Stories & experiences

Gandolph, nicotine is powerful stuff. I had no idea it could affect me during as much during withdrawal. It does get a touch better each day. Just don’t take that first one. Stay strong!

Thanks Poison Free....I am ....stubbornly refusing to give in to the crave

Just remember.
We dont smoke - NO MATTER WHAT>
Push through and eventually that poison will go away. Just like a stray cat, keep feeding it and it will come back.

2 houses up in smoke! Holy Smokes!

There is not much we can do about the past but we can make the best decisions for the future. While we can live without luxury and make do, who wants to live with ill health and can't even enjoy the simpler things in life.

I also quit late in life and had I known it was as easy as it was for me, I would have quit decades ago. Of course I tried to quick at different points, but did not have the understanding that is available to us today.

We did not choose to smoke for a lifetime.

We thought we enjoyed it because we didn't have to desal with the cravings that came if we did not feed it.

We accepted it when we did not know we had the power to quit.

Seeing others quit is powerful. We can quit and stay quit. We can choose better life ahead.

It sounds like others want you to quit smoking more than you do. It is imperative that you find the WANT and DESIRE to do more with that money going up in smoke. You can accept or resist.

Willpower and determination are great, but things come easier when you WANT to do them. See the joy and good, the positive. When you can't sleep, think .....there will come a time where I can sleep for eternity. When you oversleep give thanks that your body is refueled and able to keep going.

Cravings will come but you have the control. A craving means that you are winning. It will whine hoping you will feed it and it will not need to leave.

Control. Freedom. or slavery and suppressed. Depressed.

It is your CHOICE. You are stronger than nicotine. We beat it and so can you!

Thanks Poison Free....I am ....stubbornly refusing to give in to the crave

After I had my last smoke. My self-talk was.
I Dont Smoke - No Matter What.

Look up 'The Hypnotist' on podcasts and download some of the quit smoking ones. Play them for a few days while you sleep through the night, it helps retrain your brain. Stopped cold turkey after 39 years and it wasn even hard, I was surprised. Every time I craved it I did a paint by numbers or cooked food, anything to focus my attention elsewhere. The other great thing was Turmeric, once the nicotine is gone the cravings don't stop because your body wants dopamine which you get from smoking, take turmeric for a bit it helps boost dopamine and fill the void that smoking left until you just don't want to anymore

Look up 'The Hypnotist' on podcasts and download some of the quit smoking ones. Play them for a few days while you sleep through the night, it helps retrain your brain. Stopped cold turkey after 39 years and it wasn even hard, I was surprised. Every time I craved it I did a paint by numbers or cooked food, anything to focus my attention elsewhere. The other great thing was Turmeric, once the nicotine is gone the cravings don't stop because your body wants dopamine which you get from smoking, take turmeric for a bit it helps boost dopamine and fill the void that smoking left until you just don't want to anymore

Look up 'The Hypnotist' on podcasts and download some of the quit smoking ones. Play them for a few days while you sleep through the night, it helps retrain your brain. Stopped cold turkey after 39 years and it wasn even hard, I was surprised. Every time I craved it I did a paint by numbers or cooked food, anything to focus my attention elsewhere. The other great thing was Turmeric, once the nicotine is gone the cravings don't stop because your body wants dopamine which you get from smoking, take turmeric for a bit it helps boost dopamine and fill the void that smoking left until you just don't want to anymore

Look up 'The Hypnotist' on podcasts and download some of the quit smoking ones. Play them for a few days while you sleep through the night, it helps retrain your brain. Stopped cold turkey after 39 years and it wasn even hard, I was surprised. Every time I craved it I did a paint by numbers or cooked food, anything to focus my attention elsewhere. The other great thing was Turmeric, once the nicotine is gone the cravings don't stop because your body wants dopamine which you get from smoking, take turmeric for a bit it helps boost dopamine and fill the void that smoking left until you just don't want to anymore

Look up 'The Hypnotist' on podcasts and download some of the quit smoking ones. Play them for a few days while you sleep through the night, it helps retrain your brain. Stopped cold turkey after 39 years and it wasn even hard, I was surprised. Every time I craved it I did a paint by numbers or cooked food, anything to focus my attention elsewhere. The other great thing was Turmeric, once the nicotine is gone the cravings don't stop because your body wants dopamine which you get from smoking, take turmeric for a bit it helps boost dopamine and fill the void that smoking left until you just don't want to anymore