Quitting smoking… again… for good!
Wednesday, 31st of January 2024 [116]
For 2024, I have set a few monetary goals, but my primary goal as mentioned in my goals post is to take a better care of my HEALTH.
Apparently health is wealth and while I’m not sure if the two literally go hand in hand for everyone, I know that when I’m not physically or mentally well, everything feels like a struggle. Therefore it is no brainer that health should be my main goal if I want to perform well… well, in life in general. All fronts of life.
Last year was an eye opener in terms of my health and how the stress, bad eating habits and even bad thought processes can affect it in a significant way. Of course, none of this happens over night, it’s years of abuse and bad habits that come out later in life.
Since summer I have made many changes in my diet, increased my physical exercise, been working on the way I’m thinking and while making all those changes the quitting smoking was at the back of my head. Something that will need to happen, but trying to do it all at once would most likely cause me to fail creating some or all of those new habits.
This week however is the time for kicking that next bad habit out of my life. On Monday I still had last 3 cigarettes left. Yesterday was the first day without a cigarette. I say specifically no cigarette, cause I’m using a bit of a cratch for those first few days.
At some point I decided to try those disposable nicotine vapes. They didn’t agree with me much, cause they leave a very sweet taste in my mouth. It might be great for the youngsters who just start smoking. It might even feel a bit healthier, as you’re left with a nice taste in your mouth, rather than a nasty one from the ‘normal’ cigarettes.
I thought this would be an advantage, especially if I’d like to smoke in my car or in the house in any other place than a kitchen where I usually smoke. Yes, it smells less, but considering I’ve been smoking (with some years breaks) since I was 13, I’m quite used to and actually like the nasty taste that a cigarette leaves in my mouth.
The sweet taste not only feels weird, but my other beef with it was that it most likely breaks my fast when I was still doing intermittent fasting. That sweet taste surely doesn’t come without a price. It tastes sugary, so some sort of sugar is surely used in the production of those. Nicotine dose in those is much smaller than that in cigarettes though, so after puffing on it throughout the whole break I still didn’t feel like I’ve had a cigarette.
All in all these are a no for me. They also make me cough. But I did collect a few of those, as I was trying out a few different ones to see if all of them are sweet (they most definitely are). Clever of those vape manufacturers btw. Not only you get a usual nicotine addiction, but also create or reinforce your sugar addiction.
Anyway… so what I’m saying is that although I smoked my last 3 cigarettes on Monday and that ashtray on the picture below is now free of any new ash since Sunday night (the last 3 were at work), I still use the vape for maybe another day or two. It’s already a huge change, but not really as dramatic as it usually is when I quit smoking. Also no huge withdrawal syptomps so far.
Oh yes, I did quit smoking many times before. Once when I was 18, for 2.5 years. Once in my 20’s for 1.5 years and many other times for a few months. When one doesn’t smoke for 2.5 years, one most definitely isn’t addicted to the nicotine anyore, but rather stupid and/or influential 😉
For me it’s the former. I just like smoking, that’s the problem. All of those times I quit smoking I did so to save money. This time round I’m quitting to save my health. That’s why this time I believe I can quit for good.
Can I? Time will tell! Fingers crosses and pray for me to succeed 🤞
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Good luck on quitting and improving your health. It's a hard struggle, but I'm sure you will achieve your goals
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I loved smoking but knew i had to quit. I was a pack a day at age 16 up to 3 packs in my twenties.
Then when I heard the Queen died I put the cigarette out, threw all my cigarette tobacco in the bin and have not smoked since September 8th 2022.
You can do it Monika as you have obviously done it before!
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Może nie powinnam tego pisać, ale smak miętowy nie jest słodki a odczucie palenia jest mocniejsze (zaczęłam od tobacco).
Objawy oczyszczania się organizmu miałam jak najbardziej, nie tylko od nikotyny, co od syfu który jest w papierosach bo on też uzależnia 😉
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I believe that this time indeed will be easier. As you said your health is everything. It is good that you do not like the taste of those vapes. All the best wishes. You can do it!!!
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I hope you can quit smoking my friend.
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one of my friends, already quit smoking a few years ago because he was committing himself to his decision. He stopped smoking the next day after he decided to quit smoking.
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I hope you kick it for good. It is a healthy step forward. I know you quit for money before but this time you get more benefits. Feeling better, living healthier and extending your life longer probably🙏 💙
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You should quit while you can before you become addicted to it and hard to let go already..
Take care of your health Monika.. Keep up the good changes ☺️
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Yeah that's really good, let your lungs breath free!😅 jaja Good luck and sure you can do it 💪
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Nicotine is a tough one to beat. I wish you luck to be nicotine free forever!
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I've smoked when I was younger, but you already know why... Back in my 18 yo I wanna make part of the group... And I must confess that I loved to roll up my Amsterdamer (pipe tobacco) in small and thin cigars - I had the touch to make them very quickly, and I enjoyed the ritual... Bu further more, 2 years passed, and I felt that I was getting caught by the addiction, so I left it in the moment. For me was very easy, since I wasn't a heavy smoker, and couple of year later, my father started chemotherapy, and I could never touch them.
Well, in resume, I wish you all the luck, and I believe that you are going to make it! In one week, you are going to fell much better, and starting to noticing in your skin ;)
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Throw the ashtray and the lighter away.
I can relate to you having had to quit a couple of times myself and get back in again after a long break. I’m now on another break and tbh I hope to not go back to it again. It’s at this junction I say never again. And so far I’ve been doing great with my activity and energy rate.
I feel this a lot of times which was why I had to call smoking weed quit to focus more on better things that needs my attention.
I hope you’re able to break free this time. Stay strong 💪
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