After thirty seven long years I have been smoke free for just over a month now. Has it been easy?
In my 37 years of smoking I have only decided to quick on at best 4 occasions. two were during my pregnancies of my sons. and the other couple of times was when I had been the but of many family conversations over the year's from my kids and some of my siblings/family members and friends. The big question has always been? When are you gonna stop smoking??????
So both of the other times was because someone else wanted me to quit, and I on the other hand was in not ready to stop. The truth of the matter is , is that I really enjoyed a good smoke its kinda like good love making. Yeap pun intended. lol
This time was very different. How so because it's something I wanted to do I made it up in my mind that I was ready to quit. So for the first 3 weeks I used Chantix as I had done so in the past. What I did learn previously from using it, is that with your combined effort of will and chantix you can be smoke free. To me It works very Well.
By the third week I started to feel like I really didn't need the Chantix any longer not because it wasn't helping but because I didn't want to have something else that would allow me to be dependent on it something else yet again. Thirty Seven years a is long enough to be a slave to something that is really bad for you.
I won't say that I don't get urges and have a its a "cigarette moment". Yes I certainly do.
So, in my fourth week I went to the Hookah Shop and purchase myself an e cigarette in apple oil vapors. and it really got me past the point of I want a cigarette urge. Now I am just a few days out with regard to giving it up as well (e vapors) but what I can say is that it has made my transition that much more smooth in terms of kicking the thirty seven year yr bout with smoking.
What I can say is that the last straw for me was the smell. It was really starting to get to me even after all these years. I hated that God awful smell. So what smoking element did I use to kick the habit. In the end it was the smell of it... I used that element to my cause me to give it up!. I made that the reason It would work for me..Quest what it worked.!!!
But the most important aspect of it all is that I must give all my credit to God, I asked God to take the taste out of my mouth- the thought out of my mind and let me move forward with out this old habit. God has given me favor on this one I no longer crave cigarettes at all. Amen.
(Has it been easy) That is a two sided coin
Why because although in studies it often times will say that cigarettes are a very hard to habit to kick, and mainly because of the drug called nicotine. in my opinion It is as addictive as any other drugs like crack cocaine heroin methamphetamine and so on and so forth. But just like with any drug the drive and determination must first begin with the user of said drug.
o for this reason alone is why it became so easy to me. I am now nicotine free and loving it. I can breath and my food taste so much better. You don't really realize that you give up a lot of your senses of smell and taste when you smoke for such a long period of time.
For me I have a multitude of illness and many are not in my control. But giving up on the cigarettes has always been in my control and my reach..
Debra Mitchell
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