Thanks Welsh
All the books I've read say 3 days, I'm going on day 5 this morning, and my body feels as though it is still leaving it. Just continue to have a slight knot in my stomach, kinda feels like a nervous feeling, but from experience i know it's the same feeling I'd get after not smoking for several hours.
Think of all the poor tobacco plants being cut down and do it for them.
Plant sensitivity training
Yeah, most of what I've read says that the physical withdrawal symptoms only persist for a few hours and after a day or two the nicotine is out of your system. Honestly, the first two weeks were a bit trying. I had to resort to literally telling myself out loud "you don't want a cigarette, you're not a smoker" when the cravings would get rough. Never broke down, never bought another pack. It only gets easier after the first couple of weeks. The thought of smoking a cigarette now just seems gross to me. I know that I personally went out of my way not to change my regular routine. I would still go to the same places, still have drinks, all the stuff that would normally make me want to smoke. I didn't want to change my lifestyle to the point that when I eventually went back to the bar or hung around smokers, I wouldn't go right back to smoking. Whatever works for you, stick with it.
I have been constantly telling myself I'm not a smoker, yesterday was actually the toughest out of the 5 days I've been a nonsmoker.
I have changed nothing about what my days are like, still drink my pot of coffee in the morning, and have mah beers in the evening. Was also huge to me to not change anything or try to substitute anything for my cigarettes.
Thanks mr, good to hear someone with the same 2 pack aday habit as I had can kick it
I'd be lying if the I said the price increases didn't affect my urge to quit. When I started smoking in the 90's in high school, a pack of cigarettes cost anywhere from $1.50-$2.00 a pack. I remember buying cartons of Marlboros at the Seminole reservation for $13. By the time I quit, a pack of Marlboros was around $6.50- $7.00. I couldn't even tell you how much a carton costs but I'm assuming at least $50. I started adding up all the money I was spending and it was ridiculous. Maybe half a pack a day during the week and a pack a day on the weekends. I was spending anywhere from $30 to $50 a week on cigarettes. I could finance a cheap car for what I was spending on smoking.
Between buying cigarettes for myself and my wife, I was spending approximately 20 bucks a day...
Hi DEMO any update's?
I've roughly what i'd spend on cigarette's over the 30+ years that i'd smoked, and it was a scarey amount.
Thanks to the poster's that replied to my question regarding the cravings, i was always curious if there was a medically accepted time period or whether it varied. For me it was around a week - ten days, then it became a mental battle.
I get asked now and then how long do they last and i always reply 'it varies' but sadly some people want to know exactly, but i'm not them.
I still get those days when i 'need' a cigarette but thankfully those days are few and far between, and i don't want to regress and throw away all my hard work in stopping.
Good luck to all that are trying to rid themselves of this habit, Winner's are Loser's that keep trying!!
well i smoked for 28 years and since monday i have stopped cold turkey , i didn't think i could ever quit
but monday i started hurting , went to the ER , they did an EKG and airlifted me to another hospital after
the stabilized me after i crashed and had an NDE experience for 30 seconds. , and i immediately had a cath
done with a stent and a angioplasty in OM1 and OM2.
im 41 and now a heart patient , im 180 lbs and 5'8" , i cook my own meals atleast 6 days a week and when i eat out
it's usually chinese , i don't eat hamburgers or any fast food except for maybe 2 or 3 times a year (yes...seriously)
i could work our some more , but the shifts i work it's hard to motivate myself to do that..
most of my friends and family were highly surprised to hear that i had a cardiac event.
so you see you heart doesn't care if your 20 or 60....
i do know the whole experience made me quit smoking....i do not even want a cigarette anymore,
that experience was scary enough to set me straight.
Hang in there Demo. After 45 years of smoking I didn't think I could do it either, until I was given an oxygen bottle to pack around. A little late but I quit and you can too.
Only update is I'msstill trying, for whatever reason I simply can't get my brain on the same page as my body to quit. I know I need to quit, the constant coughing and occasional chest pain now are telling me this. I willnnever stop tryin , I have at least cut back from the more than 2 packs a day, to not allowing myself more than 1 pack a day.
Now, I'd suggest joining a gym. When I quit, I didn't realize how much I'd fill the void with snacking. Not much at first but over time I started to put on weight. Couple that with the fact that I wasn't pumping my body full of a stimulant (nicotine) every hour or so and I put on about 20 lbs. Took me a bit to eventually get back to my pre-quitting weight. Although it was much easier to go to the gym and lose those extra pounds than to make the initial decision to quit smoking and stick with it.
