I smoke when Im at work. On my breaks and my lunch I have a cig in my mouth. When Im heading to work, I have to have a cig and when Im leaving and driving home (2 min drive either way) I have a smoke. Once Im home, I dont need a cigarette. Unless work crosses my mind, Even right now as I type about work I want one. Its like work is a psychological trigger. Anyone else have any input on this? Maybe ideas for seperating myself from that "calming cigarette" on the way to work or from work.
None of those cigarettes are helping you!
All of those cigarettes are killing you!
They don't help with traffic, they don't help with the boss being a turd, they don't help with you just thinking about work. They definitely don't help with dissatisfaction of any kind at all including work! THEY DO NOT MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER! Quitting smoking is not going to make your job better unless they don't like you because you smoke! But that would be a damn good reason to start smoking again because THEY didn't HELP me quit! But you will have more oxygen to figure out what to do about it. Do you like your job? YES or NO? Simple answers not some long winded "well I like this.......BUT......there is so-and-so".....puff...puff....and "there are the computers that are really cool......BUT......the IT guys won't let me use what I want"...........puff.....puff......????????
NOW, This is coming from an addict's mind, mine, to you, if I was behaving like that I would see it as I have a real life problem, for example, I don't like my job very much, that's a good reason to abuse myself...puff..puff....man I need this money and if I try to talk to these people they might fire me....good reason to smoke....puff...puff.......or they'll give me really crappy work to do....puff...puff....oh what if that happens....puff...puff....puff....puff.....driving 2 minutes? Gas costs so much and I have to use the money that I hate making at work to buy that gas to go to a job I hate going to....man I need a cigarette for that one for sure....puff...puff...no I need two....puff...puff.......Now I'm really feeling bad inside and when I feel bad inside I can justify doing bad things to myself because deep down in my being I KNOW that I'm KILLING MYSELF! So there has be someone or something I can blame it on, IT CAN'T BE THAT I'M AN ADDICT! IT HAS TO BE SOMETHING ELSE! NO WAY I'LL TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR MY ACTIONS! And so I will play games like that with myself until I convince myself that I'm right. Do you want to know the worst part of it all? I know that I just LIED to myself and I'm pretending to have bought it which is really screwed up so now I can feel even worse and so I must be a low down smoking self killing fool! THAT'S JUST ME! I'm not saying this is what YOU are doing. A little insight from AN ADDICT!
SOOOOOOOO, Are going to QUIT? Are you going to do it for YOU? We will help you for sure! But YOU have to do it! That Cigarette on the way to work IS NOT CALMING! You are telling yourself that it is! THAT CIGARETTE IS IRRITATING AS HELL AND IS MAKING YOUR PROBLEM WORSE NOT BETTER! Sounds like addiction to me. LOL :-) But What do I know? :-)
I AM AN EX SMOKER and TODAY I CHOOSE NOT TO USE!
Jim