One week tobacco free today

[fadedrose]

5. I used about 10 large bags of cough drops

Never was without one.....and take as many catnaps as you can till the desire passes. Drink water, cigarettes don't taste as good with water. Avoid coffee for a couple of weeks. It'll taste good again when your body adjusts.

I think it's been 5 more years since I quit. Started when I as 17 - smoked for about 55 years. Didn't record the date I quit, wish I had.

Take naps, read books - fiction is best.


And the smell of tobacco does not make me sick. I do not hate smokers, and I stop to talk to them when I pass them outside stores, and tell them I enjoy their second hand smoke - they look horrified when I first start to talk thinking I was going to condemn them...they need encouragement to know that quitting is possible, but not to think that they will ever get over the urge.