I quit smoking
Hi,
It's been 4 wks now since I quit smoking. I was diagnosed with emphysema and I actually kept smoking and tried stopping but then took it up again. It was quite a trial. Eventually I got it but boy do I do my affirmations. Someone once told me never to give up. Now I'm looking for work and have joined a singing group and I feel great. I found that it was hard but eventually I got it. Hope you can do the same and feel great.
Nathan
Community Guru
So glad you escaped the addiction Nath001. Our health improved immensely once giving our bodies a fighting chance.
To what do you attribute your eventual success? Can you explain what it is that you "got"?
Anyone can quit smoking . Never give up!
I too have empysemia. Diagnosed 3 yrs ago and kept smoking...until 3 days ago when I count breath and went to the hospital. Doctor told me that I must give them up or I won't be around long. So now I've quit. Glad you are on the 4 week mark. What are your coping strategies. I find I am anxious when I get home and crave a smoke. I'm not going to give in tho
i was diagnosed with copd and emphysemia, im only 42 and yes kept promising myself ill give up after this one, please dont wait though, it took me this long even though breathing is sometimes hard, i requested a ct on my lungs (a great addition to smoking is anxiety!) so they found 3 lung nodules, next week i have to be put under while they put cameras into my lungs to biopsy the nodules, i have a 23, 21, and 14 year old, and ill never tell them because im ashamed that i put them in this situation, if im not ok or i kept smoking my beautiful children will be looking after me.......how selfish can i be, so i stopped 6 days ago just cold turkey, bought 14 mg patches the following day and haven't touched a cigarette. 26 and a half years ive been smoking, you see i get down and anxious and so many side effects, but this doesn't compare to facing death, honestly ive just chose to live! it plays with our thoughts, but its only an addictive cocktail of poisonous chemicals thrown into a cigarette that's so controlling we will die for it.........or will we? your will power is so much stronger than you think, i even sit in the same room as smokers to prove a point to myself, living means more to me than smoking.... find your reason and then as nicely as i can put it........ get real with yourself, find your strength, dont wait until doctors give you a diagnosis like i did, chin up you can do it!