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[nsd_user663_4627]

Hi Everyone. Well im back.

I quit smoking in May, for just under 3 months. I used this forum for a short while at the beginning, and i should of stayed. I started smoking again due a huge upset in the family. Smoking was once again my friend. I hated myself at the start, but as my family were going through the same as me, they didnt frown upon me starting again. They saw it as my refuge. My friends just gave me sympathy, so nobody actually told me off. Which would of been what i needed. even if i did think it was helping me calm down.

So now im smoking again, a lot! it makes me feel sick, and i dont know why i do it.

The last week, i have been feeling ill after every ciggarette, so i decided tomorrow would be my quit date! Way ahead of my new years resoloution (which i never keep).

I am already waaayyy ahead of myself. I have thrown all the ash trays out. Cleaned up everywhere, and im trying really hard no to smoke today. All in preperation for my first day tomorrow! My patches are at the ready!!!

So, wish me luck!! im going to do it this time!

Love, Laura-jayne x

[jackieinv]

Welcome back and well done deciding to stop. You have heard the stories before but do go back and do some reading to help you to understand the addiction and keep your head straight.

Wishing you every success.

Jackie

[nsd_user663_6596]

Yay!!

Well done on your decision to stop, you've made the right one for sure!!!

I think that more people fail as a result of New Years Ressies and its better to stop at a time thats good for you!

I remember thinking as i went to bed that i didn't want to smoke the next day... woke up, slapped on a patch that i'd found lurking around from a previous attempt and that was over 6 weeks ago now...

If times get hard just remember that they will only be for a short while... and we're all here to help.

Good Luck... Your a winner!!!

Zo xxx

[nsd_user663_4627]

thank you so much. i can do it with your help xxx

[nsd_user663_3728]

Hi Laura Jayne

Welcome back and well done restarting your quit

I'm sorry you had family problems which got you smoking again but it happens and most of us have had more than 1 go at it

I'm going to post you my standard welcome and advice post although you've been here before as a refresher course and hope I don't insult you by doing so

Welcome to the forum and well done on the decision to quit possibly one of the most important you will ever make and you will be losing nothing but you will regain control of your life and that has to be good

You will find all the help and support you need on here as we all help each other just like a family we are here for you every step of the way cheering the good days and sympathising with the bad but the good far outweigh the bad

Read the posts on here you will find a lot of tips and advice and in the signatures of a lot you will find links to other sites just click on them Here are 2 I find very good to start you off whyquit.com and woofmang.com Read, read and then read some more as the more you read and learn about why you smoked and about your addiction the easier your quit will be

This link is good for the psychological part of quittingwhyquit.com/whyquit/A_Sympt...

Post often to let us know how you're doing, to rant, rave have a moan whatever you like pretty much anything goes on here

Love

Marg

[nsd_user663_2040]

Hey Laura-Jayne

Welcome back and you sound like you really mean business. Keep the positive mental attitude and come here to post good bad or just plain mad it does not matter.

The very very best of luck this time, however sounds like you are well in charge.

Big Hug xx

[nsd_user663_4990]

L.J,

The very best of luck for tomorrow.. so you're using patches to quit, great!!! Good for you!! They do help, and you also tend to find they are easy to ween from aswell when you get near the end of the course of them too.

I used them for the 10 weeks as they suggested, and afterwards i only found the first 3 days off them to be any hard work at all.. but overall, certainly for me? they worked.. and i'm now in my 6th month of being quit, and can definitely say that patches, along with the excellent encouragement given by this forum does work. The real work is done by you though, and i thoroughly recommend reading up about nicotine addiction and the like while you are quitting. 'Know your enemy'

Check some of our forum signatures for some starter reading, it will help tons.

Good luck and i wish you well

[nsd_user663_6570]

well done hun on coming back on here... its hard to face people when you are not as sucessful as you want to be...

give it ur all we all struggle and eventualy get there...

for all the top days u achived well done, they are another day forward.

there is a mdical theory, most people going through addictions go through the change curve 3 time before they sucedd..... I am on my 4th stop and I intend this to be my last....

keep strong, we will all be here for you...

ignore anyone who is negative and crtisises u for lapsing...u have come back on here so you can do it we all can......

suetiggerpaws me and my cats