So, it's been almost one week since I quit smoking. Well, let me rephrase and say since I started TRYING to quit. It really is a lot harder than I thought it would be. Last weekend, the begining of my quitting experience I sat at my boyfriends house and cried my eyes out for almost an hour because he said something I didn't agree with. I don't even remember what it was he said, and I felt like such an idiot for completely breaking down like that. I gave in that night and smoked one of his roommates cigarettes.
Since that night I've been trying, but I'm still smoking about one a day. For me that seems to be working and I still consider myself to be in the process of quitting simply because I've gone from a half to three quarters of a pack a day smoker to smoking one or maybe two a day.
wow i guess it is that hard to quit. my boyfriend is doing what u are doing- he went from smokin a pack a day to just one or 2. i think thats good progress. my only advice would be to just buy candy and gum and just have that when u want to smoke. i buy my BF gum just so he'll stop. oh, and if this'll make u stop, i've seen someone who smokes who'd teeth are getting like an ashy color. save your teeth!
and good luck to your boyfriend, I hope he can quit completely. Thanks also for the advice about the candy and gum. I have a stash of lollypops in my desk at work and that's all that gets me through the day. The worst part is driving though, being stuck in traffic is 100x worse when you can't smoke and are craving a cigarette!
I think one of the main reasons it’s so hard to quit smoking is because all the benefits of quitting and all the dangers of continuing seem very far away. Well, here’s a little timeline about some of the more immediate effects of quitting smoking and how that will affect your body RIGHT NOW.
* In 20 minutes your blood pressure will drop back down to normal.
* In 8 hours the carbon monoxide (a toxic gas) levels in your blood stream will drop by half, and oxygen levels will return to normal.
* In 48 hours your chance of having a heart attack will have decreased. All nicotine will have left your body. Your sense of taste and smell will return to a normal level.
* In 72 hours your bronchial tubes will relax, and your energy levels will increase.
* In 2 weeks your circulation will increase, and it will continue to improve for the next 10 weeks.
* In three to nine months coughs, wheezing and breathing problems will dissipate as your lung capacity improves by 10%.
* In 1 year your risk of having a heart attack will have dropped by half.
* In 5 years your risk of having a stroke returns to that of a non-smoker.
* In 10 years your risk of lung cancer will have returned to that of a non-smoker.
* In 15 years your risk of heart attack will have returned to that of a non-smoker.
So, you have more immediate things to look forward to if you quit now besides just freaking out about not being able to smoke.
So give it up completely for two days and that cheeseburer eill taste delicious again...unless your a vegetartian, then replace it with whatever
I didn't know a lot of those early stats and the things that happened immediatley after quitting. That's encouraging for me to think about and hopefully it will help to keep those things in mind.
Good luck I know how hard this is.. I didn't even smoke that much but I had friends that did and I would bum a cig from them sometimes just because I was there and had nothing to do.. This started to become a tension reliever to me and I would smoke sometimes 4 or five a day.. nothing too intense but when it came down to me realizing I didn't want to smoke anymore it was hard to just give it up.. eventually I just sat one day in my apartment and wouldn't leave until I knew I would never smoke again.. I mean I know that would probably never work because I only smoked a little bit so wasn't as affected. so I'm not trying to even suggest that but I wish you the best of luck and in time it will get easier.. Just keep of the good work and know there are so many people out there that support you!
It's easier to slowly decline the amount that you smoke than to quit completely, go from a pack a day, down to half a pack, down to about 3, and so on until you can do with out. Going cold will only make quitting symptoms worse.
When I first stopped smoking I did it cold turkey and I totally flipped out. Now I'm only smoking between 1-3 per day and I don't even want to do that, but it's better the half to whole pack a day I was smoking before.
good luck! no problem about the littl eadvice i can give. personaly, i think candy tastes better then cigarettes anyway lol
Its so worth it!
At this very moment, somewhere a committee is deciding your life, only you weren't invited
Tootsie Pops are really helping me with the habit part and I am wearing the patch to help with the nicotine addiction part. I have tried many times to just quit cold turkey, but I never succeeded. Good Luck!!!