Need help! SOS!

[Suzinut]

I am so disappointed in myself...over the last 3 days i had 7 cigs!  Had almost 50 days!  I dont want to go back!  Please!  Dear elders!  Esp those who almost went back please give me advice!  Yell at me!  Do whatever u have to do...help me not to go back!

[YoungAtHeart]

NOT a habit!

NOT a habit!

NOT a habit!

It's an addiction, and it's difficult from which to break free.

Get up, shake yourself off, and start in again.

Promise yourself you will blog "HELP" BEFORE you smoke this time!!!

[JACKIE1-25-15]

No yelling here.  It will not help. I had to look up what grubbed meant. 50 days I wonder what you could have done differently not to have smoked. Reflecting on that may help. Here is a little something for you to read when you have the time. It may help. /blogs/JACKIE1-25-15-blog/2016/05/28/be-ready 

[Maki]

Stop smoking and keep going ... forget what you've done and keep going , don't smoke anymore . Post beforehand . You will help others when you do , and it will help you too . 

I don't count mistakes Suzinut 

You are far to important . Keep going . 

Btw I don't read others posts before I reply so my apologies if I've repeated or offended . 

Come on let's go ... message someone if it helps .. I know I was a private kind of person and others helped me .. I'm sure if you reach out others will be more than happy to be a listening ear . 

[MarilynH]

I'm just seeing this now you can and will succeed in living a life of Freedom BUT you MUST stick with N.O.P.E ~ N.M.W.~ No Matter What! Deep breaths and believe in yourself because we believe in you and we're rooting you on.....

[redpepper]

Suzinut--

It takes courage to ask for help and confess publicly. You R-O-C-K! Bravery! 

I feel your pain. Please be nice to you. Like others said, start over. I will not smoke with you. Let's not smoke together, okay?! Want to? Let's! 

I'm new. And working my a-s off. I am still on a gurney in intensive care, this thing. I just left the emergency room, but I'm not out of the woods. These Exers are by my bedside, here in this room. In Ex. A special room... They are humming comfort like mothers, sisters, fathers, brothers. They are whispering to me, "You can. you can." They are chanting mantras of care and promises of relief. They are on bended knees. They freely give support. They do this together. Together there is success.   

Run from cigarettes as if they are flying bullets. Take cover! Save yourself! 

Quitting is a crisis. A life crisis. For me, that's all it is anymore: life or death (of my spirit, my soul, my heart, my joy). Smoking steals all. I deserve better. I have to be this passionate about it. Viscerally, I mean. Deep down, forever. No smoking. No joke. No ifs, ands, or butts.  

Listen to what they say. Do what they do. And do not smoke.  

Please come hang out with me here tomorrow, smober. I will be here. I will look for you. Holla when you arrive. 

[Cousin-Itt]

   You're doing the best thing you can do right now.  You are strong enough to admit and ask for help plus you are quickly acting on correcting it     No yelling here.

   A thing that helped me

   When I quit I was told to post immediately and ask for help when I thought I was in trouble.   Then wait for 3 responses before deciding to do anything. 

[nevergiveup]

I like the wait for three responses rule. Haven't picked up on that before. Thank you.

[Thesegoto11]

Just don't completely cave.  If you smoked one; doesn't mean you have to smoke the whole pack.  Don't.  Throw it away and repeat your vows.  Nicotine's half-life is two hours. Unless replenished, the amount of nicotine remaining in your bloodstream will be cut by half every two hours.

[Troutnut1]

I failed over and over again until I figured it out. What did I figure out? That it was always the FIRST puff that got me. Not even the first sickarette. But literally that FIRST puff. And that its a one day at a time deal for me.

If we don’t take that FIRST puff, one day at a time, it is physically IMPOSSIBLE to fail! I we don’t take that FIRST puff, just for today, we are absolutely, positively, 100% guaranteed to go to bed as WINNERS tonight!

Really! That’s the secret. I promise!

Your friend in Montana

Troutnut1-dennis

2/28/2001 last puff

11/21/98 last sip

[Giulia]

You just haven't yet closed the door to the option to smoke in your mind.   I wrote this two months into my quit:  https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/thread/1863-the-possibility-door  & ‌ this 14 year into it.  /blogs/Giulia-blog/2020/03/02/the-option 

I want you to think about something.  Are there places where you go where you can't smoke for extended periods of time? Work, maybe?  Or going to a movie or being in a plane or... whatever place that might be for you, that you recall.  Being in a hospital maybe?  When I was in those situations, I didn't long for a cigarette every minute.  I knew that I would be able to smoke after I was out of that scenario, so I didn't tend to dwell on when I'd be able to get my next cigarette.  My next fix.  And make no mistake, this is more than just a habit.  Habits are broken a lot easier.

If you're like me and have been in places where you simply were not allowed smoke for extended periods of time, and you weren't going berserk because of it, then you probably agreed to the rules.  Agreed that the option was not available and stopped dwelling on it.  

And that's my point.  When you agree to the rules, when you accept your choice to not smoke, when you eliminate the option by practicing NOPE thinking - you stop dwelling on it.  Every single time your mind starts to go in the direction of wanting a cigarette, turn it away.  Speak to yourself out loud.  I do that.  When my mind starts heading in a negative direction, I literally say "Don't go there."  It takes practice.  Keep practicing.  You'll get there.