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Share your quitting journey

.... A Public Service Announcement (PEDESTRIANS BE WARNED!!!)

JonesCarpeDiem
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‎03-10-2009 12:30 PM
A smoker has more red blood cells carrying oxygen for cogitative purposes because of all the carbon monoxide smoking puts into their blood stream?


You may feel dizzy/lightheaded for a month or so after you quit due to this extra oxygen while your body adjusts the oxygen supercharge it needed to counteract the CO2 from smoking.

You might cut corners at intersections and brush knee to bumper with pedestrians, a flock of flippers may follow your pathway. (Yes it happened to me)

Wear dark glasses thet first month. The sun may be your eye's enemy.

Sure seemed that way to me but I was busy looking behind me at a swath of pedestrians

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.