Staying QUIT
Well, Im on about day 11 but i have a confession...Ive slipped up over the weekend. Thats gotta be the hardest time to go without. I like to have a drink or two and team it up with a ciggie in the other hand over the weekends. I feel lost, bored, tempted and unable to think about anything else. Its getting easier on weekdays. Im trying to keep myself busy with housework, sewing and anything else to keep my mind off it. Im going to try again this weekend to stay off the ciggies. Im not a big drinker so maybe i could just not drink at all....its going to be hard but i need to do this for my family as well as my own health.
I am only in the cutting down stage of quitting so far. Because I have found alcohol and coffee go hand in hand with a cigarette, I am finding some success by never doing the both at the same place. In other words, when I wake up and want a coffee and a smoke, I have to choose which one I will have first and ensure I don't have them together in the same place. I now smoke outside and then have my coffee in the kitchen. I reckon I'll do the same thing with alcohol. You guys are already quit so maybe avoiding alcohol for a while will help and then only drink somewhere where you can't smoke?
I have only just started and am only at the cutting down stage. I have found that smoking outside in the minus 0 temperatures and changing my habits, where I would usually smoke seems to help. Mttnmc please let me know how you are going with your efforts, I am just a little behind you, but if you find something that works please share it I need all the help I can get!!!!!
hi im at day 22 and have not bad the slkpp.up yyou are talkinh of. But i see it as a learning curve rather than a slip up. You are alread preparing your self for the next week end so you are now armed with knowledge thats not a bad thing... Keep going and leadning every time u slip up and then you will quit for good.
I might add that this quit is my 8th and final try .im now a non_smoker for good and feel glad to feel this. So dont give up giving up...
For me wine and smoking go together and I used to have many glasses of wine each night.
To give up smoking, I needed to give up wine...but just for those initial wobbly weeks!
I now have an occassional glass of wine at night, but have lost 3 kilos as a consequence of drinking less and committing to a new way of eating.