smokingcessation

I seem to have finally quit smoking. Let’s hope it sticks. It’s been two weeks. Here’s to many more. #smokingcessation

I Want...Instead
I want to feel happy and satisfied when I smell clean air in my car and home instead of stale smoke.
I want to enjoy talking to people instead of seeing them back away because I smell like cigarettes.
I want to sleep well instead of coughing all night.
I want to work in my yard and make it pretty instead of gasping for breath whenever I try to do anything.
I want to hear laughter and giggles from my grandchildren instead of hearing them tell me they wish I didn’t smoke.
I want to be a good example for my family and friends instead of an embarrassment.
I want to feel good about myself instead of ashamed.
I want to live to see my grandchildren grow up instead of die too soon and they not remember me.
I fought cancer...twice...and won! Fighting this cigarette addiction simply cannot be harder than that!

Follow-up: I won, again! Cigarette FREE for four months so far and FEELING GOOD!

i'm finding it really hard to quit smoking and can be very impulsive with nicotine in cigarettes and also Nicorette Quickmist mouth sprays. I have Asperger Syndrome.#quittingsmokingwithasd
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So, is there anyone up here that is smoking even though their health is already compromised in other ways? Like who really wants to quit but just can’t seem to be able to? #smokingcessation #Smoke #TheChainsmokers #LungDisease #Sarcoidosis

I've been taking champixfor three weeks, and quit smoking 10 days ago. My work supervisor and collaborator has too--also with champix as an aid, though she is a week or so ahead of me.  Both of us are experiencing issues with anger, hate, depression, detachment.  She actually seems unrecognizable as the person I know and usually love.

There is actual and real friction and problems in our organization, and between us, that have been escalating since before this mood altering medication.  Its just now things seem like they are getting worse, much worse, fast.  Challenges I want to rise to now seem like unforgivable affronts from shitty people that I need to protect myself from and should quit/escape.  All kinds of old stuff in me gets triggered into overdrive--which further reduces my ability to make sound judgments or even my perceptions.  Like any kind of anger or threat, my brain gives me a pressing sense of urgency to "do something about this".

All of it makes me feel fearful, mistrustful, confused and helpless. a major CPTSD outbreak.

Reminder One:  Do my best to not make any big decisions right now.
ReminderTwo: I care about the people I care about and will treat them with love and respect regardless of how I feel or what a conflict looks like.
Reminder Three: Like any time of symptoms, my thoughts are not always trustworthy right now.  Let them come and go without attaching too much importance or meaning to them.
Reminder Four: There are no heroes or villains, just all of us together.
Reminder Five: Everyone is going through things.  Their stuff matters.  Their stuff matters to me.

#DailyReminder #champixiswack #Depression #smokingcessation