3 Months in the Books & Dealing with Withdrawal
Well, check out these current stats folks:
I have been smoke free for 3 Months, 1 Day, 1 hour and 29 minutes (93 days). I have saved $1,675.11 by not smoking 4,653 cigarettes.
Not too shabby at all huh? Made it 3 whole months and I feel great. Do I still think about smoking? Of course I do. There is nothing wrong with that. You make it much harder on yourself if you try not to think about smoking. If you smoked for any period of time and you have now quit, you are changing a very big part of your life. You can't expect to forget it or put it out of your head. In fact, you shouldn't. The best way to stay on guard and always stay smoke free is to remember you smoked but to always remember why you no longer smoke (if you have quit already).
Now…on to dealing with withdrawal. For one, nicotine is actually out of your body (more than 90% of it anyway) within only 3 days. That's it! 3 days to get that nasty addictive drug out of your body. Let's stay with those first 3 days for this post.
You've felt that 'craving' for a cigarette as a smoker. It's your body telling you it's time to light one up when the nicotine is leaving your body. Nicotine is a quick acting-drug that delivers a small dose through each puff, via the lungs to the brain. If you smoke, you are addicted to nicotine.
NICOTINE IS THE FASTEST ADDICTIVE DRUG KNOWN TO MANKIND!
When you smoke, you are keeping the addiction alive and keeping the addictive chain going. As nicotine leaves the body (it does this fast), as an addict, smokers need another 'hit' and light up again to relive the withdrawal of the nicotine leaving their system. Before we start this nicotine chain, our bodies are complete. No one requires nicotine to live. You MUST break the chain and rid your body of the addiction to nicotine.
When your body wants more nicotine:
1. There is no physical pain. It is only a feeling - like when we get hungry for example.
2. When you are not smoking, you have this feeling. An 'incomplete feeling'. When you light up, you obtain relief. All you are obtaining is your 'fix'. The cigarette does nothing for you other than keep the chain of addiction alive and well.
Smoking is not a habit. It is a drug addiction. The only way to stop this addiction is to get the drug out of your body. Remember this. More on ways of stopping smoking and not getting caught in the whole Nicotine Replacement Therapy 'game' as I like to call it (NRT's are patches and gums, etc.) next post. Until then...
I have been smoke free for 3 Months, 1 Day, 1 hour and 29 minutes (93 days). I have saved $1,675.11 by not smoking 4,653 cigarettes.
Not too shabby at all huh? Made it 3 whole months and I feel great. Do I still think about smoking? Of course I do. There is nothing wrong with that. You make it much harder on yourself if you try not to think about smoking. If you smoked for any period of time and you have now quit, you are changing a very big part of your life. You can't expect to forget it or put it out of your head. In fact, you shouldn't. The best way to stay on guard and always stay smoke free is to remember you smoked but to always remember why you no longer smoke (if you have quit already).
Now…on to dealing with withdrawal. For one, nicotine is actually out of your body (more than 90% of it anyway) within only 3 days. That's it! 3 days to get that nasty addictive drug out of your body. Let's stay with those first 3 days for this post.
You've felt that 'craving' for a cigarette as a smoker. It's your body telling you it's time to light one up when the nicotine is leaving your body. Nicotine is a quick acting-drug that delivers a small dose through each puff, via the lungs to the brain. If you smoke, you are addicted to nicotine.
NICOTINE IS THE FASTEST ADDICTIVE DRUG KNOWN TO MANKIND!
When you smoke, you are keeping the addiction alive and keeping the addictive chain going. As nicotine leaves the body (it does this fast), as an addict, smokers need another 'hit' and light up again to relive the withdrawal of the nicotine leaving their system. Before we start this nicotine chain, our bodies are complete. No one requires nicotine to live. You MUST break the chain and rid your body of the addiction to nicotine.
When your body wants more nicotine:
1. There is no physical pain. It is only a feeling - like when we get hungry for example.
2. When you are not smoking, you have this feeling. An 'incomplete feeling'. When you light up, you obtain relief. All you are obtaining is your 'fix'. The cigarette does nothing for you other than keep the chain of addiction alive and well.
Smoking is not a habit. It is a drug addiction. The only way to stop this addiction is to get the drug out of your body. Remember this. More on ways of stopping smoking and not getting caught in the whole Nicotine Replacement Therapy 'game' as I like to call it (NRT's are patches and gums, etc.) next post. Until then...
posted by Jim at
12:34 AM
2 Comments:
I also using the Allen Carr's method....It's the only method that works !
By
Bo, at 1:51 AM
Yep...It does work very well because it is true. This blog essentially contains my take on Allen Carr's method and what I've learned stopping smoking. Thanks for reading!
By
Jim, at 2:07 AM
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