I quit smoking, along with some other bad habbits.

I told myself that Wednesday was my quit date and it's the last time I had a smoke. This is my second day smoke free, and I read that the hardest time for someone addicted to cigarettes is the first two weeks so I figure if I get through that I'm home free. Any tips, support, or prayers would mean a lot, I really want to beat this thing. I'm quitting a lot of bad habbits in a short amount of time.

I quit drinking Kava a few weeks back which I was highly addicted to for 2 years, and I lowered my intake of caffeine and sugar by a huge margin for the first time since I was a young adult. I was told that high amounts of sugar and caffeine are not only addictive but can have a serious effect on those with depression, and obviously a bad effect on health in general.

With all I've changed in the last month statistics say I should fail with well over half of those with addiction problems either relapsing, or failing to get better altogether. I don't want to be one of those statistics. There may be days where I take in a bit more sugar, that's so hard to get away from, but I feel like I'm on the right track with that. I need prayers for the more serious things mostly. The Kava would have eventually killed me, the cigarettes could kill me as well if I go back to them. I've told myself and others that I dont want these things back in my life, any additional support or prayers here would mean a lot. This is very hard but with some support from friends and family I feel hopeful I can do it.

Update on this, since Wednesday night I've had one cigarette, this is a hard habbit to break, probably one of the hardest. I did smoke one a Friday night unfortunately but feel I've made massive progress and will beat this habbit. For others with addiction problems a setback does not need to be seen as an enourmous failure. I think if a person wants to quit doing something, it's very possible if you keep trying. I will, I'll have support from those around me which will help a great deal, God and determination will take care of the rest.

That's really good advice, I'm doing that and feel I'm having sucsess with it. Taking walks is helping a lot, and staying busy. The worst of it is said to be the first couple weeks, it's been a week for me now. This is hard, and it would be easy to get a pack, I live right next to a gas station. So far so good though, I've had stressful moments in the last week that would usualy have me grabbing a smoke. I think I'll be able to do it

To confess I do have that Oral fixation in the form of e-cigarettes. I haven't decided if it's a good or bad thing yet, I'm reading that it's better than smoking acording to initial reports. I got some of this info from WebMD which I consider a reliable source of information.

The thinking is that it wont give you Cancer but you are still getting nicotine (a smaller amount of it) but it's still in my system which gives me mixed thougts. Nicotine alone without the cancer causing smoke is still bad for you. It's not good for the heart. More research on it needs to be done, but my feeling is that I made a step in the right direction.

The good news here is that I can slowly taper off of this as well, they offer different liquids that have different levels of nicotine in them. Usually 24mg, 18mg, 8mg, 4mg, then 0mg liquids that you refill your e-cigs with. Right now im on the 24mg liquids, im still getting less nicotine the a cigarette with that but I'm thinking in a month I'll lower it down to 18mg strenth, and continue to lower it untill I get to 0. At that point I'll just be inhaling vapor, so I'm hoping this will work.

Thank you very much. I like the change I made too, it's still a crutch but it's a step in the right direction. I pray out loud too sometimes, I have a way to go on my faith though. I have differences with some Christians, but I'm learning that those who have a solid faith are very accepting in general, and most of them seem happy. It's something I'm leaning toward and wanting, to be happy more than I am. I'm glad you kicked your habbit too, it's a hard one to stop.