darkshadow: funny you should ask (nor really funny at all..). i happen to remember the exact date of my stopping: january 11, 1964! after 18 years and 2 1/2 packs a day of smoking, that's the date the surgeon-general's report on smoking and your health was published. i actually read enough of it to realize that i was a fool to smoke and threw out my last half of a pack in the trash and never smoked again. did i have withdrawal, you ask? not that i understood at the time. i just gained 60 pounds over the next 60days with constant eating and eating and eating. it took me more than a year to lose that weight but i finally stopped yoyo'ing my weight after about 6 or 7 years. my wife, at the time i stopped, was pregnant with our first child and i decided i didn't want to subject my children to the smell and taste of tobacco so i just stopped. i think that fear of withdrawal is the biggest thing holding folks from stopping smoking. i had NO physiological withdrawal symptoms and if i had understood that i would have needed something to keep in my mouth (i guess that makes me "oral), i might not have gained so much weight. good luck! |
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