I quit smoking

[rebelcowboysnb]

I think everyone should quit. I smoked for 10 years have been quit longer than that but it makes me sick to see "we the people" letting the government use taxes to force people to fall in line. Sin taxes are just flat wrong.

 

[cackleberrycam]

Awesome!

 

[TTracy]

Congrats to everyone who has quit!! It has to be one of the hardest things I have ever done!
For years I always thought that cigarettes should be illegal, considering how bad they are for us. I understand that isn't the answer, just something I used to think to myself...as I was lighting up.
The taxes are crazy on cigs. But being an addiction they know we will pay it..I personally paid $57.00 a week for a carton of cigarettes for too many years to count.
Insurances don't want to cover items like chantix, patches, etc... BUT will cover x-rays, blood pressure meds, and other stuff caused by smoking.
Using the e-cig with my quit, I have discovered that a lot of young adults are buying these things to vape. These are kids who are not smokers. I think the e-cig is a FANTASTIC tool to help with quitting, but for a non smoker to start vapping worries me that they may "step up" to cigarettes.

As for me, my nose is "waking up", I am hyper-sensitive to smells. Its not uncommon for me to stop and ask "whats that smell? do you smell that?" My family just smiles and plays along...

 

[sourland]

 

[biga]

my dad smoked for 40 years. had open heart surgery.. kept smoking, had angioplasty... kept smoking, defibrillator installed in his chest... kept smoking. finally his wife bought him a session at a hypnotherapist. he made fun of it but went to the appointment anyways since it was paid for. he made fun of the hypnotherapist. told her she was a quack and that her crap wouldn't work on him. he said it took two weeks for him to realize that the pack of cigarettes sitting in his car's center console were the same ones from when he went to that therapist and that he hadn't smoked ONE SINGLE TIME since walking out of there. he made one follow up visit as a "reinforcement" of the first visit (that was all part of the original treatment plan). and he hasn't smoked once ever since (that was 10 years ago). the funniest part of it was that he walked out of that office and never even realized he quit smoking right then and there, it took him 2 weeks to figure it out.

 

[3goodeggs]

I know a lot of people who have had life long success with hypnosis. And ones that refuse to go because that quackery would not work on them.
Only one person that had quit for five years started back again.
We used it for test anxiety, and it worked well.

 

[TTracy]

So I just passed the 3 month mark!! Yeah for me!! lol
Still going strong! Hoping the best for all the others who have quit recently!!!

 

[sourland]

90 days +! Good for you. You will serve as an example of hope for others - it CAN be done.

 

[chickflick]

That's fantastic! Give yourself a pat on the back!

 

[3goodeggs]

Congratulations!