Help me quit pls
Hi I am a 37 year old woman! I have two children....one is 2.5yrs old and my youngest is 10 months! I have been a smoker since I was 19. I pretended to quit smoking when I was pregnant....but unfortunately have to admit that although at the start of my pregnancy's I managed to quit....by the time I was due I had alteast 3 ciggys a day! Sorry I know this is bad and I felt soooo guilty (still do) but I found it sooooo hard not to!
Anyway.....I have managed to quit in the past...once with hypnosis and once just cold-turkey after reading Alan Carr's easyway to quit smoking! This book truely helped and I didn't smoke for 6 months.....but because I thought it was soooo easy to quit I decided to have just one ciggy at a party....which .....well got me back on them! HUGE MISTAKE!
I have a love hate relationship with ciggys....as I have many fond memories that include dirty ashtrays and talking the night away......but at the same time I know that it's a poison and its killinng me....and I have a responsibility to my children to give up and be there for them! Hence....I need to quit!
I have decided to go cold turkey.....because I believe in the Alan Carr way of quiting....and truelly didn't find it that hard last time! I didn't experience massive withdrawels....so I'm going to give it another go!
Anyways....fellow quitters....this is me! Pls wish me luck....as I really need it!
Shelcea
Hey Shelcea - welcome to the non-smokers corner!! I am now into Day 9 without a smoke. I would never ever have believed it possible for me to even write those words. It has been hard and is still sometimes. But, if I can do it anybody can. I never even wanted to. I had to because I have stage 3 emphysema. Even against odds like that Champix has helped me to stop smoking. Why don't you try it? It is made for those with weak willpower, like me. Rooting for you - hang in there!!!!!!