Attaboy niki. We'll be pulling for you as well...

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Ignorance IS bliss - and I am the happiest person here!

Good luck!! I've been smoke free 4 1/2 years after 37 years of puffin'.

If I can do it anyone can! Quit accidentally trying to cut down from two packs a day. Just kept going -- poof!

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So life is just a game, and there are many ways to play -- and all you do is choose

Go '09 and Niki! Please post on your progress.

They say with anything tough like this you should take it in threes - try to go the first three minutes, then three hours, then three days, then three weeks, and once you hit three months, the seasons will have changed, your body will be that much more recovered, and then three years and three decades are a piece of cake.

p.s. Even though I never smoked, after seeing the suggestion in another recent thread I'm doing the save-the-price-of-a-pack-a-day thing anyway, and hoping to get some new gear from it (Reverb tank is #1 on the wish list at the moment).

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2008 MIM Strat w 3-tone sunburst
2002 LP Special Ebony Faded
2008 G-Dec
'59 Reissue Bassman 4x10 combo
TS 808
DS 1
Gretsch 6120DS (on loan)

Yep Its 3 months for the poisons to fully leave your system. I read in the readers digest some years ago that the first effects only take 15minutes to manifest. The temperature of your hands and feet rise as yor circulation improves.

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No no and no

Good luck. Stay on track and it will get easier by the day. You won't be sorry.

After puffing away for 36 years I was finally able to put them down 16 months ago. I can't get over how much better I feel. I didn't realize how bad I felt until that crap started getting out of my system.

Besides the health thing, another incentive is the money you'll save. I kept track of what I didn't spend on smokes last year and bought a MIM Standard Strat and a R.I. '51 Precision Bass. My wife says that was money well spent.

Good luck... think of all the money you can start spending on guitars and guitar relaited materials or paying the goverment bail out taxes .

All Thumbs and Niki! Good luck to you both! You can certainly do it! I quit cold turkey in 2007. It was a piece of cake! It only took a heart attack to motivate me! It scared the living $@#% out of me! Please do this so you won't have to go through what I did!

Smokers are 4 to 5 times more likely to have a heart attack! Do it for them, do it for yourself! Hang in there! You can do it!

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Bill

"Show me a crowd where the band is loud and my drunken ballet is in fashion!" Jerry Riopelle

OK! Starting day 3 and so far this is a breeze! I hope that continues when I ween myself from the patches. Thanks again for all the support and inspiring posts. How you holdind up Niki?

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"I started out with nothing, and still have most of it"

Here are two advices I can give you to help.

1. Drink plenty of water, up to three liters (3 ounces) a day. It helps cleansing the toxics out of your kidneys.

2. An old schoolfriend of mine was/is a vegan and he told me that drinking organig orange juice is good to cleans the toxics out of your body.

actully there are three advices.

3. Exercise. Start lightly... go for a walk or something, just anything to get the sweat going. Sweating is also got to get rid of the toxics.

These are excellent ways to get rid of the chemicals that have build up in your body and make you grave for cigarrette (Nicotine, cyanide (yes there is cyanide in cigarrettes))

Break a leg

Hi, Nonni,

For our metric-challenged US members, just a correction - 3 litres is 101.47 fluid ounces, or about 3 quarts.

Handy reference tool:

http://www.worldwidemetric.com/metcal.htm

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2008 MIM Strat w 3-tone sunburst
2002 LP Special Ebony Faded
2008 G-Dec
'59 Reissue Bassman 4x10 combo
TS 808
DS 1
Gretsch 6120DS (on loan)

I quit and restarted many a times. However the key to quitting is really wanting to quit. What I mean by that is not having half a notation but true desire to leave it. When you have that you'll put 'em down for good.

Best wishes.

Hmm I managed to screw up the converter on my phone. Accidently left Ounces (US) on both sides

Me? I couldn't bear the thought of dying while not being able to get a breath. My sister died that way a couple of years ago. She was way too young. Having a smoke was probably one of the last things she did.

I haven't smoked tobacco for 11 years. Good luck you guys. It CAN be done...and it's worth it!

Gridlok

All thumbs up!!

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"Speak the truth, and speak it ever,
cost it what it will
for he who hides the wrong he did
did the wrong thing still."
-Miss Uel

Great idea i never smoked myself but all my friends and family did. most have quit now. but they say it's the hardest thing they ever did. You can do it When ever you get the urge pick up your guitar. Good luck and hang in there.