Is it med side effects or the illness that makes you smoke?

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I’ve had a couple times I craved one, but remembered how smelly it is.

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I quit for 6 months. I felt so happy and noticed even though I didnt feel like my normal self, I wasnt having as much symptoms or stress. It really taxes the heart and lungs. I want to be back at that level of happiness again, and Im trying to be patient with myself…

Another member mentioned its the idle time but it does correlate with the illness I think…or the illness makes it harder to quit.

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I’ve smoked for 38 years. Most of the time I smoked 60 ciggs a day. For 24 yesrs I smoked tobacco pipe. The pipe tobacco was very cheap with a price tag of only 12 us $$$. I’ve rarely touched alcohol for 20 years and this made it possible the send 50.000 $$ to my niece Louise’s education over a period of 10 years.
today I smoke 20 ciggs aday and 20 nicotine gumm a day. one packet of cigarets cost 11 us dollars.

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I must tell you that I couldn’t walk the line so now I’m back on 60 cigs(33 $$$) pr day so I’ll just say that I’m going down in a blaze of Glory.

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The illness makes it harder to quit. Motivation is a symptom or lack of. So it makes sense the illness exacerbates the failure in attempting to quit, that doesnt mean you should stop trying though. Because sometimes, when theres a will. Theres a way.

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Helps with appetite seems like, also stress and anxiety causes me to smoke

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I smoking before illness but I think the illness or meds makes smoking more, like self medication effects

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Stress makes us smoke or vape. I’ve smoked almost everyday for the last 34 years. I can stop with a vape pen. I started smoking way before I was on meds.

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