This Blog Was An Idiotic Idea It's Time To Quit

So I started this blog in 2012 thinking there would be some cool ways of being a healthy smoker by eating certain foods and supplements. What sounded cool was really a silly idea. I never managed to come up with anything to support getting healthier whilst smoking.

After being a smoker for most of my life I have decided to give quitting a serious try. The one thing I will be using to help me is cranberry juice. Also hopefully posting on this blog will help keep me motivated. I am just going to use cranberry juice because I read online once that it can help:

"This really works because nicotine raises your blood sugar, juice does the same thing. If you keep your blood sugar level, quitting is so much easier. All the craziness and mood swings after quitting are blood sugar related. Usually straightens itself out after a week or two." source: a forum

The above comment on a forum was enough to convince me to try cranberry. I don't expect the drink to have a massive effect. Really my method will be cold turkey and if the juice can help a little that will be great.

Why cold turkey?
I tried Zyban once and it worked until I stupidly had just one cigarette when on holiday. It is a drug you take for something like 3 months and after 8 days or so I just didn't want to smoke anymore.

At the beginning of this year I tried the new drug Chantix. That didn't work at all for me and I am guessing that this is because I had used Zyban in the past. It does seem to work for most other people.

I have tried an electronic cigarette which didn't work for me. I just ended up using it for long haul flights.

I read the Alan Carr stop smoking book and another one. They didn't work for me either.

So that leaves me with holistic treatments (acupuncture, hypnosis etc...) or cold turkey. I have decided to just bite the bullet and go cold turkey. I'm not going to try and con my brain or anything, I am just going to try and ride it out until the cravings are (almost) gone. I doubt they will ever go away 100%.

I will probably start Googling for quitting aids as soon as I start, so I will let you know if anything helps. For now I just want to keep it in my mind that I will probably avoid a drawn out, painful death by quitting whilst still in my mid-thirties.


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