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[Jen2424]

New here have smoked forever wanna stop

[dugahole 5 Years Smoke Free]

Hi Jen2424, If you really wanna stop you will. Your mind is the problem. I did the following. I came on here and any stop smoking site I could find every day and read all the posts. I studied my own habit as in noticed that every thing I did from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night was worked around the fags. I started and ended the day with fags. I drank lots of coffee as each coffee enabled me to have more fags. I smoked around 25 -30 a day. When I did a task around the place I stopped and smoked for a rest!!! Good news, have a smoke, Bad news have a smoke hahaha. Made any excuse to have a smoke. Then I new It was all controlled by my mind and habit. I probably really enjoyed maybe 10 fags a day the rest just fed the addiction. I smoked for about 46 years and stopped cold turkey. I picked a day and the night before smoked the last one. By 1 pm I caved hahaha So I bought a pack and smoked for a few days and just kept telling myself I was going to stop. I Tried to reduce the fags each day but knew the only way was Not One Puff Ever like people said on here. Maybe a week went by and I decided that I was on my last packet. I had one left in the packet and I kept putting off smoking it for about 3 hours. Then I smoked half. Then an hour later I smoked the other half hahaha. OMG this was it hahah. That was 2.30pm on the 25/7/2018. That night we went to a RSL club with family for dinner for one of my daughter in laws birthday. When we left the club luckily we went to the car park and my wife drove us home. The trip was about 70km and every time I saw a petrol station coming up I tried to occupy my mind so I didn't ask her to stop and buy some fags. I will admit I found it hard at times. as each day passed smoke free I seemed to become more tired to the point I thought I need to visit a dr. But I kept reading and lots of people had the same issue. So I knew it was the addiction starving. It took me a long time to pick up from the tiredness and also for my breathing to improve. So every time I got a thought to smoke I didn't ignore it I thought to myself do I need a smoke. I ran my mind all over my body and asked myself did I have any pain no. I then told my head to fuck off and stop lying to me and moved on hahaha. Our problem is Jen that as well as the addiction we have the habit eg. When we do X we have a smoke. So it is a ling journey before we have done everything new without a smoke that we used to do with a smoke.( not sure if I explained that very good!!) Even just recently I had a dream I was still a smoker. If part of my journey is any help who knows hahah. We often say good luck but it isn't a matter of luck it is a decision and a tough little journey but there is always many others travelling the same path. Post here, send me messages we are all here to help if we can. Regards

[dugahole 5 Years Smoke Free]

Hi Jen2424, How are things in your world, Have you started your quit yet?