I just need to share my excitement with someone...I’m 5 days smoke free in preparation for surgery. My surgeon said we can schedule surgery after I’ve been smoke free for 3 months. I’m finally on my way to 3 months! It took me about 3 weeks since my first appointment to finally quit but I did it. This is something I NEVER thought I could do but with the help of Chantix I did it.

Next I need to ween myself off of diet sodas. I drink diet soda like it’s water so this is going to be really hard for me as well. Does anyone have any tips on weening yourself off of the stuff?

To be honest, I was unsure how this was going to go once I was told I’d have to quit smoking but now that I have, I really feel like I can do anything. This is the first time in a long time that I have felt that way! I’m just so excited and proud of myself that I had to share :)

Amazing. CONGRATS!

Try Seltzer until you can get to the point where you drink just water.

I had to quit the diet cokes too. I switched to smart water sparkling...

Congrats on quitting smoking. It can be pretty tough giving up our demons. They sometimes tend to haunt us, but stay strong. You for sure got this!!! Just keep in mind the great new life your working towards. Good luck with giving up the sodas as well.

Congratulations!!!! As someone who kicked both in the last year, quitting soda was muuuuuch easier than quitting smoking! So you’ve totally got this!

I basically just weaned myself off of Coke Zero before surgery. I’m sure I drank some during pre-op, but I knew post-surgery I could not have it... and I haven’t touched it so far! :)

Congratulations!

I just need to share my excitement with someone...I’m 5 days smoke free in preparation for surgery. My surgeon said we can schedule surgery after I’ve been smoke free for 3 months. I’m finally on my way to 3 months! It took me about 3 weeks since my first appointment to finally quit but I did it. This is something I NEVER thought I could do but with the help of Chantix I did it.

Next I need to ween myself off of diet sodas. I drink diet soda like it’s Water so this is going to be really hard for me as well. Does anyone have any tips on weening yourself off of the stuff?

To be honest, I was unsure how this was going to go once I was told I’d have to quit smoking but now that I have, I really feel like I can do anything. This is the first time in a long time that I have felt that way! I’m just so excited and proud of myself that I had to share

I also quit smoking n I'm so haplysince I did it...I gained 14 pounds n lost all but 4 pounds..my surgery date is the 26 of Oct n I never thought I get here... u will be challenged at time n sometimes I gave in n smoked one but I could go days m months without it's just hard when yur around it ... chantix helped me

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Congratulations! I'm at day 9 of not smoking. Try seltzer instead of diet soda or just ice-cold water. Might as well try to get used to it now if you can.

On 10/7/2018 at 10:14 PM, Ed_NW said:

I had to quit the diet cokes too. I switched to smart Water sparkling...

Be careful with the carbonation... it's a big no no typically.

On 10/7/2018 at 9:29 PM, Kmartin6168 said:

I just need to share my excitement with someone...I’m 5 days smoke free in preparation for surgery. My surgeon said we can schedule surgery after I’ve been smoke free for 3 months. I’m finally on my way to 3 months! It took me about 3 weeks since my first appointment to finally quit but I did it. This is something I NEVER thought I could do but with the help of Chantix I did it.

Next I need to ween myself off of diet sodas. I drink diet soda like it’s Water so this is going to be really hard for me as well. Does anyone have any tips on weening yourself off of the stuff?

To be honest, I was unsure how this was going to go once I was told I’d have to quit smoking but now that I have, I really feel like I can do anything. This is the first time in a long time that I have felt that way! I’m just so excited and proud of myself that I had to share

Congrats!

Congrats on quitting smoking!

I second the opinion on switching to flavored carbonated water, like La Croix.

BUT, before your surgery you'll have to stop that, too, because carbonation is a no-no. But once you get off the caffeine/sugars from the diet sodas, it'll be so much easier to stop drinking the carbonated water because there's nothing addicting about it... except that it tastes good, lol.