The Quit Smoking Report Ezine

The Quit Smoking Report 5/19/98

Hello,

First, let me thank everyone who wrote to me after last week's
email. Many of you wrote with your success stories (see below),
but many wrote about what you felt was a "failure" to quit,
or an inability to remain quit. I even had a few people ask me
to remove them from the email list because they "just couldn't
quit."

It's enough to make a grown man cry.

"The greater part of success is failure." I know somebody
famous probably said that. If not, then you can quote me on it.

Undoubtedly most everyone has heard the story of Thomas
Edison's invention of the lightbulb. He "failed" over 10,000
times in his experiments to find a working bulb. As I write
this in a lighted room, I'm thankful Edison was such a
failure.

Are you prepared to quit smoking 10,001 times? It's worth it.

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SUCCESS STORIES

As I mentioned earlier, I received many wonderfully inspiring
stories of successful quitters. While I can't share every story
in a single issue, I hope you'll benefit from these below:

Ronald Dielman (Ronald_L._Dielman@FirstEnergyCorp.com)
sent me this:

I use the information you provide to employees at our plant in an
effort to assist them in effort to quit smoking. I know that it
is extremely difficult to quit, I smoked from the time I was a
Junior in College (1966) to Oct. 19,1972. When I quit, a
coworker offered to buy me a steak dinner if I quit for 6 months.
I did. What helped me the most was Tic Tac's and a lot of
them. When I wanted a Butt, I had Tic Tac's. Not only did I
quit, I had the best breath in town. When I let the company that
made Tic Tac's how I used their product, they sent me a six
months supply.

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Silvia (mjplasse@worldnet.att.net) writes:

Hello,
it's funny I got your e-mail TODAY, b/o I've picked today to try
again...The longest I had gone without smoking in January was for
1 1/2 weeks, and I did not feel too bad. I did not get the
jitters or anything, just fool myself into saying, oh I try next
week, not right now and off to the store I am. And stressful
situations make me real careless about it. BUT, here I go again,
trying once more. I've bought fruit and water to drink to have
things around me that don't go well with wanting a cigarette. I
did like the way my house did not smell of smoke when I had
quit for the short time the beginning of the year. I don't have a
special plan really, I read somewhere once that sometimes we
can do things easier for someone else instead of for ourselves,
and I do want to quit because it would make my husband so
happy and I do want a long and healthy life for us together.
That is my biggest reason. My husband is out at sea at this time
and I wanted to surprise him so bad with an announcement that
I have not smoked in ....however many days or weeks. So there,
that's my story. Any feedback and tips will be much appreciated!
Silvia

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Carol (sayinhi@flash.net) writes:

I was given the patch and Zyban as aids to quit smoking.
I used both for about a week and one day realized (late
afternoon) that i had forgotten to put a patch on. Not wanting
to waste a patch on just a few more hours, I toughed it out.
The next day I tried 'no patches' and was successful. Haven't
used the patch since. I am still on Zyban - and that seems to
have gotten me 'over the hump'. I'll be doing Zyban for another
week and then I'm free!

Good luck to everyone that begins this project. It's not the
easiest thing in the world - however, at least part of quitting
is a mind bend. It just doesn't work if you don't WANT to quit.
I wanted to quit so badly (after smoking 45 years - couple
packs/day) - and I know that part of the transition was easier
because of my strong desire to get that "monkey off my back"!!!

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Here's another from Luv2tlk114@aol.com:

I want to thank you for the email and I have a bit of good news
to share. I have quit smoking going on 5 months and 3 weeks now.
I smoked 1 1/2 packs a day for the last 18 years. I started when
I was 15 and am now 33. I never thought I could quit!!!

I actually enjoyed smoking for a while. I guess little by little
different reasons pulled me away from it. I always smoked in my
house around everyone even the nieces who were 3 and 4 at the
time. Having them every day at my home, seeing them have more
colds,earaches,and bronchitis I decided to take the first step to
not smoking. I did not realize it was my first step because I
was only doing it to spare them from breathing it in so I
thought. I decided to smoke in another room where there
was no one. I would not let the kids come in that room.

After that I decided I would smoke outside as much as
possible. It was warm at that time. Then we moved into a house
and I was determined not to smoke in the house, so I kept to
that. Still at this time I had no intentions on quitting. Slowly
from having to go outside in the cold air I had cut down to 8
to 10 cigarettes a day without realizing it.

