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- I'm 30 years old & desperately want to quit smoking!!! I really don't know how, but I'll try anything. I started smoking when I was 17 years old to "fit in"at my first job. I was the sweet, innocent virgin girl who'd never used drugs & didn't get drunk on the weekends. It's such a NASTY habit!! It stinks, turns my nails and teeth yellow, and it's embarrassing!! I truly love it and hate it. I love it because it's always been there for me, yet is slowly killing me...... I haven't set a quit date yet, but through this site, I hope to do so soon. I'm extremely scared to quit, quite frankly.
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Have you chosen your quit date? Just checking in with you to see how you're doing. Look forward to hearing from you soon.
I think it sounds harder than it is, reminding myself that the smoke is killing me helped a lot. There are so many good things that are happening at the same time...breathing easier, more energy, no coughing, smelling fresher. I don't wake up feeling like I still have smoke in lungs or dirty ashtray lingering in body. I used to get headaches everyday I haven't had one since I quit. It's so worth figuring out how to get through the first 5 minutes of a cup of coffee or 5 minutes after a meal- honestly I don't think that a craving has lasted even that long- It also helped me to understand that these cravings will pass and each day it fades more an more- I look forward to a day, a week or month that I don't even think about cigs...but until then I take each minute, hour and day as it comes. I kind of knew what to expect when I quit, I smoked a pack a day- that's 20 cigs a day for 15+ years...I don't think there is anything else in my life that I have knowingly done 20 times a day/everyday for that many years...it takes time and patience and other activities- because the first 3 days ar toughest..then it's managable but not comfortable for next two weeks..then around day 15 or 16 your feel great, so many good things proud, accomplished...but then you start doubt if you really want this (tht's addict in your head)..then you make it to day 30 and this is the best one so far because I'm more and more relaxed and I think everyone notices that I'm not so cranky or snappy. Anyway, I hope this helps it's a great decision to quit, because smoking doesn't bring any good things into your life.
I have most of the triggers on the website, I would smoke in the morning while I drank coffee. So just waking up, took some training, no real good way around it though just had to make my coffee and drink it with no cig (but this one is better now). I also smoked after lunch and dinner, getting past this one was quite a challenge. I would fix a pot of hot tea or go brush my teeth, but this one is better now too. I would smoke in the car, so now I chew gum, bring a bottle of water, listen to the radio or chat with a friend on the phone. (this one wasn't really that hard)..the worst and the one that I struggle with everytime is social smoking. Hanging with my friends that smoke, having coffee or wine or just chatting outside- they light up and suddenly I get uncomfortable, irritated and all I can do stare at their cigs and smoke. Sounds crazy- but I call that smoker voice the addict in my head- and this situation the addict is loud and I have a hard time completing a sentence. I'm getting better but I've still got some things to work through...