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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 1/31/2007 11:50:24 AM
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myckey
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Thanks so much, Sarah, for your support! I know that it will happen, and I think I'm getting closer and closer to that.
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/1/2007 1:44:54 PM
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NeedHim4life
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Day 12.....
Praising God for the strength to give up something my flesh absolutley loves!!!!
For those of you who have not quit....((((hugs)))) I pray your day will come to let go & let God carry you to freedom!
Now I probably gained 5 to 10 pounds....Lord needs to help me to stop eating!!!!!!!!!!!!
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/1/2007 4:05:08 PM
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JimboFletch
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By God's bountiful grace and strength:
I am at DAY 155 Nicotine Free. Day 252 since tobacco has touched my lips.
Remaining Clean...One crave, one day at a time.
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/2/2007 10:29:00 AM
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Hi everyone,
I smoked for 14 years and quit on the 24th of july 2006. And that day began about a year and a half before....!
Before that I have never tried to quit or even wanted to, I just loved it. Yes, I knew how it affected me and my health, but I thought - I'm young and there's plenty of time to quit! I have parents who smoked for 40 years and quit 10 years ago and I thought that like them - I could always do it - I CHOSE to smoke. I told myself that I might be psychologically addicted, but NOT physically!!!! I was never the one tapping the floor on a 2 hour busdrive or standing out in the rain pulsating - Oh no, I could wait and that said a lot about how I was different from the others!!! Ha....
Anyway, the turningpoint for me was (and I believe that everyone must have that, whether it is health, family, or in my case vanity!) when I was referred in my speechclass at the seminary to a phonetic doctor 2 years ago, because my voice was very weak. I went and got to see my throat on camera - with all the ugly smoker-slime that was rocksolid and prevented me from using my voice properly! I still have the icky picture...He also told me that I smelled(!)  had bad breath and my mouth and throat was covered in "smoker-coating" !!! Basically I was disgusting and I thought - I have been like this forever, yikes!!! AND to top it all, I had the classic smoker-wrinkles on the lips and the grey face and sticky, yellow fingers!!! THAT was my lowest point and when something had to stop. You can only do so much with exercising your voice, cigarettes, coffee and coca cola will make it worse. And I wasn't about to quit coffee, sooo.....!
I did not quit cold turkey! That was impossible for me, I just did not have the selfcontrol, because I still loved the cigarettes - and when you love the process, it's really difficult!
I made rules! First I was only allowed to smoke with the balconydoor open (and it was freezing winter) and I immediately cut back to 4-5 a day. Then I could only smoke standing or sitting right at the door! Cutback down to 2-3, and finally I was only allowed to smoke standing out on the balcony, which was really a bother getting boots and a coat on and that way I cut back to 1 a day - which I smoked right before bed!
I obviously had to change all my routines. I almost never talked on the phone - I only drank coffee during the day (I also was only allowed to smoke at night) My sociallife had to suffer a bit, but fortunately most of my fellowsmoker-friends quit at that time too!
But it took me a long time to get comfortable at the computer, I had never in my life written anything important without smoking - it was my thing! Walking around in my apartment at midnight with a cup of coffee and sitting down in front of the computer with a cigarette, was my happiest time of the day!!! All I can say is, it takes time. At some point it gets easier, and/or you have to give up some of those habits that only reminds you of the good times. I never play computergames anymore, because that specific act is so intertwined with me smoking, that it just isn't the same and I feel better after giving it up, sadly!
And still that one cigarette really did nothing for me! I got dizzy and it tasted funny - funny bad - but I kept doing it for about a year - it was my security blanket and I was not ready to let it go.
But the REAL turningpoint was this summer. I have always been very physical - I run, windsurf and do yoga and it's been hard with the smoking. But I went on a summerholiday/exercisecamp for two weeks, where we did sports all day and night. And the first day i felt that one cigarette so much in my head, that it hurt! It was such a healthy invironment, we had healthy meals cooked for us, so I really felt like a freak being the only person smoking. So I was so lucky, that THAT was the time when I no longer felt the need to keep smoking.
And I feel so good. Everything is easier now. When you have struggled with an addiction for so long, it really is a release to not think about it all the time. I used to think and dream about that one cigarette I could have ALL day - I looked forward to going to bed, because that meant I could smoke!
It was SO hard, but when I reached that point, it was not any longer, and for you who struggle: If you have not found that thing, that weighs heavier in your life than the cigarettes then the cutback is still such a blessing!
I know now, that if I have a cigarette it will taste bad, I will get sick and I will be wheesing on my run tomorrow. And it will not be worth it. But it was before.
Yes, everybody can quit smoking, but you need strength and help to keep quitting. Guilttrips doesn't help, but to say you'll just try again will.
