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when will it go away. Its been almost 6 days. Symptoms are heartburn, aches and pain, bloating, gas, cant eat, brain fog and headache. When will this end!!!!!
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Originally Posted by ttz
If you need something to do to help curb the craving of lighting up do some nice late night reading here...
thanks for this great site. I am reading it, 2 weeks now no butts!!! Ok, George Harrison on that web site, ummm he was my favorite beatle, I did not know he was a smoker. Sad, lost a lot of good ones too young. Thanks your great.
I was looking for some inspiration on here for quitting smoking and this thread has been real helpful! I had quit before a year ago after reading The Easy Way to Quit Smoking and was successfull until I recently started again. I let my brother borrow the book and he lives out of state so I don't have the book to reference back to. I think somewhere in the book it had said under no circumstances, do not lend the book to someone?? I could be wrong but it was a crucial tool for helping me quit last time. I guess I will have to pick up another copy! Today is day #4 being smoke free....hoping I can finally kick this awful addiction even in the midst of a stressful time after losing my job. There will be stressful times though all through life so I guess if I can do it now, then I will be able to handle many situations without my "crutch"!
stevemorse- how is your progress coming along??? Have not seen any new posts on here....
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when will it go away. Its been almost 6 days. Symptoms are heartburn, aches and pain, bloating, gas, cant eat, brain fog and headache. When will this end!!!!!
I broke the habit by jogging 3 to 4 times per week. At the end of each jog, I would not crave a cigarrette for hours.
The longer I jogged, the longer it would take for me to crave a smoke. After 3 months of this I was able quit without any major withdrawl symptoms.
I was looking for some inspiration on here for quitting smoking and this thread has been real helpful! I had quit before a year ago after reading The Easy Way to Quit Smoking and was successfull until I recently started again. I let my brother borrow the book and he lives out of state so I don't have the book to reference back to. I think somewhere in the book it had said under no circumstances, do not lend the book to someone?? I could be wrong but it was a crucial tool for helping me quit last time. I guess I will have to pick up another copy! Today is day #4 being smoke free....hoping I can finally kick this awful addiction even in the midst of a stressful time after losing my job. There will be stressful times though all through life so I guess if I can do it now, then I will be able to handle many situations without my "crutch"!
stevemorse- how is your progress coming along??? Have not seen any new posts on here....
There is a PDF of this book online, do a search, or goto quitsmokingmessageboard.com and look it up there.
I had my ex read that book and it did not help her at all. But I do hear it has helped a lot. Getting mad, and reading up on this senseless addiction is the best way to go though! Goto whyquit.com and do just that...
Keep it up! I remember feeling horrible for at least 3 weeks. I was so tired and one day just started crying and couldn't stop. I think it was all the guck working its way out of my system. Three things helped me: 1) I took a McDonald's straw and cut it down to the size of a cigarette. It had the right feel and weight of a cigarette plus I could inhale air through it and exhale. I carried one around for a long time and would have a few "puffs" when the cravings were bad. 2) rather than trying not to think of smoking whenever the thought of it crossed my mind I used that as an opportunity to retrain my thoughts. I would say to myself: "I am GLAD I am not a smoker. I am proud of myself for quitting smoking." This was a lot easier for me than trying to not think about smoking when it was all I thought about. 3) Orange juice. For some reason, a glass of OJ helped the cravings. Good Luck. I know you can do it!
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2) rather than trying not to think of smoking whenever the thought of it crossed my mind I used that as an opportunity to retrain my thoughts. I would say to myself: "I am GLAD I am not a smoker. I am proud of myself for quitting smoking." This was a lot easier for me than trying to not think about smoking when it was all I thought about.
This is the mindset I am trying to keep....it has worked so far. I always felt embarrassed for being a smoker to be honest. Most of my friends do not smoke and the ones that did, quit. It made me feel like an outsider when we would go out and I went outside to have a smoke. I felt like I had some sort of disability, which I guess being chemically dependent on a substance is a disability to a degree. I know that I will feel so much better about myself if I can finally kick this and concentrate on that instead of the instant gratification that the ciggs give you.
Give it time...when you think about how long you smoked, it takes time to de-tox.
I promise you, the day is coming when you'll wake up with no morning cough, no fuzzy tongue coated with brown gunk and your lungs will be able to pull in big gulps of fresh air and your clothes and hair and abode and car won't stink of stale smoke...and you'll be amazed that you're going can go whole days, weeks, even, without once thinking about polluting your lungs with a cigarette...and you'll be so darn proud of yourself for giving yourself the gift of life.
I promise you, that day is just around the corner...keep up the good fight. You can do this.
Drink lots of fresh water and take some vitamin C and eat fresh foods with lots of fruits and vegetables. Be very kind to yourself right now...
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