Help and support wanted please.
I hate everything about smoking especially the smell.
I've done an awful lot of talking about quitting for the last 6 months but I've not gone longer than 48 hours without smoking in that time.
I smoke on average 4 on a weekend and 7 on a weekday.
I give in every time I say I'm going to quit and tell myself oh I can quit when I really want to but I just don't want to today..... But I do want to, every time I finish a cigarette.... I just don't /can't.
Humph
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And that's why it's called an addiction and not just a bad habit! WELCOME! I know just how you feel. We all do. There's this dual nature regarding smoking. We don't want to, but we do want to. The more you hang out here, the more you'll learn about why we respond as we do. It's not really that we want to smoke so much as we want to stop the next craving. The nicotine makes us feel good, tickles our dopamine receptors, and then the effects wear off and so we want it again and when we don't have it we feel like we're being deprived of something. EX offers a good plan to help with it all. And as you will see by the responses you receive here, there's a wealth of support to be had from people in all stages of the journey. READ. LEARN. Practice. Persevere! Glad you've joined us!