Another go at day 1... at work and just had the cup of coffee with which i always have my first smoke. yeah, i'm missing it... Lets see if i'm ready this time round. Finding it difficult to be confident about this. Very much wondering if i've jumped in again too soon and when i aint ready. hmm. we shall see!
Dont wanna be trapped by this thing anymore. And one thing i wont miss is the feeling in the morning of having smoked far too much the night before. the sick, heavy chested feeling which you try to shake by smoking a cig. clever!
One things for sure... I'm gonna keep trying til i kill this thing before it kills me.
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AH! yeah mind wandering... ha! you see, this is the problem with working at a computer screen. You gotta have breaks... and guess what i do in my breaks... hmm... day 1 sucks.. ha!
It really gets better. I found weirdly that that the association with coffee and with after a meal- two of the ones i thought would be hardest to break were actually pretty quick to go.
I'm gonna go away and have a big dose of self discipline, a shot of courage and a chaser of confidence. I'll be back when I sort myself out... bugger :o(
You need to be strong and determined in the early days, you gotta want it, and then follow through with it after that.
Day 1 can be hard, but you must resist all the temptations and if you have to find stuff to do to keep yourself busy at all times. Idle mind.. idle hands... never let the two happen.
Hi Needacuppa....I failed miserably too Have since been reading a quit smoking book, which has actually helped a lot and I have now just snapped each and every one of those nasty sticks in half and put them in the bin....already feel that panicy feeling, but will not let it win!! The fags cause the withdrawl...they are to blame, so why on earth would I want another one!!! Hope you have survived Day 1....I am determined to!!
All like learning to ride a bike without the stabilisers on (eh bman?), you will fall off a few times before you finally get it, and when it does you stay on.
Keep the new found determination, and keep reading in the quiet moments too, anything that educates you more to your cause is good.
Don't beat yourself up, I'm on like my 50th try, so all we can do is take it one day at a time. I stuck the patch on even though it leaves whelps and makes me itch for days I am going to try it agian. We can do this
I am 18 hours in and I really don't feel too bad at all! I slept amazingly well last night, compared to normal, like a real deep proper sleep, which I don't think I've done for years! Having the recommended cranberry juice to speed up the nicotine dispersement, and apart from it now being 1030, which is normally when I would go for a smoke, I feel really positive! Saw a couple of people puffing away this morning outside the station and instead of feeling envious, I felt sorry for them!
Let's hope this feeling stays with me for the next 48 hours, and then I know, I'll be over the worst of it.....
More power to you. Good luck on this new attempt... i wish you all the strength that I've found myself during the last 45 days.. see the link in my signature about dealing with cravings, some good tips in there, i follow them often. (they work)
My last ciggy was last night at 10.30... doin ok so far. Wasn't suppose to be my day 1, i just woke up feeling a bit sick, and cant really bring myself to smoke because that would just make me feel worse. Sign maybe? heh... ah well. here's to accidental attempt 3!
Well done for trying again even if it was by accident.
I'm back to day 1 too.......seem to spend my life here recently and to be honest wasn't going to bother. Spent the weekend being soooooo fed up that I had failed again and not wanting to put myself through it all again. It is soooo embarrassing when others are dong so well and I get such a sick feeling in my stomach when I have to post in day 1 again. It makes me feel like such a failure
But then yesterday I decided that many others have gone through this and know what it is like and as long as I keep trying then I have not failed.
So here I am again ..........proud to be beside you in day 1 and if I fail again I will keep going back to day 1 until I suceed.
Ha! Aint that the truth... It's difficult seeing people moving on in the forums, and I feel so ashamed that I fail each time I do. I totally get what you mean!!
Sorry this is another day 1 for you... Ah we will keep trying though eh?
To be honest (and I don't mean this horribly) it's good to see others in your situation... Not saying I'm happy to see you back at day 1, just that we aint the only ones struggling with this. And like all those show offs who are hitting their month 6 they all went through this too, and look where they are now. It's possible. We can do it!!
Ha! Aint that the truth... It's difficult seeing people moving on in the forums, and I feel so ashamed that I fail each time I do. I totally get what you mean!!
Sorry this is another day 1 for you... Ah we will keep trying though eh?
