Since the community here has been helpful I thought I'd share a tip.
The road to quitting my go to brand of cigarettes has not been easy. Snus has played a very big role and I'm grateful but I also did something else.
When I finally acknowledged to myself (this is an important step in itself) that I wanted to give up smoking I knew cold turkey was not an option. So for whatever reason I decided to ditch my big name cigarette brand and switch to a all natural tobacco cigarette (and snus). Man was I in for a shocking surprise. The first 2 weeks after the switch was truly awful. Headaches, irritability, restlessness, weakness, nausea, you name it I felt it. I thought every second of every day about going and getting a pack of my usual brand. Something got me thinking that I WAS STILL getting nicotine from the snus and natural tobacco cigarettes, so what the hell was going on? 'll let you decide what I was truly addicted to. Could it have been something else the big company was adding to there tobacco?
It's been nearly 2 months since I last had anything but a natural tobacco cigarette (no additives) and snus and I'm finally starting to not want those cigarettes anymore. I was smoking between 20-30 cigarettes everyday and now am under 5. Have my first child on the way sometime in the next 2 weeks and finally am starting to feel better. And something else, once you get "used to" the natural tobacco cigarettes something strange happens, you don't feel like you "need one" very often, if at all.
I know that everyone's addiction, body, etc are different but my best advice is to just tough it out once you've made up your mind. I see nothing wrong with cutting down slowly or switching to a natural brand like I did. It's still better than smoking however many you were. One fact is for certain, without snus and the natural tobacco cigarettes I would still be smoking 1-2 packs daily.
The road to quitting my go to brand of cigarettes has not been easy. Snus has played a very big role and I'm grateful but I also did something else.
When I finally acknowledged to myself (this is an important step in itself) that I wanted to give up smoking I knew cold turkey was not an option. So for whatever reason I decided to ditch my big name cigarette brand and switch to a all natural tobacco cigarette (and snus). Man was I in for a shocking surprise. The first 2 weeks after the switch was truly awful. Headaches, irritability, restlessness, weakness, nausea, you name it I felt it. I thought every second of every day about going and getting a pack of my usual brand. Something got me thinking that I WAS STILL getting nicotine from the snus and natural tobacco cigarettes, so what the hell was going on? 'll let you decide what I was truly addicted to. Could it have been something else the big company was adding to there tobacco?
It's been nearly 2 months since I last had anything but a natural tobacco cigarette (no additives) and snus and I'm finally starting to not want those cigarettes anymore. I was smoking between 20-30 cigarettes everyday and now am under 5. Have my first child on the way sometime in the next 2 weeks and finally am starting to feel better. And something else, once you get "used to" the natural tobacco cigarettes something strange happens, you don't feel like you "need one" very often, if at all.
I know that everyone's addiction, body, etc are different but my best advice is to just tough it out once you've made up your mind. I see nothing wrong with cutting down slowly or switching to a natural brand like I did. It's still better than smoking however many you were. One fact is for certain, without snus and the natural tobacco cigarettes I would still be smoking 1-2 packs daily.
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