Another 8 pounds

Well here I am 8 pounds heavier in 2 weeks time. I had been holding at a steady 410 since last October and then I get on the scales today and bam 8 lbs. in 2 weeks. How did that happen? Well lets see ice cream fast food snacking on the run. Geesh I am having such a difficult time. I so want to get this surgery but if I can't even stop smoking for it how will I ever be able to utilize my new tool? Sorry about that just needed to vent. Love and hugs to all. Kelly

Kelly, I know how frustrating it is to see that scale keep creeping upward. I also know hoe difficult it is to quit smoking. I had my first smoke when I was 11. Other than 2 years in betweeen, I had smoked until I was 44. It was because of wanting RNY that I quit. I decided I wanted the surgery more than I wanted the cigarettes. That was a difficult decision to come to for me. You see...I really ENJOYED smoking. Even having to leave work to go smoke off-site...it gave me a chance to gather my thoughts. There was a routine to it all. I got up, smoked one before I even got out of bed...which that was the last thing I did before I went to sleep too. In between, I lit up at set places/times. So..how'd I quit? I got on the nicotine patch & Welbutrin (it has the same chemical make-up as the stop-smoking script at the time..but insurance would pay for it but wouldn't pay for most smoking cessation drugs). I set a date that I wanted to be completely off of ciggarettes by. For me, that was August 19th..my oldest sister's birthday..the sister who died of cancer in 1990. On Monday, July 19th, I woke up early...shut off the alarm and got out of bed. I put on the patch, got ready for work, and took a different route to work. I didn't leave work at all that day, not even for lunch. On my way home, I drove a different route home. In-between, I chewed on coffee stirrers. I repeated this every day. Every day, I also would cut some off of the nicotine patch..each day, a little bit bigger slice was removed. I made a 2 week supply last for 1 month. I used the last sliver on August 18th...and from the 19th on, no patch, no nicotine at all in my body.                                       I think what helped me the most was (1) I changed my routine. So much about smoking really is habit. (2) I quit considering myself a smoker. We owned a bar at the time and I would tell myself 'Sherri, you are a non-smoker'. It helped. It really did. And (3), I had the support of my family..kinda. No, not a single one of them quit or as far as that goes, wouldn't smoke in front of me. They all lit up..but at my home, only in designated places. We have a room that use to be a back porch. It's all enclosed and all now. That is the designated smoking room in our house. Other than the hot tub room, NO ONE smokes anywhere else but there. Now..there is no way in my smoking days that I would had been restricted to smoke in any one room in my own house! LOL! But Bill..my dh, a smoker, is the one who implimented this rule. He abides by it. Our kids abide by it. Our guests abide by it.                                  I would have to say that of all my accomplishments, quiting smoking is the one I am the proudest of. Sure, I'm proud of the +200 lbs I've lost..but that was with the help of WLS. Yes..it also took a change in my routines and way of thinking...but those even had alot of help for a year or so thanks to WLS. But to quit smoking? That was 90% me, 10% Patch & Welbutrin. Every day, it's 100% me. After all the surgeries & stuff I've had since then, I am SO glad I quit smoking when I did! You can too hon.                            Sherri

Kelly, I know what you're going thru....I stopped smoking in September 07, for my surgery in October. The reason I don't know my actual quit date is because I used Chantix. I had cut down to 3 cigarrettes a day before the first week was done....AND didn't even realize I had done that..lol    It is the best thing I ever used...and I tried everything!  I started substituting my bottle of water for a cigarette and that helped alot.  Anything but food to give you the "hand to mouth" movement!  Good luck! Robin