I quit smoking last Friday! I have made it a week and I a doing well!!
I quit smoking last Friday! I have made it a week and I a doing well!!
Way to go!!! And by posting that, you've made yourself accountable. Keep it up!
When my husband quit, he started eating sunflower seeds to replace cigarettes. It only takes 30 days to get past the nicotine addiction, but the physical habit of lighting up is just harder to break. It's an oral fixation that's harder to get over (learned that in Psychology about 15 years ago). Just find something else to do with your hands, and don't think about it too much. :)
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
My dad had smoked heavily for 40 years. The doc finally told him "Smoke and you die."
He came home and had two cartons of cigarettes left. So he opened every pack and piled them up on his desk. Then he slowly crumbled each cigarette, one by one, and tossed them into his trash can. Then he put a sign up by his desk that stated :As of (date) I have quit smoking PERMANENTLY!" He said as he crumbled up each one, he thought horrible thoughts about what damage smoking had done to him, and by the time he'd finished, he really hated 'em.
He never touched another cigarette for the rest of his life. Not everyone had his determination though.
Keep up the good work!
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It can be done! Good show! For some folks it's the hardest thing to do next to giving up injected heroin. You should be close to the end of the physical withdrawl now. Are you ready for the psychological withdrawl? Some folks have more problem with that than the physical addiction. If, true consider hypnosis or therapy. Stay away from booze for awile. The recidivism rate is very, very high, be careful.Originally Posted by Mizikal
Did you use Chantix or cold turkey?
FWIW, I became a non-smoker last July 4th. It sounds like you're doing better than me- I was still handcuffed to the sofa on the fifth day.
Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. - Richard P. Feynman
Experience is the hardest teacher. She gives the test before the lesson.
good going - 6 years free for me..keep it up!
Terrific! Congratulations!!!!!!
WAY TO GO!!!!!!
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I came, I saw, I left
Congrats! Makes you feel good eh
good luck
Congrats!! I was a two and a half to three pack a day nonfilter smoker before I quit in October of '97. Felt like crap for a week and never looked back. Keep it up, you have our support!
12 to 13 month for recuperation......................
I also quit between last September 1st, day of the angiogram and September 2nd 8am, day of a double by-pass and coronary valve implant during a 6 hour hook up on the hart and lung machine. Many morphine trips I still vividly remember. Followed by a 3 week holiday in the hospital.
3 month of sleeping upright in a chair, one month of problems breathing, skin on legs from knees on down becomes like sandpaper.
I don't think I will ever smoke again, as this time was the easiest to stop and the full recuperation is supposed to last 12 to 13 month until being back to fully normal physical condition.
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