quitting again!

[nsd_user663_5197]

I have quit before for a month till I fell back in to the spiral, Have been smoking since I was 14, so about 10 years! I realised I needed to quit when I ran after my son and knelled over outta breath! Really need help this time!

[nsd_user663_3728]

Hi Littlejem

Well done deciding to quit a big decision to make soon you'll be able to run after your son without keeling over from lack of breath

You'll find all the help and support you need here promise

Below is my standard wlecome and advice post which I try and sned all new members

Welcome to the forum and well done on the decision to quit possibly one of the most important you will ever make and you will be losing nothing but you will regain control of your life and that has to be good

You will find all the help and support you need on here as we all help each other just like a family we are here for you every step of the way cheering the good days and sympathiseing with the bad but the good far outweigh the bad

Read the posts on here you will find a lot of tips and advice and in the signatures of a lot you will find links to other sites just click on them Here are 2 I find very good to start you off whyquit.com and woofmang.com Read, read and then read some more as the more you read and learn about why you smoked and about your addiction the easier your quit will be

Post often to let us know how you're doing, to rant, rave have a moan whatever you like pretty much anything goes on here OK

Love

Marg

[nsd_user663_5223]

My first day as well.

Technically I've not had a cigarette for over twenty-four hours as I had my last one last night at around six or seven p.m. I feel good. I have Wellbutrin to take, I can't remember what it's called when it's a stop smoking pill. Starts with a P. I can't handle the the whole dosage though, keeps me up at night.

I've been smoking off and on since I was sixteen, so that's fifteen years now. Nearly half my life. That makes me really sad. I don't like being addicted to something. I love smoking though. If I could invent a healthy cigarette, I'd never quit smoking. The fact is though, that my body hates me for it the whole time. I already feel better. I've battled with it the entire time I've smoked though. I'll smoke for six months and then quit for six months, and I've cycled like that over and over, smoking anywhere from a couple to ten a day for years and years now.

I guess that's better than smoking a pack a day the whole time with no breaks, but I'm over thirty now, and I need to face the fact that I'm doing something every single day that WILL make me incredibly sick, and then slowly kill me.

I'll miss smoking, I'm not going to lie, but I won't miss the way my lungs hurt and I can't breathe every single morning. I won't miss spending a minimum of twenty dollars a week (over a thousand dollars a year!? What?) on cigarettes, and I won't miss having to deal with the guilt I have all the time about the fact that I'm doing something incredibly hurtful to myself and just letting it happen.

Good luck to you on your first day. And to anyone else as well. I hope to hear from you about how you're handling it all.