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I quit update

yblockheadyblockhead Member Posts: 947 ✭✭✭
edited May 2017 in General Discussion
Just passed on week 3 of the non smoking gig. The first week and a half I was ripping peoples heads off and crapping down their throats. Starting to calm down more. Lot to be said about the "cold turkey". No pills. patches, or other weird stuff.
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  • mag00mag00 Member Posts: 4,719 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Congrats. There is a better chance you will remember the withdrawal and never wish to do that again, LOL.
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  • mnrivrat48mnrivrat48 Member Posts: 1,707 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Be aware that there is a strong urge period coming up. It will be at least as hard as the first week so if you prepare your mindset for it now, it may help you down the line.
    For me it was at about the 6 week time frame - yours might vary.
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  • JohnnyBGoodJohnnyBGood Member Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,382 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    congrats I never smoked ( only heaven knows why I did try )
    but I know hard it is to stop
    good luck on holding it off I wish you the best of luck in a complete smoke tobacco free . like most I have lost way to many family and friends to cancer , stick with it were here for you

    my dad stopped cold turkey . I think family pressure I always told him he would never get to see the grand kids if he kept up
    he kept the last 1/2 pack of cigs as a reminder .but cancer still took him 50 years of smoking and god only know what in the coal mines and working construction but he did get to see grand kids even great grand kids . my brother died from cancer but smoked even thru his port hole the cut in his neck up to he was unable to hold one ..
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  • p3skykingp3skyking Member Posts: 23,916 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Fight the battle everyday. No, you haven't earned a smoke - ever.
    I quit 19 months ago and I don't have cravings anymore.
    It's been well worth it.

    Get your doc to give you a rescue inhaler like albuterol sulfate.
    Cigarettes have a bronchodilator to help you breath and you may run short of breath until the tar gets out of your lungs.

    Docs got samples of the inhalers - make him give you one of those instead of a script.
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,260 ******
    edited November -1
    Good job,keep it going,,,[^][^][^][^]
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  • redneckandyredneckandy Member Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Congrats! Keep it up![8D] Been four years for me. After my first year smoke free my thinking went from indifference to cigs to hating the sight and smell of em.
    You can do it!
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  • TooBigTooBig Member Posts: 28,559 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
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  • skicatskicat Member Posts: 14,431 ✭
    edited November -1
    Best thing you can do! Congratulations!

    P3 is right. one puff of a smoke will bring the full force of your addiction right back and you will have to do the withdrawal all over. Cold turkey is the fastest way to weather the withdrawal period. It does get much easier over time.
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  • droptopdroptop Member Posts: 8,363 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Quit for 20 years, just quit buying, no problem.

    Started smoking again for a few years and decided to quit,, THAT WAS THE HARDEST thing I've ever done. Took me months.

    ADVICE: NEVER START AGAIN.
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  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,286 ******
    edited November -1
    Endeavor to persevere
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  • godalejrgodalejr Member Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    congrats and good job. thankfull i never got in the habit.
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It is the HARDEST thing you will ever do. You are over the worst part of the addiction now it is fixing the mindset.
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  • jerrywh818jerrywh818 Member Posts: 2,573 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Never smoke another one. Not even one. I smoked for 26 years then quit for a year. One day I thought I would smoke just one. Then I smoked for another year. Then quit again. That was 39 years ago. All the guys and women I knew that smoked are now dead. Most of them from cancer including my wife at the time. My mother in law had her lung taken out because of cancer from smoking. When she came out of the anesthesia she asked if anybody had a cigarette. She later died from it. she was 72. I could go on.
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    I can't claim credit for quitting. Four years ago last Christmas I was blessed with a nasty case of flu, almost pneumonia. It HURT to smoke, so I didn't. For three weeks. After I got better, I was done with smoking.

    Quitting smokeless tobacco was HARD. After I stopped smoking, I was dipping more. If I was awake and not eating, I had a dip. A few months after stopping smoking, I stopped dipping. that was tough. Ask Dawnie. She wanted to have me sedated or else move away.

    Smokeless tobacco puts a higher dose of nicotine in the blood and keeps it there longer than does smoking, so the addiction is stronger and quitting is harder.

    I feel better now; I'll never go back, but I do sometimes get a mild craving, and I even dream about having a smoke or a dip.
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