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

[moonflyte]

Smoking Nazis are the worst and they know just how hard it is to overcome one of the worst addictions on the planet.

I don't mind smoke I just feel sorry for the people who are still addicted.

My OH stopped cold turkey and I kept on smoking for another 2 years and he didn't mind at all,  understanding of my struggle and never criticized me.

I stopped and I said to my doctor "I got off scot free" and he replied "we'll see".

Nearly  of my family have stopped smoking, nealy all of my extended family and only one or two still smoke. The rest never critisize the ones who are still addicted because they understand.

I understand your struggle op and I am supporting you. Never go anywhere without a bottle of water, that will give you something to do with your hands.

[opmania]

Good morning support team

Another day without smoking

The coughing is strange because I never 

New I had a smokers cough 

I thought it was a cold I couldn't shake. 

No one else smokes in our family

Only a nephew who lives in malaysia

Husband has 

a mate who smokes

And my best friend but she's moved away

So don't see much any more

My husband's grand mother died from

Emphysema and now his aunt has it

He has never smoked but didn't mind me

[chuk_77]

that cough is all the **bleep** on your lungs trying to clear.

Your lungs are trying to heal 🙂

[joa_ell]

Heather Crowe : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRXWjBxCb8

[imastawka]

How is that being helpful and supportive?

A 25 minute video on a woman with lung cancer?

You have N  F  I   at all

[joa_ell]

I believe the truth is more important. This example is proof that smoking isn't only harmfull to the one who chooses to smoke, but also to those who have no choice in the matter. It is a direct assualt on the air everyone has to breathe, an attack on their health and well being.

Maybe it's only me who feels this way, however I believe that victims of second hand smoke would be well justified in defending themselves.

[iapetus_rocks]

Giving up tobacco is so very hard, and there's a reason for that.

Tobacco products aren't only tobacco. There's lots of other chemicals in the mix as well. and they are all designed to keep us addicted.

It's worth giving up for the health benefits but it's also satisfying to know that you're sticking it to those companies who spend millions on researching chemistry to find more addictive products for the consumer.

There's a famous quote from a tobacco company executive when asked if he smoked

 The executive shook his head. "Are you kidding?" he asked. "We reserve that right for the poor, the young, the black and the stupid."

 http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/28/opinion/in-america-tobacco-dollars.html

Keep up the good work Opmania. don't let them win. Be a winner for yourself.

[nevynreally]

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@joa_ell wrote:

I believe the truth is more important. This example is proof that smoking isn't only harmfull to the one who chooses to smoke, but also to those who have no choice in the matter. It is a direct assualt on the air everyone has to breathe, an attack on their health and well being.

Maybe it's only me who feels this way, however I believe that victims of second hand smoke would be well justified in defending themselves.

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What a good little social warrior you are. Doesn't help anyone, anywhere, but keep on tootin your horn.

Most smokers would prefer to not smoke around the likes of you, why do you keep imposing yourself? It's a legal product, and what about emissions from cars and trucks? Yeah, nothing going on there.

[iapetus_rocks]

"It's a legal product, . . . "

And yet tobacco causes more deaths than alcohol or any illegal drug for that matter.

So, why is it still legal to manufcature and sell this poisonous product?

Oh, yes . . . if we made it illegal, profits would plummet.

Tobacco is a drug(s) which are deliberately manufactured to keep the user addicted in order to siphon profits back to the drug dealers.

Why isn't there more community outrage that this poison is continuing to be produced with legal sanction?