QUIT SMOKING ONCE AND FOR ALL

I got a prescription to Chantix. You read all kinds of horror stories about it, but I was AMAZED at how well it worked. You take it for two weeks, and then quit. I quit after the first week. I had NO desire to smoke – at all. I would love to know exactly how it works. I smoked about a pack a day since I was around 15 – and I really LIKED to smoke. It was harder after i got off the Chantix, but I knew that if I took one drag, off one cigarette – i would be back to square one. I haven’t smoked in ten months now, which is the longest I have ever quit. It is all about will power and the desire to breathe without wheezing. Word.

October 10th is 6 months! Yay!

I’ve been smoking for…25 years. I’ve “quit” too many times to count- the patch, the gum, hypnosis, cold turkey, but I always seem to return to these best friends who will eventually kill me. I simultaneously love and hate smoking…but I know I really need to quit once and for all.

I hate smoking.
I hate the smell.
I’m sick constantly, and it takes me so long to recover.
I have breathing problems and a constant cough.
Ive been smoking for 5 years and can only remember having gone just 5 consecutive days without smoking since then.
Its a constant mental struggle to not light one up.
I don’t know how to kick this awful habit.
Any suggestions?

I’m a heavy smoker (especially when I’m at home in front of my “puter”) When I’m gone, I don’t smoke as much, but EITHER WAY I go through “at least – about” A PACK A DAY. (sometimes it is significantly more.)

I never had any breathing problems growing up, but a couple of years ago, I started wheezing out of nowhere. I’ve seen a lung specialist and many other medical professionals about it. They say I’ve developed ASTHMA, but I know that they are being nice and not wanting to scare me. I like to believe that it is just Asthma and sometimes I do, but othertimes I think it is an early onset of COPD. For I have been smoking for about 11 YEARS.
- I also have a constant COUGH – in which sometimes I COUGH UP STUFF!
- I’m seriously mentally and physically addicted to smoking. On the physical side of things, I literally wake up in the middle of the night sometimes craving the niccotine to go through my veins, and once I get it in my bloodstream – its like HEROIN – I’M “SET”. On the mental side of things, I have a mental disorder which encompasses Serious Obsessive Thinking and Patterns. You can see how this will be a very difficult task for me. I CAN’T DO IT ALONE! “I WILL NEED GOD”!

Father of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, please assist me by taking away all cravings of niccotine and smoking. I have faith that you can if you want to.
Amen!

I had to give up a lot (bars, smoking sections, hanging out with some friends), but I gained a lot more (stamina, energy, lung capacity, sex appeal). After over 2 years, I’m confident that I will never touch a cigarete again.

Here I am, on my 100th first day of the quit program :) There’s been many relapses, but rationalize like my brain was built to and say that although there’s been a lot of ups and downs, the trend is generally headed towards the quitting. Why is it that my first day quitting is always a Monday? lol I know why.. Has anyone read Stumbling On Happiness? Interesting, all about the psychology of these 3lb wizards up in our head. It’s the book you read, not to find happiness, but when you haven’t found it and you are wondering why!

This morning my 2.5 year old son tried climbing the drawer and a 42 inch sony TV fell on his head along with all the drawers. When I got to my room I saw the TV on top of his little body.

I picked him up and call 911 while breaking in tears …..On our way to the hospital in the ambulance I promised God that if nothing happen to my son,I will give up my favorite habit..smoking.

After receiving the great news from the Doctors that the CT-Scan results did not show any internal bleeding, I walked to to the closest trash can and threw my favorite lighter an a new hard pack of Marlboro light while smiling to my wife. My son probably has saved my life today.