I'll be the official Quitter's Club cheerleader!

::goes shopping for skimpy cheerleading outfit::

I know that I should* quit, but I'm pretty positive I won't. But I'm backing you all the way, darlin'. Go TrishaLynn!

*gives the Pink one a metric ass-load of money with which to buy the skimpiest outfit EVER*

::goes shopping for skimpy cheerleading outfit::

I need some "private time" now...

Ironically, I've been thinking of starting again tonight.

Yes, a club would be nice. Some previous discussion here.

How about pictures of ThePinkSuperhero in said skimpy cheerleading outfit as a motivational tool?

I am on day 10 of the patch, first time trying that. The patch was great fun the first couple days, but the urge to smoke has happened a couple times a day over the last couple days. I have washed most of my clothes since I quit, but last weekend I grabbed a jacket I hadn't worn for awhile and it smelled so bad it almost made me sick. I washed it, and have thought of that smelly jacket the last couple times I wanted to smoke. Almost time for bed here and another day under my belt. Best wishes to anyone trying to quit, this is difficult. I have friends that quit heroin but are unable to stop smoking.

Thanks for the dollars, TrishaLynn!

::continues shopping::

I'll join! But I may be a little late to the party. I'm getting all my wisdom teeth yanked in February and figure that's a good time to make the leap to zero. (Fear of dry socket + ability to knock myself out with percocet.)

Percocet works great for a short bit. I had some surgery last Feb. and quit for about six weeks, the first 3 days on percocet. I don't think it is good in the long run though.

I've been telling everyone that I'll quit when I'm thirty, and as it turns out I'm turning thirty in 2006, so i may be a reluctant member of this club. Don't know if it'll work out though, but lets see.

Been thinking the same thing, but I'm in the middle of writing up my thesis now, and I went without smokes yesterday and it caused a complete brain freeze. I fear trying it again incase it impacts upon my productivity.

I've done patches in the past, several times, but always sinned after about a month (particularly when a packet of patches costs $25, a packet of smokes costs $10, and I have $20 left in the bank...) But more recently than that I went cold turkey and had some fair success - onec again, about a month, until my band played a gig and it all collapsed. Going cold turkey, the craving were worse, but went away quicker. But once again, you get yourself in a situation. It's a night out, I'm with the band, I'll just buy one packet of smokes to share with the other guitarist. Woops, it's the next day and I've still got a packet of smokes in my pocket. Wouldn't want them to go to waste. . .

Now, however, band practices are less frequent (it's about the only place I'm exposed to other smokers these days) so the temptation might be reduced when I'm around others. Been thinking of cutting back on the drinking at the same time, because drinking always encourages me to smoke. Aaah, but it's all academic, unless I do it, isn't it?

I'm in. But like jrossi4r, I'll be a little late to the party. I'm waiting till I move & have to smoke outside to help me taper off.

I gave it up (again) a couple of months ago. But I let myself cheat on rare occasions. I smoke like a fiend at MeFi meetups. I guess I'm out of the club, yeah? :)

I'm in, but I don't know when in 2006. This really has to be it; it's time.

Yay quitters! Go go quitters! You can do it quitters! Go TrishaLynn! Go Marxchivist! Go jrossi4r! Go dhruva! Go Jimbob! Go dame! Go scarabic! Go mygothlaundry!

::jumps around in flippy little pink skirt, shakes pink pom-poms::

I'm in, but it won't start until mid/late February (damnit, I was supposed to have started a couple of weeks ago - it was contingent on my defending my thesis which was supposed to be a couple of weeks ago).

(argh, didn't know that the stupid BCLiquorStore was still closed today until I was on my way home from from the stupid lab ~8. Was too lazy to hit a coldbeer&wine [no wheels]. Stupid being out of booze. Stupid neighbourhood without a colbeer&wine store within walking distance.)

Yeeeaaaah. You know I'm going to be a pretty delicate little flower with a cherry on top when the spice nicotine stops flowing.

::jumps around in flippy little pink skirt, shakes pink pom-poms::

This thread is useless without pics!

This is a bad idea. It doesn't work that way.

What I mean to say, TrishaLynn, is quit smoking or don't on your own and by your own technique. Don't tie your health to this bunch or you are bount to fail.

I'm in.

Yay quitters! Go go quitters! You can do it quitters! Go TrishaLynn! Go Marxchivist! Go jrossi4r! Go dhruva! Go Jimbob! Go dame! Go scarabic! Go mygothlaundry!

::jumps around in flippy little pink skirt, shakes pink pom-poms::

Damn. Now I need a cigarette.

Cryptical: Then how do you explain the success of people who go to AA meetings to stop being drunks? Knowing that there are other people out there that I can bitch to when I feel like smoking is one of those things that I know might help me...mostly because I like being able to bitch to understanding people.

Gonna finish the last two in this pack today and I'm done.

This is a bad idea. It doesn't work that way.

It does for some people, doesn't for others. Strangely enough.

TrishaLynn: just who exactly am I supposed to smoke with now?

*weeps*

jonmc: You're just going to have to get along without me at 11 am, around lunch, 3 pm and around quitting time.... like you did in the 20+ years before we met. ^_^

Damn, that's a lot of cigarette breaks.

This thread is useless without pics!

porpoise, I totally agree.

I've gotta quit on Dec. 31rst.

I mean, I love smoking and all, but it's time to stop. I figured I'd naturally stop as I started running more, but a few weeks ago I ran a full 26 mile marathon in less than 4 hours and didn't bother to quit beforehand.

I'm in!!!

I am in as well.

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Ah Mom, do I have to? I love it so much. I swore I'd quit at 30. I turn 31 in June.

I know I've got to stop though my social smoking has become much more frequent since I moved to New York.

Lola_G, you're baaaaaaack, yaaaay.

And anyone who even shows up in this thread is now hereby contractually obligated to quit smoking :-P

Okay, I'll quit smoking.

Crack.

Anyone else still here? Someone in a cheerleaders outfit just popped up in another thread and ran back here.

So far it has been 2 weeks, 3 days, and 7 hours since my last smoke. Of course I've had help from the transdermal nicotine delivery system, but that is 2 weeks, 3 days, and 6 hours better than the last time I quit.

Still here. It's only been my fifth day so far because I had my last cigarette on New Year's Eve around 11:45 pm or so. In fact, it was also the same weird brand that was my first cigarette, too: a Peter Jackson.

I really wannted to smoke today, but jonmc will attest to the fact that I didn't, despite all of his cajoling and hair tugging.