And everybody have their own story og motives and will quit in the right time for them 
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/2/2007 1:05:10 PM
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JimboFletch
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Snippet from an article on www.WhyQuit.com :
"Minimizing the Most Common
Side Effects to Quitting Chewing"
Blood sugar plummets in many people when first quitting. The most common side effects felt during the first three days can often be traced back to blood sugar issues. Symptoms such as headache, inability to concentrate, dizziness, time perception distortions, and the ubiquitous sweet tooth encountered by many, are often associated with this blood sugar drop. The symptoms of low blood sugar are basically the same symptoms as not having enough oxygen, similar to reactions experienced at high altitudes. The reason being the inadequate supply of sugar and/or oxygen means the brain is getting an incomplete fuel. If you have plenty of one and not enough of the other, your brain cannot function at any form of optimal level. When you quit smoking, oxygen levels are often better than they have been in years, but with a limited supply of sugar it can't properly fuel your brain.
It is not that smoking puts sugar into your blood stream; it is more of a drug interaction of the stimulant effect of nicotine that affects the blood sugar levels. Smoking will cause the body to release its own stores of sugar and fat by a drug type of interaction. That is how it basically operated as an appetite suppressant, affecting the satiety centers of your hypothalamus. As far as for the sugar levels, nicotine in fact works much more efficiently than food. If you use food to elevate blood sugar levels, it literally takes up to 20 minutes from the time you chew and swallow the food before it is released to the blood, and thus the brain, for its desired effect of fueling your brain. Tobacco, by working through a drug interaction, causes the body to release its own stores of sugar, but not in 20 minutes but usually in a matter of seconds. In a sense, your body has not had to release sugar on its own in years, you have done it by using nicotine's drug effect!
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/7/2007 10:01:09 AM
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JimboFletch
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By God's bountiful grace and strength:
I am at DAY 161 Nicotine Free. Day 258 since tobacco has touched my lips.
Remaining Clean...One crave, one day at a time.
...What He's done for others, He'll do for YOU.
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/7/2007 11:38:21 AM
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NeedHim4life
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I am day whatever,,,,,it don't matter...the only thing that matters is I am FREE!!!!
Praise God He is soo good...you all....I had tests taken last Friday....had a scope down my esophagus & stomach....the pictures they gave my mom ( I was out cold at the time) are ugly...filled with ulcers & ugliness....they took a bunch of biopsies....I will find out Monday the 12th the truth of my situation (in the physical they look very bad…but I am trusting God!)....you know...consequences are very real....we need to be ready for these ugly truths....either way...I know my God will provide for me during this time...I am not freaking, I am at peace...I am saddened that I may have hurt myself in sinning...but I know God will heal me and or bring glory out of this situation for Him!
You all...quit smoking...it isn't worth the wages of sin.
Love you all...and in Jesus we are more than conquers!!
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/8/2007 9:14:49 AM
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JimboFletch
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By God's bountiful and amazing grace and endless strength:
I am at DAY 162 Nicotine Free. Day 259 since tobacco has touched my lips.
Remaining Clean...One crave, one day at a time.
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/8/2007 11:39:14 AM
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NeedHim4life
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I am day ...again whatever....
I AM FREE!!!!!!
Praise you JESUS!!!
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/8/2007 11:51:56 AM
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JimboFletch
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quote:
ORIGINAL: NeedHim4life
I am day ...again whatever....
I AM FREE!!!!!!
Praise you JESUS!!!
Day 19?
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/8/2007 2:44:02 PM
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NeedHim4life
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quote:
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ORIGINAL: NeedHim4life
I am day ...again whatever....
I AM FREE!!!!!!
Praise you JESUS!!!
Day 19?
I am not counting anymore  ..Got to thinking about this very thought the other day.... Jesus said to look ahead (Now/future)...not behind(past)....so onward & upward in His strength & Grace!!!!!
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/8/2007 3:05:35 PM
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JimboFletch
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Day 162 IS today for me. I believe in thanking Him specifically, not in generalities.
Plus, I have no assurance of tomorrow.
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/9/2007 8:45:26 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 163 Nicotine Free. Day 260 since tobacco has touched my lips.
Remaining Clean...One crave, one day at a time.
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/9/2007 5:58:26 PM
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teri_plax
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hi, everyone...
just thought i'll join this thread to support and inspire from you strengths....i don't smoke, really, but m father and my best friends does, and reading through your perseverance and dedication eases me that i could do something to help them work it out....
blessings to all....
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/12/2007 8:38:10 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 166 Nicotine Free. Day 263 since tobacco has touched my lips.
