I Quit Smoking

Yup. I started yesterday. It's going well, but at the same time I feel a little crazy inside.

Anyway, I just had to share the news. I'm quite proud of myself for making the step to decide to quit.

 

Yay!! congratulations!!!
although it might get a little hard the first couple of weeks, you'll definitely notice so many changes in your life and general wellbeing, that you won't want to pick it up again. Smoking is such a bad habit, i always thought smoking was cool and convinced myself that it was pleasurable, when in fact i was making myself sick every time i light up. anyway, i dont want to ramble on and on so if you need some motivation try this website http://www.woofmang.com/

congrats again!!!

 

Excellent! More people need to follow your example!

 

Thank you, both of you So far it's going fairly well. All except for at night, I seem to wake up in the middle of the night with a craving, and then can't get back to sleep. I'm having a little bit of insomnia here...

That should pass though, I think.

But other than that it's going good. Just nibbling on lots of cinnamon sticks!!

 

after 3 years of smoking, I quit a month and a half ago. If I can do it, so can you best of luck to ya n congrats for making the decision to quit!

 

the veggie thing is mainly because of the animals and environment for me--- but, it does have a little to do with health, which is one reason I'm trying to quit smoking. I started smoking long before I gave a damn about my health and now I reget it.

 

thats great~ are you using anything to help like patches or gum?

i started smoking at 12 years old and by 17 i was at a pack a day. then in may of 2004 i quit (using the patch) and didnt smoke at all for an entire year. all the sudden i began to crave cigs again and so i bought a pack just to have *one*. well i had that one (it was nasty) and then i just stored the pack away in my closet.....ended up taking it back out a few weeks later and now here i am smoking again. *but* a pack will last a few days now so its not as bad. i am going to quit again as soon as i start my BC pills since the two dont mix well.

best of luck to you!

 

Thank you Elle and drumminmama

And Elle I'm sure you'll be able to quit again

I am not using the patch or anything.... I just don't want to. I went through really bad withdrawals last night and snuck a cigarette.... but I'm pretty confident that that one little incident won't ruin my quest. I'm really determined to do this. I can't stop thinking about what I would be doing to myself if I continued to smoke.

Although---I think I picked a rather bad [well, WORSE] time to quit, because I'm PMSing right now... and I'm QUITE bitchy.

I also signed up for QuitNet free membership... it's a fairly useful little tool. I went into the chat yesterday when I was craving a cigarette and they helped me get through it more than I thought it would.

 

Yeah dont get down on yourself for slipping up sometimes.....I used tobacco for 5 and a half years......when i first started i chewed, then smoked then smoked and chewed, then smoke cigs and cigars lol.....and about 4 months? ago I decided to quit no patch or gum or anything......i have smoked two or three ciggarettes since then (bummed from the smokers outside at college) 4 months and i still have occasional cravings for cigars (cause they taste good) but when I get a craving it usually lasts like ten minutes so i just sing or do something to forget i am having a craving....as far as insomnia....get you an herbals leep remedy or some chamomil etea or something like that to help you relax......try the weakest stuff possible first (dont use tylenol pm or anything..go herbal) herbal stuff is easier on your system...GOOD LUCK DARLIN

 

Swweeeet dude. Yeah, I'm so mad and frustrated with cigarettes I can't even bring myself to look at them.

 

Word.

Good luck.

 

LOL that's cute.

I don't think it's so much happy people don't smoke though, as much as I think you start to smoke because of lack of self respect. You know?

Either way.... That's the point. When I began smoking I was immature, juvenile, insecure, unconfident, etc... since then I have come a long way, and I have gained tons of confidence and self respect, and that's why I'm quitting.

The thing is, you start smoking when you obviously lack self respect [why would you start if you respected yourself and your body?] but once you become addicted, even if you grow, and mature, and start to love yourself more... it's hard to quit, and some people just find it too difficult.

I learned an important key to quitting though.... don't THINK about cigarettes, and if you do and can't help it, focus on how horrible they are for you.

I slipped up three days ago and restarted my quit as I said before, and the reason I slipped up is because I would sit there and daydream about having a cigarette. Now if my mind wanders off like that... I think about how bad they are for me.

Now it's been 3 whole days without even a puff of a cigarette and I'm golly damn proud of myself! :H

 

thats awesome. its a really unhealthy habit...some of my friends smoke pretty often and i hear them coughin up and spittin out phlegm o rmucus a lot

 

thats cool.. I don't think the cravings can go away any soon tho.. depends everyone is different

 

good for you. i've tried so many times, and i'm still trying. it's hard but just don't look back!!

 

You should really go for it, if you pretty much just make it your life while trying to quit...it works.

P.S. I love your tattoo toe ring, its adorable

 

One of the times I was in jail I couldn't get smokes for less than $5 a roll up. I was only in for 4 months. 5 minutes after I got out, I bummed one off someone in the parking lot.

 

whatever you do dont try the patch or the gum...... neither work and they both make it worse............................ goooooood luucckkkk

 

yay! Congrats!! I stopped on 2nd Nov this year.. and still ok