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[shar69]

Due to epilepsy and folate deficiency I suffer depression and anxiety and when I get stressed which I will then my seizures start due to the stress, any help I'd appreciate or encouragement, I'm hoping to quit after my new Yr nite out

[mushen Valued Contributor]

Hello. Don't over-think this. If you are already worrying that quitting could be stressful, then it could easily become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Don't set yourself up to fail. The day after your night out is the time to think about it and then only think about 1 hour at a time, not the rest of the day, or the next, just concentrate on getting through the hour. Every quit is different. Some people find it quite easy and there is no reason you won't be one of them. If you find it hard, then deal with that in the moment. Think about the millions of people that have quit, this will tell you it can be done, it may well be challenging but not so challenging that you cannot succeed. Equally, quitting gets easier the longer you do it.

[reader2019 5 Years Smoke Free]

My advice to you would be talk to your doctor. As they would know you and your medical history and what stop smoking aid would help you best. Good luck

[FranxLove 100 Days Smoke Free]

Hi Happy New Year !

How long have you been smoking? How much a day?

Do you know why you started smoking?

What need were you trying to satisfy with tobacco?

The most important thing you can do in your life is quit smoking, because with drug addiction you can never win. If you have all those problems why add to that a drug addiction and all the physical problems smoking brings? (stress, high blood preasure, rapid heart, speediness.)

You'll have to stop sooner or later. The sooner you stop the less damage you make and the less strong your addiction will be.

Understand the you are surley self medicating. Its precisley because you have depression that you smoke. Smoking tobacco is a good source of pleasure--and pleasure can keep depression at bay. Yet smoking can never solve the problem and brings a whole plethora of problems of its own.

I would advise starting to eliminate cigarettes each day, so you slowly learn how to live without many cigarettes. Like that it becomes easy to get down to one or two a day. By then you probably would have learned to spend most of your day not smoking, so you are more a non smoker than a smoker. Then make the full shift and become a non smoker. Its so much better! Cigarettes stress you out. There are so much chemicals in there. It stresses the body so much (as all stimulants do.) There is nothing more stressful than craving a cigarette.

It will take what it has to take. Be easy on yourself, be compassionate with yourself, and best of luck You are the best no matter what ! The world wants you to succeed.