Smoking

I quit for the surgery but started again. Anybody else smoke ? Had any problems ?

I smoked for 26 years and quit 3 months before the surgery. I didn't have any trouble quiting this time.....I determined myself that I didn't want to feel yucky at the end of the day anymore and used head tricks on myself. I drank tons of water and would put dum dum suckers or mints or gum in my mouth and say out loud, "Boy, that sure tastes better than a cigarette. I was on a patch for 3 days and then forgot to change it for 3 days and figured that I must not need it. That was it. I don't miss it at all....really can't stand the smell of it. Mind you, I've tried to quit in the past and it wasn't like this at all....I couldn't even commit to a date before,I'd set one and change it. I feel tons better since I've quit and I wish you success if you are going to try to quit again. Pam

i quit for the surgery and still battle it every day. big warning: it makes healing slower (oxygen levels down) and can cause ulcers. i know it is tough, but read some profiles of people with ulcer problems, some have been hospitalized. i am going to visit my family this week and usually have a cigarette when i am there, i know it is going to be hard so i totally empathize. plus my doc asks me at every visit if i am smoking and i don't want to get yelled at! lol good luck, i've heard that chantix works

i am proud of you for quitting smoking

Thanks! It has been tough but it's nice to have my sense of smell back! lol

I smoked for 14 years and quit a little over a month before surgery and let me tell ya I want to smoke so bad now. I feel like I have had everything taken from me and I want that back. My husband is not a smoker and will get very mad if I start again, but I am so mad all the time right now that its all I think about, I dont wanna start again cause its been 2 months now and they stink to me when I smell it but for some odd reason i feel it was one thing I could control when i got mad upset agrivated I could smoke, and yes I think about it everyday. It is very hard now I am lookng to go back to work well the salon I am trying to get into is next door to a smoke shop go figure and a pizza place and chinese it never fails, life is to damn hard sometimes. maybe ill chew. lol j/k i like my lips