almost ready to give in

[hawk59]

31 days and I feel like I'm ready to give in. doin the patch and dont understand why I just want to smoke. I dont see the benefits of quitting. I try to think I'm happy to have lasted this long, but I always enjoyed smoking. What the hell we're all gonna die from something someday. Why give up something you really enjoy.......

[mamap]

Why did you want to quit in the first place?  Those reasons are still there, they might not seem like that big of deal right now but they will if you start again.  You need to keep those reasons real.  You can, you have, you will.

[msweldon]

try to go back to the very first day that you quit.  Why did you put yourself through all those withdrawls. I am with MamaP. Those reasons are still there. You just have to find them. I am at day 31 and I can become complacient right where I am at, but the thing to remember is that we have an ADDITION!!! I oersonally don't want to have that hovering over me the rest of my life. You are right. We all are going to die of something someday, but I certainly don't wnat to go out in a puff of smoke.

Stay srong and stay on here where there is alot of support that you need!!!!!!

Together we can do it......

[toni-guay]

I quit for 30 days the last time I tried...and then I thought the same thing, "I enjoy smoking; the taste, the feel of the cigarette, the way the smoke dissipates, etc..."  I ended up smoking again because I wasn't ready to stop...At the end of the day, you need to quit because you want to.  I want to quit for myself this time...and if you'd like the support, we're all here for you too 🐵

-Toni

[magmar]

Because its not dying thats scary, its what you will go through and the quality of life you will suffer until then.

[joe57]

You are on Day 31.  I am on Day 32 and have had some of the same thoughts.  I don't know how old you are, but I am 60 and smoked for 42 years.  When I was younger, the health issue was not a consideration but  I got to a point that the health issue has became more important than anything else.  I know that if I were to continue smoking that there would come a day when it would all go to crap.  It may be in 20 years or it could be in 2 months or 2 weeks or I could have a heart attack tomorrow morning. 

Even if you are much younger, I have heard of young people who have COPD.  That certainly doesn't sound pleasant.  It also doesn't sound pleasant having to go to bed with oxygen assistance.  All for what?  Enjoyment?

Have you thought how irrational your thoughts are?  I think it is the nicodemon at work.  He is a powerful and subtle foe, but he can be defeated.

Hang tough my friend.  Conquer the nicodemon.  I know you will be much happier in time.

[roosmom]

wow, you shouldn't say things like that

DYIng of LUNG CANCER is not fun

I work in long term care in a nursing home and let me tell you the people who quit smoking are better off then those who did not quit

don't give in to it

don't let it rule your life

YES QUITTING IS NOT EASY-but damn it we are stringer then we think

it's gonna be uncomfortable for a while , but you just have to go through it

going through CHEMO is worse

Everytime you feel bad for yourself, think of someone who died who didn't smoke but had cancer anyway

they would give anything to be us, to be alive with the opportunity to quit

[punky-angel]

I am on day 30 now and am feeling the same way butttt, my health and life is alot more important to me than a cigarette..Think back to how things were put on hold just so you could take that cig.break or how your breathing must have been sooo much rougher and how everything you smelled and tasted were laced with the smoke fumes from your last cigarette.Is it worth giving up everything that you have just conquered, for a cigarette? Stay strong and it will get better!

[Mary84]

As has already been said, you need to go back and remember why you quit in the first place.   There had to be a strong motivating force behind your decision.   Please do not give up now.  You have come so far and the benefits down the road, maybe even tomorrow will be greater than you can imagine.    I don't know how old you are or how long you smoked, but that is really not relevant.   You will look back in a few short months and wonder why you ever smoked, you will feel better, you will no longer live under the threat of what could happen.   Just remember the benefits are so great, not just for you but for everyone you love and the ones who love you.  Choose love and choose life.    All the Best to you.  I know you will make the right decision.   Mary

[kola2178]

yeah we're all gonna die from something,   hit by a bus,  struck by lightning, cancer, stroke heart attack, but do you really want to go by spending the last 5 or 6 years of your life tethered to an oxygen tank?  This is just a cruel joke the cigarettes are playing on you.  That insidious little voice inside of you is telling you how much you loved cigarettes and how much they love you.   Its all a lie.

You can talk yourself into smoking again by using all of these reasons, but instead tell yourself that you CHOOSE life over smoking.  Get a stopwatch and time your crave.  Quit obsessing over the cigarettes.   Get mad at them, tell them NO they have no control over you.

If you saw someone pour dangerous chemicals into a cup and try to force you into drinking it, you'd fight like hell to save your life,  well that's exacly what your addiction is doing to you now.

Good luck and hangs strong!!

[laney4]

As al the posters have written, without me reading each word, yes, we will all die of something, but I want to be able to breath while I am here, walk up a hill and not feel faint and pass out.  Life is for the living not the walking dead.  Stay with us.  Are you just now finding the site?

[Sootie]

I added you to my friends if you want to send me a message----HANG IN!!! Your words were exactly mine---everyone has to die from something.... the problem is---you will not die quickly from a smoking related disease. You will probably spend many years as an invalid with not much quality of life.

BUT!!!--that's not the point...worrying about dying is---as you said---not really what anyone does on a day to day basis.

You need to ask:

Did you really enjoy it? Did you enjoy all of them or just one or two? Didn't you find yourself smoking sometimes and you didn't even want one?

Did your loved ones worry about your smoking?

After 31 days quit---don't you at least LOVE the new "smell" of yourself? Don't you love the money you are saving?

STAY WITH US!!! It will be worth it!

[star4]

Read Allen Carr's Easyway book before you give in.  Google it, there's a pdf version online (about 30 hits in).

There is no good reason to smoke. It is good for absolutely nothing. You don't ENJOY smoking, you are addicted to nicotene.  Two different things bud.  Do yourself a favor and read the book, seriously it'll help with the mind games!