Well folks...as i type this i am having my last cigarette. My wife has to quit so i have decided to quit with her. Things are going to be crazy in my home the next few weeks. Ive smoked for close to 20 years....besides it cant kill me to quit...wish me luck all and i will keep you updated with my progress.
Exhales and puts out last his cigarette in the ashtray and awaits his new day tomorrow of clean air.
You are doing something awesome for your health and the health of those around you. It's terribly hard to quit, but it is so worth it!
I quit last year. My previous attempts using the nicotene gum went well, but I always caved when I was around other smokers. When I developed a chronic cough last year from environmental allergies, I had no choice but to quit. I don't miss it! I save a ton of money and don't have to stand outside in the cold! What keeps me smoke free is thinking of the long-term effects the smoking will have on me. My genetics are bad enough, I don't need to add smoke to the mix!
Keep us posted on your progress, or if you just need some support!
I suppose I'll quit when the tobbacco, and cigarette tubes are gone. I pack my own....one of those TOPS cigarette machine deals. Cute gimmick, kinda fun, but I still feel as if I'm a slave to a really bad habit. I think I'll try it cold turkey....the patches, and gums, and lozenges seem like a slave thing, as well. Just quit, and be done with it. I'll bear in mind, that smoking is a behavioral trait, and inorder to stop smoking, I'll have to change my behavior, and perhaps my lifestyle.
Good Luck with your venture, GB2, and givem' hell,
Brain[/b]
The tobbacco is gone, and I have a few tubes left. Shortly after I started the "GIMMICK", the retailer jacked the price of the tobbacco up, $4.00. It just seems wrong to have to pay to be a slave.
I know you can...!!!
Call me if you think your going to light up and Ill talk you out of it.
Tip from a cold turkey cigarette smoker going on 5 years now.
Your first 3 months are the hardest.
After a year you will feel like a different person and may be able to really smell what the outdoors is suppose to smell like.
Unfortunately, I can not smell well anymore but my doctor is working on some remedys. But I can smell and breath better now than when I smoked.
I use those Listerine PocketPaks breath strips to cover the oral fixation part of the habit. They come in mint, and cinnamin flavor....maybe more, I don't know.
Reading takes care of the mental activity part. As far as giving the hands something to do, I'm thinking about starting the car model building hobby that I took part in, as a youngster. I did'nt smoke then, so the mental groove of smoking while I concentrated won't be there.
Givem' Hell...I say
As a kid i was a huge model making nut. Built cars, planes, rockets. Its a thought i will highly consider as an alternative. Thanks for the reminder of my childhood days.
How's it going with that nicotine ceasation program that you've been working, GB2?
I'm having some success, coughing up the slugs of the past 2 years, since the last time I stopped smoking.
Tell yourself that you're stopping, as nobody likes being called a quitter.
Brain 8)
I am pulling for you too! I quit in '95 when I was in the hospital...figured I had to be in there 3 weeks, during that time the worst was behind me...I replaced it with chewing gum, LOTS of it for a long time..when not gum then was chewing on toothpicks...then the nails...But I can honestly say I never looked back....when I hear the cost of them now..YIKES!!!
It does get easier as time goes by! Thinking of it now, even for me after almost 11 yrs off of them, it is still hard to believe I can be on puter all day and not light one up...
Keep looking AHEAD and not backwards...YOU CAN DO THIS!!
All's well on the Brain front. I guess I should have counted how many days, but I just count one day at a time, and I try to keep it as simple for myself as possible. I don't consider smoking a cigarette, or cigar an option.
Givem' Hell
Brain
Passive smoking, of course, is caused by people who smoke, so, more incentive to quit:
...Bibbins-Domingo estimated that, depending on the level of exposure, passive smoking is responsible for between 9,500 and 21,500 coronary heart disease-related deaths annually and between 14,600 and 32,400 heart attacks annually. The lower estimate is based on self-reports of exposure; the higher estimate is based on measurements of cotinine levels in the blood.
If passive smoking were eliminated now, by the year 2030 as many as 953,200 new cases of coronary heart disease would be prevented, averting 842,900 heart attacks and 580,600 heart disease-related deaths, she predicted...
My last cigarette was October,15,1989 at approx 12:50 am. It did not tatse good. I then went to the emergecy room as I was having a heart Attack! I was 38 at the time.
There was a time when I thought I would "die for a cigarette"
Now I just can't imagine the stupidity of it!!!
I was in a cloud of smoke back then.
Now I aviod smokey bars.
Good luck just remeber that craving does not get any stronger than it is right now and it gets less each day you do not smoke.
j10asen- I'm glad you got through that! Heart attacks are scary!
I don't think people realize just how much of a link there is with heart problems. That's just one more thing the tobacco companies really play down.
I know I didn't, until I ended up on medication that, when mixed with tobacco smoke, can bring on a stroke or heart attacks. It makes doing things like going to a restaurant or to any location where people still smoke a pretty dicey business. I've only been having pains and skipped beats, not a full-blown heart attack, but I'm really worried about it with the recent resurgence of people arrogantly forcing their smoke on the rest of us. I don't want to go to the hospital because some idiot just had to stand right outside the entrace to the grocery store to have their cigarette instead of going and sitting in their car or walking to the side of the building where they can enjoy their smoke all they want without poisoning everyone else.
There are a lot of everyday medicines that people don't think about that do the same thing when mixed with tobacco smoke. Any woman on birth control, for example, is risking blood clots at the time and increasing her future likelihood of heart attacks and strokes every time she's exposed to tobacco smoke.
There's not much human that frightens me. Having my ability to take care of myself taken away by a stroke even though I'm only 31 because I couldn't get away from the smoke, however... well... that's a different story...
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