Hmm..So people know what I'm up against..and prehaps just to reinfrce it to myself.. been smoking for 26 years.. this last year was up to 3 packs + a day. NOT good. 

Thanks everyone, this is definately one thing I didn't have last year.. support.

Day 1 6:34pm all is well.

more interested in the next 26......  
think forward.....  

I'm trying, it just hurts     

go eat a plate of crackers and cheese to go with that whine....

then take a nap until Saturday...

Hey, if I could sleep till Sat. I would!   

Playoffs start, Go Jaguars !!!

Webgizmos....my thoughts and prayers are with you. BTW, it's a "stent"....and the 'numbness' thing might require a MRI-MRA to be done.

Guys, go the HSA direction (Health Savings Account) I have yet to understand (apart from corruption of public officials by the insurance industry) why our government doesn't have a "Catastrophic Medical Insurance" for critical hospital stays, allowing people to have simple health savings accounts to pay for medicines and doctor visits (after all, how many visits per year does one have?). Also never understood why we haven't got:
1. "Roll Over" type insurance - the unused part rolls over to the next year.
2. Means testing and decrementally funded entitlement programs (i.e. decreasing entitlement as income and age increase).
3. The right to demand the same health care program our elected representatives voted themselves.

I quit last year in April. Looking back now it really wasn't the hardest thing I did in my life so far. You can do it.

I've never smoked, but I had 2 heart attacks last year with no insurance. To pay back the wonderful men that saved my life I became their IT Manager. LOL. Now I work for a group of 16 cardiac specialists...the pay's good (but not great) and the benifits are fantastic. Haven't had to pay for my plavix or zetia in a year.

My father was a smoker for as long as I can remember, he quit cold turkey after being shown pics of his lungs last August. It took him weeks to control the cravings and was a bear to live with, but I'm convinced that if he hadn't quit we wouldn't have him today.

Hang in there it will get better.

Been a pipe smoker(never cigarettes)for 40 years, no intention of stopping, Two fingers up to the health police!

John,

Not to get maudlin on you or anything, but my grandfather died about four years ago of lung cancer. He literally smoked until the day he died, and it wasn't a nice way to go. His wife preceded him in death many years earlier (I don't remember her at all), also due to smoking-related illness.

My wife smokes too. She and my brother are the only ones in the family who do. I quit pushing her to quit a few years ago; in the midst of an attempt to quit, at six weeks without a cigarette, being in the car with me drove her to take it back up again. It sounds funny but it's not and I wish it were a joke. I wish she would quit, but she won't until she's ready to do it for herself.

I hope that time is soon. And I wish you the best of luck in your efforts. No one who hasn't been through it can know how difficult it is to quit, but I certainly hope you can make it.

Brian

hey V man, hang in there mate, giving up smoking is probably one of the hardest things you will ever have to do. keep in your mind all the good things that will come out of it.

1 you get your sense of taste back
2 you will live longer
3 you will save money
4 your clothes wil no longer stink of smoke
5 those annoying nicotine stains on your fingers will disappear
6 the proud feeling you will get from having achieved something so difficult

good luck bro, i hope it all works out for you

Believe in yourself John.

Best of Luck - keep us informed.
Andy

Well....just finished my last cig...threw out all my ashtrays. Starting day one cig free as of now. Hang in there John....I'll be thinking of you. Hey! Not like that!

Good Luck John and Web! You both can do it, so DO IT! Wish you all the best.

Day 2 6:15am - Waking up is one of the most difficult times.. made it 30 mins so far..the early morning cravings are starting to fade a little..

Smoke Free.