Tue, Apr-16-02, 20:59
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Senior Member
Posts: 439
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Plan: Atkins-Gastric Bypass
Stats: 285/178/150
BF:
Progress: 79%
Location: San Antonio, TX
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Moms, you are doing great. If it helps, the cravings get further and further apart and shorter and shorter in duration. When people suffer from depression we tell them the same thing, and it is true here too. I am over my 2 week period and if I can do it ANYONE can, because I am obsessive about smoking (or at least I was). I truly liked it, so it felt like loosing a good friend....but that friend was killing me. Kinda like being in a really bad relationship, but you took the right move and got rid of that pesky beast....and it is not a friend.
Learn from my mistake, too. When I first quit smoking, over 15 years ago, I had a strong reason to. So I quit cold turkey and it lasted for 12 years. I would not have had to go through this again if I did not give in to a nagging thought...."can't I just be like others I know...you know, the type that claim they can take or leave that cigarette." I know now, bad thing to try. You see, I still like cigarettes and never grew to hate them. So one day I picked up a cigarette "just to see" and that lead to another, and another and...well, three years later I quit again.
I feel great and know my limitations now. The smoking dreams have started (I remember them last time). But that's ok, I really do not want one bad enough to really even tempt me. Trying a LC diet is keeping my mind off the cigs, too.
So good luck, and hang in there, and if you get tempted, remember what happened to me.
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