The next milestone is at 24 hours - the risk of having a heart attack decreases. To help further that I'll be taking some CoQ-10 capsules to give my body some extra assistance, since it's had plenty of assistance to be damaged. (Not just from the smoking either.)
I will also be doing some herbal detoxicification and cleansing which has been sorely needed. This process will include spiritual baths and oil therapies. Vitamins and beginning to cut down on some of my other vices of soda made with cola nut, which was a taboo from the beginning.
One point I did want to bring up. I am quitting smoking for the reasons I listed on Day 0, not as a result of awesome smoking cessation advertising, not because of non-smokers who badger and turn their righteous noses up at smokers. Just to give an awesome example. I had a patient in a hospital a while back. I went to take a smoke break and was almost through when I was called hurriedly back to her room. I ran into her room to see what was wrong. When I knelt to assess her currently acute issue, she must've smelled the cigarette smoke and stated, "Oh, you smoke." I said yes, to which she replied, "I have never smoked, it's a bad habit." My response was, "I see how that's working for you."
Although I'm not usually an ass, here's the background to that person. This lady was in her early 40's, and weighed nearly 380 pounds. She was one step away from being put on a ventilator because the weight of her chest would cause her to go into respiratory arrest if she attempted to lay down to sleep, so she slept sitting upright in bed. She walked with great difficulty, to toilet was an ordeal for her. She would be gasping for breath to get from one side of her hospital room to another. I was called back off my smoke break and upstairs because her leg had started splitting open from the skin being stretched beyond its capability due to her weight, and she constantly complained that the hospital was "starving her to death." I was leaning in front of her trying to wrap her leg as fast as I can before it split open any further when she made that comment.
I didn't look down on her and made no judgements about her food addiction, yet she felt compelled to take a self-righteous and indignant stance, complete with facial expression and eye rolling concerning my smoking. If anyone thinks that is going to assist anyone who wants to quit smoking get motivated, hahaha, think again. What helps a smoker quit is gentle, loving support, being there when they go through the work of quitting and gently pointing out the positive steps that have been taken already to give encouragement. Not nagging, jeering, or yelling which I never even did to my boyfriend during his cocaine addiction.
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