Quote:
|
Originally Posted by ni'k
someone on here was talking about how this was the best decision of their life or something. i want to know what it feels like say 6 months down the line, do you start to feel strongly different health wise?
i've put myself thru absolute fucking torture with cigs, ive been a VERY heavy smoker for years, i started at about 14 and will easily do 40-60 if im out for a night, ive stopped intermittently recently for up to 2 months at a time but keep failing. i don't know if there is some sort of pyschological shit that i need to think through or what.
at the moment everytime i smoke its pure pain, my throat is wrecked, it feels like knives going down it. very bad, but i cant stop, or at least manage to stop and not destroy my confidene by giving in. i really really need to stop now, i live in constant fear of disease and when i breath out sometimes its like my breath is skipping like a cd, hard to explain.
i dont want to get into a whole bullshit self help you can do it if you try discussion that just rehashes the same positive encouragement cliches. but anyone with any real experience of what it feels like to quit and how to do it could probably be helpful. if i could quit and just not think about it ever again id be so happy
|
I quit about 6 years ago, they still smell good. Oh, well. It took me about 4 years to really feel a LOT better, but I do now. I bike 8 miles a day and work out 3 or 4 days a week, run a mile and a half, lift some light weights and stretch. I gained almost 70 pounds, but I was real skinny back then, and have lost 40 of them, so now I'm 6'2" and 210, so not too bad. If I ever get really sick, like with terminal cancer or something, I think I'll go ahead and smoke again, but not otherwise.
really, the best decision I ever made (except for not getting married to a couple of weird girls)