It took me a few times before I eventually stopped my three pack a day habit.
Two things:
Keep your hands busy
Try the nicotine patch for the first week. It really does help take the edge off.
I quit smoking in 1993. 14 years ago. I am 55 now and have high blood pressure due to all that smoking over the years. I started when I was 18 and a Senior in High School. I barely smoked at all back then but by the time I was working full time and out of college I was smoking 2 packs a day of the light cigarettes.
If I can stop anyone can do it.
Hang in there as it's MIND OVER THE POISON.
Hope this post helps.
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Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey
At stopping smoking. Yep, about half an hour ago, I smoked what I hope to be the last cigar I ever smoke. I already stopped with my occasional cigarette on Friday's so now its the cigars.
To that end, I have threw away my cigar box, my lighter, ashtrays, the whole lot! Chucked out. Gone. Bye bye. C ya!
Yes this time I'm really going to give it a fighting chance, my mental focus is strong, and my will to do well is there. It will be hard because of my father still smoking, but, well... I gave up nagging him to stop when I was 10, because I knew it was a waste of breath.
So wish me luck. And if I can get through the weekend, and the following weekend, as that is when I light up. I think I will be sorted. I am lucky in as much as I only smoked on the weekend, it was not a daily thing, but I want to seriously sort myself out before my 20th birthday.
This is step 1.
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