Shara
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So I am officially quitting, and MAN is it scary! I had a little tobacco left over, and last night was trash night, so I threw it all out. (Don't tell hubby, lol) There was barely anything left, so whatever. But I found an awesome website. Basically, it is VERY hard to quit smoking. Cold turkey actually has the highest rates of success, and it makes sense, I mean, can you imagine being an addict of something like meth and telling people you are "weaning yourself off"? Uh...no.
Of course, people quit in bunches of ways and for bunches of reasons.
Did you know that tobacco breaks down your fat, which is why you are able to eat less, because each time you smoke, you are getting the nutrition you have stored in your body, released. And tobacco, for some reason, makes coffee half as effective, so many quitters end up with jitters if the are also coffee drinkers. And every two hours your blood nicotine level halves itself...and is gone from your system in 72 hours, which is why you have the three day hump to get over? and that there are THOUSANDS of other chemicals in them, so smokers often need to readjust medicine, find out about chronic depression, and discover physical health problems when they quit? and did you know in order to have similar health risks from being overweight, you have to be 75 lbs over weight to match the dangers of one pack of smokes a day?
And did you know the chances of quitting for more than six months are only 10% or so?
over 90% of ex-smokersa quit cold turkey.
If you use nicotine patches, gum or other aids, each time you try you have a lower chance of quitting, for some reason. By the second time, it's about a 1% chance of long term cessation.
It really is a horrible addiction, and I am excited for the day when I can say I have a year clean of tobacco.
It really is true that one is too much, and a thousand never enough. I stop each time I am pregnant (though I am not, at this point in time, lol) and after the baby is born, at some point, I want "a drag". Within a week or two I am right back where I was before, without even trying. Ugh.
Oh, and your brain works in such a way, apparently, that everytime you relapse and smoke a drag, you have to do the whole three day detox ALL OVER AGAIN. It puts your brain right where it was, or worse.
WOW I learned a lot!
Of course, people quit in bunches of ways and for bunches of reasons.
Did you know that tobacco breaks down your fat, which is why you are able to eat less, because each time you smoke, you are getting the nutrition you have stored in your body, released. And tobacco, for some reason, makes coffee half as effective, so many quitters end up with jitters if the are also coffee drinkers. And every two hours your blood nicotine level halves itself...and is gone from your system in 72 hours, which is why you have the three day hump to get over? and that there are THOUSANDS of other chemicals in them, so smokers often need to readjust medicine, find out about chronic depression, and discover physical health problems when they quit? and did you know in order to have similar health risks from being overweight, you have to be 75 lbs over weight to match the dangers of one pack of smokes a day?
And did you know the chances of quitting for more than six months are only 10% or so?
over 90% of ex-smokersa quit cold turkey.
If you use nicotine patches, gum or other aids, each time you try you have a lower chance of quitting, for some reason. By the second time, it's about a 1% chance of long term cessation.
It really is a horrible addiction, and I am excited for the day when I can say I have a year clean of tobacco.
It really is true that one is too much, and a thousand never enough. I stop each time I am pregnant (though I am not, at this point in time, lol) and after the baby is born, at some point, I want "a drag". Within a week or two I am right back where I was before, without even trying. Ugh.
Oh, and your brain works in such a way, apparently, that everytime you relapse and smoke a drag, you have to do the whole three day detox ALL OVER AGAIN. It puts your brain right where it was, or worse.
WOW I learned a lot!
