You've gotten a lot of GREAT advice and I want to echo what everyone else said....do the readings! Education is the key to beating this addiction.
Having said that-----here's a "trick" maybe that will help you with that "vicious cycle gerbil wheel" you are on......I've been there..................
1. Each night after a day of smoking, you decide...this is it. I feel terrible. Half of these cigarettes I did not even want! I am quitting tomorrow.
2. You go to bed. MAYBE you even throw away the cigarettes......after all...tomorrow you are NOT SMOKING!
3. Morning comes and you feel this overwhelming longing for a cigarette and whatever your morning routine was. You can't get started without one!!!!!......and you have an important
a) date
b) meeting
c) exam
d) all of the above
4. You HAVE to smoke...you can't do it.
5. And so...................you smoke (you could sense where this was going, right?)
OK----just a small hint. It won't get you through ALL the days but it may jump start you through the first ones.......
DON'T quit in the morning! I've never been able to understand why people feel they must go to sleep and then quit.....in the morning! I guess it is the human "way" to start a new day.
But you see, when you are a smoker....in the morning is when your body is STARVED for nicotine. After all....you just slept 6, 7 or 8 hours! Not a lot of smokers go 6, 7 or 8 hours in the day time without at least a puff or two.
Plus, many of us are foggy in the morning.....not quite awake; not really our strongest selves. So the addiction is able to push us to keep smoking....you need it....you have to have it....look what a mess you are without it.
Quit in the afternoon. Of course....prepare, read, get your quit kit together....but just don't quit in the morning.
That one little change may work. that and education and support....from all of us.
WELCOME TO EX......we are all here for each other.
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