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Paula... That's why I'm on here now.. I want to go smoke so bad but I just can't... and I won't... I'm tired of cigarettes dictating to me how I'm going to live my life... IT'S YOUR LIFE!!
I keep telling myself "NO ONE TELLS ME WHAT TO DO AND I AM NO GIVING IN TO THIS ONE... I AM STRONGER AND BETTER THAN THAT"..
Good Luck Sister!
These first few days you really need to keep yourself busy. Clean the house, wash the dishes, walk in the clean air, or even take the stairs a few times. You can really start to feel how much easier your lungs are getting even in the first week or two.
This morning for some reason I was having a hard morning (like the other mornings this week havn't been hard right?), so I looked up on the internet pictures of smokers lungs and pictures of lungs with emphasema. I just had to remind myself of why I can't, as if all my patients using extra oxygen and breathing treatments after years of smoking havn't reminded me yet.
Just keep talking to us, there has been people on here all the time. And we have all felt the same thing you are feeling now.
I stopped for 3 years once, only using the patches the first 3 days to take off the edge. Unfortunately that time I quit for someone else and their health. This time I quit for my own... before it's too late. I spoke with a ex-smoking at the american cancer society (they also have a support group) who has been quit for 19 years. He told me to go thru the entire 8 week program of patches. This time I will.
I think we all have triggers are the means to stop for one is different from another. What does your intuition tell you to do, for yourself, to quit? Listen to that and keep us posted.
I quit smoking cold turkey for nine days. Last night, I bought a pack of cigarettes. I was going to smoke only one. Now, I have almost finished the pack! I am starting over AGAIN tomorrow.
hey every one this is not my first rodeo but my hardest! i've went and gotten chantx it really does work! and i will make it and so will you just stay strong!!! keep God in sight and you can do anything!