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Hey there surgery date of Aug 26th here had my class this past Friday and this is when I was told people having this surgery need to quit so I haven't had a cigg all day I'm doing semi ok but it's hard when others smoke as well how did all of you smokers out there handle it?

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I had surgery August 22, 2014 and started vaping in June in order to quit smoking by my surgery. I just tapered down the nicotine in the vape until I was down to 0. Then I lost interest in the vape.

Over 2 years smoke free and I'm prouder of that than the weight loss :) Good Luck!

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Lol no worries I have my vape as well but I just went straight no nicotine my surgery is so close that I'm scared to even have 1 cigg but ugh it's so hard I hate being grumpy lol

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It IS hard! On top of it I was on a medically supervised diet per my insurance. Can you imagine?? Trying to quit smoking AND dieting? It's no wonder I didn't kill someone.

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My Dr said I had to not smoke for 2 weeks before surgery, so I basically told myself I could do anything for 2 weeks. Sometime in that process I realized I didn't want to have to go through quitting again and decided to stick with it. I truly hated not smoking for the better half of 3 months but I'm glad I stuck with it. I used toothpicks to get past the hard times in the car. You'll be better for it, but just remember just because quitting feels bad, it doesn't mean it is bad

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