Quitting Smoking!

Jeeezz,I HATE to give this advice,-but maybe smoking is 'HEALTHIER' for you...?

 

I started with e-cigs about 6 mos ago and have had maybe 6 cigs in that time. There is a learning curve to them (found a good forum and it helped). You have to want to give up regular cigs. E-cigs usually still contain nicotine, but you can get them without, or wean yourself off nicotine. Some people don;t like them, others love em. Bottom line, no matter what route you take, patch, gum, e-cigs or cold turkey, if you don't really want to quit you wont.

 

I tried to quit smoking once about 8 year's ago using chantix, found out I had a severe anxiety problem, and the chantix amplified it to the point that I would have bad attacks almost every day, finally my gf at the time told me to go get myself some cigarettes before she killed me, lol. Not the kind of support you would expect, but it was bad, but now I am with someone else and I have found that I waist a lot of the limited amount of time that we have together outside smoking, and don't have the energy to do a lot of the things we enjoy together, so, trying it again, but this time, cold turkey. And if anxiety becomes a problem again, I will deal with it another way, but smoking is no longer an option, for me, or my family

 

Vaping works. Smells better than smoke also. Lungs feel much better.

 

Good luck kz. I quit Almost 6 months ago cold turkey. Wasn’t as hard as I thought it was gonna be.

 

You tell your wife for the next 6 months you are going to be a grumpy mean #######. Sensitive to every little trigger.

And then promise you will spend the rest of your non smoking life making this time up to her.

It's out of your system in 10 days, however withdrawals will take a while.

Its not the limiting to will power but literally a decision that is irrevocable. Never pick up another pack of smokes again. I quit in 2001 after having too much rocky mountain running that put me into the ER one night. Even today I would not mind a smoke. But I cannot pick up a cigarette. About 6 years ago I had a medical doctor examine my vitals when I experimented for 5 minutes smoking one cigerette. He told me it will have the potential to kill me because of how much and how fast I got sick on that one good smoke. (Vitals as measured by blood, pulse ox and heart timing etc.)

Two years ago I was finally formally diagnosed what my premature doctor tending to me already knew about me, the entire chestwall is compromised (The nerve under each rib and the physical situation between the area that holds the lungs and the muscles outside of the ribs) If I smoked and then used my accessory muscles in that wall the nerves simply fail. Like really fast. Ive been told that people resort to accessory muscles for breathing when oxygen is insufficient to the brain and they can only last about 15 minutes or so on that before requiring a intubation etc.

It's really complicated. But when presented with very hard core medical opinions in my case with evidence it is very easy not to pick up anymore smokes.

It's been about 18 years now since I stopped and I have been working with the ex doing nice things now and then to make up for the 6 months of being mean that it took me to get through that time. Cigerettes were very easy to withdarwal from. Alcohol is harder, but with change of lifestyle and disposal of people who enable it or push that lifestyle. (I grew up in a taven part of my life) was able to be overcome. Medical dependance as demonstrated by blood pressure was taken care of in one week in Medical detox last year which probably saved my life from a horrible stroke or worse. I have also overcome a taste for certain other medicines in the realm of mental health, Xanax to be particular. I had to stop using it. It never stops with that substance. So it had to stop. My doctor at that time had been in prescribing for almost 60 years and told me I was one of three that quit and stayed quit of that stuff. So it's amazing.

Anyway.

You cannot go into your favorite smoking store. You need to change where you go, so you don't fall in the habit of buying or being tempted to buy smokes. You need to dispose of people who do smoke in your presence. And find ways to get clear of groups of people smoking near buildings that are smoke free.

The good things? Plenty. In about 10 years your body will have managed to repair most if not all of the damage. Certain problems like chronic bronchitis that takes a month out of your life every year being bad sick goes bye bye. (The damage is verified via MRI as permanent in my body) and there are a return to a proper tasting of foods and a proper reaction to all of your senses to life itself.

However.

You must make a irrevocable decision not to physically pick up in any way another smoke. Ever. Because usually those who are addicted, dependant or whatever bad will always want that smoke until the day they die. You will have to make certain changes to your life. But it will get better. Your wife will see that you are cleaner, laundry is less filthy and people will want to be around you better. And the house etc will be much easier to keep clean.

I don't know how many years I smoked. I started when trucking started. And the same with the drinking back then. On bad roads without the airride. But I am happy I got them both stopped.

There is one final thing. You will gain 20 pounds within a year. This is irrevocable as a result of you quitting smoking.

 

I smoked for 34 years until I quit for good three years ago. over the last 20 years I had tried cold turkey, patches, pills, gum, and even hypnosis. then I tried an e-cigarette and haven't looked back. lung function has vastly improved, as did stamina and no more morning cough or black loogies in the shower.

don't believe all the bullsh!t you read on facebook or propaganda articles sponsored by big tobacco (who are losing vast amounts of money by people switching to e-cigs) saying that e-cigs are more harmful than tobacco. do your own research...in the UK they have done exhaustive studies that definitively prove that e-cigs are a successful smoking cessation device and are 95% less harmful than smoking.