You’re not alone. 411,000+ real posts from people who showed up for each other. Read a thread, share a win, leave a tip - your words could be the nudge someone needs today.

today's top discussions:

logo

Coping With Depression When Everyday Tasks Feel Overwhelming

robertowens12

2026-06-17 8:49 AM

Depression Community

logo

I Was Drowning in Depression for 2 Years - Then THIS One Decision Changed Everything

anthonydefranco

2026-06-17 2:50 AM

Depression Community

logo

addiction

Timbo637

2026-06-06 4:31 PM

Quit Smoking Community

logo

Haven?t told anyone I?m quitting

Timbo637

2026-05-23 3:25 PM

Quit Smoking Community

This Month’s Leaders:

Most Supportive

Most Active

Most Loved

Browse through 411.792 posts in 47.079 threads.

162,780 Members

Please welcome our newest members: GTORREDA, Allison850, leahbdeah, holliecadams, COASTAL

I don't understand what's happening and I have questions


tryagain
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
tryagain
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
19 years ago 0 519 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Thank you all for such sound advice. This is my third day of no cigarettes and I'm feeling much better. I've been concentrating on the fact that withdrawal symptoms are almost a pleasure next to drawing smoke into my lungs. I still want to smoke, but only because an addiction is telling me I should. When I get a craving, which so far has not been bad, I stop and try to imagine the pain I will feel. A pain I felt yesterday when I walked by a crowd of smokers. It wasn't horrible, but it was enough to start me wheezing and coughing. Even so, the whiff was enough to make me want to smoke! It just wasn't enough to make me want to suffer. Yep, I'm crazy all right. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/27/2007 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 2 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 75 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $20 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 7 [B]Mins:[/B] 57 [B]Seconds:[/B] 50
kiwi
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
kiwi
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
19 years ago 0 672 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Im sorry Trygain but when i read your post i thought you were absolutely insane to be smoking when you can't breath, for goodness sake ! but then again, i forgive you cos we're talking about nicotine addiction here. i've seen people fresh out of hospital with half a lung cut out & others with a hole in their throat still sucking on a fag. thats nicotine for you. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/1/2005 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 758 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 18,953 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $4927 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 109 [B]Hrs:[/B] 12 [B]Mins:[/B] 18 [B]Seconds:[/B] 10

  • Quit Meter

    $15,518.40

    Amount Saved

  • Quit Meter

    Days: 789 Hours: 19

    Minutes: 45 Seconds: 7

    Life Gained

  • Quit Meter

    4240

    Smoke Free Days

  • Quit Meter

    63,600

    Cigarettes Not Smoked

Lady
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
Lady
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
19 years ago 0 5195 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
tryagain, This is an amazing post. Your post is screaming for help. The magic cure! I'm sorry to inform you that there is no magic cure. You say you an educated individual so I will write to you as an educated person. You are an addict. It is hard to accept because we like to think we are in control of our lives. I hate to inform you but the only thing in control here is your nicotine addiction. It controls what you do at all times. You have to break free of the enslavement of smoking. You said yourself that after a couple of days of not smoking, you already begin to feel better. Then you go right back to it. That junkie voice inside of you that says you are feeling better now so go ahead and smoke has to be silenced. The only way to silence the junkie within is to deprive it of what it wants. You have to want NOT to smoke. Once your desire not to smoke outweights your desire to smoke, you will quit. Until then you will continue this game. You are educated so I'm sure you already know that what you are doing is killing you and your husband is killing himself as well. Get ticked off at the addiction. Tell it you have had enough take your life back. It belongs to you! [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 7/1/2005 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 576 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 11,531 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $2016 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 52 [B]Hrs:[/B] 1 [B]Mins:[/B] 10 [B]Seconds:[/B] 52
Katy
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
Katy
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
  • My Logo
19 years ago 0 763 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
news flash....same answer as I gave you before....you are a "nicotine addict" cigarette companies don't have to manipulate the nicotine in tobacco.....it's HIGHLY addictive and there is plenty there to hook you. then the cig companies don't have to KEEP you smoking....the addiction will handle that quite nicely. your addiction will keep you smoking through sickness and right on up to the point of death....unless......unless YOU take the CONTROL away from that junky! You want answers....here they are #1...you smoke cause you are an addict #2...you are sick, but you smoke cause you are an addict #3...you quit..but you go back cause you are an addict #4...you aren't crazy...you are an addict What to do about this???? STOP. only YOU can do that.....and doing it now just might assure that your health symptoms disappear for good.....cause if you keep it up, one of these days, quitting won't alleviate them.....why wait till then? Be smart, STOP Katy [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/4/2002 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 1850 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 74,023 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $10545 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 244 [B]Hrs:[/B] 1 [B]Mins:[/B] 26 [B]Seconds:[/B] 1

  • Quit Meter

    $161,833.00

    Amount Saved

  • Quit Meter

    Days: 5596 Hours: 4

    Minutes: 21 Seconds: 29

    Life Gained

  • Quit Meter

    46238

    Smoke Free Days

  • Quit Meter

    924,760

    Cigarettes Not Smoked


Sign in to reply Register new account

Reading this thread:

We use cookies to help us learn about how our platform is used and how we can improve your experience. To learn more please see our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

More Information