Okay this is not alcohol related but I quit smoking 11/01/09 and it's going well. I quit cold turkey, but using nutrition therapy (basically healthy snacking every 30 min to keep blood sugar up). I have cheated, took a couple of puffs off a friends cigarette and I feel terrible about it. I feel I'm so close to beating it. It's been 8 days.
My reasons for quitting are as follows:
1. The Cost
2. Feeling and appearing weak / stupid
3. Not wanting to contribute to the corporate bastards trying to keep people addicted
4. I don't get high from smoking
5. My dog and cat hate it (apparently they are smarter than me)
6. I want to set a good example for people in my family who desperately need to quit for heath reasons.
7. I hate ashtrays, the smell, emptying them, spilling them.
8. I hate stopping to buy them on the way home or whenever I run out.
9. I enjoy the feeling of accomplishment as I kick the habit.
I think this is a great idea and I am excited to participate, so here it goes here are my reasons to want to quit taking Norcos:
1. They make me an emotional wreck.
2. They make me crabby.
3. I want to be able to hold an inteligent conversation again.
4. I want to stop feeling guilty and ashamed of myself.
5. I want to be able to leave my house without feeling ashamed.
6. I don't want to hurt my body anymore.
7. I want to smile again.
8. I want a clean house and yard again.
9. I want to be able to keep my promises again.
10.I want to be a GREAT Mom not just an ok Mom again.
11. I want my relatioship with my Husabnd to be the way it was when I was'nt high all the time.
12. I want to feel alive again.
As Fawn said, this is a great idea and especially one to refer back to when you feel weak, or feeling like using your DOC. I'm on day 10 off Norco's and my reasons are:
*gain control over my life again, be active and participate in life, not just watch it go by
*re-connect with friends and family I have shut out because it's just 'easier' to be alone
*live a healthy lifestyle and control my fibro with natural supplements like diet, vitamins, exercise, therapy and understand/accept that with this illness I have limits, to respect them and not focus on and be bitter about not being able to be the active, outgoing person I once was, who was going 24/7 (drug free) and pretty much in a good mood all the time - and to be satisfied with who I am now and do the best I can
*to not pop a pill, pain or no pain, just for the temporary high to escape in the moment stress, cuz it'll be there when you come down
*To find something funny and start giggling, call my mother, she hears me giggling on the other end and she starts laughing without knowing anything and we laugh till we cry - she IS my best friend
*to set examples through thought, word and deed