In the past year, I've been thinking more and more about quitting smoking. I was close to doing it about a month ago, but didn't. I knew that there was no time that was better or worse to quit and just needed to make the commitment to do it. I started telling my friends that I planned to quit and that they had my permission to give me a hard time about continuing to smoke. I set a date for my last day of smoking and wrote it on my calendar. That date was Sunday, Feb. 7.
I started showing signs of some kind of sickness on Saturday night during poker. Although I have been sneezing more and more over the past few years and had assumed that I was developing allergies, I seemed to sneeze a lot more than I would have expected that night. Sunday was similar. I didn't feel all that bad (I thought it was the pizza) but was still sneezing a lot. Monday rolled around and I felt fine other than a sore throat and a slight headache in the evening that I attributed to the lack of nicotine. This morning I woke up and was congested, had a sore throat, was coughing, had stuffed up ears, and a headache. I don't think this has anything to do with quitting smoking. But, it has helped me quit. If you've ever smoked, you know that many times when you get sick, smoking becomes really disgusting and doesn't do anything for you except maybe make you want to vomit. So, I have been fine with being sick, which I rarely am, but I hope that it goes away soon. I really don't want to miss any school because of it.
Anyway, I did have two cigarettes yesterday (what was left in my last pack), but did not enjoy either of them. Although I have had some cravings, they haven't been nearly as bad as I had expected. But it's still pretty early in the process. I was feeling pretty mean and cranky yesterday though and ended up apologizing to several people for things that I said. Hopefully, that will pass soon also.
Now I need to go do something else, because all this talk about cigarettes is making me want one. Wish me luck and "Thanks!" to everyone who has been supportive of me.
From a 4 time quitter....yes-sick and not smoking work wonderfully well together. It takes about a week to get the nicotine out of your systems, then it's getting rid of the physical addiction. Good luck...you will feel better--you;ll just notice one day that you weren't huffing and puffing. And the coughing and "allergies" will subside too. Now if I could just quit-again.
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