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In reply to the discussion: I made it through detox... [View all]klook
(12,152 posts)Many years ago I quit (had only smoked for 3 years and it was torture, so I can only imagine what you're dealing with).
I could fully identify with Mark Twain's statement, "Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it thousands of times." The first few times I'd tell everybody I knew, make them promise to punch me in the gut if they saw me light up, etc. I wrote in a journal, spent a lot of time doing things that were impossible to do while smoking, and so on. Nothing worked -- I was always smoking again within days.
Finally when I quit for good, I didn't tell anybody. I just stopped. After a few days, one of my co-workers (I was working at a restaurant at the time) said, "Hey, I haven't seen you smoking lately. Did you quit or something?" I smiled sheepishly and said, "Yes, I guess I did."
***GROSS-OUT ALERT***
A couple of weeks after I'd quit I coughed up a ball of greenish-black phlegm that was more than 2 inches in diameter. I kid you not. That was enough to turn me off smoking forever.
***End Gross-Out Alert***
After that, the hardest thing for me was going to a bar without smoking. (This was in the days when every bar in the U.S. allowed smoking.) Once I'd done that a couple of times without even feeling the pull of Demon Tobacco, I knew I'd made it.
Congratulations to you for realizing the importance of this early in life and doing something about it. Keep the faith.