Yes, you can still drastically cut your chances of getting MANY different diseases if you quit now!
We can do this. Tracking cigarettes here on becomean ex has helped me to slowly but surely cut down and I'm setting my quit day soon. I think this works better for me than just going cold turkey. I'm starting to feel a bit more in control. The kind of control I'll need to quit for real.
Alan Carr's book The Easy Way to Stop Smoking has been helpful and interesting...
one phrase of his has really struck a nerve with me and I have posted it on my desk...
"Do I really need to go through life paying through the nose just to stick these things in my mouth and suffocate myself?"
Yes, I'm afraid too that I have done irreparable damage to my lungs, they don't feel too good lately....
but we have more of a chance of healing any damage or preventing damage if we stop now!
delaying smoking by writing to you is helping, so thank you.
Writing a list of positive, nice, needed, easy things you can do for yourself everyday and then next time you go to light up do something positive from the list...has helped me too. My list:
eat a healthy yummy snack, write a short journal/blog entry, get a pedicure, hug my son. brush my cat, call a close friend, send a thank you note, and even some of the annoying things like calling the phone company about the mistake in your bill.. Slightly annoying but you've been putting it off and busying yourself with smoking. Now you have the time to do it and it will feel really good when you get it done.
Just some suggestions that have helped me lately.
Good luck to you!
