New day, new countdown clock, new knowledge that I am not the exception and can have a few cigarettes and just stop again. Thanks for your kind words. Ready for this.
It is only as hard as you make it. That is a secret I figured out on quit twenty-something. Be proud of your quit, embrace it, DO NOT HATE IT. Quitting is gaining. If you can go one day without a "sickorette", you can go 365 days--a lifetime without smoking. Make your peace with the fact that you can NEVER have another puff once you quit and you have already won your battle. I never thought I could quit, and I am living happier than ever as a non-smoker. Use this website like crazy if you need to, but don't smoke.
bean took the words off my fingertips! "It's only as hard as you make it".
I've had lots of previous quits - this is THE quit. The only way I was able to quit smoking - was to QUIT SMOKING once AND FOR ALL! Do not light another. Not. One. Puff. Ever. It's really that simple!
There are 2 types of pain - the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. You choose. I chose the pain of discipline over 100 days ago - and today I am painfree - I have no regrets - and I am SO done smoking!
YOU can do this- just give yourself the credit you deserve!
Congratulations on your quit! I too have quit 4 times---I know this time is IT! This board has helped and the Not One Puff Ever helps because I know how that little voice tells you---"you can have just one"! I have fallen for that little voice telling me that 4 times and now I know---Not One Puff Ever---and that smoking one cigarette is just never an option for me because just one never happens! I now know that I am one puff away from a pack a day-----so--yeah, it took me 4 times to figure that out! Good Luck---you can do it once you decide!
In the words of Allen Carr on page 85 of his book: 1) Make the decision NEVER to smoke again and 2) Don't mope about it, Rejoice! And he goes on to say "indecision and moping make it difficult to quit" because it's the brainwashing!!!! and he also says: "doubt and uncertainty cause pangs and craves".....So, Bean is right. Say NOPE from the very beginning and understand that smoking is not an option.
Yes....what they said!!!! 🙂 How difficult or hard this quit will be is entirely up to you!!! If you sit and dwell on how much you want one, how good one would taste, how everyone else GETS to smoke and you can't....blah, blah, blah.....then you will have a miserable time....and most likely fail. But if you decide that smoking is simply not an option.....ever.....not for ANY reason, not under ANY circumstance and then refuse to entertain ANY smoking thoughts or junkie thinking, then you will bypass about 95% of the mental torture and torment.
You have better things to focus on!!! There is a whole life out there just waiting for you to embrace it full throttle!! Go for it!! Don't look back!!
