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Ripped up the cigarettes TODAY

Hi every one, i have just quit smoking all of 5 minutes ago, and iam so sick of being sick! i can't believe how stupid i was too start smoking in the first place!!!
Well it's going to be a hard journey at first but totall worth it for my Health. I have been sick with a cold for days now and being sick with a cold as made me realise just how much smoking as inpacted on my lungs and health.
Every morning in the past few years i wake up coughing and i sound like a dog barking, it's really starting to scare the crap out of me. Sometimes i cough during the day and i am so used to coughing i hardly even notice it, until someone at work asks "Are you sick with a cold?" (which i am not most the time)
I get really embarresed when i am at a work meeting in a silent room and i start coughing uncontrollably, So today i decided to rip up the 10 cigerettes that i had left and turn over a new leaf.
I would GREATLY appreciate if you guys could follow my journey and add comments, also shock and disturbe me with lots of facts, that will help it hit home more in my mind that i am doing the right thing!!!
Thanks for reading.
Hey i do have patches handy just has a back up, if things get really tough, and i bought some Normal Chewing gum" Thanks for all the comments.

i know what your talking about, that cough that would not go away i was the same i have been smoke free for 45 days now and i don't cough any more it's great so goodluck with your quit

well done,
you really have to want to do it, good luck
hey just wondering do you have a back up plan for when the cravings hit, ie patches or lozengers, gum or anything
i use both
my husband used vitamin c tablets every time he craved.
its been 2 days for me, cravings havnt been too bad so far, and the lozengers under the tounge ( yuk ) seem to take just enough of the edge off for me to push through the rest of the craving i read these stories and see others struggle with the cravings i mean really struggle so im thinking the are yet to really hit me
good luck and keep reading, others seem to help