Well, where do I begin? I can tell you a few things about this journey you're on. This is possibly one of the hardest things to beat, day after day, fighting the urge, that cig always there in your mind. It gets very tiring and alot of people just give up, and give in. I can say that it gets easier with time, but at first, that time seems to crawl. At this point in time, I can safely say that I don't think that my wife and I will ever smoke again.
As for us, we were both ready to quit, had discussed it and set a date, and quit. We quit with our best friend couple ( he had a small stroke ) and things went pretty good til.. They went on vacation to Mexico, and came back smoking. We still hung in there for a while, but the stupid, lets just smoke tonight thinking set in. And we did it for a few times, just smoking once a week or so. But soon it was back to full fledge smoking. For me it was devasting, we had blown 2 months quit. So , we had a vacation to vegas coming up, so I said we'll smoke til we get back, then back to quitting, she agreed. Boy did we smoke , lol...
There is no secret I guess. We used patches, inhalers as aides. They seemed to take the edge off. We got off the patches as soon as possible, but used the inhalers for 4 to 5 months. My doc. said he'd rather have my on those than cigs.
Another thing is that we are both pretty calm natured, not high strung. I get tons of stress each day, but seem to just not let it get to me. Lucky I guess. Only one day at about 21 days quit, I just felt bonkers, told the Mrs. it's not you, I just need to go for a walk, I was having a bad craving, even looking at butts on the ground and wishing i had a lighter, errr. The walk didn't help, then a light bulb went off, put on a patch dumb-ass, duh. Then I was fine.
Here's the best part. This keeps us focused on our quits. With less money than we used to spend on smoking, we bought a brand new RV pull behind trailer. I threaten her that if we smoke, it's back to tenting. Seems to be a good goal.
I guess it boils down to keeping anger in check, take a second to respond to triggers, count to 10, keep communicating, come to the SSC for support. Just don't give up, it's so worth the effort. You have a great start on your quit, please don't gi
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Quit Meter
$386,977.50
Amount Saved
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Quit Meter
Days: 10460
Hours: 8
Minutes: 5
Seconds: 38
Life Gained
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45864
Smoke Free Days
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Quit Meter
1,238,328
Cigarettes Not Smoked
