quiting smoking

[opmania]

Have been a 20 pack a day smoker

For nearly 40 years and stopped cold turkey

On Monday 

So have made it 4 days without a smoke

Feel like I am going crazy 

And don't want to go near a shop for a while

Until I feel safe to avoid the impulse to buy

A packet

Not easy that's for sure

[opmania]

I'll be Ok 

I have made up my mind 

And generally follow through

Being a Taurus

Stubborn and pig headed

To the point of lunacy

I am starting to feel healthier

Breathing is smoother

Not coughing at all 

Tasting food better

Better sense of smell

Not feeling irritable

Wheres soul art ?

Gone very quiet

Finished that book yet? 

[chuk_77]

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@opmania wrote:

Yes still smoke free 

Not real happy about it 

Either at the moment

Thanks for asking

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thats your receptors talking. 

Dont listen to them.

Im smoke free, 3 years using champix. My doctor told me to make sure my OH was aware of the slightest mood changes in me and get me to a doctor as soon as he saw any odd behaviour. There was only one day of uncontrolable sobbing but that was it. Didnt finish the course due to interactions with other medication I was due to start but I never went back to smoking. 

My mums smokes make me sneeze now but my OH smokes rollies mostly and they dont bother me at all

[opmania]

I don't think I could ever stop if my

Husband was a smoker

I think it has been easy for me right now

Because I have isolated myself from all

Smokers 

Like a self inflicted re hab

And  my  only link to the outside world

Is you lot lol

Except when I've been t to my daughters

And the market

And I'm not working so am not forced

To be anywhere against my will

[moonflyte]

Bejng a Taurus are you also left handed? well done on the quitting.

[opmania]

No right handed

[j*oono]

Yes you could.  You rely on what you are doing, not what everyone else is doing.  

I think other smokers around me made it easier and made not smoking seem less taboo but something that I didn't want to do anymore.  The fact that I didn't have that smokers cough was strange.  I didn't even realise I had one until it vanished.  That happens so quickly when you give up.

Keep going, it gets easier around 4 months.

[imastawka]

4 months!    OMG!

Poor old Opmania is only at 11 days, Joono.

4 months is a lifetime away.

The first 2 weeks are the hardest and you're almost there.

Eat fruit.   You'll be amazed at how delicious it is

[j*oono]

I beg to differ 😄  The first two weeks are easy.  It gets a lot harder and then you have to stick to your determination. That's what you have to do.  Just stick at it and things get better.

[imastawka]

I bought strawberries today from over your way Joono - Neerabup or someplace

2 punnets for $3....this time of year?    Yummo.   I no complain

 

[j*oono]

Neerabup?  Not too close to me but I've found the local ones to be so good.  The Berry Sweet ones are great and I think they are not close to me either.  Last time I grew them every time one got ripe I had to watch it like a hawk before Baloo (or it might have been Buzz) ate it.