On my bedside table is Allen Carr's "Easy Way to Stop Smoking", awaiting me. I have started the book before but didn't get through it, I guess because I wasn't ready. I believe this is my year and as I take control of my life once again, I know it is moving up to the top of my priority list. I joined Weight Watchers a week ago and abandoned my daily glasses of wine, resulting in a 5 lb loss the 1st week. I know I need the structure of a program, because left to my own devices I will stumble. 35 more pounds to go!
When I read your post it reminded me of much of what Allen Carr says in his book about why we don't quit and the messages we tell ourselves. I have known fully fledged, never thought they would quit kind of smokers, use his method after countless other times of trying to quit and finally succeeding after reading his book. I recommend it to you and to all other non-believers to give it a try and I hope I will be adding my own "I quit smoking" story to the forum soon! Here's a link:
I have always thought that as long as I believe smoking is just too hard to do, it will be. That is why I am drawn to his message and approach!
Wishing us all great success and a happier, healthier and unchained life!
LOCKINLOVE WARNING!! DONT READ MY POST, WILL NOT HELP YOUR ADVENTURE
just while reading the text on that link i had to have a puff
that text is nothing new, i've read similar ones load of times when i was with the plan in month two phrase, trying to keep it a success. from then lasted one more month. see here how i quit
https://www.casinomeister.com/forums/threads/34668/
all experts advises are directed for short-term. they don't have a plan at how long to go with the terror if the awful sensations don't go, all the ones are aiming the psychological aspect with positive thinking(which is not my thing).
3) Your body will continue to withdraw from nicotine for a few days but that doesn’t mean you have to be miserable. The physical withdrawal is very slight – there is no pain – and it passes quickly. What’s more, it’s what smokers suffer all their smoking lives. Non-smokers do not suffer it. You are a non-smoker and so you’ll soon be free of it forever.
few days? i gave it months. chest bumped, i felt dizzy, could not concentrate on complex things, stress situations have been even more stressful.
4) If you associate a cigarette with a coffee, tea, drink or break, have your coffee, tea, drink or break and at that moment, instead of thinking: “I can’t have a cigarette now”, simply think: “Isn’t it great: I can enjoy this moment without having to choke myself to death”.
i didn't only associated with lots of drinks, i even associated places where i used to smoke, a lot of them, from my chair to balcony to our bar to pretty much everywhere
i enjoyed smoking, can't recall ever saying that i choke myself to death so positive thinking is useless for me.
5) Do not try to avoid smoking situations or opt out of life. Go out and enjoy social occasions right from the start and do not envy smokers, pity them. Realise that they will be envying you because every single one of them will be wishing they could be like you: free from the whole filthy nightmare. No smoker wants to see their children start smoking which means they wish they hadn’t started themselves. Remember it’s not you who are being deprived but those poor smokers. They’re being deprived of their health, energy, money, peace of mind, confidence, courage, self-respect and freedom. If you’re offered a cigarette, just say: “No thanks – I don’t smoke”, rather than start a long conversation about how long it has been since you stopped.
yeah, exactly like i did. have gone to our local bar to play slots and have a word where everyone is smoking. beside i felt bullets into chest from factors like the place where i smoked loads of packs, the smoke inside, the look at others doing it, per total it was worse than the only surgical intervention i had at 20 yo in which the multiple injected painkillers to local area had absolutely no effect and i felt the entire thing. i've felt my dick ripped off from pulling out the skin with some medieval method not how i was informed by research then sewing it. it was circumcision, i always wanted to have that shape i saw in clips, and was with the cost of the most acute pain ever. even more took a hospital bacteria which inflated my eyes at that time because of poor medical system. but you know what, the first moment i entered the bar as a non-smoker was worse!
i will not copy every point on that site, long story short if the sensations didnt go away for 3 months, which felt eternally, i'm not ready to give 3 months+ once again. the disadvantages of trying to break the enslavement are too many and not worth the terror. i do sport activities and smoke, how about this.
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eek: yeah I know lol) but this week 20 has lasted me since roughly Monday and I am 'nubbing' them early too.
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