Reply #: Day 3 Is a BITCH!

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I went to the movies all day because in those days, you could smoke most places but not at the movies. Also I belonged to the Y and I would swim -- can't smoke when you're wet! Exercise is great because ALMOST IMMEDIATELY I mean, in one week you feel improved lung capacity.

I quit several times before *the* time but what got me was watching a bunch of old lady smokers in Palm Springs, they were just so messed up, wrinkled and coughing, hacking! That awful smoker's cough by the pool. I thought to myself: if I don't quit when I'm young, I will be an old smoker, it really scared me.

So I set a date, my 25th b-day, for my last cig and I made it stick. When I really really wanted one I would set a timer and say "if I still want to blow it in a half an hour, I will." But just like food cravings it is cyclical.

Be helped also by this thought: BushCo loves it when you smoke...it fattens up their cronie's coffers, or is it *hack* COUGHERS.

STAY STRONG! EXPECT A LITTLE DISCOMFORT! KEEP THE PATCH!! EMAIL ME IF YOU NEED A SUPPORTIVE WORD.

This is the best thing you will ever do for your health.