Remaining Clean...One crave, one day at a time.
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/13/2007 8:39:17 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 167 Nicotine Free. Day 264 since tobacco has touched my lips.
There's no magic folks. It's as simple and as hard as:
Remaining Clean... One crave, one hour, one day at a time.
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/16/2007 8:44:22 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 170 Nicotine Free. Day 267 since tobacco has touched my lips.
Remaining Clean... One crave, one hour, one day at a time.
Anyone else onboard the freedom train?
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/19/2007 8:54:51 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 173 Nicotine Free. Day 270 since tobacco has touched my lips.
Remaining Clean... One crave, one hour, one day at a time.
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Easter is Coming - Ready to start again? - 2/19/2007 4:14:28 PM
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zingo
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Okay, Jimbo...we get it. You can stop your daily posting now.
BTW, by the grace of God it has been:
* 19,440 days since I last wet my pants
* 17,770 days since I last sucked my thumb
* 0 days since my last cigarette
Okay, what about the rest of us for whom this is still an issue? We haven't heard from:
Diane...HisChild1994...StamperBen...Passion4Life...any others?
NeedHim4Life....are you still free? (Good for you to stop counting. I assume it means although you are ever vigilant, you choose not to obsess on it any longer? I hope to get there someday!)
I have an idea if you are interested......
We failed at the new year
We failed every new Monday
We failed but we don't have to give up.
Easter is coming and this is our time, people! New life...resurrection...victory over sin and the grave. But let's not wait for Easter Sunday......
My church background (evangelical) never made much emphasis on LENT, but I work for a Catholic organization so I decided to look into what it is all about. In a very short nutshell - here are excerpts from internet articles:
Lent has traditionally been marked by penitential prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Most Christian churches that observe Lent at all focus on it as a time of prayer, especially penance, repenting for failures and sin as a way to focus on the need for God’s grace. It is really a preparation to celebrate God’s marvelous redemption at Easter, and the resurrected life that we live, and hope for, as Christians.There are traditionally forty days in Lent which are marked by fasting, both from foods and festivities, and by other acts of penance. The three traditional practices to be taken up with renewed vigor during Lent are prayer (justice towards God), fasting (justice towards self), and almsgiving (justice towards neighbor). Today, some people give up something they enjoy, and often give the time or money spent doing that to charitable purposes or organizations.
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!) Now, I am not foolish enough to assume I have done it and I know I may be confessing another failure on Easter, or even before. But the important thing is the heart, right? The important thing is to not give up on yourself or on God's power to redeem and transform. EASTER is coming!
Pray about it.
Even if you don't want to renew your efforts this week, let us know where your head is at. Have you given up quitting? Did you stop believing you could do it, or that it was really worth it? Talk to us..... My point in the humorous tally about the bed-wetting is that we are all at different points in our journey. We all start from where God finds us and we walk in the light we have at the moment. It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop!
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RE: Easter is Coming - Ready to start again? - 2/19/2007 4:34:01 PM
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myckey
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THANK YOU, ZINGO!!!!!
I'm not really sure where my head is at. I'm just not being so convicted of it right now. I have been having a struggle with alcohol in the last few months, so that's where my focus has been. I have been doing wonderfully with that, even though I've slipped a few times.
I will definitely pray about quitting on Wednesday.
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RE: Easter is Coming - Ready to start again? - 2/19/2007 11:29:23 PM
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zingo
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Diane,
You go, girl. One gorilla at a time is enough for anyone! I am glad that you are having success with the alcohol...I suspect that is a harder beast to conquer.
We will continue to pray for you and keep you in the Exodus Club until you are packed and ready to start the journey. :- )
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/20/2007 8:51:10 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 174 Nicotine Free. Day 271 since tobacco has touched my lips.
Remaining Clean... One crave, one hour, one day at a time.
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RE: Celebrating Recovery - 2/20/2007 10:32:24 AM
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JimboFletch
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quote:
ORIGINAL: zingo
...We all start from where God finds us and we walk in the light we have at the moment. It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you don't stop!
There's a certain truth to that, though there's little doubt that all of us here have enough light to know God does not want us to be slaves to a drug like nicotine or cause havoc with our cardio-vascular system with it's effects.
And I can testify about going slow, looking for that right time to quit because I kept looking for that moment for over 20 years. It's a wonder that I'm still alive - and if I had died, it would have been at my own hands. I'd hate to stand before God and admit that I had effectively taken my own life because He gave me enough light to know the dangers in feeding my addiction by I persisted as I kept looking for just that right moment....
TODAY is the day of salvation from the weed. We cannot boast that we have tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Today is all that we have - and I can also testify that He will give strength to finish today without tobacco.
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