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More10/3/19
Hi Leigh! Thank you. I look forward to my 260th day! If I can just get through today!
10/4/19
you are doing awesome, keep up the good work, hopefully it gets a bit easier as the weeks add up ! sounds like you are doing everything right and have a great attitude!
10/4/19
Welcome October ex smokers,
One of the best things about our forum is all the tips from former smokers we can use to beat this wicked addiction.
Here's a wonderful list ModJenn put together that should come in handy.
Quit Toolbox
10/4/19
Hi Julian welcome to this amazing forum. You have made the best decision ever to start you life as a non smoker! Read as much as you can about quitting and other people’s stories and post as often as you want too. You can do this.
Linda
10/4/19
Here I am. I made it! Over a month quit. Not even counting the days. I know I'm going all the way. I wish I could report that I feel better though. I am still short of breath. I fear that I have a respertory disease and it's too late. I wasn't diagnosed with one, but because I smoked so long, people assume I do. Some folks said they started feeling better after six months or so.
10/5/19
Hang in there it does get better. I quit August 1 I was okay for about three weeks then it felt like I was getting a cold. Well by the first weekend in September I couldn't breathe, couldn't lie down I was choking and coughing, couldn't catch my breath for nothing. Ended up at the doctors they said sinus infection got medication that seemed to help a little but a week later back at the doctors i was now in addition to everything else having panic attacks with breathing. Well they said viral bronchitis got a nebulizer treatment, and oral steroid in office. After being on new medication for a week I finally started feeling better. Its now first week in October, I'm sleeping through the night coughing is finally starting to calm down and I can walk around and do things. So give it time but take care of yourself and do what your body wants.
10/5/19
Good for you! Over a month! I fear I have a respiratory disease too. I’ve been waking up at 3 or 4 am wheezing and in a panic. I take a steroidal inhaler that seemed like it wasn’t working.. My left chest started to hurt and I got extremely panicked. So I took an anti anxiety pill and drank ginger turmeric tea which helped me breathe. The pill helped me go back to sleep. I’m really scared it’s too late for me.