I Quit Smoking

Each person who quits makes that path that much easier to travel for the next person who wants to go there. Make no mistake tobacco is a deadly addiction. When I quit I already knew it was possible because I had seen other people do it. Simply knowing that it is possible makes it a viable choice. Yes withdrawal is hard but it does not last forever. Nothing beats the power of example.

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will999 · 70-79, M

Hello MissingNotes. You and I are stronger than we know. Tobacco targets receptors in our brain that regulate the flow of natural feel good chemicals like endorphin and serotonin. It tells our brain to stop making these natural chemicals which everybody has and everybody needs in their body. When the counterfeit chemical is taken away, nicotine from tobacco, the cravings that we experience are our body demanding the natural analgesic chemicals which tobacco told our brain to stop producing. Our brain did not stop producing them overnight and it will not start producing them again overnight but it does respond, eventually. Time is the ingredient which most people fail to take into account when reckoning with tobacco addiction. Rightly understood, cravings associated with withdrawal are not bad. After a period of time our brain responds to the cravings by switching the flow of natural feel good chemicals back on again. In my case this took about a year. I would fall asleep at night with a craving and dream that I was having a smoke. when the dreams stopped so did the cravings. That is when I knew I had beaten it.