Quitting Smoking

[justahobby]

Hi everyone. My name is Justin and I am a smokaholic and boy is it tough to quit! I never knew! That's to say the least! I had the mind over body willpower, but noone ever told me about the pain that follows quitting.Throat hairs, cilia, filter out debri from air. Smokers burn up the hairs with every puff. Now that I have quit, the hairs are growing back and this causes much irritation. It's a guaranteed infection, from what I have read. These problems and new problems persist for up to a year (not looking foward to seeing everything I cough up in the upcoming weeks) and then health and prosperity will be the horizon.I have been cold turkey for three days now and have been experiencing side effects. First day, I got a sore throat. That night my lymph nod swelled. After the third day I have head aches that could crack a coconut shell, lymph nodes the size of a coconut and tonsils that look like a lost piece of chewing gum. Whew. I can soundly say I am commited to quitting. If I turn back now I know what I have to face the next time I quit. I have found vitamin C, gurgling warm salt water (but not ur fishies') and motrin 800 mg helps. So anybody that is quitting I recommend going shopping before hand because cravings are the least important worries. Any other tips are welcome. Best of Luck to any Quitters!

[jc]

Good for you and good luck. My father quit smoking the hard way. He had a heart attack and spent a month in ICU. I never knew about the cilia and lymph node problems associated with quitting. That is pretty amazing. I have heard that people who quit smoking find themselves feeling ill when they are around smoke after they quit.

[JimD]

It'll be worth it in the long run, trust me. I've been smoke free now for almost five years (Feb 24th at 3:27 pm 2004) and I'll never go back. What they say is true though, once a smoker, always a smoker, whenever Im around it, I still feel the urge to light up but I never do. I look at not smoking as a habit just like smoking, you just have to condition your body to get used to it. It will get easier, I guarantee it. Keep it up, never give up and all the best of luck to ya!

[RayAllen]

I never smoked and never will, but congradualate you on your quitting. I may not have smoked but my father smoked and I was always around it. He started at 13 and stopped flat out cold turkey about 4 years ago. No gum, No patches or any of those products. Just Stopped. Good Luck

[g-ray]

trying to quit my self havent found anything that works for me

[tony]

congrats and good luck!!!

be careful taking 800 mg motrins though, could cause worse problems than a headache down the road

[Submariner]

Quit twenty years ago cold turkey. JimD is right, I still feel the urge around other smokers. Used to smoke a pack a day for three years. Besides marrying my wife it was the best thing I ever did.

[DrMark]

I see the damage smoking does everyday, believe me you are doing the right thing.

[Mr Cob]

I smoked for about 10 years at least a pack a day and I drank my fair share. I struggled with quiting smoking for close to a year. The problem for me is that I was still going to bars and sorrounding myself with people who were smokers. Plus drinking and smoking go hand and hand for those that have juggled both.

So, 5 years ago I decided to drop both , cold turkey. Quiting both pretty much kept me from the influencial temptations.

You are making a wise decission and it gets much easier as time passes. Congrats! I can't stand the smell of smoke now, and I never realized how stinky I was until I quit and that smell was no longer a part of me.

I did start drinking sodas and coffee to help ease the cravings of both smoking and drinking...

Now I'm addicted to caffiene...but that's another thread.....I have an addictive personality...



It's been 5 hours, 32 minutes and 50 seconds since I last starred into my reef...

[Richard]

trying to quit my self havent found anything that works for me

You should quit cold turkey, just get through one day then another then another. The over the counter and prescription stuff doesn't work very well. This site has lots of information for you but here's an article about cold turkey versus other methods.

http://whyquit.com/whyquit/LinksCAids.html