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9 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1

If you’ve tried several times before and you just keep going back to your old habits in just a few days, maybe you need to do a different approach.

Maybe you need to do it slowly. Creating a quit smoking journal will help you address all the challenges that come with quitting smoking. You could look at these challenges to make a more viable action plan. Every person is different so don’t be hard on yourself if you know someone who quit in just couple of days.

What’s great about keeping a journal is that it is tailored to your specific needs. Write down everything including your triggers and how you usually deal with your cravings. Try doing activities that you really enjoy to distract yourself and write them down in your journal.

Other smokers blog about their experience so they can share their struggles, helping other people who are in the same process. Blogger and WordPress are good platforms and they are absolutely FREE. ..actually, this was the approach I took...and it was quite helpful. I started a blog (http://myimhacks.com/stop-smoking/) which kept me occupied to the point of forgetting I needed a puff :). It feels liberating!

9 years ago 0 +0 / -0 13

When people try to give up the addictive habit of smoking, they are attempting to lose more than the craving for nicotine. They may be giving up a long-established tool that has helped them cope. A friend of sorts. And that can be the hardest part.Finding how to now address healthy needs that were not able to be satisfied in the past may be key for change. A new sense of self-worth, soothing, and connection can be achieved that can diminish the allure of cigarettes.

Many smokers have found the key to quitting is to pass up the nicotine replacement pharmaceuticals and go directly into their own sub conscious minds – the centre of their beings, to break the cycle of desirability that attracted them to smoking in the first place. One way to do this is through hypnotherapy, a method that induces a hypnotic, or deeply relaxed state of mind that enables the hypnotherapist to create an aversion to smoking through a series of direct suggestions.Try Stop Smoking program By Cerified Hypnotists Joseph R Giove.Hope this helps.Stay Strong

10 years ago 0 +0 / -0 11

Have you tried prayer? God has helped me a lot throughout my life, and He is someone I can talk to when I have no one else.

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 880

Caz:

Sounds as if you have a solid notion about quitting. That is a good thing because it is possible for you to be successful. I have been down a similar road. There came a point for me when I realized why I smoked and what need that activity was satisfying in my wee little soul. Once I came to that point, I began to recognize my own ability to say no more to cigarettes.

We do change from the inside out. Putting down the object of our addiction is not enough. We must learn how NOT to smoke. And that can be a difficult thing to do, because in the doing of it, we must embrace the very things within us that we managed to avoid by smoking. In short, when we teach ourselves how to NOT smoke we learn to cease hiding behind the thin blue veil. For me its been a rather complex journey, but at its root was a commitment to do anything that would help me teach myself.

I think that you will be a good student. Just remember that this addiction is similar to being both the jailer and the prisoner. Once we become aware of our own inner strength, we must then have the courage to ask ourselves for the key to our prison door. There should never be a reason in this life to destroy the vessel (the body) in order not to drink deeply of its contents (the soul)...You have the power to teach yourself this lesson...

stay well

nonic

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11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 855

I tried so many times to get in here on my Desk top, wont work, now i can get here and post from My laptop that i rarley use, so the problem must be with my old pc :(

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 855

Hello i hope you are hanging in there, stay here as much as you can, let these people help you Iam almost 11 years now quit and i did it here at SSC :) No Smokin Tresa

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 3131

Looks like you're doing it ... doing all you can to keep this quit and help yourself to a better life , congratulations ...

One day at a time :-)

you're doing good

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 618

Hi Caz,

It's great news that you do not have a clinical depression, but, obviously you are feeling down generally. It looks like you are doing all you can to help yourself...Whatever it takes! Keep the determination going no matter what, and stay close to us here. You will not be "Just a number," in our system!

It can be worrying when you do not see the 'magic' happening very quickly in a quit.....most of us were shocked to see how long it takes to be, what we imagine to be, really quit. Don't expect too much too quickly, rather reward yourself little and often for the tiniest achievement. Post and tell us about your achievements as well as your down times.

You already have 60 days under your belt....celebrate that, and do not dread the next 60, as they will go by faster than you realise! Feel happy that help is here at all times, and we know how you are feeling. Do not feel you have to wait for a down time or an achievement in order to post.....just come in and 'babble' on!

Thinking of you,

Love Lolly.

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1387

Hi Caz.

I cant add much to what all these great quitters have told you except to stay close. Coming here and spilling my guts to others was the best for me. I am almost quit for 5 years now but I can easily remember the first few days of my quit, and so can my family. Come here and post often. The mere act of talking to someone who is going through what you are going through is a great help. Hang tough!!!

Kaiser

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 579

Hi Caz,

It sounds like you are “ready for change”, and that’s the best time to do it, when the momentum is with you. Great news that you are not clinically depressed.

Congratulations on those 60 days! Wow! In this “middle period” of the quit, people can sometimes feel disheartened that things are not improving as quickly as they would like, but the rewards ARE ahead. Anything you do support yourself and keep yourself going during this period is a good thing. You will definitely notice a difference in 60 days time.

Many of us on this site started smoking in our teenage years, and any crisis would see us running for a smoke. Therefore we never learned emotionally to deal with “stuff” – we were always running away. Interesting, eh?

This is a safe place to discuss smoking/quitting issues – whatever it is you are experiencing, someone is likely to have been there before! We also do celebrations, every week in the stats parade, and celebrate milestones and plan rewards....so you don’t have to have a crisis to visit!

Keep going day by day, and shout whenever.

Cheers,

Lizzie

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