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We are all a little different!

Posted in Quit experiences
schedule 20 Aug 2015

Each journey is different and I believe everyone needs to take their own path. I know that I put pressure on myself and was very anxious when the "Quit Date" was approaching, it was horrible. I then stepped back and thought I will stop smoking in a five day time period, I won't pick a day I'll just stop when I feel like it. Then I remembered how I freaked out at each 'quit time' when I ran out of smokes.OMG, I have no smokes! My heart would race, I'd feel uncomfortable and I'd panic. To relieve this I would race to the supermarket within an hour and buy some more. This time when I stopped I made sure that I had 5 smokes left in the packet, 47 days later those 5 smokes are still in the packet on the kitchen bench. Am I tempted? No and I have never been. For me I needed to do things different to the advice given on quit sites.i needed to do what felt right to me. I felt calm and so much better doing it this way. That's me and my journey.. What you do is neither right nor wrong it just what suits you- Pick your path and skip down it.

schedule 21 Aug 2015

Well said Cranky . On previous attempts to quit I had to have some in a pack and no I was not tempted to smoke them it just felt better having them .

schedule 21 Aug 2015

Hi Cranky you are going so well. Cant we all relate to your post regarding that horrible feeling when there are no darts left in the house. Luckily that is now a distant memory. How nice is it to be clicking over 50 days? WoooHoo. Thanks to this website it has been so nice to share the journey. Well done x