I've been 30 days smoke free. After 33 years of smoking this is huge for me, never thought I could do it for a few days , much less a month. But I did have help and really want to share with everyone things I did. First , find someone in your life who will support you, including calling you everyday to encourage and see how you are doing. DRINK water, ideally with lemon. it helps. If coffee is a trigger, clean your mouth immediatly after driinking cup, I started with brushing my teeth the first few days, but changed this to veggie juice, which killed the craving and I stopped needing as much coffee (another bonus). If you can start juicing and lots of vitamin C as well. Smoking depletes vitamin C and between this and the water it helped to get the nicotine out of my body that first week and following weeks were all overcoming my mental bull&*+. Finally but not least; If you are like me and you struggle with periods of depression. I began taking Welbutrin a couple of weeks before I quit. It has helped a bit with weight gain, but it helped a lot with feelings of depression. Every EX smoker I've spoken to had experienced depression (loss) like me. Us smokers think cigarettes are our freinds, obviously NOT, freinds dont kill friends. This is not to say all cravings go away after 30 days, I'm still working at it but it does get a LOT easier. I find now hours will go by and I will remember I use to smoke and marvel that I dont want one and sometimes its the opposite. Just take a deep breath or a breath mint and suck it up (no punn intended). I truly hope this helps someone out there trying to quit!!!!!! PS, daily text messages from EX are also helpful!!!!
