I am coming up on my 1 year aniversary of being a non-smoker. After about 40 years of smoking I gave it up cold turkey after my Dr. found a spot on my right lung. Real strong motivator. Turned out to be stage 1a cancer. I was lucky because it was caught early and the onlything I lost was a lobe of my lung. I'm doing fine and believe in my heart they got all of it. All I'm doing now is seeing an Oncologist for regular checkups. Why am I saying all of this, well I guess cause I hope that it will keep you and anyone else motivated on your quest. Smoking is BAD!! As to your focus it will get better I promise. Just keep focused on quitting and if you get the urge to smoke and feel like you need to vent feel free to PM me. By the way the fit and finish on the pen looks pretty good. I like the concept of the vinyl and aluminum. Good Luck
Wayne
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'm currently working through my last couple weeks of nicotine gum. I quit drinking and loading up on painkillers cold turkey. Kinda tired of cold turkey at this point.
I don't thing that I/we have ever done anything as difficult as to stop smocking and stick with the decision. We were a 1x 50 cigarette pack a day EACH in a good day, a bad one will see us go through at least 150 cigarettes in a day...!
Sure, our days were about 20 hours of waking time , 7 days a week all year round, as we worked together. Stopping was a hard decision but nothing compared with the keeping away from smoking. My wife was smart than me from the beginning and she got some medical assistance for the times ahead, while me, the mister strong minded and all powerful, did decided that after stopping cold turkey, I wouldn't need anything to help me out...!
Wrong decision...! on the third week I was crawling walls and no one, I mean no one, could talk to me, I got so depressed that I even could feel that it all was a lot more than I was capable to handle so, I finally decided to go and see my doctor about it.
I got the "works" from the Doctor in all respects and no doubt, the medication and all the stuff I was on, was a lot more costly than the smokes themselves but, I had one advantage, there is, the wife and I we decided to take this road and we had each other to rely on and prove to so, it kinda kept us focussed to not disappoint each other.
This "saga" started on the 18 October 2003 and it was a tough road to travel for at least 12 months but, we manage to keep away from smoking since...!:wink:
While some people will develop a negative reaction to the smell of nicotine and keep away from anyone smoking, we (yes, wife and I) tend to get closer to those smoking, as we still enjoy the smell of it...!
Not a good thing and in fact, a sign that we could at any time start smoking and enjoy it as much as before so, the self will power required from us is considerable...!:frown:
The point is, we all react differently to the "stop smoking", cold turkey or not but, there are a few symptoms that are "common" to all of those in this category. I don't need to name each one of then individually but, take my word on this, get as much info and help you can, if you are trying to give up smoking. Take no short cuts and use all the available services (mostly free), to help you out, you will be glad if you do...!
Good luck...!
Cheers
George
