Welp, I want to smoke. I need a pause.

[tibbetsethan]

I am having a real bad craving right now because my family and I are fighting right now during this stuff with my health and it's making me miserable.I just wanted to hop on here, talk to someone because I'm going crazy in my head. Y'all know I don't normally post things like this, but I'm going crazy and I literally yelled "I don't even know why I quit smoking" at one of my family members so I knew I needed a pause and to re-direct before I picked up a pack.  So yeah I need to talk before I blow my lid. 

How's your day going?

[YoungAtHeart]

Do this breathing exercise - NOW!

Repeat, then repeat again!

You do NOT want to give up your quit!  If you smoke a cigarette, it will just start the process all over again, and you will need another and then another, and then ANOTHER - and I KNOW you don't want that!

Hang in there!  Don't smoke!

♥

[MarilynH]

How are you doing now tibbetsethan? Deep breaths and know that we're all here for you and we're rooting you on....

[elvan]

You are NOT alone, breathe, drink a glass of water. Distract yourself.

Ellen

[tibbetsethan]

Thank you so much for the breathing exercise YoungAtHeart‌ its helping, you're 100% right I don't want to start all over. MarilynH‌ I  am feeling really overheated and uncomfortable. I think it's mainly anger and anxiety but I'm trying to calm down and get through it. I just am furious right now. It's really back and forth so I'm just trying to remove myself from what is going on.  elvan‌ thank you so much. I had to reach for this because this is the only thing that has kept me from going back repeatedly. I figured that if I continued to just talk through it, calmly. But I wish this person would stop picking at me because it's just irritating me even more. Unfortunately I live with this person so I can't just get away.. you know. I wish I could. I asked if me and my Grandpa could just go driving around and he just fell asleep so I am stuck here miserable.  I wish I had a car then I could just drive around.

[Cousin-Itt]

So Glad you posted I remember those days I would just go off on Joyce over medical things If yu can't get out and walk and you need more than breathing Put some of your favorite music on and do the breathing exercise it does wonders

You not alone in thids

Carl

[louiseelisabeth]

I have been stopped for almost seven months and I am feeling the same thing. I don't want to start again but, man, I really want a cigarette. I wonder if I'll ever feel like a nonsmoker.

[YoungAtHeart]

louiseelisabeth 

If you are still feeling like you want a cigarette after seven months, I think you need to do some digging to understand why.  Perhaps you are romancing the cigarette?  /blogs/Youngatheart.7.4.12-blog/2016/04/29/romancing-the-cigarette If this is true, you need to put special effort into ways to create that same feeling of contentment in a new, nonsmoking way.  Perhaps listening to a meditation tape, or dancing/singing with your favorite music, or calling a friend, or sitting outside looking at the clouds and birdsong?

Do you feel like you are giving something up?  Understanding this addiction will help explain THAT notion away.  I recommend Allen Carr's "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" to give you the education you need to destroy the fiction that you are missing something. 

Spend some time figuring out what you miss about smoking - and if these are not your reasons, let me know and I will try to help you get past them.

There is actually NOTHING to miss about smoking  - it was all a lie created by the addiction.  I would love to help you understand it better so you CAN feel like a nonsmoker!

Nancy

[SMILINACCOUNTNT]

Good call to come here, rather than smoking. Feel free to vent all you need, we don't know your family so no hurt feelings here, and we are solidly in your corner to help you fight for your quit. Any chance you can just say to them I need you to back off for a little while? I know easier said than done. Hope things improved. 

[tibbetsethan]

Hey everyone, sorry,  I went to bed really early last night because I was craving. I made it through though! Sorry I just kinda dropped off the face of the Earth. I am much better this morning, chewing gum like normal. 12 days without cigarettes, thank you guys so much because I needed to vent last night and I don't think I would have made it through everything honestly without the support even though I wasn't here very much. My family member and I fixed things as we always do but oh my Lord, I finally just had to be like "you know what you're right, it's my fault" even though it wasn't. You guys ever have to do that? Anyways, it's over and done with. So no worries. Thank you all once again!