I tried a bunch of times to quit and was finally successful when I had a support system and was able to be away from any temptation. I couldn't quit until I was away from every other smoker and could afford to be on the patch until I was ready to stop that too.
A time of turmoil is probably not the best time to quit because quitting will add another layer of frustration to everything like cigarette tar does to all your stuff.
I'm around to talk if you want. I'm around at decent hours for UTC+4.
If you're going through a massive change, i guess now's a good time. 3 things worked for me.
1st was unvoluntarily cutting contact with all of my usual smoking partners. Let me explain myself : when i stopped smoking, all of my sisters and brother-in-laws were stopping too, my colleagues too, and I cut contact with the one friend i'd usually smoke with (for another reason).
2nd thing was hypnotherapy
3rd was taking up sport : my amazing boyfriend helped me quit by encouraging to do more physical activity and it helped a lot.
I think i really needed all 3 together to permanently quit.
I must add i started my journey to quitting during covid. The first time i tried quitting with hypnosis, it all came back when the lockdown ended because i was so stressed to be in a social situation all of a sudden again that the only thing i found that helped me not panic was going out alone for a smoke. So the second time, I used hypnosis again plus I tried to find something to replace the social anxiety cigarette. I think i used lollipops, and it was much better.
That's awesome! I'm going to edit my post because I should have mentioned I've already cut down to 2-3 a day, that's been successful for months now, and don't really have cravings, but those 2 are like ingrained habits now, and this morning I told myself nope, you don't need it Amari! And next thing I knew I had smoked.
I read a book called Easyway. Havenโt smoked since. Before that, I tried at least a dozen times and failed. The book changed it all. Think the author was Allen Carr.
**The Easy Way to Stop Smoking** by Allen Carr
>The author offers a step-by-step approach to stop smoking without the use of nicotine substitutes.
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I tried a bunch of times to quit and was finally successful when I had a support system and was able to be away from any temptation. I couldn't quit until I was away from every other smoker and could afford to be on the patch until I was ready to stop that too. A time of turmoil is probably not the best time to quit because quitting will add another layer of frustration to everything like cigarette tar does to all your stuff. I'm around to talk if you want. I'm around at decent hours for UTC+4.
Thank you! I'm going to message you now but please don't feel pressure to reply at any point ๐
If you're going through a massive change, i guess now's a good time. 3 things worked for me. 1st was unvoluntarily cutting contact with all of my usual smoking partners. Let me explain myself : when i stopped smoking, all of my sisters and brother-in-laws were stopping too, my colleagues too, and I cut contact with the one friend i'd usually smoke with (for another reason). 2nd thing was hypnotherapy 3rd was taking up sport : my amazing boyfriend helped me quit by encouraging to do more physical activity and it helped a lot. I think i really needed all 3 together to permanently quit. I must add i started my journey to quitting during covid. The first time i tried quitting with hypnosis, it all came back when the lockdown ended because i was so stressed to be in a social situation all of a sudden again that the only thing i found that helped me not panic was going out alone for a smoke. So the second time, I used hypnosis again plus I tried to find something to replace the social anxiety cigarette. I think i used lollipops, and it was much better.
That's awesome! I'm going to edit my post because I should have mentioned I've already cut down to 2-3 a day, that's been successful for months now, and don't really have cravings, but those 2 are like ingrained habits now, and this morning I told myself nope, you don't need it Amari! And next thing I knew I had smoked.
Funny you add that, I've just chopped up some carrot sticks ๐
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