Hi everyone :) I've been reading through a few of the other posts and it's been really inspiring and comforting to hear about others' experience, so I thought I would share my own.
My quit date is tomorrow. This is my second serious attempt at quitting. My first was just over a year ago. I managed 3 weeks without smoking, although I was using an e-cig (nicotine inhaler). It's been useful going through the program and looking at my previous attempt more critically to see where I might have done things a little better, and why I eventually slipped up. I've had a few snags this time around (washer broke so couldn't wash my smoky clothes, a big pile of stress at work) but I've put this off a few months running now and I decided there will always be some reason not to, so why not just try it?
This time, I'm trying to go cold turkey. I've thought long and hard about the alternatives, but I suppose in the end it depends whether you like your pain in small doses or all at once. For me, I think I'm a 'pull the plaster off fast' kind of person, and that's why I'm trying cold turkey this time. When I used an e-cig, I think this gave me the false impression that quitting would be easier than it was, because I wasn't really letting go of nicotine at all. In fact, I was likely getting more of it, as I was using it in places I wouldn't normally smoke, and I've been smoking more since I went back to it as a result. I also feel that going through full-frontal withdrawal and, hopefully, making it through to the other side, will make me think more than twice about slipping back into old habits, knowing just how hard it was to do the first time around.
I'm hoping to provide an update tomorrow to see how my first day went, and whether I'm crazy for trying cold turkey! Hope you're all doing well on your respective journeys :)
