Quitting smoking

[swtfa]

NO, I have allowed my self to Fail. I am down from smoking 20 a day too 10 a day now. I went 31 days with NONE! better, but not good enough still.

You will not be the first to fail, it can be a real struggle. Look at the positive - you cut it down by half

[Shaun Harris]

So this thread is basically just the same thing as all your "I'm going back to the Isle of Mann" threads?

You can move along and just be depressed else where Drew, nothing makes you read my posts apart from your self

[Shaun Harris]

You will not be the first to fail, it can be a real struggle. Look at the positive - you cut it down by half

Yea, I am deff taking the positives from this so far, and can even feel it in my health. I am going to try hypnotism to finish this crap habit off

[Luckylegs]

Yea, I am deff taking the positives from this so far, and can even feel it in my health. I am going to try hypnotism to finish this crap habit off

With all due respect. You survived and recovered (are recovering) from what you did, but you cant quit smoking...

I think "taking the positives" approach might be part if the problem. You achieved fuck all really. You still put a healthy dose of shit in your body daily (yes, i see what i did there) spend fuck knows how much and probably still smell like a smoker.... you might as well smoke 20 again. Ultimately youre still a smoker so it was a complete failure!

You dont need hypnotism to finish it off, you just need to do it!

/rant of a reformed smoker

[Shaun Harris]

With all due respect. You survived and recovered (are recovering) from what you did, but you cant quit smoking...

I think "taking the positives" approach might be part if the problem. You achieved fuck all really. You still put a healthy dose of shit in your body daily (yes, i see what i did there) spend fuck knows how much and probably still smell like a smoker.... you might as well smoke 20 again. Ultimately youre still a smoker so it was a complete failure!

You dont need hypnotism to finish it off, you just need to do it!

/rant of a reformed smoker

Yea, but easier said than done dude for some of us weak minded people.

[unstuck]

Yea, but easier said than done dude for some of us weak minded people.

Now just look at your self talk young man, all this talk of failure and weak minded and all the other negative self talk.
You were a winner to get here, you had to be the fastest swimmer or you would not have made it.

Your thought patterns are the most important part of achieving ANYTHING. Instead of telling yourself how hard it is and how you failed, try telling a different story like, I enjoy being a non smoker, I like feeling healthy, I like being able to smell things,ect.
Start telling yourself a different story, if you are not happy with the choices you are making.
Until you can make peace with where you are at, nothing you do differently is going to change the way you feel inside. The smoking is just a symptom of something a little deeper, have fun with it, be easy on yourself, and remember, the problem and solution are 2 different things. You cannot solve a problem from the same mindset that created it.

[Shaun Harris]

Now just look at your self talk young man, all this talk of failure and weak minded and all the other negative self talk.
You were a winner to get here, you had to be the fastest swimmer or you would not have made it.

Your thought patterns are the most important part of achieving ANYTHING. Instead of telling yourself how hard it is and how you failed, try telling a different story like, I enjoy being a non smoker, I like feeling healthy, I like being able to smell things,ect.
Start telling yourself a different story, if you are not happy with the choices you are making.
Until you can make peace with where you are at, nothing you do differently is going to change the way you feel inside. The smoking is just a symptom of something a little deeper, have fun with it, be easy on yourself, and remember, the problem and solution are 2 different things. You cannot solve a problem from the same mindset that created it.

You got it buddy

[mashman]

Pretty much any time I end up "defending" my habit, the solution seems to surround ways of stopping. When it happens, and it will, I will have time and my family will have been warned. There will also be laxative involved. When you have the appropriate reason, you will stop.

[Big Dog]

What do you get out of your $3650+ hobby?
Be really honest.

What else could you do with the same money?

Do you smoke wherever you are whatever you are doing? If not how much extra time would you have every day if you got the monkey off your back?


Stupid phone / Tapatalk, apologies in advance.

[Genie]

Tackle the beast, if you can.

I set myself free from smoking only to return to her alluring ways and her sweet seduction...if you win and resist for all time good on you.

I the meantime I am enjoying the cigerette that accompanies my bourbon.

[Shaun Harris]

Tackle the beast, if you can.

I set myself free from smoking only to return to her alluring ways and her sweet seduction...if you win and resist for all time good on you.

I the meantime I am enjoying the cigerette that accompanies my bourbon.

That is a part of the problem man, I actually do still enjoy them, just do not like the fact that I stink and they control me and it is a huge waste of money

[mrchips]

I stopped smoking cold turkey 10 years ago..... I read Allan Carr's 'Easy way' book. It helped get my head around the fact that i was simply feeding an addiction to nicotine. Nicotine addiction is bad ass, it messes with your mind.

Just by writing this post & bringing up some memories, I could easily suck on a port royal right now... but i won't.....

That's how nasty the addiction is.

[pritch]

I must be one of the world's experts on giving up smoking, I've done it hundreds of times. The last time though was forty years ago. At one time most people I knew smoked, now virtually none of those people still does.

You must save a lot of money when you give up because when you go to a shop to buy fags you often buy a magazine, or a drink, or some other crap you didn't actually need. In theory I must have saved some serious money in forty years. Can't figure out why I still haven't got any.

Apart from the money, fuck having to leave a warm confortable building to go and stand in the cold to get a drug fix. I couldn't figure out some of the women at work, they go to some trouble to look nice, pay for perfume to smell nice, then walk in smelling like an ash tray.

Then there's that old thing, "Kiss a non-smoker, taste the difference."

If this stuff has been mentioned already sorry, I couldn't be bothered to read the whole thread. I'm retired so I have spare time, but not that much.

[Luckylegs]

Apart from the money, fuck having to leave a warm confortable building to go and stand in the cold to get a drug fix. I couldn't figure out some of the women at work, they go to some trouble to look nice, pay for perfume to smell nice, then walk in smelling like an ash tray.

Ah yes, missing out on food at catered meetings cos it was always more important to go and have a smoke first....