I quit smoking! (page 2)

BeautifulGarbage

Good for you, Lauren!

I've been smoke free for about 6 1/2 years. You will not regret quitting.

Andee

rmayer32

Congrats!!!

Stick with it though it is hard. The urge to do it doesn't seem to go away very quickly either..LOL Just gotta program yourself to say no, which it sounds like you already have

-Rick

Prisca

CONGRATULATIONS to all of those on this thread who are quitting the habit.

I have made it through another day! On day 4 now! My thanks to all of you for the support and congratulations to everyone else who has kicked the habit!
Soledad, i dont know if there are properties in them chemically but they keep my mouth busy. Cauliflower takes along time to chew, long enough for the craving to pass.
I am also drinking LOTS of water. I think this is really helping to flush the bad stuff away. Whenever i get a craving, I take a big drink of water. It helps!
peace to all! -Lauren

Mimilly

Lauren - you're doing great! We're all so proud of you, and I'm still wearing my cheerleader pom-poms. I had to revisit this thread to see how you are doing. (yes, I've been thinking of you)

It's no secret that quitting smoking is a downright hard thing to do, but try to remember this - they say it takes 28 days straight to form a new habit. So start crossing off those days!

I smoked 'briefly' when I was 15yrs old. I just couldn't do it due to my parents. We use to take this 5 hour drive to my grandparents every second weekend and both parents would chain smoke in the car - and refuse to roll the windows down! I would throw up and the dingbats figured I was just motion sick. The funny thing is, I still crave a cigarette now and again, which I find weird, but also is testament to how is affects you physically and psychologically.

I have asthma now, and I don't go near smoke. A single wiff is enough to give me an attack - and I enjoy breathing :) Every day you don't smoke Lauren, your lungs heal. And good stuff on the water thing. Out with the bad, in with the good.

I'm really thinking of you, and will 'check in' to see how you are doing. Congrats to everyone who is giving up the habit. I'm wearing my pom-poms for you too! :D

love,
Mimilly

4christ

Thank you so much Mimilly! At the end of today, it will be one week! I am starting to feel somewhat "normal" again. The first few days, I felt so ICKY from the withdrawls. I still have urges to smoke, but I would rather breathe. :) I have had chest pains the last couple of years and I am hoping that now that will stop.
Your story of your parents reminded me that my father smoked for a long time. He quit when I was a little girl, over 20 years now. Now my little girl is the same age I was when he quit! I feel so bad for smoking with the kids around, even outside, they would want to sit on my lap and I wouldnt want them near the smoke. But no more!
Tomorrow, my husbands parents are coming to stay with us for a few days, and they smoke. So I am going to have to be strong because I am going to have to smell it. They will probably try not to as much as possible since they know we just quit.
Thanks again for checking in on me! I will keep you "posted" :)
peace to all-Lauren

Double Edge

Just read your posts. Congratulations for sticking with it. Keep up the good work, you'll never regret it. My Step Father died a couple of years ago from emphasyma...he was on oxygen for several months. Went into the emergency room on a Sunday morning where we were told he had two months to live. He was admitted to the hospital for a couple of days to adjust his oxygen. On Monday at noon we went to help him with lunch, stayed and hour and then he took a nap. A couple of hours later he never woke up...all the while struggleing to breath. Over the several months he was on oxygen, the level mix was eventually moved up as high as it could get, so his lungs just couldn't process it....he slowly stangled to death. It was awful... He smoked all his life, but was from a generation that didn't know any better.

COMF

Very good, 4Christ! 4 years and 5 months for me, second time around. I quit to become a witness and started up again after I left, but when it got so that I was out of breath after just walking up a 1-story flight of stairs, I realized I didn't want to be that out of shape. Quitting again (for good this time) was one of the finest things I've ever done for myself. The benefits show up in many different areas of your life... to my delight and satisfaction, one of them was a remarkable increase in both enthusiasm and endurance in the bedroom!

Don't believe those stories you hear about craving a cig for years after you quit; it's not true. It never even occurs to me that I could be having a smoke, even when my friends are doing it.

On the down side (maybe...) I can't enjoy being in a dance hall, bar, bowling alley or any other place where there's a crowd of smokers. My steady date and I have stopped going dancing for this reason... it's too much for both of us. The smoke gets on your skin, in your hair, in your clothes... you reek from it. I find that after an hour in a place like that all I want to do is go shuck my clothes and take a good shower.

Here's to health and cleanliness!

COMF

Then to the lip of this poor earthen urn
I lean'd, the secret of my life to learn:
And lip to lip it murmur'd--"While you live,
Drink!--for, once dead, you never shall return."

Englishman

Excellent stuff!

Quitting the weed takes nearly as much courage as quitting the WTBTS!

How many "t's" in quitting?

Englishquitter.

4christ

I just wanted to bring this one back up to thank everybody who replied and to give an update....... i still havent smoked! neither has my husband. I made it! Its been almost 5 months and the chest pains are gone! :) I am ssssooooooooooooooooo glad I quit! i still crave once or twice a week but they are getting weaker and father between. Thanks again for the support!

peace-Lauren

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