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G’day NOPE .....Not One Puff Ever.... (replace Ever with Min,Hour, Day as required).

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Hey @Brioski nice to meet you and welcome back Are you day 7 today, how are you getting on?

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Welcome back Brioski, it’s great to see you on the train again. Keep thinking positive thoughts, keep busy, and don’t forget to give yourself lots of rewards, you are doing something great for yourself.

Thank you They did, but also taking a drive/getting out of the house and the rescue anxiety med helped too. I get inside my own head too that I have all these different health ailments when I prob see my dr more than the average person and have a great, 30 yr relationship w him, for which I feel very lucky. Anyway, thank you for your help jillar I hope I’m not the craziest person on this site

Sorry you have had to deal with what was a scarey time for you. Folks here who have suffered with Anxiety attacks swear by deep breathing exercises.. Well done on your 1st week smoke free.

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Hey @WeegieWoman and all Yes, today/tonight is day 7, feeling ok. Just had a bout of anxiety/panic attack about 2 hrs ago. Couldn’t breathe, oxygen went lower than normal (I have that finger oximeter thingy) and w my recent hospital trips I got nervous and made it worse I think. I even looked up and said “why?! I’ve been stopped smoking for 7 days! Why?!” I’m good now, went for a drive and ended up at my fiancés business (luckily no one else is here since I’m in pjs and mascara running down my face lol). I have no idea why it came on today. I have had crying episodes some these past few days bc of not being able to smoke but it passes relatively quickly and I do deep breathing which really helps….it was not like the attack today. also all the reading I’m doing is so helping with helping me understand and know that healing is on its way. Ugh sorry for the run on post. I think I’m doing pretty good w the ‘I’m not smoking today’, feeling good when I get into bed at the end of the day, etc. my next steps are starting to relearn to do things without the cig ie cleaning, organizing closets etc. oh and my convenience store amount of candy I have in my stash lol is helping, too. anyway, hi friends, hope everyone’s having a marvelous, not manic, Monday

Seems like the phantosomia is less frequent lately. I have been taking tons of vitamins/supplements and "NAC (N-acetyl-L-cysteine) is one of them. (insert thumbs up here). My covid 19 case was mild and felt fine after a few days, then months later all the sudden I could not breath, felt like I had a bad flu, any exertion put me into an almost asthma like attack. After many Doctors and plans, one Dr. finally told me this is being caused by Covid (but could not put it in writing) ......... that is when I started my own research dropped the Doctors and found Long Covid (all my symptoms). After 2 days of taking the ivermectin I could breathe again and the recovery process started. Then I added all the vitamins and supplements suggested that have been helping a lot. What a ride this has been glad to be on the upswing now. https://covid19criticalcare.com/

Hello train members, I was here just about a year ago, after a hospital stay that gave me a five day head start, stayed free for about 18 (?) days and relapsed. I felt so embarrassed and like a loser, I never logged back in to quit train. Smoked all the way until Monday night at 8:45pm. Woke up in the middle of the night feeling like I was being choked, went to er, and they kept me for just shy of two days for observation. I have panic disorder/anxiety, but I also have asthma. Whilst smoking, how dumb dumb is that. It’s time to stop. What am I doing to myself. I’m on day 3 right now. I’ve just been reading here (officially logged in today though) and also reading on another platform that rhymes with schmeddit (hope that’s ok to say lol) to pass the time. Also eating and watching tv, went to some dr appts, and a friends’ moms funeral. I don’t know how I feel. I don’t want to be woe is me. But it’s a little woe/woah. I’m not sure what to do. I know what not to do. Sorry if this is wrong to say but I loveee smoking, I just hate being a smoker. It’s done for me right now. And I feel like I also can’t say “nope” yet, bc it’s literally hour by hour, day by day. I saw, I think it was denali, that said not one puff right now or today or something and I related to that. thanks guys

Hi, @Brioski. So sorry you are having a tough day. I don’t have any advice for anxiety attacks (would use the tools your doc suggests and follow the tips from folks here with firsthand experience). But I can say that in the first while after I quit, my breathing felt extremely strange at times. Sort of floaty, like I was taking in O2 but it was not “gripping” somehow. I believe it had something to do with the fact that I was a heavy menthol smoker. It took me a while to recalibrate to breathing without the pinchy feeling from smoke, menthol and chemicals. I had to get reacquainted with clean chemical-free oxygen. This weird feeling got better. But during the transition, I appreciated aromatherapy inhalers and diffusers. Different essential oils have different properties and appeal to different people. But for what it’s worth, I found rose, grapefruit and sweet birch (wintergreen) scents to be helpful during the early weeks of my quit. Lavender, rosemary and jasmine also. In any case, I’m wishing you ease and a good night’s sleep. Take care.

@jillar wow that actually makes me feel way better. I saw/read for a few ppl breathing got worse before it got better so maybe that’s what’s happening too. And just now I start to feel it come on again. Using your pursed lip technique and telling myself it’ll be ok and I’m ok. I hate this.

Thank you @jillar I have an anti anxiety med for as needed/rescue and I’ve also just been put on a daily anxiety med like 2 weeks ago so hopefully those help. I’m also ashamed to say I have an inhaler and nebulizer for breathing stuff, which I was sometimes using and then shortly after go smoke *cringe*. I never told anyone that. Man, do I feel like shit knowing what I was/am doing to myself. Hopefully I’m on the track to freedom. I am committed, but saying that “ever” is just daunting and grim to think about forever. Idk. I sound like a basket case, huh.

@Brioski, wow sounds like you had quite a scare today. As someone with breathing issues I can relate to how scary it is to suddenly not be able to breathe. The anxiety goes through the roof which only makes trying to catch my breath harder to do. Instead I've found that if I stay still and do pursed lip breathing while telling myself I'm ok it helps calm me faster. You might give that a try to see if it works for you. If your anxiety or SOB gets too bad you can ask your Dr about a temporary anxiety med and a rescue inhaler until your system gets back to normal

DenaliBlues 2977 Quit Date: February 10, 2022 Posted December 26, 2022 For years I thought that I was making a free choice to smoke. But my dependence was much deeper than that - chemical, emotional, ritual. I cannot be a casual smoker because I, too, am an addict. I know this because I exhibited many of the classic signs of addiction: I kept smoking even though it made me feel terrible and was harming my health. Whenever nicotine ran low in my system, I would get agitated and jittery. The only thing that really mattered to me in those moments was getting my next fix. I made irrational decisions about smoking. Like spending money on smokes even when money was frightfully tight and I was having a hard time making ends meet. Or going outside in hurricane-force winds to smoke, even though it was stupidly dangerous to do so. I isolated myself from friends and family, prioritizing my drug (nicotine) over those family relationships. I was not always truthful about how much I had smoked. Every time I tried to set limits or ration my smoking, I would inevitably revert to my baseline use. "Just one" would turn into "just one more" would turn into "Well, I've already blown it for today so I'll cut back tomorrow" would turn into a pack or more a day. Breaking free of this bondage is a real gift of quitting. The addiction is part of me, lurking on the sidelines, able to be reactivated if I smoke even one. So I stay vigilant and say NOPE - Not One Puff Ever - to stay free. Link to original post: https://www.quittrain.com/blogs/entry/1108-we-can-not-be-casual-smokers/

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Welcome back @Brioski and congratulations on day 3. I loved smoking too but knew I needed to quit. I thought about it as all good(?!) things must come to an end and then would think about the things I don't do anymore like riding dirt bikes or amusement rides or smoking.....