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I quit smoking a week ago today, on my fifth day I had a smoke and feel really bad about it and tonight I had another and I feel really guilty and like **** because of it, I live with my mum and sister who both smoke, I really want to continue nor smoking
As Mandolinrain said, it starts with a choice.
Many people who smoke say they smoke to relieve stress, or they smoke more when they are experiencing stress. People who have quit smoking say stress is the number one reason for relapse. Did you know? – Smoking does not actually relieve stress. In fact, it may even cause more tension and anxiety.
Stress is a part of life. There’s no way to avoid stress completely, but we can change how we work through stressful events, situations, and emotions. Stress comes in many different forms; it can be an event, something that happens to us or our response to the event or what happens. Not all stress is negative and what is stressful for one person may not be stressful for another.
There is a lot of great reading in this thread Re: For Our New Years' Quitters (and community members, too) so read read read, make that quit kit, and ask for help. You can do it. Make the choice to do it!
Don't beat yourself up. Dust yourself off, educate yourself, and begin your quit journey again. Have you read the Allen Carr, The Easy Way book yet? I highly suggest you do. It will change your mindset. You quit for a week so I know you can do it!
Think of this as a practise run .....a learning experience !
Living with smokers is definite!y an added challenge but you must think of it as your quit and how much do you want it .
I found it was not as hard as I thought it would be and it helped make my quit even stronger because I could then be around smokers without being tempted or being afraid of the temptation .I have been living with a smoker since day one and after 52 years of smoking today is day 1200 !
You can do it too ,never give up ! Learn from this try and start again .
This is the place to be !!!
CONGRATS on CHOICE....you did it ....welcome to your DAY as a NON SMOKER....GOOD JOB ..... Fel_G.....Yahooooooo for YOU! PLEASE keep coming back.
It starts with a decision. You have to decide your gonna quit going around the same old mountain.
One you decide, you need to arm yourself with understanding and knowledge. You need to understand the addiction of Nicotine. You need to learn how it reacts in your brains to set you up for that next smoke. You do that by reading all the material on this site you can. You get Allen Carrs book, The easy way to quit smoking, and you read it.
Then its times to set up a quit kit. Making a list of the people to call in times of craves and stress. Things to do with your hands to keep them busy, cleaning house, taking up a new hobby. Making another list of the things you can turn to to fight the craves.
You come here first. You blog. You reach out for help.
Quitting is hard. We all had to go through to get the breakthrough. I wish you well and I hope this helped. We are here for you. Stress and difficult people and situations are part of life and I also used to smoke during those themes as well, most of us did. Its normal and life goes on, smoking or not smoking. These things are part of life. Look at it that way and associate that Smoking is part of death. Thats how I put it into perspective.
We are here for you. You have some homework to do now.