if you relaspe....

[nsd_user663_5198]

I quit smoking Tuesday 1st September

Hypothetically, if i relasped last Thursday (I had 7 ciggies on a night out) and haven't smoked since how much do those 7 ciggies send me back??

Does it mean back to square one??

If so, I'm back on Day 6, if not, I've done more than 2 weeks !!

cheers

[nsd_user663_4786]

7 fags is not just a hiccup i would say that you had to go back to day 1 from then, which as you say makes you now on day 6, which has to be said is fantastic.

just remember why you failed last time and make sure that you don't fall back into that trap again.

You have very nearly done a whole week and that is a whole week you will never have to do again.

Well done.

[nsd_user663_3633]

Only you can decide what to do.

FWIW - if I had just a single puff on a cigarette, even now on day 363, I would go back to day 1.

For me - If I smoke I am not quit.

Simples.

[nsd_user663_5258]

Personally I think the numbers only matter to other people. Personally it shouldnt matter surely? If you dont smoke again now, then why does it matter what number day it is?

[nsd_user663_5198]

the numbers only matter because its supposed to get easier as the days go on

actually it doesn't matter if its 2 weeks or 6 days because the non snouting is killing me

[NicFirth 10 Years Smoke Free]

Only you can decide what to do.

FWIW - if I had just a single puff on a cigarette, even now on day 363, I would go back to day 1.

For me - If I smoke I am not quit.

Simples.

Likewise I've been counting the number of days, weeks, years since I last put a ciggy in my mouth and smoked it.

At the end of the day its your quit so its your choice. What's materially different to me on this quit is that I have made the choice to become a non smoker rather than an occasional smoker, mostly because I've tried that and its always failed for me in the end I landed back at square 1.

My concern about the "blip" situation is for me is that if I allowed myself one I would inevitably allow myself another and another and another. You may well be different, but that's how it would work for me!

Cheers

Nic

[NicFirth 10 Years Smoke Free]

the numbers only matter because its supposed to get easier as the days go on

actually it doesn't matter if its 2 weeks or 6 days because the non snouting is killing me

Read and re-educate yourself and it will become easier.

If you regard quitting as a sacrifice its hard, very hard, you just feel deprived. However, if you see it as regaining your freedom and gaining health and wealth its much easier. I.e see it as a positive thing rather than a negative one.

Good luck. Its so worth it in the end and you can get there, if I can we all can!

Cheers

Nic

[nsd_user663_5198]

The problem is I can't even have a relaxing beer/wine either at night because that will be hell

So i haven't just given up smoking, i've given up drinking aswell, and that just sucks !!

[nsd_user663_5198]

If you regard quitting as a sacrifice its hard, very hard, you just feel deprived. However, if you see it as regaining your freedom and gaining health and wealth its much easier. I.e see it as a positive thing rather than a negative one.

Nic

thats exactly what i'm doing, i'm concentrating on what I can't have instead of the freedom its given me

good advice

[NicFirth 10 Years Smoke Free]

The early stages are a bit of an endurance I'm sorry to say, but it does get so much better.

Smoking is a choice, just continue to make today a non smoking day, do the same tomorrow and so on and eventually it will be normal.

Cheers

Nic

[nsd_user663_3728]

Hi Kirk

For what it's worth I think you should have goe back to day 1 so you're on day 6 sorry but that wasn't a little blip but a relapse

Many on here have gone back after just a couple of puffs but at the end of the day the choice is down to you

It does get easier the further you go though Promise

Love

Marg