Hey ex-smokers....

[dolo amber]

When you quit, did you notice a dramatic increase in your energy level? I've just noticed the past couple days; when I wake up, I usually do a few things before I go outside to have my *eye-opener*, but after I smoke, I'm ready to go back to sleep. I do have ADD, and stimulants can have the reverse effect on me sometimes...so maybe that's it, I dunno.

(I was just wondering if quitting effects your overall energy level, I have no idea where I went off the deep end there...^^ :D)

Thanks. :hi:

edited for crap grammar. x(

[LynneSin]

1. You're quitting???!!!! Congratulations and good luck

it's tough those first couple of weeks but in the long run you'll be greatful you gave it up!!!

[dolo amber]

2. Thinking seriously about it...

I know it's stupid to make excuses, but I'd really like to wait until I'm employed...all this sitting around the house freakin' bored outta my skull might be counter-conducive to trying just now. And I don't want to try and fail, so I think I'd need to be busy with something (like say, a JOB!!) to keep my mind off of it as much a possible, y'know?

[Blue-Jay]

4. I smoke more at work than I do at home.

It's a stress thing. If you're going to quit, you should just go ahead and do it now. Man, nothing beats a work-stress-smoke. (aside from the obvious)

[terrya]

3. Congratulations on quitting smoking!

I don't have any answers to your question.

But I just want to congratulate you on your decision to quit.

And to offer you encoragement.

:-)

Terry

[dolo amber]

8. Thanks Terry

I'll need all the encouragement I can get when the time comes...I love to smoke. :(

;)

[supernova]

5. Yay, Dolo!

Congrats on quitting smoking. :bounce:

I've never smoked so I don't have any suggestions on that front. However I have quit several other unproductive habits. It does help to replace the old habit with something else that is not destructive, like a hobby. Doesn't matter if you're good at it or not, it just has to be something you enjoy doing.

[dolo amber]

9. Thanks supe

You do know that one of the all-time greatest smoking quotes ever comes from your boy JD, right?

"I love to smoke...if I could have another mouth grafted onto my head so I could smoke twice as much, I would."

:D

[wysimdnwyg]

6. At first...

I think I was a little bit more energetic simply from withdrawal. The adrenaline got going every time I really wanted a smoke. After a few days, things evened out. In the long run, though, as my body has become healthier from not poisoning it 20 times per day, I have more energy.


I encourage you to quit smoking as soon as possible - put that cigarette down! - and join the ranks of us who no longer hack up a lung five times a day, feel better, save money, don't annoy others and, quite frankly, smell better than we have in years.

:thumbsup:

[dolo amber]

10. Thanks wysimdnwyg

I promised myself I'd stop before my *mumbles-th* b'day...well, I've missed that milestone, but I know one day I really will stop. If nothing else it'll get so prohibitively expensive at some point (which I can see from here) that I'll have to stop.

Thanks for the encouragement. :)

[Whitacre D_WI]

7. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

:P

[dolo amber]

11. Thanks Whita...oh, bite me

:P

[RandomKoolzip]

12. I smoked a pack and a half of Marlboro 100's a day for six years.

And when I quit, I found I was an agoraphobic wretch with severe anxiety issues. Still, I'm glad I don't smoke anymore....although, man, I really really miss thast first cig in the morning....God, I used to loove that feeling.

And no, I didn't have more energy, but I did have more money to fool around with. It's an expensive habit.

[dolo amber]

13. Criminy

That's a lotta smokin'...

I don't smoke nearly a pack and a half a day, more like a half pack. I'm just wondering about the tiredness thing. Since I hit a brick wall with Ritalin a few years ago, and none of the others I've tried have really worked, I just wondered if smoking was possibly the source of the severe blahs I have these days.

I'm prolly just gettin' old and decrepit. ;)

[RandomKoolzip]

14. Well, congrats on trying to quit.

It sounds like Seasonal Affective Disorder...y'know, getting sad cuz it's wintertime. I never realized how the weather affected my mood and my energy level until I noticed how much sleep I got in January-February. Doesn't it seem like the entire month of february is just one gloomy, cold, grey, useless, depressing day after another? February has always seemed that way to me. It's like the sun never comes out and I'm trapped in some German expressionist artwork with lots of monochromatic faces and straight grey lines everywhere. I'd rather be asleep than go anywhere NEAR outside the bedroom.However, the fog lifts somewhere around March 8th or so every year....trust me on this!


Or maybe I'm fulla shit and it IS medication. Hell, I dunno.

[burythehatchet]

15. I definitely have more energy

and I sleep a lot better...probably the two are related.