To be honest (and I don't mean this horribly) it's good to see others in your situation... Not saying I'm happy to see you back at day 1, just that we aint the only ones struggling with this. And like all those show offs who are hitting their month 6 they all went through this too, and look where they are now. It's possible. We can do it!!
Good luck to you! And I WILL see you in Day2! x
I couldn't agree more...............I think I would have given up if I hadn't seen that other people were in the same boat and struggling and failing and struggling and failing and I think that is what has given me the strength to keep going.
I spent the last 2 days feeling very sorry for myself and lighting another fag to make me feel better. But yesterday i gave myself a good kick up the bum and decided that instead of looking 2 weeks or 2 months down the line I would take it one day at a time and if I got through that day then fantastic and if I didn't then I would start again.
Hey if it takes us a 100 attempts or 1000 we will get there
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step"
There is not one person on these forums who hasn't done day 1, I wish sometimes i could put to words the exact thing you need to get you through these early challenges.
You simply have to choose NOT to smoke.
Life will always present you challenges, will always deliver you stress when you least need it, you may get involved in an argument you wish you'd never stepped into, you will get bored...
The real key is, just don't smoke. A cig won't change a thing, if anything they just make it worse
Even if you think that smoking will solve the problem? Mentally it probably will, but the turmoil it creates lasts far longer than few minutes of calm it seems to make you believe and before long, you just want another and another and another until your so sick of it enslaving you that you find yourself back where you started quitting once more.
Its all about choice, make a decision to quit and stick to it for all your worth.. the road you take will have many junctions.. the road you must remain on is the one that says 'I will not smoke today'. The demons of which we speak will constantly try to convince us that their way is the better way, they'll try anything to make you feed the addiction.
Thing is.. the longer you go, the quieter that voice of your demon has.. and the choice you make to continue on gets easier and easier.
Stop worrying about tomorrow, and don't stress on what happened before today.. concentrate on today.. you can change what is happening right now.. and when you reach a point where you must choose 'to smoke or not to smoke', choose to live without slavery and 'Don't Smoke'.
It does get easier, i really wish i could help you see the vision of what could be, but make a real go at this and you will see it for yourself anyway.
Odd... I dont fancy a cig and i just had my lunch... weird... but very cool!
Could do with the dizzyness buggerin off though... i've either picked up a bug, or its a symptom of summin else... i have no idea... but anyway... plodding on...
I think I had an epiphany yesterday, cos after many attempts and failures, I suddenly realised that I actually didn't want to to smoke anymore - truly didn't want to, not just felt I shouldn't, but really didn't want to....fingers crossed you all have this revelation and then it's pretty much all mind over matter....
Hope to see you all tomorrow, when things will be even easier
I am on my 50th time of trying again and also feel bad when I have to repost day 1 again. I feel bad for always failing but I keep coming back and trying again and again, I think one day (this one) will be the day that I stop for good. I wish us all good luck on beating this!!!!
Yes, I managed cold turkey (and Nicotette gum!!!) and was puffing on 30+ a day for years. We are all different and different things work for us - its trial and error and you just have to ultimately grin and bear it. I keep going by reminding myself why I am doing it and what I am going to reward myself with. CASH NOT ASH. Having said that its only Day 2 so a LONG way to go but I am SO CHUFFED and proud of myself so far and feel different already. I WILL MAKE IT, SO WILL WE ALL eh? POSITIVE THOUGHTS. We have not 'given up' anything except a noxious deadly habit. Satan wrapped up in a bit of paper :mad:
I am on my 50th time of trying again and also feel bad when I have to repost day 1 again. I feel bad for always failing but I keep coming back and trying again and again, I think one day (this one) will be the day that I stop for good. I wish us all good luck on beating this!!!!
All we can do is keep trying and one day we will beat it
Nice one for trying again...............
I'm feeling much better about it today and coping much better.......went up to the 21mg patch instead of the 14mg and the difference is unbelievable. (Thanks Chrissie for suggesting that :D)
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Have since been reading a quit smoking book, which has actually helped a lot and I have now just snapped each and every one of those nasty sticks in half and put them in the bin....already feel that panicy feeling, but will not let it win!! The fags cause the withdrawl...they are to blame, so why on earth would I want another one!!! Hope you have survived Day 1....I am determined to!!
I'm here and still going strong!
