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Old Dec 24, 2024, 03:57 AM
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Originally Posted by volsinchy View Post
I read some of your posts and want to say hello and that I feel for you.
I quit smoking cigarettes 10 years ago for several months and gained terrible overweight. So I returned to smoking for several years. And forced myself go the gym at least 1 time per week. Also, I ate a little but every 2-3 hours to help my body to reduce the amount of food. And I started to drink coffee. It helped me, and after 3 years my weight became normal.
But when I left smoking cigarettes finally, that took a lot of time, I discovered that now I have a lot of energy to do things. I also didn't have the strength to look after myself while I was smoking cigarettes, but now I learned.
To be honest, I changed cigarettes to a vape, and quit vaping after.
But with the beginning of the war, I started vaping again. I am very happy, that I did not return to cigarettes. I feel a lot better when do not inhale smog from burning leaves, paper and god knows what else. I make vape liquid by myself to be sure there is nothing harmful in it (at least what was studied for now) and a very little amount of nicotine compared to every cigarette. I hope there will be a day when I would have not this enormous amount of stress and quit nicotine fully.
And some good men wanted to be with me even when I smoked, they were waiting when I quit this but were on my side.
I think that I will never be with a person who doesn't understand that people can change. There are a lot of men who know what dependencies are, some of them quit also and have a nice life.
@volsinchy, hello and thank you so much for sharing your story! It's encouraging to hear...

The last time I did Ok with quitting smoking, I vaped. But then I developed a horrific cough from vaping and before I knew it, I was smoking again because my ex husband smokes.

I dont' want to try vaping this go around because of the coughing. The patches seem to work well for me, and honestly, smoking some weed too helps at night. The only problem with smoking weed is I can get hungry and munchy and eat more. So I need to watch that.

My quitting date is Jan 2nd! Wish me luck!!!
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