No Smoking-Day 1

I have been trying to quit for 6 months. Today, knowing that my surgery is only a few weeks away, decided that i am just going to do it. I have accupuncture tomorrow to help as well and for today, even though they give me the hiccups like nobodies business, I have my lozenges to lean on.
I am posting here because I am hoping and praying that this will keep me accountable. I have tried everything else to no avail. I want to quit. I need to quit. I have quit before so it's not like I haven't been able to do it before. I will do this.

Just remember that as long as you don't start again or cheat, today will be the worst day you have to get through.  Every day from here on out will be easier, as long as you never pick up another cigarette.

It is hard, but you can do this!

Thanks Sunshine. I am doing ok on the physical craving end of things thanks to the lozenges but my head is screaming at me to run to the store and get a pack. I am definitely going to be asking the boyfriend to take it outside and not to smoke around me as much as possible. I have the worst time with that.

My surgery is Feb 6th.  I started this journey back in August and was told that I had to quit for 6 months prior to the surgery and that they would do a nicotine test...so no cheating.  My husband quit with me on August 8th and we never looked back.  Maybe you could get him to quit with you also.  The support system was awesome!

I quit on the 21st of November. Cold turkey. Haven't had one since and no aids (patches or otherwise). I was not a heavy smoker but I really loved my couple of cigs a day. I am now getting to the point I thought I would never see - when I am disgusted with the smoke of others around me. It is doable. You just have to push through it. Don't look back.

I quit cold turkey in October. You can do it but you have to make the decision.
If you are not ready to quit nor committed then you will not or you will start again in the future.

You decide not the cigarette or nicotine!

 Hang on girl! You can do it. I'm smoke free since Oct. 2010. I learned to enjoy the pain of not smoking. I'm not kidding.I enjoy it. This is one of my step ahead to my healthy life.

Alla.

Congrats on the first big step! I found the first 3-4 days were the worst for me but once my body got thru the physical part of the addiction then it was a head game and I'd just have to talk myself down or out of it. The only way I made it thru was with Wellbutrin to calm the edgy tummy crawling feeling. That was 12 years ago and today even the smell makes me sick, just walking by a smoker in the store turns my stomach. It's one of the hardest things to do but sooooo well worth it and you will start feeling so much better. Hang in there and take it one second at a time if you have to! Best of luck to you, you can do it!!!!

Thank you all so much for your kind words of encouragement. Unfortunately I fell off the wagon when I got home from work and found a letter from my step-daughters mother telling us she would be denying visitation again this weekend. I'm afraid extreme anger got the better of me and before i knew it was puffing away like a runaway freight train. So, in the morning i start all over again. Thankfully, I have acupuncture first thing in the morning and straight to work from there so hopefully the temptation will not be there and i will hang tough.