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First Time quitting smoking
Hi everyone, I am so glad I signed up here. I have been smoking for 17 years now. I turned 40 last month and decided it was time to give up cigarettes. I thought it was going to be so easy like it was giving up sodas and fast food. It has been such an emotional roller-coaster. So my husband and I are both trying to quit. We had planned to quit on Jan. 4th cold turkey. We were able to go 4 hours without a cigarette but it drove us nuts. We were both smoking a pack a day and have managed to cut that down to 8 or 9 cigarettes a day. Even that hasn't been easy. It is a never ending battle in my mind and at times I just want to give up the dream of quitting. I have the nicorette gum but that doesn't seem to be helping too much. I've been trying to occupy my free time with reading up on nicotine addiction and all the bad things about smoking and ways to break the psychological part of it. I've set my quit date for the last day of January and am really hoping to quit before then. This is truly the hardest thing I have ever had to do!
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Take some advice from a person who has quit before unsuccessfully and is now 4-days quit again. STICK TO YOUR QUIT DATE. Stick to it and stay with it. Know that the day you quit is your last time to have to plan your life around cigarrettes, social stigma, smelling like crap, feeling poorly, spending money to kill yourself, and you will be alive to see and share more life with your family. It is a battle of mind vs. habit, and don't tell yourself lies or make excuses to smoke, the bottom line is it is killing you.
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Some failure in life is simply unavoidable! The only unforgivable thing is to stop trying!!! Set your date. You already know that cigs are killing you. We all know but please, please do not wait until your body proves to you that you are not invincible like you think! Do it now! Get support and become an ex smoker! You deserve this, you just do not realize it yet!
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Thanks for both of your support. I really need all the support I can get just like we all do. I know I deserve to be happy and healthy without the negative impact of cigarettes. I am alot more motivated now than I was at noon today. I was just about to give up when my husband gave me some very encouraging words. Then I got on here and it just help so much more to keep me motivated to quit.
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You got to reflect what Cathi wrote, it is very powerful. I cut and paste what she wrote to me and this is the greatest advice ever. Really take it in and good luck friend.
Hi Joe, I have 25 days cold turkey and no one prepared me for the mental and emotional trash the rises up as the quit moves to detox life! I was all ready for the physical garbage but to be assaulted on so many planes at once. WOW. But I have heard it described this way... the cig company has had years to tailor this nicotine device to make it as hard as can be physically, as psychologically sabotaging and emotionally assaulting!!! But guess what. No matter what psychological games THE NICOTINE AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF CHEMICALS flush the body by the end of day three!!!! From there the power returns all to us. The challenge is recognising it. THREE DAYS! From there it all starts to get better.
Stick to your quit. Be proud of yourself. Watch out for sneaky nicotine craves. WE DESERVE THIS!!!!
