If you don't want to quit, nothing will help...you aren't going to quit.
Thanks for all the great answers everyone! It is definitely a willpower thing, once I have determined that not only do I need to quit, but in fact, that I want to quit. Oscar said it best:
This is my problem, I don't want to quit. How can I change this?
Thanks for all the great answers everyone! It is definitely a willpower thing, once I have determined that not only do I need to quit, but in fact, that I want to quit. Oscar said it best:
This is my problem, I don't want to quit. How can I change this?
As a prideful person, I eventually viewed my nicotine addiction as a major weakness and flaw
Once that realization came about, it was pretty easy.
Then I used that pride, and made sure to let everyone know I was quitting and to give me **** if I fail.
I only failed off and on for a few years after that, but only because I was still going to bars too frequently.
good question.......i quit because i wanted to be healthy, because cigarettes STINK and cost so much, and i just wanted to be free. cigarettes enslave you, and in some cases make you a pariah.
It is the enslaving part of the addiction which bothers me the most.
PS - did you get your license, liblady?
I view it as a major flaw. I still don't want to quit.
I did...I aced the tests. Thanks for asking! When you quit, and you will, you will feel so free!
Smoking is disgusting. I wish tobacco would be outlawed. IF I get a whiff of cigarette smoke it makes me nauseated and I have a physical reaction of sinus drainage and inner ears stinging. I guess I am now allergic. I see parents smoking in cars with children and I feel incensed. That is child abuse IMO. WTS, I smoked until 2000. I was ready and wanted to quit so that helped a lot. Zyban did the rest. Two weeks and done; never looked back. I've heard some bad things about Chantix so I do not recommend that drug. Best wishes for your success in quitting!
It's a matter of will. If you don't want to quit, nothing will help...you aren't going to quit. You know it is bad for you, you have admitted it is affecting your health...just quit. smoke whatever cigs you currently have and just don't buy any me. if you don't have em, you can't smoke em. Yes, you will probably be a miserable bastard to live with for a couple of weeks but then it will start to get better.
Thanks for all the great answers everyone! It is definitely a willpower thing, once I have determined that not only do I need to quit, but in fact, that I want to quit. Oscar said it best:
This is my problem, I don't want to quit. How can I change this?
Woot!! Congratulations!! Now you can charter a bareboat in the Dalmations and invite me! I always wanted to go to Dubrovnik.
I view it as a major flaw. I still don't want to quit.
By realizing that you are a weak woose with no willpower. You are letting the addiction win. Nobody really wants to quit because they're ADDICTED.Another thing to think about is look at how many alcoholics and other truly super addicted people have quit and you don't really want to. When my friend's mom quit, (and I mean this woman was a super big drunk) I thought, "you've got to be kidding me, if she can do it, you've got to do it". When I quit I bought some herbal cigarettes (no tobacco in them), and one night I really needed a smoke bad, so I went outside to do the deed. First puff, nothing. Second puff, nothing. Third, the same thing. It was then it hit me, "it's the nicotine that you are craving, not the act of smoking". From then on, I knew, I needed to stay quit. I think you'll do better with a support group. I had a lady at work. She's the one that really did it for me. When I'd say, "I'm really needing a cigarette", she'd move in with her reasons why I needed to stay quit. She never smoked, and despised smokers, so it was easy for her to be convincing. Also, as someone else said, get stuff to put in your mouth. I liked cinnamon sticks cause they stay, and you can chew on them. You can also pretend you're smoking with them, which may sound dumb, but the act of blowing air out helped me.
Good luck!
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