I started smoking 6 years ago when my husband left me and I had to move back to my hometown. I have never been one that approved of smoking and I used to suffer horrid coughs when I was a child. Now I have a little girl who doesnt have the best of lungs. I think its b/c I smoked most of my pregnancy but the Dr said that isnt true. I have constant post nasal dripage, generally have a wet cough, and right now I have had bronchitis for 4 weeks. My little girl has asthma and always has some sort of cough/wheeze/bronchitis/pneumonia. Both my current husband and myself smoke. Although we dont do it in the house, its still around her outside when she’s out there, in the car even though the windows are done, and on us where she can smell it.
I have been wanting to quit for a long time now but just have never felt the urge to. I actually enjoy smoking but I dont like the addiction to it, like Im a slave to a cigarette just like I’m a slave to food. I dont like that feeling. We are not supposed to have any idols before God and I’m idolizing the cigarettes/food more than God.
I dont know why yesterday I decided it was time to stop. Here’s my normal smoking schedule
On the way to work 1 cig, break at 10am 1cig sometimes 2, lunch at least 2 cigs sometimes 3, on the way to get leah 1/2 to 1 cig, on the way home 1 cig, plus how many I smoke in the evening which is normally about 5.
Yesterday I had none on the way to work, 1/2 at break, the other 1/2 at lunch, and 1/4 that evening (I was planning on smoking the entire thing but my daughter came outside and I had decided I was not going to smoke around her at all)
So far today I had 1/4 at break and 1/4 at lunch so I have only smoked 1/2 a cig today when I normally have smoked 3-4 by this time. I was thinking of only giving myself 3 per day for a week, than go down to 2 per day the next week, then down to 1 per day for the last week, after that no more. Now I can smoke them whenever I want to, it doesnt matter if I have part at 10am and the rest at 5pm, the goal is to dwindle down until I dont need it anymore. I’m also not going to roll-over unused cigarettes. If I dont smoke all Im allowed then thats just gone.
Im hoping to be completely stopped by the end of the month and I know that the urge will be there for sometime especially since my husbadn smokes, but Im hoping that by my quitting he will be inspired to do the same. I already purchased a 10-pk of gum and a co-worker purchased my some nicorette a year ago in hopes that I would kick the habit.
So here we go…………