looked so ridiculous standing out there, shivering in the -30 temperature (with the wind chill) all bundled up in their winter clothes, puffing on their cigarettes. They were obviously NOT enjoying it.

I thought to myself as i walked by smelling the putrid stink of the chemicals from their cancer-tubes,
'Yuck! That use to be me, thinking i was actually enjoying a smoke. These days, i would be inside, really enjoying my break, eating a snack and chatting, instead of shivering down to my bones and all for a stupid cigarette or two.'

Babe,
xoxo