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Share your quitting journey

How? Why? Where to now?

Christine13
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How do I stop the cigarette addiction?  Most days I can hardly get going and get dressed and get functional.

I sit in a daze all day, as long as I'm on the computer I am ok.  Why do I smoke?  Why do I want to stop?

I somehow let my smoking life take over.  I have to actually get this!!  After Brian I just feel like I'm just going through the motions of living.  So now is my question, why does it really matter?  It does, I know I matter to some, but I still don't feel worthy.  I feel like I am weak when it comes to smoking, and yet one day I had it going well, and then screwed up.

Put it this way, I don't need cigarettes to numb me up, I am already numb.  Why do I want to quit?

I just want to relieve my mental torture, and shi* or get off the pot.  Either you smoke or you don't.

I've succumbed to having two cigarettes every morning.  Tomorrow I wake up fresh, I won't want to face the day smokefree but I will.  There are a lot of newbies right now.  I am a newbie/oldie.  Dear god, give me strength, to live my life and not a lie.

please, I need to do a 180 here and change my life, I have a lot of fear about quitting.  I have fear I will loose it completely.  

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About the Author
I'm a widow now, my husband passed away January 1, 2018 He died of COPD, and pre leukemia and the flu. He quit smoking 15 years ago which gave him extra time. I am a mother, and grandmother. I have smoked for 47 years. I am going to have my forever quit and I'm doing it for me and my two daughters so I can live longer and be with them. I like to read, swim, garden, crochet, paint and doodle. I also enjoy walking and visiting with friends and family. I am 100% making this my last quit. I have been in denial about what smoking has done to me and my kids. I must make a new life for myself and it doesn't include cigarettes. I may already have COPD, but have not been officially diagnosed.