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Achieving "the click"

Posted in Getting started
By JoD
schedule 10 May 2013

I've been really struggling to quit smoking for the last six months. I've quite several times over the last 20 years, sometimes for several years at a time, but have always gone back to it. Most recently I quit for a year and a half, but then I had a miscarriage and everything kind of fell apart. I thought "oh stuff it, I'm going to have a cigarette". I always find that when I'm able to quit I have reached a point where something just "clicks". I get excited about being a non-smoker and so proud to be one. I'm excited about the future (rather than fearing what I feel is inevitable death by cancer), I remember having dreams during this time that I had had a puff of a cigarette and I'd be devastated, but then wake up and be elated that it was just a dream. When I've had "the click" I don't really even have cravings, as any thoughts of cigarettes are immediately extinguished (haha excuse the pun), and replaced with the knowledge that cigarettes are just not an option, so not even worth thinking about. It's such a great time. At the moment I can feel the click coming. I'm desperate to quit as smoking makes me miserable and fills me with guilt that somehow seems to extend itself to other areas of my life. I guess by writing this I'm hoping that myself and others can see quitting as something wonderous, exciting and beautiful and nothing to fear once you've really made up your mind. At this point, smoking is not an option, so don't even waste your thoughts on it. Get on with your beautiful healthy life. 

By Gammy
schedule 10 May 2013

I'm hearing you loud and clear JoD,

Im pretty much the same, Im either smoking full on like the long life smoker Ive always been, then go off then and quit and then get to the cocky point and have a puff and then wham back on the fags full on..

However this time im so incredibley determined this is going to be the last time Im giving up.Had enough of the fags controlling my life and Yes I want my life to myself to enjoy and life freely..

Day 5 for me and Im not looking back..

Good luck to you and stay strong...xx

By JoD
schedule 15 May 2013

Hi Gammy, that's awesome! We sound like definite all or nothing people. I hope you're still stoked to be done with fags! I've had a few stumbles but had another breakthrough in my thinking today. We'll see how it pans out! Best of luck to you and have fun with it x