Smoking..... Please help......
I would like all the people who have posted lung pictures in the past and who have posted the benefits of quitting smoking to please post them again.
The posts where you said the benefits when you quit, in hours and days.
I was already to quit the other day. I had had what I thought was my last smoke. Then my beautiful Yellow Bird died. I went and bought cigarettes.
Most of my friends and family were so very sad to hear of Yellow Bird's illness and subsequent passing. Yet, her loss stressed me beyond belief and I smoked.
So, I have one cigarette left. I can no longer use stress as a reason because I will always have stress.
I want to wake up tomorrow and be smoke free.
I need your help. Continue to post gross pictures. Continue to tell me the benefits. I quit for 14 years. I have now smoked for 2 years and two months. Please feel free to gross me out beyond belief.
I hate to admit it but I need all of your support. I have tried in the past two years to quit. Have made it to 5 days. Then started again.
PLEASE HELP ME!
I want to do it cold turkey. I do not want to use the patch or any drugs. I quit cold turkey years ago. I have to do it that way now!
I so want to be a nonsmoker!
Capture, you are the best on finding the gross stuff. Post it. BTW, I loved your Christmas card. Thank you so much!
Hugs to you all and Veg on!
Working on my path....
Love Di
Di,
I was lucky enough to make it through the pressures of high school without picking up cigarettes like so many friends did. So, I don't know how to help you quit. All I can say is that in order to never start, I took it one day at a time. Actually, I have quit other things that way, too. Just take every moment on its own. Don't worry about an hour from now or tomorrow or next year. For this moment, just don't smoke.
*hugs*
I am really pulling for you. Smoking causes so much damage and it's so disgusting. I feel really strongly that people should not smoke. You're a wonderful person and I would hate for cigarettes to take your life away.
Good luck, Di!
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http://www.deerparkfamilydoctors.com/images/smokersbody.jpg
http://www.stopwithchantix.com/images/smoking_effects.jpg
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If you quit, you'll smell better. It's the truth.
think about who would take care of your pets if you were to get sick from all this smoking.. and do you smoke in the house? if you do - consider the damage you could be doing to their little bird lungs with second hand smoke. quit for all of you!
...NWS.
Hi Di,
I'm sorry about Yellow Bird. The death of a pet is never easy and adding the stress of quitting, plus all of the feelings of failure associated with not being able to must be an incredible burden for you right now. I know it also must be frustrating knowing that you've quit before and you are having trouble this time, doing something that you don't remember being all that hard to do years ago.
Along with all of the physical damage that smoking does, don't discount what it does to your spirit. Constantly tearing yourself down for smoking. Embarrassment at being seen with a cigarette by someone who didn't know you smoked. Catching that smell in your hair when you wake up in the morning to remind you all over again.
I quit in August of 2007 and stayed quit until February 2008. I quit again 17 days ago, so I feel ya. I really do. The worst part of failing at a quit is that you feel so helpless, like "I take care of my body; I eat well; I do yoga; I excercize, yet I continue to smoke. If it were a person in my life that was inflicting this kind of damage to my body, mind and spirit, I'd have shown him/her the door years ago." Yet you still smoke. I get it. I gave up booze, too. Not b/c I thought I had a problem with it, but I could see a problem developing.
I could not do it cold turkey. I cannot give you advise with that. I can tell you Chiantix works like you wouldn't believe. I smoked my last cigarette on January 9th, 2009 and I cannot ever smoke another one. Bonus: I am doing a lot of push-ups right now to keep from killing those around me, so between that and the calorie savings from quitting drinking, I should be able to cram my ass back in to some old clothes by summer.
I wish you well and the happiest thoughts I can muster. You can do it. You have done it before. While you were quit for all those years, did you ever say to anyone "You can do it, when you are ready"?
Lots of hugs,
Liz
My dad passed away due to lung cancer in 2007. It was horrible what it all did to him.
He was weak, had to get on chemo and radiation, forgot things daily, couldnt even go to the bathroom by himself at a certain point.
He did quit smoking years before, but i guess it was too late for him already at that point.
The cancer got into his brain, which was the big problem.
He had to start going to get his lungs drained once a week it got so bad.
Pictures along the way.
The month he started feeling bad (before we found out the cause)
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g260/SawahFace/Picture4.png
After surgery a few months into it
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g260/SawahFace/Picture2-23.png
And a few months after the surgery..
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g260/SawahFace/Picture8-5.png
Bleh.
I know you'll be way better off if you quit.
Its crazy how big of a toll smoking can take on a person, i see it as basically paying to kill yourself, or at least make yourself worse off in the long run.
((((DI)))) :-* So sorry about your Yellow Bird.
All i can say is, think of this as a new year, take a breath (literally, and figuratively) and tell yourself that you can do it. This is a start for you to start taking your health into your hands, and deciding to be healthy! There may be things you cant control, but this is certainly one of those things you can!
Dont be afraid of getting help...be it patches, gum or helplines AND us....
you wiill need all the support and tools out there.
I can say that it feels sooo much better NOT being a *SMOKER*!!
Good thing only 2 years smoking this time around should be a breeze.
I smoked for 17 years and gave it up cold May 19,2007
Plus is you will feel better and smell better.
underSARAH that cancer is a hard thing to deal with. Had to go through it with my brother a few years ago.Thankfully my brother only suffered a few months before he passed.
Main reason I stopped.
I heard that it gets harder and harder to quit each time you quit... but on average it takes like 7 times to quit. So, just keep trying! If first you don't succeed, try try again.... and eventually, you'll make it. Never give up!
I'm a little late on this, but I'll add my two cents. I quit smoking on Aug. 3, 2007. I decided that by smoking, I was a huge hypocrite. You know, I was in the same boat as many previous posters...I ate healthy, did yoga and meditation 4-5 times a week, and was in the process of going vegan for environmental reasons. How the hell could I say I was an environmentalist and support the tobacco industry?!? Plus, it was the only thing I did that I was embarrassed of. Anything else--I don't care if people know. But I felt really ashamed when people were like "oh, you smoke?"
I just basically set goals. I set a quit date, and told all of my friends. I knew that if I didn't follow through, they would give me shit for it. Finding replacements in "peak smoking time" (i.e. morning, after meals, car, phone, etc.) is key. I actually had to stop talking on the phone on my patio, because previously, everytime I went out to the patio, I smoked cigarettes. I've never been a big gum chewer, but keeping gum and herbal cough drops (I love those) in the car helped too.
Anyway, this is becoming much more than 2 cents, so I'll close it out. I will say though, that even after nearly a year and a half, I still think about cigarettes at some point every day. About 3 months ago, I was having a particularly rough day and I pulled into the gas station to fill up and it was ALL I COULD DO not to go into the store and buy a pack. But I reminded myself of how far I've come, how much better I feel, and how embarrassed I would be if someone saw me! ::)
Good Luck Di! You can totally do it this time!!! :flower: