Beging cross and pleased with myself all in one go...

[nsd_user663_5137]

Right so i am a little...ok a lot....irritated with myself.

How i managed to allow myself to smoke for so long even whilst my health was failing. Why did i do that?!

Anyway i am on step two of the patches and doing just fine. I have been keeping up my exercise coping with the moods and other symptoms of quitting (wind being just one!!). But my chest seems to be struggling to heal which is why i am so annoyed with myself. I still have moments when i go blue around the mouth and have to take more medication than i had hoped.

On the other side i am so pleased with myself for stopping when i did. I just went to the gym and ran 5k without the problems i had when i was smoking. I drove home with plenty of air left in my lungs to sing along to a song. I took a shower and put on the jumper i had on earlier which smelt of perfume not nicotine. And finally i am thinking about all the money i have saved, not just by not buying fags but from not having to change and wash my clothing twice a day (because of the smoke) so i am saving on washing powder, electricity etc.

There must be other asthmatic quitters out there, how are you all dealing with it? I honestly thought that giving up would be the end of my problems.....seems not aye!!! But at least we can say we smell better even if we cant breath as well as others!

And whilst i am in the mood, whats with the patches!!! Step two patches are soooo tiny, will step three be finger nail size?!!!

[nsd_user663_4990]

Sounds like you've had a 'woke up and smelt the roses' moment. Yeah we tend to take our health a bit for granted and presume we'll be just fine all the time.. trouble is.. it takes ill health to remind you just how things can be if you don't look after yourself properly.

Stopping smoking is one of those ways you can help yourself alot and you are realising it more and more now as the weeks go by.

I don't suffer from asthma, but i think if i did smoking would be high on my list of things to avoid so you are doing good to be quitting. Hard as it can be.. stick at it.

Don't over-do the exercise just yet though, you can run the marathon next year

[nsd_user663_5031]

Hi Squid,

Your beating yourself up and you can run 5k? I havent even tried that yet!

5k is more than most in society can run, so i'd be proud of that myself.

Paul

[nsd_user663_3728]

Hi Squid

Wow you can run 5 k already that's great well done don't beat yourself up you're doing just fine and already your health has improved

It will improve even more yet as your body continues to heal from the abuse you gave it as a smoker but it takes a little while

Just keep going it just keeps on getting better the further you go

Love

Marg xxxx