Try and think about the natural breathing mechanism
It has been 6 months; although I am no longer counting the days, hours, minutes etc...
I said no more at the ripe old age of 47. Don't ask me why, I just did.
If I end up getting lung cancer or some other life ending smoking related illness, at least I started feeling normal and young again after stopping.
I guess I intuitively felt I'd had enough of all the nasty things smoking has ever brought into my life.
If anyone is considering becoming un-addicted all I can offer is stay away from born again quitters - they will start again. My wife still smokes and that is ok with me. After all it is her life and there is no guarantee that her smoking will eventually kill her.
Nobody could ever tell me that I should quit! I would have told them to FO. I needed to come to the realisation by myself.
This is how I now look at smoking:
Breathing / consuming oxygen is the most basic function living things do to stay alive on planet Earth. Clogging the human lungs/body with tar and unnatural chemicals is counter productive to breathing/consuming oxygen; hence counter-productive to sustaining life.
There is no upside to inhaling smoke. How can there be?
I knew this during all the years I smoked.
Addition is a strong persuader; mostly to our detriment..
Great Post Last time and so very true. On the first day of my post on this website I posted last time because like you I'm soooo over it. Posts like yours inspire me. Thanks for sharing your journey. All the very best to you.
I echo Nannette's thanks, and I might add that the natural breathing mechanism you identified has struck a chord with me. I'm still in the process of quitting, but I've found that I do best when I really focus on my breathing during cravings. I think it may be meditative breathing: inhale through the nose on a four count, hold the breath for a seven count, and exhale through the mouth on an eight count. I continue to be surprised by how relaxing it is to do this a few times...especially during a craving. I hope it helps someone else out there, too.
So true! I think about how smoking does not assist anything we do in life. There are NO positives to smoking. It stinks, it is unhealthy, it is expensive, it ruins your teeth, and, probably worst of all, it has become so socially unacceptable that it makes me feel like an outcast, a criminal almost.....
Dear Nannette, CCL, Lindavan,
Please keep your resolve. Once you get to the 3 month stage you are free of the horrible withdrawals.
The "smoke" smokers inhale is very specifically engineered to deliver a devastatingly addictive drug to the brain - via the breathing process.
There are people (executives) that literally wake-up every morning and look at the ocean as a result of consumers sucking in deadly smoke containing deadly chemicals. And these same executives know precisely how their products kill people - yet their status and morning view is so much more important.
The only way of sacking these "wonderful caring" human beings is to stop buying their products!
We all know really good and beautiful people that have died as a result of this hideous drug..
regards,
Tony