Dec. 2014 my mother passed of Lung Cancer, It was a sad Christmas. I grew up with her smoking. Smoking in the car, the house, everywhere. My oldest brother smokes when he is stressed. I smoke around a pack a day. I stopped drinking due to an illness I have around 2 years ago. I was not a big drinker, but enjoyed the social drinks and small parties. I am 56 years old I quit for 8 weeks before and after a back surgery. So, at age 56 I knew the dangers of smoking, but I was caught up in a rather smart group of young people when I was around 13. So, I would sneak and hide etc. I really became a hard core smoker in my 20s. A lot of young people smoked then. It was a social element along with the drinks and parties. Of cours I also held a job, sometimes two jobs, and attended college at night. Busy, busy. The working years. I became a teacher.
Being a smoker and a teacher there were, of course, long periods of time I could not smoke. I worked at a private school for 7 years. We actually had a smoking shack. The school was an out door therapeutic school for adolescent young boys. Boys who were heading to jail, if they did not get there behaviors together. I actually enjoyed working at the school. I felt I actually made a difference in there.
I injured my back and had to stop working, so the all day smoking began. I have had two back surgeries and now have IC, which is a painful Bladder syndrome. It is so important to my health that I stop smoking. Honestly, I have not exercised seriously in over a year. My health is slowly declining. There is a long story here, but this is a beginning.
My my quit date is October 12 th. I am reading Allen Carrs book, " The Easy Way to stop smoking".
All and any advice would be welcome. I feel like I need to buy special gum, patches, food, or sweets.
I need a list, or something so I can go shopping for my stop smoking date. Right!
