Stress Is A Big Trigger
I am currently on day 24 of champix & the first 2 weeks i did soooooo good ! i was approved for a house (my first rental) and my Mother is battling mental health issues atm .. Things have been crazy & i have definately picked up 1 to many smokes over the past couple of weeks .. time to get back in the game !
Someone on here told me otherwise.. Stress is a good excuse to make a reason to smoke..
I am on Champix, about day 40 to 45 I think, and after 2 weeks on the champix the smokes did not have the kick effect anymore and I moved my quit date forward.. I was quit for 24 days and reduced my dose to once a day because of poor sleep on Champix a week before, and had one smoke, so I went back to the full dose, and not smoked since...
Make sure your doc knows what you are doing, as messing with the dose yourself reduces the effect of the drug.
Make the descision in your mind, re-read your reasons for quitting, and start quitting for good this time. Re-read possible triggers and use the tools on this site to track when and what causes the triggers to smoke - it is really useful when you fall over to pinpoint the reason for smoking again. If you have not fully committed to quitting, it will show that too..It's like an honest you - but only works if you use it.
Good luck and try, try again, you will quit it if you really want to..
All the best Zoey..
This was the comment that I refer to above..
"I too have slipped up, not honest enough to acknowledge, so you have provided the incentive to do this. THANK YOU!
I think that my hard wired nicotine wired brain will use any bad event to smoke again.
Non smokers don't understand that -we all do.
Any excuse is a good one.
Willpower is not the answer - it is just beating yourself up all the time. That comes from people who don't smoke.
I am still not sure of the correct answer - guess it will come. In time."
Hi! You wouldn't believe the problems I am facing at the moment and since they are mine I won't elaborate other than to say in my past life as a smoker I would have increased the amount I smoked and guess what? Nicotine would have fixed nothing... In fact, nicotine distracts one from the problem and simply wastes time. Simply adds to a lighter wallet and more likelihood of developing emphysema. That doesn't fix anything. Takes some of us 45 years to wake up to what is happening. The best thing the Government did was to accelerate the cost and to make us think once, twice or thrice before we decided to take control of put lives. I hope my body forgives mr for the abuse from the past 45 years and lets me live another 50...