Keep up with the giving up thing.
I smoked, but I've given up. It was just a decision I came to and I immediately bought a pack of the highest strength patches I could find. They lastest one week, and I then thought "Sod paying almost 15 quid for this!" and I just haven't smoked since.
Don't even recall how I started. Never good. Never.
But I consider myself fortunate. I feel so much better. 🙂 Chocolate tastes so much better as well. 🙂
Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Untrue. Its been proven that it takes only small amount of time to get over the addiction, everything else is just a habit.Dentists will tell you the same.
It's true that some people can quit easily. Other have a very hard time quitting. Though it takes only one week for the nicotine to travel through your system, or so my doctor told me.
Originally posted by CandyKoRn
There isn't anything habitual about smoking, it's an addiction pure and simple.Yes, it's also disgusting 😛
Not true! Its a habit and an addiction. Breaking the habit is half the battle to stopping!
When I stopped I did it when I moved house, all of a sudden I was in a place where I wasn't used to smoking and it helped. So for about 2 months I avoided the places I used to hang out until the cravings became controlable, however getting in the car was always a real bi*ch for me because my usual habit was to get in the car start the engine light a cig and drive off.
When I stopped I was smoking 20-30 a day and I used nothing but my own strength and desire to stop. I've been stopped 3 years now and I'm glad. I still get the odd craving now and then but the thought of the taste of that first cig really helps keep me off! 😮💨
I don't smoke and never will. I don't see the point in inhaling millions of deadly poisons everyday and paying for it when you have black lungs and yellow teeth and skin. I know it's addictive to people but it's no excuse to actually start smoking for whatever reason when they are given ample information as to what it does to you.
Baylin: Well done for stopping
~I don't smoke and never will or do any other kind of drug. Its just not me. No one person in my family smokes and i'm proud of it! I live in the country so i'm used to fresh CLEAN air and so when i go to school or into town i bout choke. if there is someone smoking around me i hold my breath and leave. don't care where i am...i leave! I don't understand why someone would do that to their body. its like u see people who can hardly afford an apartment or food and they go out and spend what little money they have on ciggaretes...it makes me want ta hurl!!!! it also ticks me off when someone blames it on their friends! if u really don't want to smoke and your friends r trying to pressure u into it...they ain't ur friends. u should have the self control to say...SHOVE IT!!!~ 😠
I smoke like a f.ucking chimney. It's not about the "I can't stop, it's too hard", because I know I'm addicted, but I don't actually want to stop. The circles I hang around in don't actually include any non-smokers, and I'm being truthful.
I know, one day in the future, I'm gonna wish to hell that I had quit, but right now I am a smoker. Full stop. I enjoy the taste, I enjoy the cigarette, I don't understand why I am not grossed out by it, but I am honest with myself and I fully admit I am addicted.