now for starters let me just say that while quiting smoking is simple, it is not easy, especially here in kuwait. simple? yes cuz all you really need to do in order to quit is stop, i mean really decide to stop and distract yourself from thinking about it. easy? not close. the reasons why it's not a walk in the park is because it is after all a medically proven addictive substance, and you know the thing about addictions, that they are hard as hell to get rid of. the problem with a cigarette is that it is both a physical and mental addiction. we all know about nicotine, but the mental addiction is what in my opinion the hardest to get rid of.
i used to smoke for a couple of years before i had surgery to remove my tonsils which is the same time i decided to quite. medically, nicotine should have been completely out of my system and the addiction completely gone after 3 months, or so i read. i stayed cigarette free for almost 2 years. if you've guessed that this wasnt the end of it then you're right. i still remember the first cigarette i had in almost 2 years. i coughed, at first, as any first time smoker would have, but then slowly but surely my lungs adjusted to the smoke. i became what people would call a casual or social smoker in kuwait, ya3ni adakhin bs bildowaniya. that went on for a while gradually taken small steps moving away from the casual or social smoking till full on smoker. the final conversion occurred after i started my current job. we joke around in the office that it is a requirement to work here for you to be a smoker. i do admit, i met more than half the people i know in the office all from the "cigarette break". what more is it became an excuse for us to take short breaks, which we all loved so much.
i had a wake up call about a month ago when for two days straight a simple act like breathing felt like someone was digging their knees into my chest and not easing up on it (this is the usual feeling smokers have after waking up in the morning) but this time it lasted more than the morning coffee, which i have to admit scared me. i went to the doctor afraid of what i might find out. it turned out to be some illness between bronchitis and asthma brought upon mainly from direct smoking, second hand smoking and our beautiful yellow colored weather. it's not as serious as i first feared el7imdila bs never the less it was still bad enough. now i've had 28 smoke free days. technically, am one third the way to be completely rid of my nicotine addiction, it's just i wonder how long it would take for me to get rid of the mental addiction. so far i found that exercises and eating helps. i just hope i get to do one more than he other, the healthy one that is.
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Please do try your best. It's great to know you're back on the right track. Personally I can't imagine how hard it can be to quit smoking, but for what it's worth, to make it easier to fight the mental addiction, think of the condition you just explained and the other possible medical risks involved. You don't want something serious to happen then decide to quit. Fight it now before it happens, God forbid. You'll be happier in the long run. :)
good luck! if you feel like smoking again, get an electric cigarette. it helped my uncle quit! he went from 2 packets to 2 cigs (real ones) by using the electric one the rest of the time - the urge just went away. he's been smoking for 40 years and this really helped him!
Always carry chewing gum with you, it helps a lot when you get cravings. Keep it up, and well done! :)
Yaaay !! Im so proud of you! O3bal all smokers enshallaa ;p
Good luck buddy :-) Whenever you have the urge to smoke go to the gym and 6ali3 7arritik hehehe
7ada 7ada i wish you best of luck ,
soa'al MOHEM ;-P
wat made you get bk to smoking after two yrs ?? wede a3ref :p
e7na b dwamna the smoking room is a glass room e6el 3al ba7ar, im considering smoking hmmmm
Alla ywafgik. It must be so difficult cuz you have to live with the misery of wanting something you can't have even though it's so readily available. And for people to keep smoking around you at work! 9ijj 9ijj Alla y3eenik.
(Of course the number one reason has to be your health but if you need more incentive it might help to bear in mind that other factors like bad breath, purple lips, and early aging can really distort a person's general appearance.)
thnx all for ur support, enshala this time really it lasts ;)
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