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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 613237" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>I had a breakthrough last night/early AM. I have been getting up at 4AM or so to pee for years. I've also been smoking a cig for years. This time I got up, did what I had to do, and didn't even have a craving for a cig.</p><p></p><p>Just did my business, washed up, and went back to bed.</p><p></p><p>The cats are back to sleeping with me because my bedroom isn't full of smoke anymore. I'm starting to feel really good about this. It seems to be going easier this time than it has before. Maybe because I am more motivated than the last two times I quit.</p><p></p><p>I am now just entering the "cleaning out the lungs" stage of coughing up crud and blowing it out of my sinuses. This is good because it means the cilia (little moving hairs) that move crud up and out are starting to work again. Tobacco paralyzes them which is why smokers are so prone to respiratory infections and the like. Today was also the first time in years I didn't wake up with a sinus headache, so another landmark reached.</p><p></p><p>So...onward and upwards. Who will join me and the tobacco free party?</p><p></p><p>I quit the last two times to make husband happy. I wasn't doing it for me. I think that is the difference. I think cigs are just like any other addictive substance: one has to hit some sort of bottom and decide to do it for oneself.</p><p></p><p>For me my bottom was seeing and hearing how tobacco use, even after all those years clean, has ravaged my mum's health. I could still wind up that way if I live long enough, but I'd like to have 20 healthy years before that happens.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 613237, member: 1963"] I had a breakthrough last night/early AM. I have been getting up at 4AM or so to pee for years. I've also been smoking a cig for years. This time I got up, did what I had to do, and didn't even have a craving for a cig. Just did my business, washed up, and went back to bed. The cats are back to sleeping with me because my bedroom isn't full of smoke anymore. I'm starting to feel really good about this. It seems to be going easier this time than it has before. Maybe because I am more motivated than the last two times I quit. I am now just entering the "cleaning out the lungs" stage of coughing up crud and blowing it out of my sinuses. This is good because it means the cilia (little moving hairs) that move crud up and out are starting to work again. Tobacco paralyzes them which is why smokers are so prone to respiratory infections and the like. Today was also the first time in years I didn't wake up with a sinus headache, so another landmark reached. So...onward and upwards. Who will join me and the tobacco free party? I quit the last two times to make husband happy. I wasn't doing it for me. I think that is the difference. I think cigs are just like any other addictive substance: one has to hit some sort of bottom and decide to do it for oneself. For me my bottom was seeing and hearing how tobacco use, even after all those years clean, has ravaged my mum's health. I could still wind up that way if I live long enough, but I'd like to have 20 healthy years before that happens. [/QUOTE]
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