I’ve never felt so weak in my entire life. I want to quit smoking so badly but every time I try I only find myself obsessing on wanting a cigarette. My roommates smoke, my friends smoke and it seems like we all want to quit but end up caving for one reason or another. Does anyone have any advice that could help me?
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I understand your pain. Its all about standing up for yourself. Like high schoolers, its like giving in to peer pressure, but on yourself.
I have been addicted to many things and cigarettes were the worst. If you’re a cold-turkey kind of person, try that and see how it goes. If not, bum when you are drinking alcohol ONLY (social smoker) and limit yourself to only 1 or 2 per social-smoking nites.
Here is how I did it:
1. Do NOT buy a pack of smokes. If you have them, you will smoke them. Bumming from friends and strangers constantly gets old quickly and they will eventually be annoyed.
2. Don’t even think about it. The more you think about it, the more you want one. When you think of smoking one, think about how your throat feels right then, think about gross crap like mucus and phlegm and tar… ew.
3. My boyfriend helped. He quit smoking and stayed strong while the rest of us continued. Every time I would smoke he would be very, very, very upset. He is worth more to me than smoking cigarettes.
4. Buy lots of gum.
5. When you quit, realize that it will take a long, long, long time to not want one… but even then, even my 80 year old grandmother still has dreams about wanting cigarettes and she quit 20 years ago.
6. When you do quit, you will feel ill, you will feel tired and down and cranky and pissed off and crazy. This will pass. Do not give in!
7. This next one is entirely dependent on your personality…. if you like the social habit part of things, partake in the social habit part. If it is too difficult for you to stay social without wanting to bum, then don’t partake. You may lose friends over it, but what kind of friends are those?
8. Sooner or later you won’t feel like the only one not smoking… my group of friends quit one by one… and the last one standing outside smoking felt very alone.
You can do it! You can do anything…. trust yourself.