Quitting smoking. Easier said than done?

Quitting smoking. Easier said than done?Okay okay, I know all the health risks, and the "non-health" benefits that come from quitting smoking. I know to take it one day at a time and never give up. But it just isn't that easy, I feel as though there are many on here ready to give a list of health benefits just to get answer points, who've probably never experienced the scary addiction to nicotine. I'm 21 years old and my boyfriend is 29, I've been smoking a pack a day for 6 years while he is going on about 13. Today is our second day, he has to quit because he is getting hand surgery and the success rate severly drops if you are a smoker, I'm going f**king crazy. I hate it, sometimes the cravings go away, other times I can't get my mind off of it. We fight over anything. I've tried doing something else, I've started exercising again, drinking a lot of water, chewing sugarless gum. Cigarettes are (hopefully WERE) a huge part of my life. Everyone I know smokes, anybody who was in my situation have success stories?
Peatea-

Thanks for the kind words, my parents both also smoke so I know what your going through, I'm just bummed I let myself fall into the same hole


Halfeaten-

Hey your probably right, its not even the health risks that I am most concerned about but more about the money ,the smell of my apartments, etc. His surgery is on his scaphoid bone in the wrist so the less circulation flowing through an already fragilly circulated place can make his surgery pointless. As for the moderation thing, I don't know if I could do that, I've never only smoked a little bit, I know many who smoke a pack a week or one a day, but not me, ever since I began smoking it was at least a pack a day and it has been that way ever since, cigarettes run my life and yesterday I was literally crying for one.

Blue Gallows
it's easy i do it all the time

Hulagirl96734
i smoked wayyyyyyyy longer then that and the patch worked for me!!!!!!!!!

Monterey
Dr. Oz was on Oprah yesterday with a four step plan to help. There are steps you need to take prior to quitting, and there are tools you need to help you. Go to Oprah.com and read about what Dr. Oz has there to help smokers. Chantix is one thing he recommends, but it goes beyond this. There is much more you can look into as far as getting help. Good luck to both of you.

pathfinder
Julst like being addicted to anything else, it takes tremendous will poer and support from others to quit. You have to keep plugging away especially when the craving for tobacco gets most intense.

the_only_solorose
hang in there, the first five days are the worst. I used Chantix to quit after forty years smoking, the med helps, but the cravings were killer. Getting out and exercising is a great idea, keeps you out of each other's way so you don't fight as much and helps clear the nicotine out of your system quicker.

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