I was reading a blog this morning that I frequent and today's post referred to smoking. It is 11 weeks today since I stopped. Yipee! I'm very proud of myself. I smoked 20 a day and have tried umpteen times to stop with various "aids". Patches, inhalator, gum, tabs (yeuch!). Probably something else that I can't think of.
My stopping smoking came about because a friend of mine had told me that she'd stopped smoking by taking tablets (Champix). She said that she wasn't that bothered about stopping but tried them anyway and she hasn't smoked since and that was 4 months ago. It sounded like a miracle! I didn't really want to stop but I couldn't afford (monetary terms only) to keep smoking. So off I popped to the doctor's who told me I couldn't get the tablets because I'd been prescribed anti-depressants in the past. Smashing. Something to do with people topping themselves or something when taking these pills. AND they'd had a sound mind before taking them. So seemingly the doctor didn't wanna play russian roulette with my life. Pah.
This resulted in me deciding to pack it in on willpower alone and it worked! Go me!
1 comment:
Go you!
I've dealt with people addicted to crack, heroin, meth, you name it. Almost all of them said that quitting cigarettes was just as hard as -- if not harder than --any of those other drugs.
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