I Feel For Those Who Have A Smoker In The Home. I Don't Know If I Could've Done It If Cigs Were Around

[JonesCarpeDiem]

But for all the rest of us...

WE have the choice to not keep any around.

And trust me a simple trick in avoiding temptation are easy if you have some

stumbling blocks set up ahead of time.

If you feel like you just have to have one. Drive 2 states away

Or

have someone hide your keys

Or

tie you up.

Have a no smoking sign posted on your fridge and bathroom mirror

whatever it takes

[Breakinchains]

  Just my thoughts, but I believe the key to success in that case is education. If you cannot remove the temptation from your environment, then read, read, read. Study up on (among other things) exactly what you are doing to your body every time you take a drag off a cigarette. This improves your knowledge of your situation. If you are fully aware of the damage you are doing to your body every time you smoke, it makes it a bit easier to not smoke that nasty cig that might be laying around the house. The more you know, the better your chance of success.

[JonesCarpeDiem]

And once you begin? Start changing things up. Make yourself see things differently. and begin learning to live without smoking than living to quit

[Sootie]

I am sure you are right Dale but I am the exception to that rule. When I quit back in the 80's for 13 years---my husband continued to smoke. His smoking never bothered me. Other people smoking does not bother me now and never has even when I first quit. They just aren't a trigger for me---I have MANY other triggers---other people smoking just isn't one of them. Don't know why---they never have been.

[Strudel]

I think you deal with what you have to deal with - I knew going into this that I was going to be living with smokers....so, I figured out a way to handle it. I decided I was quitting and I wasn't going to continue finding excuses to not quit. (They didn't live here when I quit - but, I knew they were coming before my quit date. My sister and her friend needed a place to live due to job loss.) I think I also figured if I could do it under these conditions - I could really DO IT!!

(I still like the "tie you up" plan though!!)

[_m_9]

I agree!

[cb_3]

I hear that....not sure I could do it, so for all those smokers that have quit and still have someone in the home that smokes...shoot them!!!

[Mary155]

got rope?