I started thinking a little bit about how much of a difference
that was and how every time I took a drag off of a cigarette I
got dizzy and felt a little fatigued feeling. Then came the
tension headaches for 2 months and the numbness and
tingling in my face and throat. Scared me to death. I rushed
to the emergency room and they said it was from stress and
circulation. I never considered stress or something called a
stressor might have anything to do with smoking but I found
out after a little research that smoking puts alot of stress on
your body and mind, as well as other things that cause stress
and I am not talking just emotional stress. I am talking
chemical stress, caffine, smoking, every day activity, etc...

Well anyways after I got home from the hospital that night
I decided no more cigarettes. I asked the hubby to go
through out my smokes that were outside on a small table, get rid
of the ash tray and lighter that I was quiting and that was it.
I quit. I craved it and I still crave it but the way I feel now
is not worth giving into that craving. I also feel that praying
for the strength to not go back has helped me alot. I hope
that my story although very unorganized lol will make a
difference to someone and let them know that even if they
have no intentions of quitting that the time may come when
it is basically decided for you and just have to stick with it.
Pray about it and keep trying. You can do it!!!

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Thanks to everyone who sent me their story. I will continue to
publish the stories in future issues.

Do you have an inspiring quitting story?

Send your comments to:
mailto:fredk@quitsmoking.com

I hope to hear from you!

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I also received questions from many of you. Here's a few
that I'd like YOU to answer. Take a minute to send me YOUR
answers based on YOUR experiences.
mailto:fredk@quitsmoking.com
I'll post answers in future issues.

Here's a question from Dean:

Thanks for the news letter, I have been seriously working on
quitting for about a week now, since last friday, I tried cold
turkey last Mon or Tue 4th or 5th of the May, and became very
dizzy and light headed.. That and experiencing nasuea <sp> I
decided to smoke a cigarette and the dizzy sickness left... have
you ever heard of those things happening??

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Here's a general plea for help from Bobby:

Thank you for the e-mail I do need to quit smoking bad I am a
reall nervous person and smoking has been with me all my life
I have tried every thing from the patches to zyban nothing
seems to work. Please help me.

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Can you help Diane? Here's her question:

I find that my addiction is more to the activity than the
nicotine. I can go long periods with out smoking, such as
a day or weekend, but pick right up again once in a
smoking situation presents itself. I also rarely smoke during
the work day. I think one of the biggest problems that I'm faced
with is that I live in a household where all three of my
roommates smoke as well. Other than that, it is an ideal
living situation, so moving currently is out of the question.

Do you have any suggestions for me in my situation?

Send you answers to: mailto:fredk@quitsmoking.com
Be sure to include the original question so I'll know which one
you are answering.

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If you stacked, end-to-end, all the cigarettes the average smoker
consumes during their lifetime, you'd really waste a lot of time.

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SPECIAL PRODUCT NEWS FLASH

On 5/14/98 I received a call from the publisher of what
I consider to be one of the finest programs to help a
smoker quit: How to Quit Smoking for Life by Dr.
Tom Ferguson. The publisher had only three copies of
the program left and they've all but decided to
discontinue it. Fortunately, I was able to acquire the
remaining copies.

This set of 8 audio cassettes, one video tape and
81 page workbook is the most comprehensive "system"
to help you quit. Based on Dr. Ferguson's study of hundreds
of smokers and thousands of published articles and
clinical studies, How to Quit Smoking for Life is the
definitive system for smoking cessation.

You can read more about this tape program at
http://www.quitsmoking.com/audiotapes/quitforlife.htm

These last three copies will go quick, so let me hear from
you soon. Once they're gone, I'll no longer carry the program
unless the publisher changes their mind and manufactures
additional copies.

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You can find additional helpful quit smoking tips and information
at http://www.quitsmoking.com/quitinfo.htm

While you're there, take a look at our products page at
http://www.quitsmoking.com/products.htm for some helpful
quit smoking tools.

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I'd love to hear from you. Let me know how you have successfully
quit smoking. Submit your method online at
http://www.quitsmokingmethods.com
We'll share your method with other smokers who need guidance and
help.

If you have comments or suggestions, please send them to me, Fred
Kelley. My email address is mailto:fredk@quitsmoking.com.

Until next time, PUT THAT CIGARETTE DOWN!

Fred Kelley

QuitSmoking.com
Phone: 770-346-9222
Fax: 770-475-5007
Web: http://www.quitsmoking.com
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© Copyright 1998 Fred H. Kelley
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DISCLAIMER: I am not a doctor or professional therapist.
The information included in this email is my opinion and the
opinions of the people sending in their comments.
Fred Kelley and QuitSmoking.com make no warranties,
either expressed or implied, about the truth or accuracy of the
contents of The Quit Smoking Report.

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