Here is the one I use.
If umop ap!sdn does it, I hope she leaves the hot pants on underneath. It’d be embarrasing should I decide to do a sommersault otherwise. 
Does anybody know how Satan got something similar to update his sig? I always thought it was somehow automatic because it would be a pain in the ass to change your sig every time you post.
Thanks, ThisYear’sModel!
Swampy, garsh, I’d hope so, too! 
There’s a hot key to paste it in. He still would have had to update the sig with the hot key, but it may not have been in the sig. He could have just hot keyed it into his post.
I had my last smoke on Sunday, January 2 and I only had 1 on that day. It’s been difficult. I quit drinking too and I’m on a diet so I’m quite crispy and out of sorts. I also haven’t been sleeping well which is agravating my crisp factor.
I’m hoping that in a couple of days I’ll be detoxed and able to sleep again.
Allen Carr’s book is great. My husband read that and was able to quit for a while. I’m afraid that my evil influence is responsible for his recidivism.
Quit Time is way cool too. Thanks for the link This Year’s Model
We bought the Commit Lozenge and hubby tried one but hated it and I’m wondering if they’ll take them back. They were $40.
That had to come with the territory with my quitting smoking – I can’t conceive of drinking a beer and not having a smoke to go along with it.
Not too big of a deal…I only really drink when I’m out in a social situation. I don’t think I’ll be facing a real test until our annual Super Bowl party. I’ll be five weeks off the smokes by then, so hopefully it’ll be somewhat under control.
Well, I had my last cigarette about an hour and half ago. Since I’ve been smoking much more than usual the last month or so, my chest feels all tight and congested. I’m hoping that’s going to help me not want any more. Doing okay so far!
Good luck everyone.
I thought that would be a big problem with me too but it really hasn’t been so far. It seems like it’s the social situation that does it more than the alcohol itself. If I drink alone or with non-smokers I’m fine.
Not me, but my Mom is quitting smoking, using the patch. It’s been 3 days and her vivid dreams are gory nightmares, so it’s been keeping her up and she’s having a hard time. She wants to try taking the patch off just before bed and putting it back on in the morning, but I told her to try and watch more happy colorful Disney movies to give her something nicer to dream about.
I’ll be watching this thread so I can give my mom some advice and encouragement. Good luck, everyone.
I went through that. Watching happy stuff before bed doen’t help at all. The only thing is to take it off an hour or so before bed and put one on first thing when you wake up. (The weird dreams do continue, but they are not nearly as harsh). You do have to fight of the morning cravings for 10-20 minutes, but it is better than those nightmares.
I smoked, usually around a pack a day, for 17 years. But I quit on June 25 of last year; Christmas Day marked six months. I didn’t use patches or pills or anything; I’d tried all that stuff before and found it to be counterproductive because it seemed to shift responsibility away from me. I just picked a day and said, “OK, I’m not going to smoke anymore.”
I hate to say this, but the cravings haven’t abated one bit; I’ve pretty much learned to ignore them, but honestly I could strangle a puppy for a cigarette right now.
You know, I decided I would try quitting again almost a week ago. That was back when I believed my financial position to be much better than it actually is. (DAMN meeee and my lack of math proficiency.) And back when I assumed I would be working right away after my temp assignment was done.
Well, I discovered that I’m actually alot more broke than I thought. And then no work all week. And no word on when I’ll be working again. Talk about your stress. Did I mention that I may be soon going on the GrapeNuts diet because that’s all I have in my house. (No, wait. That’s not true. I do have two boxes of instant pudding. Should I sacrifice 4 cups of milk to make pudding? Or save it for the GrapeNuts???)
Long story short, I really was thinking about cigarettes this afternoon. And how niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice it would be to come home to a cigarette and some coffee. But I guess these are the dark times that I knew would come. Lots of people have to deal with the same depth of stress that I’m under and they cope without cigarettes. I’m going to have to fire up my creative brain to think of a way to deal with the things I don’t like about life instead of reaching for a cigarette and checking out. But I guess it comes down to a simple question. Do I believe that I can cope with life without cigarettes, or not?
Well, I just read the Allen Carr book, and it makes everything sound so simple. I really enjoyed it, I just hope it turns out to be that easy to never smoke again. I’m feeling quite positive about it.
3 days 9 hours 5 minutes smoke free…
To be honest, other than a few mood swings, it’s not been so bad. Of course, I also picked up a nasty cold at the same time, so I think it might hvae been that which is making me not want cigarettes too much.
Of course, being locked in the house with my also sick GF for 3 days now is enough to try the patience of a saint, but oh, well…
Good luck to all the new non-smokers on this thread, including me! 
The most important thing to have when quitting is the motivation. If you don’t really want to quit, you won’t.
My motivation was when my wife became pregnant. She couldn’t smoke, and I didn’t think it would be fair if I would while she couldn’t. It’s been a little over two years now.
Absolutely…I’ve tried quitting six or seven times in the past, and it never worked out simply because I really wanted to keep smoking.
Not anymore, though. I’m sick of running out of breath from walking more than a block. I’m sick of pissing away a metric buttload of money every year on something that is just going to wind up killing me. I’m sick of setting myself up to die in the same manner that I watched my father die (very slowly, very painfully). I’m sick of having to miss five minutes of the middle of every movie I go to. I’m sick of my coworkers giving me that (well-justified) “you’re going outside again??” look every hour. I’m sick of having to wait extra-long for a table at a restaurant, since they all have tiny smoking sections now.
I’m now decided, for myself, that this is fricking ridiculous, and I ain’t doing it anymore.
4 days, 14 hours, 20 minutes and 56 seconds. Still feeling good. Hope it lasts.
Good! Thought I’d see a few dopers from September who failed in [url=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=277734]Silver Fire’s “Anyone else trying to quit smoking?” from September - but it looks like everyone who’s posted here are “New Year’s Resolutionaries”.
It’s only been 3+ months for me. I’ve found it was easy kicking the habit. I’m stubborn as a mule and hearing from others who know how much I love my cigarettes & that ‘you’ll never do it’ made it so. I also found that instead of taking the reformed ‘I hate the smell’ route, catching a whiff from other smoker’s is a very nice and nostalgic experience. I’m not an absolutist; I’ve smoked (not inhaled) the occasional cigar (Jewels vanilla) & even taken an occasional drag from friends. I’ll always miss smoking, but won’t go back.
Well, crap. I’ve already slipped up. I’m smoking right now, actually. I can’t believe what a poor attempt that was! Well, tomorrow I’ll start again. How many attempts have other people had to make? I feel really pathetic!
No, no, no. Don’t feel that way. You are making a great start. It’s just a slip. You went how many days without one? That’s an accomplishment. Think of it like a diet - if you eat a cookie or two does that negate the whole diet? Not at all.