The long rocky road - need advice!
So my last post on this site was in February. They thought I had a stroke but turned out to be nothing more than an anxiety attack, I guess you can say i dodged that bullet pretty well. The scare of it all kept me of the smokes for at 3.5 months, but then I crumbled. I continued smoking for about two months then quit again.
After another 2 month stint at being smoke free I picked up another smoke, yep thats right. That was about a month ago and I'm trying desperately to quit. Everytime I set a date I end up smoking, I've cut back heaps but still smoking. Its almost like my will power is completely spent.
This time around the quiting has completey upset my stomach, I feel nauseous and under the weather. Has anyone else experienced this? What are peoples tips to stay quit and rebuild the will power?
I feel pretty hopeless at the moment :-/
To quit 2 things have to be in place.
1) You have to really want to stop smoking.
2) You have to be ready
Once you have those in your head , then you will succeed.
Also as has been said many times on here , You cannot just have one cig.
Mitchy112.Dont know if i can offer you any advice. Little bit about me, its been nearly 2 years since i quit(hardened 40 a day man i am). Yeah everything your sayin is 100%. only thing is its a persistance thing y'know. like when your a kid and you dont want to face school. Best thing i used was the nicabate lozenges. Tiny capsules that pack a massive punch. still sometimes usin them, dont think i can ever forget my Lucky strikes but life is better without em.
Hi Mitchy, I was not "that ready" to quit. You do not need to wait until you are "ready" because we never are! I just gave Champix a go, and so far it has been 57 days... and I do not want to go back. I WON'T. But at the beginning I was scared of failure. I felt I had zero willpower, but did not wait. I needed something to kick me to start that was effective (hypnosis did not work, neither patches, neither chewing gum). My fear was about "surviving" without cigarrettes, now my fear would be to fall for that trap again. I really do not want to touch another one in my life, and never thought I would feel this way. If I did it, YOU CAN DO IT TOO, even with not a lot of will power.