Getting ready to quit
My quit date is January 17, 2005. I am a 58 year old woman who has
smoked since I was 19 years old. When I was in my 40’s, I told myself
that if I lived to be 50 that I would quit smoking. Well, on my 50th
birthday I put on a patch and didn’t smoke for about a month. It wasn’t
my cravings that brought me back to smoking, it was my will. I missed it
so much that I decided one day that I deserved to smoke and started up
again. And I smoked and didn’t even think of quiting until about six
months ago. Since then, I have tried serveral times, lasting only about
a week or less. The last time I quit and bought a pack of cigs and took
that first puff, I notice that I was having shortness of breath and felt
my heart racing. This is not good. This time I want to remember that
feeling and also think about how I have been suffering with shortness of
breath lately whenever I tried to ride my exercise bike.
Has anybody had these experiences? How do you get over WANTING that
first cig?
Alice