Yet another bad idea...

[nsd_user663_1930]

Hi All,

Well I had a terrific idea for helping me take my mind off smoking.

I thought if I could imerse myself into a Nintendo DS game then when I got bored or twitchy I could pick it up and have 30 minutes playing it.

So I decided to play "The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hour Glass"... Now I have played all the Zelda games prior to this on the N64, Game Cube and Wii, so I had a knew that it would take my mind of smoking when needed.

Anyhow, now for the results of my brilliant plan:

1. Still smoking.

2. Didn't bother working last week, spent about 40 hours playing Zelda :rolleyes:

3. After playing for an hour or so, I have so much going on in my head I feel like having a smoke & coke break (And not that Diet rubbish either).

4. Not going to bed before 1am at the moment, I am living in Zelda hell.

So what can we all learn from this:

1. Don't play Zelda unless you have 80 hours of your life to lose (Good news I am about 50% through it).

2. Don't listen to my ideas for helping with a no smoking campaign.

3. I am still smoking and things aren't looking to bright for the future.

All in all this can be summed up with one word.

BUGGER...

However I have decided my "give up attempts" are flawed... I always have a last smoke just before going to bed... Yet in the morning I feel at my weakest... So I have decided to stop half way through the day, infact at 12 noon today. After all being a bit of a vampire in my sleeping habits I am physically and mentally strongest in the afternoon and evenings.

I find it very easy to get out of bed and talk my self into smoking for another day, purely because I technically haven't lost anything (I always have a smoke before going to bed, whether I am giving up or not).

Hopefully, when I wake up tomorrow morning I will think "Only 4 hours to the end of day 1"...

Whatever happens at least it's something for everyone to have a read about in the morning.

Maybe we should have a little game of "Will he or won't he", and I don't want to hear any of that "Yeah, you'll do it" support. I'd like for people to post their gut feeling. Here is some background info:

21st June - Stopped for 21 days cold turkey

Since then had about 10+ attempts that didn't get past day 1.

Odds on that I will fail... What do you all reckon? Time to be brutally honest...

[nsd_user663_1930]

It's good to hear that stopping part way through the day worked for you (Albeit you only had a single smoke in the morning), but none-the-less my theory has a solid basis

Now it isn't the fact that I haven't got any will power... Everything that I have put my mind to in life I have achieved and I am one of those people who likes to have some form of project going on (Can't sit still for long, must be doing something productive).

If I want something bad enough I tend to get it through hard work and perseverance, however it is quite apparent that I am not 100% committed to giving up smoking ( I obviosuly don't seem to want to give up bad enough ). Yet I know that it's not healthy and not right.

Although at the moment I don't have anything pressing todo, so maybe I should make smoking my next project to sort out.

Anyhow, it's 11:52am, only 8 minutes left, lets see how it works out.

[nsd_user663_1704]

Guild wars has that effect with me :rolleyes: but my graphics card can't cope at the moment so am off it till I get a new PC

I lose hours there

We will see, you have done well before and have struggled since, can't seem to pick up on that same power you had back then.

We're here whether you make it or not and as long as you keep trying you will become too pissed off with the whole going in circles malarkey eventually and quitting will give you a sense of relief and you will do it!!

How long for the new arrival now? can only be a couple of weeks or so now??

Good luck for your sake of sanity I do hope you stop thinking too much this time and get on with quitting

~Buffy x x

[nsd_user663_2325]

Hi again Gav, dont know if you remember me from a couple of weeks ago, groundhog day is still groundhog day. I always seem to make my attempt around noonish, find it really easy to get to the end of that day, then morning comes round. Made it to almost 2 days last week, grrrrrrr. Have done the nintendo thing to, but not on such a hard game. just simple kids ones, brain training, diner dash and cake mania. lol. yes i am 36. Anyway i have 2 left and am going for it today, big time. kids are off school this week so they will either keep me occupied or drive me up the wall, eitherway cigs wont help one bit. Plus its raining and I won't be sneeking out in the back garden. You will kick this thing if you are 100% committed. I have found that if you have doubts at the beginning, they will just get bigger and bigger which is the only thing that drives us back to smoking. GOOD LUCK. Lou