2 years already but tempted again...

[nsd_user663_52784]

It's been a long time since I last wrote on this forum. I remember what it was to have support from all the good people here. Here I am again, hoping to find it once more.

I am 22 years old and I used to be a 4-year heavy smoker (I started at 16) until I quit 2 years and 3 months ago. It's been a long time, however, there are new things that have come into my life and here I am, feeling tempted again.

I moved with my girlfriend to the UK a year and a half ago, and I am about to start university next week. And this is why my fear of starting smoking again has come. I remember what it was the last time I attended uni (at 19), and there were a lot of parties, drinkers and smokers around me. Shorty before I dropped out of uni last time, I quit smoking (May 2013). I haven't tried concentrating on studying since then, because I thought only cigarettes can make me focus on the study material. I also haven't gone out with a lot of people who smoke since then. So the social environment + studying concentration make me think that cigarettes will be kind of... "needed" for both again this time, since I start uni here in the UK next week.

I don't know what to do. Do you think I can make it out without getting tempted again? Last time I started university, I was still a smoker. I kind of feel nostalgic about that time and fear of not having a fag on Day 1 at uni, just to "feel" the old times.

Thank you and much appreciated.

[Canwes 1000 Days Smoke Free]

Okay, interesting situation but you need to change your perspective of how smoking helps with studying or anything else for that matter. If you find yourself in a social setting you'll surely be able to hang with other people who don't deliberatly poison their bodies thinking it's cool. Also take a good look at those that do smoke, what is appealing about them, the smell of their clothes, their stained teeth, the dependancy on constantly craving these little cancer sticks? Listen, you've done so well to quit for 2 years and you likely remember how difficult it was to quit, did you enjoy the quitting process so much you want to go through it again? I wish so badly that I would have quit when you did or should I say never started in the first place but it was a different era for me, we now have so much more iformation available to us that proves how horrible smoking is, don't let peer pressure get to you. Be better than those but don't judge, encourage them that they to can quit and become healthier people.

[Hercu Valued Contributor]

Theavengers you seems to be a very responsible young adult.....You have tested and found nicotine no good for you at a very early stage in your life which put you in my books as a very wise young lad... Not like me an old Toppie who first needed to be diagnosed (after 38 years of smoking) with COPD and then decided to quit..... Do not go there it is not nice....

So please like Canwes said...do not cave to peer pressure....and stay in control of your own life and do not give the nicodemon a foot in the door of your beautiful young healthy life.....