Go ahead I will wait......
How long does nicotine stay in your system
Did you do it? Good. Okay, now multiply the number of days for your case by the amount of money you spend each day on smokes. For example five dollars times 28 days equals 140 dollars. Now add a fat little bonus for quitting; In my case 110 dollars. One month after quitting I spent on myself 250 dollars because I quit smoking. Something else about quitting smoking is since you are not going to the store to buy smokes you are not buying a soda and a snack either. Bottom line, quitting saves you more than just the price of smokes.
Okay. You have a reason. You have a start date. You have the supplies you need. Now you have a goal of how much money to spend on yourself at a point in the future. Now let's talk.
One condition that almost everybody can relate to is having their wisdom teeth removed. We have four teeth that have to come out. The question is how many at a time? One. Two. Four. Each tooth has a unpleasant factor of X. So if you have one wisdom tooth out at a time you have spread the ordeal out to be 4 times X. Or 4X. If you elect to have two at one time You cut in have the time the ordeal will last to become 2 times X. Or 2X. If you have all four removed at once you reduce the ordeal to one weekend. Or to put it another way 1 times X. Or simply X.
Quitting smoking cold turkey is the having all the teeth out at once. If you decide to use the nicotine replacement therapy, or if you decide to take the pills you are choosing to spread the ordeal out. You are making the process become 2X or 4X. Each of the soft landing methods eventually end with the cold turkey step. They just make the step a step and not a leap. Sooner or later a smoker has to break the bonds of nicotine and your addicted body is going to fight you. HARD.
I have heard of people who have had heart attacks and babies with no pain. Heard but not seen. I have read peoples accounts of quitting smoking who said they did not have withdrawal pain. God bless them.
Me, It was real hard. I would not say it was the hardest thing I have ever done but it sure was not easy.
If you decide to quit cold turkey please be aware that several factors will be against you. I don't want to number them because I will not remember all of them. I just want to point out some.
- No soft landing. You are giving the dopimine lady her walking papers.
- Extra hard cravings. No patches or pills
- You will not be pleasant to be around. The secretary will not go quietly.
- You will have to avoid your normal life for a while. Don't tempt yourself.
- This is the quickest way to get nicotine out of your system.
- After a week things will get easier.
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The point I want to make here is sooner or later it all comes down to the cold turkey phase. One day each and every person will have to have that first day with no help. At some point you will have no help or crutch. No smoking. No help. Just you and willpower.
The cold turkey method is blunt. The cold turkey method is harsh. The cold turkey method is the least expensive method. The cold turkey method is the final stage. Why not make it the first and only stage? It ain't easy. If you read enough people's stories you will notice that the day that they finally went without any aids quitting got a lot harder. These people stretched out the process by weeks. True the leap became a step but the trip was lengthened.
Well that's it. I cannot think of anything else. Cold turkey was not the way I wanted to quit, but it was the method I had chosen for me and I would not want it any other way.
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