re: after 24 years.........i've decided to quit smoking.

My mother quit after smoking since she was a teenager. Nothing worked, and we had given up on pleading with her. Flu complications put her in the hospital two years ago, and the Dr told her she had to quit, no excuses. That's all it took, and she hasn't smoked since. She walks on the treadmill 18-20 minutes a day now, and they've been able to cut back her blood pressure medication.

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has anyone ever smoked this long and successfully quit? if so.......how long does it take to stop being short of breath and feeling better?

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yes.

you may not get full normal breathing back. the sooner you quit the better.

you will feel better in a week.

here's the regimen I used.

I used a juicer. citrus in the AM.
carrot celery and cucumber at noon.
broth at dinner. onion, celery carrot
a heavy snack before bed. oats with a banana or blueberries.

take showers often.
use epsom salt baths.
get massages.
do an enema the 2nd day.

do another enema the 5th day.

do that for a few days.

you can have green apples between meals, as many as you want.

exercise. sun bathe. rest. take the weekend off from hard duty.

It's impossible for me to drink and not smoke. I usually buy a pack once a week on the weekend. During the week though, camel snus. Also run 5Ks Sun-Thurs.

Mate - go to e-cigs first and get yourself some weed as well.

Make it the next three weeks and the worse is behind you.

The shite you will be coughing up during this time will repulse you.

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oldcharlie8

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I'm in the exact same boat. I turn 40 Saturday and I've smoked 25 years. My mom was recently diagnosed with cancer so I'm putting the cigarettes away tomorrow. My wife is happy. My boys are happy. Me not so much.

Your lungs are still fricked. May as well go down with the ship.

You already have COPD

I had a neighbor who wanted to stop and she tried everything from patches to hypnosis and nothing had a lasting effect. She finally was told by her doctor that she had the beginnings of emphysema and she then just quit. It has been a few years now with no slips. You don't want to have to get sick before you quit. There is something to think about when every medical questionnaire first asks if you smoke.

Congratulations. I won't say that I quit but having been a smoker for close to 50 years, I have significantly cut back. I was smoking at least 1 1/2 packs a day until about 6 months ago. In the past 6 months I have not smoked more than 3 packs of Marlboros and have not smoked any cigarettes since July 2. I even played two rounds of golf without smoking a cigarette (although I did smoke a cigar on the back nine last Saturday). I've wanted to smoke on occasion (while playing golf and after a trial was over) but I fugure that I've gone this far why start up again?

Good luck.