I changed little habits one at a time, the things that remind you, you want to smoke. First I stopped smoking on my breaks, but let myself have smoke as much as I wanted besides that. Than I cut smoking in the morning when I woke up. Then after meals ect.. After a year of making little cuts here in there, I was down to smoking about 1 cig a day. On the last night before I quit, I went for a night of gambling, strippers, and drinking. I drank myself sick that night, so sick that a cigarette discussed me the next week as I recovered. A week turned into months, months into years, and now it's been 8 years.
Had 3 cigarettes left in my last pack when I went to bed last night and told myself I would quit today after those 3. I smoked and em and just had Wifey pick me up another pack. I have quit in the past and it was hard. It seems even harder now. I f'in hate it. Searched for HC's thread to see if he still quit, but did not find it, but found this one instead.
I smoked since I was 18. I'm 37 now and I've quit before around 34 for a year, then picked it back up and quit again at 35ish. Its a habit, nothing more, a bad habit. I have two daughters, now 3 and 4 and I said to myself, that I do not want to hug or kiss them with the way smoking makes your breath and body smell. I didn't want them to see me smoking or ask me what that is. But I do also have an occasional cigar, maybe once every two months or so.
Dont set a future date of quitting, cause that can always change, or you will say, OMG, this is my last day, let me smoke up..
na man, just quit, its a bad habit. I feel better, I'm not coughing up mucas every day, I'm active more and I can fuk longer. Plus the wife likes the fact I dont smell like shit anymore.
trust me, my brother still smokes and I dont even have the urge to grab a smoke. or if he or anyone else, and they come talk to me right after, I'm like Damn, you stink! I can't believe thats how I use to be.
Bad habit and its mental. To be effective, make it a HABIT not to smoke. 2-3 weeks are tough, then its easy as hell. That is with any habit, make it part of your life for about 2-3 weeks and you will start doing it daily. So make not smoking part of your habit.
Also, dont drink cause that will make you want a cigg more, because you know, it goes tougher right. Drink water and tons of it. Even if you want to go outside and smoke, chug a bottle water, you will feel full.
Basically whatever you do while you smoke, avoid it. Like if you answer the phone and go outside to talk. Dont answer, just text back. Or want to play candy crush, delete that fukn game. Or you know that you will have a smoke after lunch, dont say that to your self. Put a reminder on your phone daily saying something motivational. Go on websites and search people who smoke lungs, etc, etc...
Good luck!
Dont set a future date of quitting, cause that can always change, or you will say, OMG, this is my last day, let me smoke up..
na man, just quit, its a bad habit. I feel better, I'm not coughing up mucas every day, I'm active more and I can fuk longer. Plus the wife likes the fact I dont smell like shit anymore.
trust me, my brother still smokes and I dont even have the urge to grab a smoke. or if he or anyone else, and they come talk to me right after, I'm like Damn, you stink! I can't believe thats how I use to be.
Bad habit and its mental. To be effective, make it a HABIT not to smoke. 2-3 weeks are tough, then its easy as hell. That is with any habit, make it part of your life for about 2-3 weeks and you will start doing it daily. So make not smoking part of your habit.
Also, dont drink cause that will make you want a cigg more, because you know, it goes tougher right. Drink water and tons of it. Even if you want to go outside and smoke, chug a bottle water, you will feel full.
Basically whatever you do while you smoke, avoid it. Like if you answer the phone and go outside to talk. Dont answer, just text back. Or want to play candy crush, delete that fukn game. Or you know that you will have a smoke after lunch, dont say that to your self. Put a reminder on your phone daily saying something motivational. Go on websites and search people who smoke lungs, etc, etc...
Good luck!
I hear ya man. I lovvvvvvvvvved to smoke. I hatttttttttttted the feeling of needing a cigarette. Hell I hate wanting for anything.
It seems as insurmountable as climbing Mt Everest to quit. It seems impossible. You can't imagine life without it. Smoking becomes part of you, part of every routine. I can sense that you know it is time to let it go, and you are starting to mourn it.
If you really want to quit and stay quit, I recommend Chantix. It made quitting bearable. I would almost say easy. You continue to smoke while you take it, and within a couple weeks you just stop craving cigarettes. It really works.
I'm over 6 months without any nicotine. It is the best decision I've ever made for MANY reasons.
Do it. Just fucking do it. No more excuses. Man up. Without question you will thank yourself down the road.
It's not like you might be happy you did it. You unequivocally will be happy you did it. Very few decisions you can make in life that are this foolproof. Lock city.
You have to get the proper mindset. You just have to be committed to actually quitting. I remember deciding after a few false starts, that I was ready to give cigs up. I took it one day at a time, until the days added up to a point when the urge wasn't so strong and it became easier and easier. No excuses. No sense in trying to quit if you don't really want to.
This week made me realize it might be time to quit. Picked it up at 16. I'm good during the week but drinking, social settings, bordem, and some other vices I've picked up along the way make it so hard.
Grandfather died with oxygen tubes in his nose and my dad's not far behind. He didn't stop until his 60's after getting pnuemona. Fk ending up like that.
Grandfather died with oxygen tubes in his nose and my dad's not far behind. He didn't stop until his 60's after getting pnuemona. Fk ending up like that.
