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20 Little Friends In My Pocket

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I quit smoking, didn't find it too difficult, but I know that I've replaced it with caffeine :oops: Can't live without my Diet Coke or morning coffee. Looking to replace that with something healthier too but the headaches are unreal quitting caffeine!

I have to say I feel much healthier overall though! Good luck to you!
 
Another point I should make about the electronic cigarette (I'm not trying to 'advertise,' but I'm just saying I love my v2. I really do) is that you have to look at it almost as if you're smoking hookah, not a cigarette. You can get tobacco flavored cartridges, but it's basically a tobacco flavored sheesha(or 'hookah tobacco'). I smoked Marlboro Reds when I smoked, but now I usually smoke the menthol cartridge.

I'd like to add, that after a month of not smoking, which happened pretty much instantly after getting the ecig, I smoked a cigarette. My boyfriend and I bought a pack for our birthdays, which are close together. I thought it would be a terrible idea, but because of how awful it tasted, it only cemented for me how much I love my electronic cigarette. I don't feel like I'm about to double over and die after smoking my ecig for a while. But getting halfway through a real cigarette? Oh my god, it was awful. But then again, I REALLY needed to quit smoking. I was to the point where I couldn't only just not breathe when I woke up, but throughout the day every day I was hacking stuff up and gasping for air. It was really terrible, and now I can breathe again. :) It's nice being able to feel cold air go into your lungs, and not feel like death is right around the corner.
 
I smoked for many years. I smoked 2 packs a day. I have quit for the past 5 months, yeah me.:D I Loved smoking. But now I feel alot better. One of the things I noticed was I had alot more anxiety for a while. I still get a craving for a smoke every once in a while. But I suck on werthers candies. I am glad I quit and I think I am going to make it this time.

I do not have a smokers cough anymore nor am I wheezing anymore. I wish anyone good luck in quitting smoking. I live in So. California where they are banning smokers everywhere. I am glad I do not get harrassed anymore for smoking. We my husband and I quit together, keep the money we would be spending on cigarettes. It really is incentive to stay quit. I can get me some luxuries. It is nice to have the extra money. This is an interesting topic. Good luck on quitting smoking.
 
I can so relate with the OP here Azure. They really were my 20 little friends. Thank God I said goodbye to them, what is it? 14 years ago now!! Holy moly it's been a while. I can relate to Sharky too, can't make it through a whole cig anymore now. Once a year or so I get stupid drunk & wanna smoke one, but then I do and hate it. But still I love those 20 lil' guys, they were there for me. Sometimes, during the worst times, they were my only friends! Luv em for that!

When I quit I knew it was going to be full junkie style. I literally took vacation time, grabbed a blankie like a toddler and locked myself into my room. I cried and cried and threw fits. I really let myself get into it, I was losing my best pals!

I still miss them sometimes, but only the idea of them. In reality, they aren't as cool as they used to be to me. They barge in when I am drunk and trash the place, but still I gotz mad love for my 20 little friends! ;)
 
I just want to agree with some comments...

When I quit smoking the 3rd and 4th times, heh heh heh.... I use to keep little Dum-Dum suckers in my purse and in my car.

Quit for 9 months and spent all that time sucking on lollies and chewing gum, only di dthe patches for 4 weeks... got stressed and started smoking again. Sigh.

I absolutely cannot drink caffeine. As soon as I have one of them, I have to have the other one. They are inseparable.

A big challenge for me. I love a good coffee and coffee and cigarettes are like two lovers, they need to get a room! Same with alcohol - they should seriously get a room!

I have a V2 electronic cigarette and I quit almost instantly and I use to smoke two packs of cigarettes a day. If you get a good quality electronic cigarette, I think that helps the most and has less side effects than the patch.

I did patches (but can only use the low ones), gum (awful as it causes mouth ulcers), nicotine mints (ok for quick cravings), stress ball, lollies. Haven't tried an electronic cigarette...

What I'm working on is building up other, healthier coping mechanisms to replace it.

I went on a complete health kick replacing smoking with healthy foods and jogging. I sweated the toxins out of my body!...then I got stressed and started again.

then I got fat. Now they say being fat is worse than smoking. ????

I gained a dress size with quitting. Then when on medication that gave me triple the weight on top of that. Then I started smoking again and I also need to loose weight...sigh

Well, I went all day without smoking today, but just one day.

Well done JB. I went 3/4 of a day and my anxiety increased and I smoked again. Probably would have been easier to quit smoking when I was on meds, than off them.

There is always a reason we smoke. Mine is stress and self hatred related. It is why I started, and why I find it difficult to stay off in tough times. Sigh.
 
I need to quit in order to improve my healing after surgery. I'll go through with you. Maybe we can scream at each other. I need some motivation. I too use this to cope in so many areas of my life. Oh yes they are my friends and unfortunatly my best friends. So here goes nothing tomorrow will be a new day.
 
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