Maybe the wrong time
Hi everyone.
Its great reading all of your stories and well done to those who are smashing there quit goals.
I guess im thinking out loud with this post. I gave up smoking once before and found it easy. I spent a day in bed and the next day I was over it. I started up again with the old 'I will have just one after exams' and that was the end of that. Im now on day 4 of quitting again and every day has been absolute torture, today being the worst. Smokes are consuming every part of my thinking, im arguing in my head about it all day, I feel depressed, irritable and just defeated (completely unlike myself). Im trying every trick in the book but my mind cant be distracted, thoughts wont change and motivation is on empty. This is also my first week off work in months and months and im ruining it with trying to quit. Im thinking that maybe im just not ready yet (I thought I was), maybe if I try again when im ready it wont be as hellish, like the first time I tried. I know people say it gets better but I think with the frame of mind im in im prolonging recovery and making it hard on myself.
When will be the right time? If it was easy we would have all given up and there would be no need for this site, I think the first time as a fluke. I struggled dreadfully for ages I cried so much, thought my family were going to have me committed. Just keep thinking positively, and moving forward, I used this site as my distraction in the early days, first thing in the morning, after dinner and whenever the cravings struck, I would get on here and read and comment on posts and add my own post on how I was feeling, (boy these were real doozies) until I got to where I am today 92 days WOW find it hard to believe myself. Try seeing each cigarette not smoked as a step on the difficult rocky path we are all on. Take one hour/day at a time good luck you can do it. We all can
I hope you keep trying, and mske a list of all the positive things tjat you ate acieving by quitting smoking. You're not losing, but gaining. I was going to say "stop torturing yourself", but you have done that by stopping smoking
Google quit sites - they have lots of info that can help you 😊