Stories and experiences by: NotThisTime

I am on day 68 of going cold turkey. I was handling it really well until last weekend. I had a friend over for a couple of days who smokes. Just seeing the act of enjoying puts it in my subconscious. After 2 days of seeing her smoke my father came to visit. He is also a smoker. I think it is harder to see a parent (who we see as a role model) smoke than a friend or stranger. I was out of my n...

I am on day 49 of quitting and find the cravings and urges are mostly gone. I do get them when I am bored. As soon as that happens I am trying to get up and get doing something or take a nap. I know I am no longer going through withdrawal from nicotine but its still hard!

I started smoking when I was 14 and am now 40 so 26 years as a pack and half a day smoker. I have tried around 5 times before to quit and never made it past 2 weeks. I have tried cold turkey, Zyban and patches. This time I decided to go cold turkey. I have always wanted children but being gay I always thought it just wasn't in my scope of life. I have decided I would like to try a surrogacy o...