I quit Smoking after 32 years on December 8th. For 11 years I smoked cigarettes and in 1995 I switched to Cheap Swisher wood tip cigars, yes I inhaled them. My digestive system has been attempting normalize but it's still not there yet. I had no idea that this would be the result of quitting smoking and if I understand correctly not everybody goes through what I've encountered. I have abdominal pain and endless amounts of stomach gas resulting in constant long and deep belching. Often this excess gas makes it into the digestive track which then results in bloating . I'm glad I quit but I never saw this one coming.I quit smoking two weeks ago and the only side effect is that I feel better. Much better. The withdrawal lasted 72 hours, and I've had cravings but to call either intense or severe would be an exaggeration. I quit smoking weed after one crazy night when I was 19. Basically, I spent several hours toking up with a towering, harmonica-playing homeless man in an abandoned house with no electricity. My djembe-carrying friend and I had met the crazy dude while we were busking on the street. And being hippie stoners, it didn't seem weird at all for us to follow him back to a creepy bando and spark up. But by 2 or 3 AM, my friend, the djembe player, had abandoned me to drop another one of our friends off. So I was just sitting alone in this decrepit building with my new acquaintance, who resembled a wizard and would have stood around 6'6" if he hadn't been hunched over with an enormous tree branch walking stick.
I quit smoking using hypnosis 6 months ago after 26 years. The only real side effects up until now were dreams of smoking and being upset about it even in waking. Now I have this brutal cough (coughing to the point of gagging) that throws me into a type of asthma attack I have never experienced before. Its almost like trying to smoke while dealing with bronchitis, but bronchitis flare-ups from cigarette smoke lasted only a few minutes without needing my inhaler, while this lasts until I over use my inhaler and for several minutes after.
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The How to Quit Smoking Hypnosis has taught me the psychological and physical addiction side to smoking and has helped me understand why my body craved nicotine. I smoked for 20 years. Now I don't even want a cigarette. I don't even want to be around people that smell like smoke. That makes me almost sick to my stomach. When my body does crave nicotine it doesn't crave a cigarette, just the nicotine and I let that feeling pass through me. It goes away within a couple minutes. Cigarettes no longer dictate my life. I love letting my hair down and it still smells like shampoo.
"I actually quit smoking a few days before I found the hypnosis downloads. I started doing yoga for the first time in my life and it really changed how I deal with situations. It has inspired me to use healthier outlets instead of toxic crutches to deal with my stressors.
"The truth is that quit smoking programs, like other programs that treat addictions, often have fairly low success rates. But that doesn't mean they're not worthwhile or that you should be discouraged. Your own success in quitting and staying that way is what really counts, and you have some control over that. Even if you don't succeed the first few times, keep trying. You can learn from your mistakes so that you'll be ready for those pitfalls next time.
Most people try to quit smoking several times before they kick the habit for good, so don't beat yourself up if you start smoking again. Turn the relapse into a rebound by learning from your mistake. Analyze what happened right before you started smoking again, identify the triggers or trouble spots you ran into, and make a new stop-smoking plan that eliminates them.
