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I have my own story to share with you, and I hope it inspires you or helps you in some small way :)
In late 2014 a friend I used to work with says to me one day, "hey I'm thinking about quitting smoking" and it put a bug in my ear, because right before that I saw a sign for "Free Smoking Cessation classes". Told my friend but he wasn't able to attend. So I figured, okay I'm going to go for myself then.
I had been a smoker since about 1996, not long after I met my GF. She was a smoker but I wasn't. So I figured, oh let me help you light your cigarette and before you know it, I was a smoker. I smoked for 18 years straight, then I developed a cough followed by phlegm, and this lasted about 6 months. Apparently I was getting the first thing of Emphysema.
Anyway, I went to the first class, had plane tickets prior to all of this and told the instructor I'd miss the next class but it was no big deal, I would just come back to the 3rd class. So on the airplane, on the way back home I thought to myself, "Do I really want to go back to this class?" One part of me said, "Nahhh it's fine, don't go back" and another part of me said, "Yea but you just got laid off recently, so no job, no income, this weird cough, you probably should go back" So on the plane I decided to go back and I am glad I did go back.
My quit date was April 24th 2015, I have been 100% smoke free for 8 years. No cigarette, no vape, no e-cig, no cigar, I haven't inhaled a product that requires a lighter in 8 whole years. Now, this stuff stays with you. Constant dreams of smoking, instructor says to ignore, and he's right. I was walking out to my car after work one day, saw a fresh, unlit cigarette on the ground. I was 馃 this close to picking it up, and smoking it. I walked past it, and sat in my car and literally for a good minute and a half at least, contemplated going back out and smoking that cigarette. But in the end I started up the car, and drove home.
For me some days are a struggle. I have siblings who still smoke, so being in their cars is constant second hand smoke. So while I've quit smoking, whenever I am in their vehicles and they smoke, I get the second hand, which is worse than smoking, but I haven't touched a cigarette in 8 years.
The steps to quitting is easy if you break it down into stages:
1) Set a quit date. This is the day you no longer smoke cigarettes or vapes or anything else.
2) Get your quit aid. This is your crutch that helps ween you off the nicotine. Since it was a free class I took, we got a months free of quit aid. I only needed a 2mg lozenge. Then I followed the instructions the instructor gave on how to use the lozenges, and within 3 weeks I was no longer addicted to nicotine.
3) Once you are no longer addicted to nicotine, you need to find where you can best focus because for me, I went right to junk food for 2 full weeks. That eventually calmed down, and I spent time rearranging my room.
I hope my story helps, and I wish you the best of luck :)
In late 2014 a friend I used to work with says to me one day, "hey I'm thinking about quitting smoking" and it put a bug in my ear, because right before that I saw a sign for "Free Smoking Cessation classes". Told my friend but he wasn't able to attend. So I figured, okay I'm going to go for myself then.
I had been a smoker since about 1996, not long after I met my GF. She was a smoker but I wasn't. So I figured, oh let me help you light your cigarette and before you know it, I was a smoker. I smoked for 18 years straight, then I developed a cough followed by phlegm, and this lasted about 6 months. Apparently I was getting the first thing of Emphysema.
Anyway, I went to the first class, had plane tickets prior to all of this and told the instructor I'd miss the next class but it was no big deal, I would just come back to the 3rd class. So on the airplane, on the way back home I thought to myself, "Do I really want to go back to this class?" One part of me said, "Nahhh it's fine, don't go back" and another part of me said, "Yea but you just got laid off recently, so no job, no income, this weird cough, you probably should go back" So on the plane I decided to go back and I am glad I did go back.
My quit date was April 24th 2015, I have been 100% smoke free for 8 years. No cigarette, no vape, no e-cig, no cigar, I haven't inhaled a product that requires a lighter in 8 whole years. Now, this stuff stays with you. Constant dreams of smoking, instructor says to ignore, and he's right. I was walking out to my car after work one day, saw a fresh, unlit cigarette on the ground. I was 馃 this close to picking it up, and smoking it. I walked past it, and sat in my car and literally for a good minute and a half at least, contemplated going back out and smoking that cigarette. But in the end I started up the car, and drove home.
For me some days are a struggle. I have siblings who still smoke, so being in their cars is constant second hand smoke. So while I've quit smoking, whenever I am in their vehicles and they smoke, I get the second hand, which is worse than smoking, but I haven't touched a cigarette in 8 years.
The steps to quitting is easy if you break it down into stages:
1) Set a quit date. This is the day you no longer smoke cigarettes or vapes or anything else.
2) Get your quit aid. This is your crutch that helps ween you off the nicotine. Since it was a free class I took, we got a months free of quit aid. I only needed a 2mg lozenge. Then I followed the instructions the instructor gave on how to use the lozenges, and within 3 weeks I was no longer addicted to nicotine.
3) Once you are no longer addicted to nicotine, you need to find where you can best focus because for me, I went right to junk food for 2 full weeks. That eventually calmed down, and I spent time rearranging my room.
I hope my story helps, and I wish you the best of luck :)
