Quit Smoking!

PROGRESS:

Week 14 (21 March 2015)

 I've just passed the 3rd month without smoking. My symptoms seem to be easing. I developed a skin rash on the face earlier which cleared up quite a bit in the third month. Sometimes, I still feel shortness of breath while at rest. The strongest trigger for cravings for me is stress.

Symptoms during the first 2 months:

• Mild depression
• Chest feels congested
• Cravings
• Rashes on the face

Week 2 (18 Dec 2014)

• Nasal congestion/stuffy nose
• Throat a bit sore
• Mild phlegm-induced coughing
• Not in the greatest mood
• Concentration improved a little
• Heart rate remained lower than before quit
• Overall withdrawal symptoms noticeably reduced

To stop tobacco addiction, governments should make tobacco a controlled substance, only available with a prescription to existing addicted smokers. This way, youngsters & non-smokers will not have access to tobacco products and nicotine addiction will be eliminated in one generation of current smokers.

Week 1 (28 Nov 2014 to 4 Dec 2014)

• Feeling tired, sleepy
• Extremely cranky
• Brain fog, trouble concentrating
• Easily irritated & angry
• Slept more than usual
• Hungry throughout the day
• Sense of taste less sensitive
• Noticed heart-rate dropped 10bps compared to before quit
• Eyesight seemed to be weaker

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Being addicted to any substance is never a good thing. Be it drugs, alcohol, nicotine, sugar, caffeine, etc.

Among all the substance addictions, drugs are the most dangerous. Second is alcohol. Third is nicotine.

It is the smokers who are the most demonised, bullied and discriminated by society, governments, and groups of pricks. It because of propaganda. When was the last anti-drug campaign you remember? Compared to the 80s and 90s, there are hardly any meaningful campaigns against grugs since then. And drugs abuse are flourishing worldwide.

Focus had been shifted to cigarettes and smokers instead. And these group of pricks were obviously delightfully championing it.

Smokers are easy targets because they are ordinary people.

For example, what are the odds that these self-righteous pricks walking up to a drug-addict to tell him off for doing drugs? On the other hand, these same pricks will bravely tell-off a smoker or show their disdain openly. Discrimination. Bullying. Classic.

Anyway, wouldn't it be logical if the governments were to use all those taxes from cigarettes collected to help the smokers quit, or render medical care for them? The taxes are collected from smokers anyways. Trust me when I say, smokers want to quit!

But you see, governments need the taxes! That's why they legalise tobacco. If it were for the good of the people, tobacco should be banned, like drugs.

So, I suggest those anti-smoking pricks to focus their hostility and anger at the government instead. I challenge you pricks to pressure the government to ban & make tobacco products ILLEGAL! That is the only way to stop people from smoking! Smokers will be grateful to you!

Everyone are hypocrites! If alcohol is bad, then ban it! Same with cigarettes, gambling, etc.

Here's something for smokers thinking of quitting: http://www.achoice2live.com/

To those pricks who think quitting nicotine is easy, "FCUK OFF & DIE!"

oh, by the way, I'm 7 days nicotine-free. It's not that bad really....