Ready to do this!
40 years of smoking, last 5 years spent everyday hating the habit and ashamed of myself for not stopping. Ready now. I have started the last 12 days of my journey with coffee and the amazing stories on this web site. Never joined a group forum before but I think this is the place for me. Thanks for the honest stories and for being there. Will share my journey in hopes of helping others just starting out! 14 days in - hard as can be - but I do not want this addiction any longer!
Great start! Its not going to be easy, but I am sure you can do this... By the way it actually does get better... thats at least what I experienced after 1 month...
Hi!
Im new to joining forums too. I have a bad habit of doing things with all guns blazin then slowly creep back into my old ways. Figure joining a group and being able to see other people dealing with the same things can't hurt!
Good luck
I can relate to Clare's comment, as I do the same.
Here's wishing us all loads of luck!
@qq good on you for trying. If you are not on Champix ask your doctor for a prescription. Like you I have tried numerous times, since I am on these pills it actually worked. The cravings are much reduced and I felt no side-effects at all. For a giggle read my first story. I wish you the very best of luck and success.
Happy New Year to you all and hang in there.
Thanks all, sounds like we all have a lot in common. I am on Chantix (Champix), on my 4th week of taking. Honestly I think they are depressing me or zapping my energy, although I am sure they are helping with the smoking. Thinking of stopping them after this 4th week and see how I feel. I also did not finish smoking all the cigarettes I had on my quit date, thought having them would give me a secure feeling once I stopped. Bad idea..have only slipped twice and no more than 2 puffs each (tasted terrible) but today I threw all my nicotine inventory away! Coughing is going away, lungs feeling so much better.
Hi. Off Chantix now and still not smoking. Read the easy way by Allen Carr and I think it helped give me some new mental tools to use when the urges get almost overwhelming. Any one else read this book?