I too will have to worry about quitting smoking soon in order to prepare for the surgery. I'm only in the very beginning stages of getting the sleeve, but I know I need to quit smoking in order to even have the surgery, so I feel your pain. Are you quitting cold turkey or are you using anything to help you quit? Goodluck...5 days is great! Just think about the prize at the end of the tunnel...

check out quitnet.com I used this site to help me quit in 2004 and I have not smoked since then. The forums are like those on this site but the motivating factor that I had was a "gadget" that lists how long you have been smoke free, etc - here is mine

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Time Smoke-Free: 2754 days, 12 hours, 41 minutes and 8 seconds Cigarettes NOT smoked: 82636 Lifetime Saved: 21 months, 1 day, 5 hours Money Saved: $18,589.50

It may sound silly but I would log on every day and see those days go by and it just helped me to keep my resolve in quiting. Also doing the same thing now with the losing weight. it also helped that I used the patch as well. Good luck!! Its hard to do!

Futuresleeved.....I am also in the beginning stages of getting the clearances but I am already working on quitting smoking. I am going cold turkey. It's the easiest thing for me to just go cold turkey. I have tried quitting so many times in the past without success, but this time I have something to look forward to and it really is helping me and keeping me motivated to stay "clean".

Karenb4729....I will definitely check out that site. Thanks for the tip. I have started a little jar in my house that everytime I think about buying a pack of ciggarettes I put the $10 in there instead of buying the ciggarettes and am going to put that money towards my new clothes