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The Flood / Quitting Smoking Cigarettes
« on: August 03, 2015, 11:44:28 AM »
Today is day 3 of quitting smoking. It's been really difficult and I've been rather on edge. I'm slightly cheating since I've dropped the fags and picked up a vaporizer but it's supposedly better for you, and when I start having a bad nicotine withdraw that makes me watch to rage and destroy everything in my path I just pick up my vaporizer and puff away. I'm using a juice with the lowest amount of nicotine available from my local e-smoke shop. I plan to taper off of the nicotine and eventually stop caring as well.
I have smoked cigarettes for almost nine years now and I have tried to quit multiple times, but every time I tried I would get to the second day some one would either A) throw a pack of cigarettes at my raging self, or B) I would break and buy a pack myself. So I am proud of myself for getting to day 3.
I started smoking when I was 15, and I regret it more than any other stupid decision I have made in my life. I knew it was bad for me but I didn't care I would tell others "well something has to kill me". Well what has changed since then? I have watched multiple family members be diagnosed with, and then die from emphysema. My uncle came to visit my new apartment which is on the 3rd floor with no elevators. When he decided to leave it took him 15 minutes to make it down to the floor level, and he was unable to breathe for hours gasping for breath until my aunt finally convinced him to go to the hospital. My aunt who is already tiny and frail naturally is unable to walk without having an oxygen mask on, and I watched my fiancé's grandfather and my great aunt in their final stages of life. They could have lived longer if only they had stopped smoking.
I've seen that most of the members on here are opposed to smoking and I am so happy for that, because smoking controls and destroys your life. If you ever get the urge to try smoking cigarettes I beg you not. Also, I am sorry for the long post I am currently on my lunch at work fighting with myself to not go to he gas station to pick up a pack of fags.
I'm curious if there are any current or ex-smokers that have gone are are going through this as well.
I have smoked cigarettes for almost nine years now and I have tried to quit multiple times, but every time I tried I would get to the second day some one would either A) throw a pack of cigarettes at my raging self, or B) I would break and buy a pack myself. So I am proud of myself for getting to day 3.
I started smoking when I was 15, and I regret it more than any other stupid decision I have made in my life. I knew it was bad for me but I didn't care I would tell others "well something has to kill me". Well what has changed since then? I have watched multiple family members be diagnosed with, and then die from emphysema. My uncle came to visit my new apartment which is on the 3rd floor with no elevators. When he decided to leave it took him 15 minutes to make it down to the floor level, and he was unable to breathe for hours gasping for breath until my aunt finally convinced him to go to the hospital. My aunt who is already tiny and frail naturally is unable to walk without having an oxygen mask on, and I watched my fiancé's grandfather and my great aunt in their final stages of life. They could have lived longer if only they had stopped smoking.
I've seen that most of the members on here are opposed to smoking and I am so happy for that, because smoking controls and destroys your life. If you ever get the urge to try smoking cigarettes I beg you not. Also, I am sorry for the long post I am currently on my lunch at work fighting with myself to not go to he gas station to pick up a pack of fags.
I'm curious if there are any current or ex-smokers that have gone are are going through this as well.
