My computer modem went out - I didn't intentionally not come back.
One of my main motivators is it is supposed to help my Meniere's disease. I decided to quit because everyone else quit within the last two months. My boyfriend, my son, and another friend I have. My gf wants to quit, we are going to work on it together. My house will smell better, my clothes will smell better, I'll feel better. I can go on and on, but you get the idea.
I talked at length with my therapist regarding the quitting smoking now. My psychiatrist always says "this isn't a good time". My therapist and I agree he's never gonna think it's a good time. lol Anyway, I've had to make some other lifestyle changes due to recent problems and treatment for Meniere's Disease. I'm going caffeine free, gradually, down to 2/3 decaf 1/3 caffeine with my tea. I'm on a low salt diet, I am supposed to eat foods high in potassium, no milk and some other stuff. Plus walk everyday outside for 30 minutes - which I've started when I'm not dizzy. All these things came about - a month ago when I had the procedures on my ear. After having been dizzy for so long, I'm motivated to do all these things.
My therapist suggested I wait until I get off caffeine for at least a couple of weeks; well, it gets a little more than you want to hear - but let's just say we set things that need to be adjusted to and/or put in place before I quit. Adjusting to all the other lifestyle changes is what he's referring to. So I am making a complete list and he and I are going to develop a time line. We aren't talking months here - we are talking weeks. So I can get comfy with the other stuff too. I'm excited and I meet with him again and take my entire list and we are going to put dates to it and establish a quit date. We talked at length about this and as a Crisis Intervention Specialist and Therapist, he seems to have alot of knowledge about people with depression giving up cigarettes. I'm excited.
I have him as a support system, my girlfriend, my boyfriend, son and other friend, the sister site to this one. He said I'd come in before and mentioned it, but I didn't seem as committed about it; so he pulled out information for me and I feel like what I'm working on will make it do-able. I'm confident.
Hey, right now I'm celebrating almost caffeine free and my first day with no caffeine will be approximately this weekend (when I've run out of the box of tea bags I've been mixing with the decaf tea bags). I didn't realize how addicted to caffeine I still was after I quit coffee, I thought I had that licked. lol, tea is bad too. I drink sweet tea all day long - decaf sweet tea now. :)
He is the one who initiated the wait idea until I had these other things adjusted to - I'm not using this as an excuse. I know it's not my addiction talking, but the words of someone who says you can't change everything over night.
I've typed too much. lol again!
