Today is my quit day and I'm excited and ready to finally do this. I found this site last week and actually sighned up for the study. I was selected to recieve the NR in either gum or patch - I can't remember. But last week I read the "Easy Way to Stop Smoking" and I started to be a non-smoker even though I haven't gotten the NR yet. At this point I don't think that I will need them. Maybe my son will want to try that way. I just want to get the nicotine flushed out of my body and that book helped me see that feeding the addiction isn't the greatest way to go. I also learned some other great tips - I have a timer next to me and if I feel an urge to smoke I start it and for the 2nd time this morning I looked down at it and 5-6 minutes had passed and I had stopped being anxious about it. Ha, Ha 2 down already. YIPPEE!
I'm 61, I've smoked from teenage years until I wanted to get pregnant at 29 (1986) and had 2 (a girl and boy). I actually didn't smoke again until about 1995. My husband has always used chewing tobacco, and he hid it from me for many years. And he would occasionally smoke backwoods cigars, camping around the camp fire. I started with a few puffs and have gone down the slippery slope back to addiction. I have tried to hide it from my daughter, but my son also started on those nasty things. I have been smoking the little cigars Captain blacks and when buying them I would pretend they were for my husband, haha. Well my son and I are going to quit, I'm about to become a grandmother and want to live to ride ponies with my daughter and her kids. Riding and working with horses is my passion and I'm so glad we moved and I now have a farm in the Tacoma area. I want to be a good example for my son because he is way too young to do this nasty addiction.
I love all the information on this site and Whyquit.com. All of the stories of life cut way too short is a tragedy. My brother in law died last year of lung cancer, but he smoked about 4 packs a day untill he quit cold turkey around 45, he was 66 when he died. RIP Bill. His spirit is going to help me every day.
