What are some ways to help me quit smoking, wanting to be a perfect mother and wife had made me do so…?
May 13th, 2011
…also being perfect in society. Now I am not thinking anything I am doing is perfect. What can I do?
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My mother and grandfather both died of smoking related cancers. My mother was only 51 when she died of renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer that spreads all over the body) and my grandfather died of squamous cell carcinoma (lung cancer tumors), 27 years after he quit smoking. Now my aunt has pancreatic cancer from smoking. One of the biggest warning signs of imminent cancer is a ‘smoker’s cough’. Once you have smoked long enough to develop a smoker’s cough, you’re in trouble. It may not be tomorrow or next year, but trust me you’re in trouble at that point.
If you haven’t developed a smoker’s cough, quit now! I don’t care if you have to check yourself into smoker’s rehab, you need to quit before you get the dreaded smoker’s cough. Cigarettes have over 200 known carcinogens, none of which our lungs, livers, kidneys, or pancrease were designed to filter out.
I smoked 3 packs a day for 35 years. I tried a lot of ways to quit. Most involved “tapering” or substitution. It won’t work. Tobacco is addictive. More addictive than heroin. You must quit cold turkey and stay off the things for at least 2 weeks, before the physical and mental anxiety will begin to subside. I quit 20 years ago and managed to stay clean. I liked cigarettes. It was the hardest thing ai ever did. One draw on a cigarette and I’ll be back to 3 packs a day. I’m still addicted. After 20 years, I reached in my pocket for a cigarette last week!
Please quit. You and your family will be better off.
Good luck
Hi Mulligan,
What works and what doesn’t to quit smoking has been studied pretty thoroughly. Here’s a link to a website dedicated to helping you stop smoking. It’s loaded with facts, strategies and tactics to help you quit. If you’re really serious about it, I recommend using a science-based approach to quitting. Go to the website, learn what works and then follow through. THAT’S what you can do. Best wishes.
Make yourself busy like taking care of your children, cleaning the house, cooking foods for your husband, reading books something like that.
http://www.whathappenswhenyouquitsmoking.org/
My mother quit smoking after 40 years of smoking. She quit cold turkey because she didn’t know you could buy the patch over the counter. I think they suggest that you just quit, but I also read that you shouldn’t tell anyone, just do it. I think they suggest that if you tell people you are quitting, they then drive you crazy with their advice, so it is sometimes easier to quit and just don’t tell anyone, so they all get off your back and let you deal with things your way.