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Tomorrow, August 9th with be my 100th day without smoking a cigarette.
I am just so upset about the relapse in lyme. When you quit smoking you are looking forward to all the great health benefits and changes for the better in your body, your energy and over all better quality of life. But now that Lyme has reared its ugly head again, I feel awful and am not getting the rewards I was expecting from quitting smoking. I know in the long run it is for the best but it just plain sucks that I can't feel the difference because of lyme.
Just another reason for me to hate this disease!!!
I needed to vent, thanks for listening.
Tara
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Thank you Lymetoo! It is a great accomplishment that I thought I would never achieve. Lyme can't take that away from me!
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I used Chantix to quit. This was all before I found out that my Lyme was back.
I had tried everything else in the past (patch, gum, lozenges, Zyban) but this one really worked for me.
Thanks for the reply!!
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Today- August 10th, is exactly 9 months smoke free for me. I smoked for 24 years and quit cold-turkey last Nov.10th. I ended up in the hospital and on IV STEROIDS for 5 days. THAT and prayer is what made me able to quit.
Congratulations on your 100th day!!!! I DO know what you mean about wanting to really enjoy the benefits of not smoking. I have not gotten those yet either......but I refuse to go back to that awful habit at this point.
I don't want to have to ever go thru the "quitting process" again!!
Hang in there!!!
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Dizzy,
Congratulations on giving up the cigarettes; that's something I really understand. I smoked 2+ packs a day for years and quit, cold turkey, 18 years ago.
I was NOT a joy to be around for a few months after that, but then things leveled out.
It has to be discouraging about the resurgence of your Lyme. One way you might want to think about it, though, is this: you really don't want to be putting all the money and time and effort into treating Lyme... only to be taken down by lung cancer.
At least now, you're significantly reducing the likelihood that will ever happen.
Good for you, and congratulations again!
Andie
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I am sure that not smoking will also help with healing since smoking takes oxygen out of your blood. The more oxygen in my blood the better to kill the little buggers!!
Thanks everyone! I know it is a major accomplishment.
Smoking is what killed my mother at the age of 57. And I know my dad, who passed away May 1, 2006 of parkinsons, would be so happy that I quit (he was a non-smoker). I had smoked a pack a day for 20+ years. I do miss it sometimes like an old friend but I know I can do with out.
Good thing I quit when I did cause if I'd known in May that my Lyme was coming back, I probably would not have been as determined to quit. So at least I got it done while I still had the energy to fight the cravings.
I would never want to go through the quitting process again either. Day #2 was absolutely the hardest day.
Thanks again to everyone!
Tara
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