Help Ely Quit Smoking

[Rhage]

It's rough. I had a habit at work. Smoke on the way to work. Smoke at 11am. Smoke at 1pm on my way to the supermarket. Sometimes I smoke at 3pm or wait till I get off and smoke at 4.

So 11am used to be a work goal. "When it's 11 I get to smoke!" I can still take a break, but it's not the same and I just work through it.

My lungs hurt. Been coughing a lot. Been jittery, quick to anger, very irritable. Been eating terribly unhealthy foods, which surprisingly helps.

I had the same work routine, and watching all of my co-workers go on their smoke breaks and stay behind was killer. The best thing for me was getting a new routine. I would save a specific work thing for that time exactly. Or get up and walk around the office so that I at least felt like I was doing something.

Your lungs are going to ache for awhile. For about a week it hurt for me to even breath. It does get better though, and when you can climb some steps and not be winded, you'll feel better.

The coughing sucks too. For about 2 weeks I was coughing up this blackish-brown stuff, and that's just gross. But again, it gets better, I promise.

Keep up the good work.

[darkwolf176]

Have you tried counselling?

[Cego_Colher]

but don't worry that icky brown stuff you'll cough is a bunch of the tar and crap comming out of your lungs. I'm sure you know that, thought

[Eilonnwy]

The cravings are going down now that it has been three days, but my breathing is being problematic now. :/ And coughing a lot.

[AnunZi]

Breathing issues and coughing are common side effects of quitting. Also expect severe pains in your chest, arms and back. I’ve quit smoking twice so far for a few months. I know how it feels! It does get a lot easier after the first week or two so just you hang in there the worst of the craving should be over now

[Eilonnwy]

Yeah, my lungs do hurt. Doesn't help that I have asthma. :/

[AnunZi]

Look on the bright side hun, they hurt because they are repairing themselves after years of being abused! Just hang in there, think long term. Your adding years to your life by stopping now. Think positive!

[Eilonnwy]

It's been a full week now. Cravings are still there but nowhere near as bad. Now the cravings come when I do something that world normally involve a cigarette, like walking to the gym or after eating dinner.

The one downside to not smoking is I don't talk to my mother as much. Her room was the only smoking room because she smoked and I always went there to have a cigarette so I could watch TV but also it would allow me to talk with my mom. :/ Now I don't want to go in there because it smells like smoke and there's smoke hanging in the air if she's smoking.

[Tiberius]

You'll just have to learn how to talk to your mother like the rest of us non-smokers do

[Eilonnwy]

Lol, damnit!