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

[soulart2]

Waaay back when, my brother and hung out a lot/had the same friends etc.  He use to make me role my smokes before we went out to the pub etc.   Rolling smokes wasn't something "women" did hahahaa. mind you, not many did.

stawka, if you ever see the book I used, buy it for your sister, will make her life easier xx

[j*oono]

You've done great Soulart!  I thought it would take you a bit longer to give it another go.  Good for you and I hope it continues to be an easy road for you.

[imastawka]

Thanks, soul,  but she doesn't need the book.

She's doing just fine.     It's the ungrateful lot she lives with

that are in danger    Hahahahahaha

[soulart2]

Thanks joono,  I hope so too !

hahahaa stawka......strange they didn't notice your sister not smoking....but good on her and glad she's doing well.

[cat_mioux]

Congratulations to those who have quit smoking. Hang in there because the benefits are amazing!

I quit 1 year and 4 months ago and I feel and look so much better. My skin has a rosy glow and that awful chronic cough (the 'bronchitis' that never goes away) has gone. I thought smoking reduced my anxiety but it was only when I gave it up that I realised smoking actually increased my anxiety! No more worrying about not having enough cigarettes to last at work, no more having to ration cigarettes, no more having to drive to a 24hr servo at midnight in the rain, no more feeling anxious when out for dinner wondering where I can have a cigarette (anyone want to join me in the laneway out the back next to the smelly skip?), no more taking my eyes off the road while driving to retrieve a dropped cigarette that's burning my clothes/car mat, no more worrying if I stink like a stale ashtray ....

[imastawka]

Good one Miss Mioux.

I did wonder if you had stayed 'clean'   Glad to see it.

And, yes, all those things do cause anxiety.

[soulart2]

Great news Ms Mioux......and bonus with having a "rosy glow".

Doing fine here.......have a question for the long time non smokers.  How long did it take before you realised you weren't thinking about cigs ?

I find myself thinking....I'll have a cig, then go and do blah blah....it doesn't worry me that I'm thinking of it, pretty normal I'd think but I do wonder how long until I don't.

[moonflyte]

How are you going oppy?

[j*oono]

I think it's different for everyone Soul.  It took me quite a while, like months and even now it still happens after 3 years but it's only momentarily.  It's not like you even want one, it's just a reflex to a situation such as having a huge shop and leaving the shopping centre when you would normally light up.  

It's not upsetting and you forget about it almost instantly.

[imastawka]

Doing fine here.......have a question for the long time non smokers.  How long did it take before you realised you weren't thinking about cigs ?

Somettimes it fleetingly runs through your brain "Gee a ciggie would go down well'

but I know it won't - and the moment goes away almost as fast as it came.

Not hard.