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Hi all,
I have been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes for around a month now. I am 15 and find it hard to stop smoking. Also my blood glucose levels vary 15 - 27. I cant help but snacking more than i should like having more drinks or food. How long do you have to smoke for for the complications.


Any help would be grateful.
 
Welcome to the forum,shadow. 15 and smoking,how long for? You are already doing damage but if you stop your lungs can be back to normal in a few weeks/months.Have you thought about patches to help you stop?
 
Hi

How are you feeling about being diabetic? I was diagnosed type 1 in August and I can't imagine how it must be for teenagers to have it. I am 28, but I work with teenagers all day long so I know a bit about how things are for you:D.

Obviously you do need to sort out the smoking and snacking, but it takes time to sort things out, so don't feel overwhelmed. Just in the three months since I started on treatment lots of things have improved which seemed impossible at the beginning. It takes a while to learn how to deal with diabetes -I don't feel like I'm there yet but my blood sugar is acceptable.

Have you tried going to the GP to ask for patches? Or is there a friend who can give up with you so you don't feel like you're the only one? Have you tried getting a jar so that you can put in all the money you would have spent on cigarettes? You can use that money to treat yourself after it has built up a bit. Another thing you can try is writing down all the times in the day when you smoke (usually there is a pattern, like before school, break, lunch, way home from school etc) and then try to think of other things to do at that time, like phoning a friend, hanging out with a group who don't smoke, chewing gum etc.

With the snacking, you don't have to stop - I snack all the time, I'm always eating. But I have swapped the snacks for things which don't mess up my blood sugar as much. I eat a lot of fruit/carrot sticks/nuts etc which are much easier to deal with than chocolate and crisps!

Good luch
 
Well wow thanks.

To be honest i do feel alot better than i did before and im really glad i dont go to the toilet about three times in the night and about fifteen in the day.

Do you think it might be better to cut down on gigs and then try stopping?
I dont think i will be able to quit staright away. Anyway cheers and hope to be a good member on this website.

Thanks everyone!
 
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