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Alicatsam
Member

HELP!

I'm on day 11 and it's all day rain and I'm in the last smoking-allowed building in the city. Rainy weather makes the cravings worse, and of course I don't have to go out to smoke. Roommate has cigarettes and there is a store right across the street.

I started to panic so I put in a patch a little while ago.

I'm trying to hang in there until I have to go to work in less than 2 hours, where I can't smoke indoors. 

Hard to focus on anything else, hard to distract from the thoughts with reading or watching or doing anything.

Just trying to hang in there another couple of hours. 

There's also the thought of having to put rain gear on myself and my dog and the 20 min walk in the cold and rainy to get to work. That makes me need a calming smoke too.

I'm gonna try chewing on sugar free gum until I feel sick. I got the nicotine gum too, but that makes me cough and feel nauseous after a few chews.

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YoungAtHeart
Member

March in place!  Count backwards from 10,000!  STOP THINKING ABOUT SMOKING!  Change your mind's direction!!!! Think of boys' and girls' names for each letter of the alphabet, or U.S. cities.  Do a few jumping jacks.  Call a friend!  Think about what you might buy yourself with the money you are saving by not buying smokes.  Clean out a drawer - or a closet! 

Write down your reasons for quitting.

Get a cold bottle of water to sip!

Just don't smoke - you really don't want to start back at Day One, do you?

Nancy

Beck37
Member

Okay, you are going to be just fine. You are allowing smoking to have just too much power over you. Talk yourself off of that ledge. It’s just a frickin cigarette not a magic wand. Will lighting up stop the rain, cold or boredom? You need to just stop thinking of it so much. You are no longer a smoker. You have quit. It’s really not that big a deal....

You have so got this. Make Oliver proud of his mama. He needs you to be strong!!!!

Beck

Alicatsam
Member

I was just in the other room soothing myself by giving Oliver hugs and kisses, and really enjoying my roommate's 2nd hand smoke. Is that cheating, or just another quit smoking aid to go with the patch?

Alicatsam
Member

Saved about $60 so far, I think. I was smoking a cheap brand $8 every day and a half of so.

I'm hoping for a bearable shift at work for myself and my Oliver. I'm hoping he'll be less energetic which sometimes happens in rainy weather when he is not expecting a lot of playmates at the dog parks. Otherwise he'll give me the bored look all day and impossible to get to sleep later.

maryfreecig
Member

You chose to quit, so don't be scared off  by the tough times.They come and go. You are relearning life without the smokes, and early on, some times quitting feels like drudgery. Not to worry, you are building a smokefree foundation. Keep working it. Yes you can.

Alicatsam
Member

It just feels so unimportant. Why not just a few drags? Trying to remember why I went through 11 smober days. 

Alicatsam
Member

And how in the heck did this end up in Games? I'm losing my mind!

DonnaMarie
Member

Why not? Ask yourself why? There is no reason to smoke (Allen Carr).  Hang in there.  You will be glad you did and get strength!

maryfreecig
Member

     It would never be just a few drags. Learning to get pasts the tough times is what will enable you to really quit, not just dream about it. I was upside down when I quit in 2013--it was a lot harder than I thought it would be and I doubted myself. Today, smoking is not on my mind. I do not have to turn to a cigarette day in and day out--getting the fix. It's over. But I went through some troubling states of mind--yet finally I got past it. 

    I would have smoked something along the lines of 40,000 cigarettes had I not stopped, and spent about 15,700 dollars. These numbers mean something to me because I would never walk into a store and buy 40,000 cigarettes for 15,700 bucks in my right mind. Only in my addicted state would I cling so anxiously to the happiness of the next cigarette. The delusions of addiction get weaker and fade--stay smober one hour at a time if you have to.