Air Bud
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Reply 2 of 52 (Originally posted on: 03-28-09 09:11:04 AM)
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My mom just recently quit smoking (it's been two months now) and I have to admit, watching what she was going through for the first 2-3 weeks was incredibly difficult for me, so I can only imagine what she was going through. She was having mood swings, loss of appetite, anxiety attacks, heightened blood pressure, and a variety of other awful side effects.
The first two weeks are the worst to endure, then the effects start to decrease steadily, but are still uncomfortable. After about four weeks, you are done and then you enter the world of having to fight a psychological addiction, which in some ways is almost worse than the physical manifestation of the addiction. You literally have to WANT to quit, because if you don't truly want to quit, you will find it easy to say, "eh, one more cigarette won't hurt," and the cycle begins again until you find yourself five years from now trying to quit again.
My advice: as difficult as it is, quit cold turkey. If you ween yourself off slowly, you're only prolonging the detox. It's a personal choice though between either a prolonged mild (I use this term loosely) detox or a quick excruciating detox. The choice is yours.
I suggest quitting cold turkey. That's what my mom did and that's what I did. Frankly, if the will to quit is there, overcoming the psychological addiction is easy, so you just need to convince yourself that the physical pangs are temporary.
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