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$44,227.50
Amount Saved
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Days: 1058 Hours: 13
Minutes: 26 Seconds: 22
Life Gained
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5897
Smoke Free Days
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176,910
Cigarettes Not Smoked
Thanks a lot for you responses!! I haven't been able to quit but I have managed to cut every day the number of cigarettes, by halve. Today I’m in 5 and I was just about to light another one and decided to go to web page and read your comments.
As Kristine said and answering to Ashley the first days are the most difficult. I ve learned in this process that the physical symptoms are not your worse enemy, is your head playing this games with you: hey! You are still young, you can keep smoking for some years and try later… I’m also afraid of not knowing what to do without a cigarette and so on
But in the other hand, even if I’m smoking a quarter than last week, I’m confident is still to much, and that I want to keep cutting until I’m free.
What im doing, is have a bottle of water by me al day and mint gum. Also, something I learned from Allen Carr course is that each time you think: mmm I want to smoke a delicious cigarette, its only the way your brain interprets the nicotine craving, so we smokers live in “withdraw”. But of you wait, the craving each time does not last more than two minutes. So I’m trying to stick to this thought.
Thanks again and ill settle a date for this week to quit definitely.
L.
Hi everyone, I am new to this program. I’m in my early 30ties and smoked a pack a day for 15 years. I decided to smoke my last cigarette yesterday, and only lasted 17 hours. This is the forth time I try. The first one was with electronic cigarettes and I ended up smoking both; the second time I went to Allen Carr, 8 hours of group therapy ending with and “hypnosis”, I was exited but only lasted for 15 hours; the third time I took champix, after a couple of weeks of struggle I managed to stop smoking for almost two months, then I fooled myself thinking that I was the kind of persons that could smoke occasionally… ive been smoking again for the past three months all day long…
I just moved to the USA and decided to try again (cigarettes cost three times of what I used to pay, and don’t know smokers at all, I think that will help).
Someone told me that would be helpful to have a support group, so here I am.
Just wanted to talk about it and don’t feel so lonely in the journey.
P.s (I’m not native English speaker, sorry for the mistakes).