Giving Up Smoking

I can’t believe how quickly and easily the last 2 months have passed. It isn’t the first time that I’ve stopped smoking tobacco cigarettes but now I firmly believe that it will be the last time.

The obvious differences in me are that I  look healthier, my skin is clearer, I haven’t got a smokers cough anymore, no nicotine stains on my fingers, I don’t get out of breath as easily and my chest doesn’t make horrible noises when I lay on my back to sleep.

I know that my circulation will have improved and hopefully I won’t suffer as badly with Reynards disease next winter as I did the last one.

One drawback is that smoking masked the aches and pains from gum problems caused by smoking for many years. I can feel my teeth aching constantly and am dreading my next dentist visit in August. My dentist will be delighted that I have stopped smoking but as my teeth are now more sensitive his fiddling about in my mouth will not be pleasant.

I’ve stopped by using a combination of nicotine patches and electronic cigarettes . As I wrote previously in my stop smoking diary I do not have the willpower to go cold turkey, and I think that it’s pointless putting yourself through the cold turkey withdrawel symptoms when you don’t need to.

As smoking is about habit as well as the addiction I have had days when I just use patches and days when I just use my electric cigarette. Some days I don’t use either for most of the day – that’s usually my days off work!

On my e cig days I have been putting it down and forgetting where it is. Sometimes I don’t find it until the next day, but I haven’t felt any craving or withdrawel symptoms when I’m without my nicotine fix. That tells me that I’m almost ready to completely come off nicotine, but rather than rush it and risk buying a pack of tobacco cigarettes I am going to continue with my ecigs but start to go for days completely without a nicotine fix.

Taking into account the cost of patches and e-cigs my total savings are now £150 and I suspect that every day that goes by without the chemicals in tobacco cigarettes the days and weeks that I am adding to my life are mounting up too.ph3gqu9av6

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