I am on my final quit! This is it. This has to be the swan song. If I fall, so be it, but I am really giving this one the honor it needs.
I have been smoking since I was 12. Picked up in the house from my parents cigarettes. Big house, they never noticed.
I have had many vain attempts at quitting. I am a sober alcoholic, 15 years of continuos sobriety.
I am a recent cancer survivor, last chemo May 2010. Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma DLBCL. I am fine. Some of the drugs I was given during my chemotherapy had an interaction with my attempting to quit smoking. I got 3 smoke free months last year but the headaches were chronic from the drug that no longer had the nicotine.
So I finished up getting off all the drugs last year and I am trying again.
This time is a keeper.
I am pretty solid right now, but I would like to make friends for emergencies for each other.
So Hi! Day 23. I am American so I hesitated signing up, but one planet right?
Lots of love!
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What an incredible story, so happy for you that you beat cancer! And that you still have the energy to now give up smoking. You're obviously a fighter so quitting should go smoothly for you.
from one American to another.. This forum is great!! I had my thoughts of "This is a UK forum, should I sign up?" but, honestly, there is not any forum on the internet like this one. The people here are GREAT and you will be showered with support.
Your story already is an amazing tale. Beating cancer is just, wow, I can't even imagine.
I am glad that you have taken the plunge and have decided to try to quit cigarettes once and for all. We WILL ALL SUPPORT you until you got this quit underneath control and you have the nicodemon underneath your foot at its throat. :cool:
You are incredible, and pride yourself of such. You are not just a smoker with an addiction, although we have our history and resultant pain to quit, but you have had some hurdles thrown in for good measure that any mortal would dread to thread!
You have addressed this addiction and decided to stop. Excellent, good on you. Take one day at a time, a day over and done is a day won. And you are probably recollecting how hard it was. So if you relapse, you have to go through it all again. Do you want to?! Feel immense pride in your strength, your resolve. It is a gift of courage/strength you awarded yourself, don't strip yourself of it. Stop and speak to yourself, seriously. It sounds silly, but YOU and only YOU can respect yourself and do good by you. You will prevail, keep the mindset right!
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