no more cigarettes... i hope!
so, i've decided to quit smoking. granted, i'm sick with one of the nastiest colds i've had in a while, and that really helps me not want a cigarette. but, all the same, i've gone two days without, and before that i was smoking a half to a whole pack every day, sometimes more. i just really don't think i can maintain my convictions about consumerism and a holistic lifestyle with such a big hypocrisy looming around. plus, i don't like spending the money either. i've figured out that i can save $80 - $100 each month if i quit, which is money my man and i could use, say to travel, or put away in savings. smoking isn't fun or pleasant for me anymore, really. it's just something i have to do all the time. i want to get healthy, and stop relying on a corporate product that is actively poisoning me!
any tips, ladies?
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I'm quitting, too, also started during a nasty cold. It's so hard, so so hard. but I'm doing it, even though it still sucks it is getting easier, smoking is getting less appealing, like even when I could talk myself into it/justify it I don't want to actually have one so much. I've tried everything and can't say that anything has really helped but time. staying busy, and sleep. I could sleep so much, to distract me from smoking. I'm pulling for you!
You can do it! Just remember, not one- not ever. I have quit several times (I am currently smoking again). I find it helpful to suck on suckers and chew on toothpicks.
My weakest point is after a few months when the all the time cravings are gone and i start to think that i could just smoke one, and no problem...
It is always a problem, and i end up back into smoking for that.
SO NOT ONE_ NOT EVER!
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congratulations on your decision! I am rooting for you (((vibes)))
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"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~Eleanor Roosevelt
I quit using welbutrin, not the best way prolly, but it worked for me. I know someone that is starting another newer quit smoking pill.
I also had tried to quit before, and I was really ready and I used some nicotine lozenges.
Good Luck!!!
I secretly started smoking when I was 15 and subsequently started and stopped up until my early 30s.
It's the most horrible addiction I have ever faced. Chin up!
Here's the magic secret I have, after gum and patches and prescriptions failed:
You just don't do it. Ever. Once a smoker, always a smoker - for life. You can't have just one.
If you have to smoke when you drink, don't drink... even better! (For me I stopped smoking and drinking at the same time and it was absolutely harder but made all the difference.) If you can't be around other smokers, don't be. If smokers come to your house, tell them to go outside or to go away.
Be a vigilant hard ass about it to everyone, but especially you.
Statistics bear me out... the most effective way of quitting smoking is to go cold turkey. It takes most people three attempts before successfully kicking. Don't give yourself those odds - beat them.
Think of it as the anti-Nike slogan: Just Don't Do It.
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Summer (35) ~ Hoping to be a Mama
Thomas (34) ~ Patient Papa in Training
4 Fur Babies ~ 3 Angel Babies
That anti-corporate murderers was a good mantra for me when I quit. Do whatever it takes. I don't know about you, but for me it had and has to be all or nothing. DO IT DO IT!! The physical withdrawal is so brief and so beatable. It's the mental effort that is difficult, and you can SO do it.
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and you sound like me in this respect. i had tried to quit because it was bad for me, then because it was making me cough, then because it was expensive, then because of what it was doing to my teeth, then because it stunk. none of these were good motivations. i only quit when i didn't derive any pleasure from it anymore. that's the only thing that did it, because i knew when i had a craving that satisfying the craving would not feel good. so, that was the time that succeeded.
my only advice is that the physical addiction is short, you can get through that easily, then you have habit. breaking habits is hard. don't expect that to be easy, expect the hard part to kick in two weeks from when you quit smoking. because you're changing your life. but if you accept that life will be shit for a while, you slide through.
oh and you may want to avoid alcohol. it lowers your inhibitions, and a lot of people go back to smoking because they were drinking.
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