I am on day 44. It is still hard on me. But I stick to it. hang in there. good luck.

To all of those that are putting the effort into quitting.... please talk to your pdoc about it before you do !!!!!!!!

I think it is wise to get their opinion as to how it can effect your current med regimen and if it needs to be adjust accordingly to nicotine withdrawal .

I'm no doctor, but think about it, nicotine ends up and effects your brain, changes your mood, and if you quit, shouldn't you substitute it with another med change?

I haven't smoked for about 10 years but still think about it. When you quit alcohol or cocaine you can fall back onto smoking and it is considered acceptable.

When you quit smoking, cocaine or alcohol are not considered acceptable. Alcohol maybe but cocaine would be more fun.

Congrats on quitting! I am going on 13 years since I quite and don't miss it. I also have a reminder. My mother lives with me who has COPD. Awful disease... Keep up the good work, it's worth it. And I did it cold turkey. I hope by the time you read this, that you and your mom are still going strong...

In answer to your question ....

you will begin to feel better soon...
it is a poison to us ...
your self esteem will get a huge boost for doing the right thing and having the courage to do it...
you will see soon the difference of being on it as opposed to being off it and your sense of self love will look back at the war zone of what it was to you ...we make our reasons as to why we do it ... but sanity will peek out at you and you will see .... OMG i cant believe i did that to myself ... it really is nasty as a habit ...

your senses will start to return... like your sense of taste and smell ...

you will come out of the fog that binds your mind by its use...

you may get sick at one point ... but this is to be expected and is just your body rebounding and healing from the constant barrage of shelling that each drag is...

you will thank God for your life back... that is a given.....

I would love to quit with you and others, I have a prescription of wellbutrin but I am scared of mania, I took a half a pill and I was scared I was going into mania, But I dont know if I was or not, I will try half a pill again tomarrow and take it from there, I would like to quit cold turkey at least by the end of the week, Please keep me informed

Today was the end of day 4 going into day 5. The homeopathic stuff I got seems to take the edge off. Come on everybody we can do this. All we can do is try. On average it takes 6 attempts to get it to really work. So hang in there.

Good job, ATO!!

I apologize if you mentioned it earlier in the thread and I missed it but what homeopathic stuff are you using?

From natural grocers
Boericke & tafel smoke free naturally
Contains: caladium seguinum6x, daphne indica6x, graphites 12x, valeriana officinalis 6x
Sublingual every hour or as needed

Smoking withdrawl
contains: abies 10x, lobelia inflata 10x, nicovap 10x 14x 24x 30x, nux vomica 10x, ignatia amara 14x
You chew this one up every 3-4 hours

I've quit this week as well.. I've quit a few times before for years at a time actually but I like it to..smile..
I really need to do this for my health and my wallet.. I wish you well..x

I am trying to quit right now too. no real plan, just gonna try and wean myself off slowly. I've done it before, so have faith that I will be able to do it again....and make it stick this time. Its hard during depression though, cause it helps kill time....

I am setting my quit date for this Sunday, I am going to go cold turkey and I know it is going to be bad, My daughter has been living with me and she is getting a new place this weekend, So tomarrow maybe she will be able to sleep over there, We both smoke and we were talking today and she said she wants to quit, She thought if we are not living in the same house it will be easier, I have copd and I am on oxygen and I dont want it getting worse and yes it is a horrible disease I have to quit, And I am not trying to scare any one but you could have copd and not even know it yet, Do not buy the electric cigarette and this is the reason why, My daughter I bought the machine like over a year ago and it had a sweet taste and it was really weird, I demanded my money back because I checked into this, There is a certain ingredient in the electric cigarettes that starts with a p it is a long word, But if you google the word it is antifreeze, That is why it has the sweet taste when you inhale it, And the fda has not approved it yet either, So who is to say down the road what is going to happen with people using these, Only time will tell, I will have to look up that ingredient later and post it, Another thing that has helped me not smoke as much, I know you will think it might be strange but ice chips or crushed ice, I started this back last year when I was in the hospital and could not smoke, I go threw like 4 big things of ice a day, But be carefull dont crunch them like hard candy it will hurt your teeth or can damage them, It is the hand to mouth thing like you do with cigarettes, I have such a addictive personality any ways that my new one is ice, At least ice is not going to kill me

I wanted to say one more thing sorry I am writting so much on the quitting smoking subject, I am suppose to wear my oxygen all the time, But I dont because I am self concious of the way I look with it, My other daughter does not smoke and she is always asking me please mom quit smoking, I wish I never started them, I really do but I think all of us wish that, The last final thing I was going to mention was the surgeon general had made a report I believe it was last year, Cigarettes use to have 4,000 chemicals in them now they did studies and they have 7,000 chemicals and the tobacco companies have made cigarettes actually more addictive to keep us addicted, I really wish we all could quit, I dont want to see any one get copd or worse, God bless all of you and good luck

I've quit for years at a time. I just love smoking and it makes me happy. calms my nerves. I've been smoking since I was 15 on and off.

Oh, and BTW, Congrats! If you can make it tomorrow without smoking, the worst is over!