I know it sounds so silly but since ive stopped i find am so BORED.
I dont crave much and i feel great its just whenever ive done anything i think its cig time then realise i cant have one.
Will i always feel bored? and does anyone else feel the boredom too?
Leanne
xx:confused:
i understand this feeling completely!! it is less often then it used to be when i first quit--thats for sure but it still happens!!it will pass and you must find
something else to do and tell yourself that this will pass and it will happen less often as time goes on!!:)
stay strong and keep quit!!
We are all used to filling any spare moment with smoking. Now is the time to get a life. Write a book, dye your underwear, clean the cupboard under the sink. Find your favourite music and dance, talk to a friend. Learn something new about smoking. There is a whole world out there for us now we arent chained to tobacco.
Should I go to an exercise class, or for a swim?
exactly...i re aranged my living room yesterday...:cool:
yeah, you're right, it does feel kind of boring.... but then, what's so exciting about smoking? it isn't exciting at all, it just feels exciting cos it's a drug... fake excitement....
I am the opposite. I was more bored when I kept stopping for a cigarette. Now I am much busier and less likely to get bored.
I am bored too i think thats why i am getting so moody :confused:
Gilly R
Yes I totally know what you mean Its like when Ive finished work Iused to really look forward to having a cig as soon as I got home Now theres nothing to look forward to which sounds |really pathetic! But well done to both of us for making it this far
My breaks at work seem about twice as long now. Normally i wouldn't complain, but yeah, i get bored!
I totally get this too.
I find more than boredom that when I acheived somthing difficult, I would have had a ciggie, now when I acheive somthing I feel deflated. It is actually stopping my motivation, sounds silly but this for me is harder than the stress ciggies, when I am stressed I take a notion and find it is a lot easier to subside than the "victory smokes".
Anyway rant over lol.
I am sure it will get easier for us.
Keep up the good work
Jill xxx
Hi Leanne
When i stopped smoking back last year i decided that i failed before because i got bored so went back on them, i looked hard at what made me fail and decided that this time i would not do the same thing so i started a hobby before i started my quit, i took up knitting.
I know not everyone will do this but i have found this helped me esp in the first few weeks and now i dont have to keep doing it and for the first 4-6 weeks while i adjusted i knitted about 14 scarves maybe more as i cant knit anything else, i also started to read again. I had some good paperbacks before Christmas that i have read and then i was given a Kindle from my OH & Kids for Christmas so have that now to help stop my boredom.
You will get over it and things will get better. Honestly.
Good luck all
I know it sounds so silly but since ive stopped i find am so BORED.
If you're bored read this.
It's a fascinating read and certainly helps to focus not how horrid smoking is but more why we did it... I'm sure that knowing why we did helps us stop...
I know exactly what you mean I feel like I have all these hours in the day that I just can't fill? Its strange cos it only takes 5 mins to smoke a ciggie and I didn't smoke that many I think its the habit of having that to do and relax while you are doing it, I feel like I can't relax now, when I eat I feel like I have to jump up straight away and find something to do, its this feeling of boredom that is the hardest thing and I really feel that it will never go its just a matter of resigning myself to that fact and trying to fill my life with other things, trouble is I don't really want to keep chasing around looking for something to do!
Can't seem to stop eating!!!!!
