Hey, way cool! I just started quitting smoking. Well, technically I started trying to quit about 2 months ago. I mostly want to quit, but there's still a part of me that REALLY does not want to quit. Where I work, the company brought in someone to do a smoking cessation class because the entire workplace went smoke-free. It helped immensely because these days they look at it as stopping an addiction. They talk about how withdrawal of nicotine can strongly effect the chemistry of a brain.

The past couple of times that I quit it felt like I was actually losing my mind. I got extremely depressed in the way that I began feeling like the world is nothing but evil and badness, nothing in life was worth it, and each time I wanted to quit my job. At that point I would always decide that its not worth the pain and mental anguish to quit smoking. No one I ever talked to before ever had these same symptoms I went through. So I always figured whenever I got health insurance again I'd go to the doctor and find out if there was something that I could take to help quit smoking. So when my work started the smoking cessation classes I took them and found out that now "they" are finding out more about nicotine addiction and thats where I finally got an answer about feeling mentally out of control. Learning that quitting is a more substantial undertaking than simply "quitting smoking" made it easier to quit. I got info on the psychological addiction that helped understand the symptoms that I got. And that made it a little easier to quit. Its still been 2 months that I've been quitting though. I keep caving but I still keep trying.

I know I've been rambling but maybe this thread will be another aid for me to quit. My partner is extremely supportive. She quit a year and a half ago. But we go about things and process things too differently so its hard for me to get the support I think I need from her. Anyway... thanks for listening *lol*

wrenchergirl