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23-06-2008, 05:39 AM
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Originally Posted by rachey  I do smoke and have been since I was 14.
It seems when I'm in a depression I get so much worse and smoke nearly a pack a day.
Does anybody else have this happen to them? |
I started smoking at 15 and for sure find that my aniexty level as well as my depression dictates how much I smoke each day. It can honestly range from 7 a day to a pack and a half! |
24-06-2008, 05:10 AM
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I smoked for the first 40 years of my life. Then one day in 2003 I decided that I had really had enough.
I went out and got LOTS of my favorite ice cream and spent the weekend in bed watcing old movies and thoroughly enjoying the ice cream. I have been smoke free ever since.
I had heard people talk about going "cold turkey" but since I was unable to go 4 houors without going bonkers, I knew I could never do it. I had tried several times before to quit and 4 hours was my limit without my "fix"!
To this day it still amazes me how easy it was to quit. I keep thinking it is a dream and I'm going to wake up and reach for that first morning cig.
There, I quit. Still amazes me every day I actually quit ! ! ! |
25-06-2008, 03:35 PM
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No way... - Watched my paternal grandfather die a slow, miserable emphysema-related death DECADES after he had quit smoking.
- Watched my maternal grandmother die a slow, miserable emphysema-related death.
- My father didn't die from emphysema but his huge smoking habit exacerbated his heart disease and played a huge role in why his body was not able to fight off the cancer that killed him.
- Watched my aunt who never smoked a day in her life die from lung cancer.
My conclusion: not being able to breath and suffocating to death because of it is a scary, painful, miserable way to die. Even though it can happen to non-smokers, I'm not taking any chances!
p.s. I'm not saying this to offend any of you who are smokers it's just that smoking has had a huge impact on my life and the early loss of my loved ones so I feel very strongly about it. |
30-06-2008, 10:58 PM
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I quit while in the hospital after my worst trauma. |
01-07-2008, 08:02 AM
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I started smoking weed with tobacco at age 11, got hooked on the nicotine in the joints by 12, smoked tobacco (and everything else!) increasingly (chimney) until I was 21, when I decided 10 years of smoking tobacco was a lack of personal control (like everything else wasn't? Ha ha!) Went cold turkey on the baccy, (became evil for a week or so), and 5 years later, I have absolutely no desire to smoke.
In a weird way I associated one of the events which gave me PTSD with my smoking (don't ask!) so soon after, I stopped enjoying those cigarettes and it was easy to give up...
...I think I've just explained how PTSD could have saved my life.
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