Failed.........
Today should be day 22 for me but I failed. Day 14 was not too bad, day 15 was an absolute shocker and day 16 I caved and had 1 cigarette. Day 17 came around and I talked myself into another 1. Day 18 which was Friday I caved again and had 2, Saturday I had 4 and Sunday I had 3. Yesterday, Monday was back to work and went all day at work without but got home and had 1 again with a total of 3 for the day. Going to try and limit myself to 3-4 per day until I am ready to try again. 1st attempt = FAIL :( Sorry everyone, I guess I was not quite in the right headspace this attempt. To everyone else who is still resisting the temptations, keep on keeping on and don't let my failure deter you from quitting for good.
Too bad you caved in to the cravings. I suggest you read over the posts on this site as there are stories exactly the same as yours and so many clever ideas to quit. That's how I managed to go cold turkey 143 days ago. No way will I be rewarding myself with one or two at any stage because that will lead to a packet a day and I will be back where I started. By having just one or two a day I reckon you are tormenting yourself and probably hanging out for the next fix of nicotine as opposed to enjoying winning the battle against nicotine. Is it your friend or foe? Hope you make the right decision for yourself.
It took me at least 5 attempts to quit....do what you can and don't beat yourself up about it. I am 90 days in and still am tempted to smoke sometimes. You have to do what's good for you. I found a stop buddy on this site when I first started. Nannette was a fantastic support. Perhaps a good idea?
You didn't fail, you had a first attempt. I had a number of attempts before this one with a previous record of 21. Now I'm over 110 days but still not confident. I found nicotine lozenges help me this time. As they say nothing that is really worth having is easy. Good luck.
You're just torturing yourself mate - smoke or don't smoke - its the only options - Nicotine does not let you stay on 4 a day if you are a 20 a day smoker.. you have made it so far and for the last 22 days you have had around 15 smokes.. you are well on your way to being quit - check your med's or patches dose is correct, and if you are not using any, get some.. starting all the way at the beginning again will be just as hard as last time..
I wish you all the best, but you are so far in now, you may as well see the next few days through without smoking and toss your left over ciggies away.. the temptation is too much..
This is my 6th or 7th time quit, so i know how it goes.. you haven't failed until you stop trying to give up smoking - remember that - and it seems like you are still trying to quit..
Hang in there, get busy with something else, and resist, resist, resist...
I have been told not to call yourself a failure. This is my 3rd attempt to quit just this month. And I never thought about it, but this is my sons birthday and haven't spoken in 8 years now, so maybe this isn't the best day for me. But as they say, pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and do it again! You can and will do it.
Good for you to come on here and admit failure....if you can do that you CAN quit.....Get your head back on track and reset your quit day to whenever you want.....it's your call....you were going through a hard cupola days..no excuses....Get back on it....good luck
There is no such thing as failure only feedback good and bad. This attempt has taught you and prepared you for next time. If it was so easy everyone would quit and that would be that. The mind is where the battle is the hardest. Patches, medication etc. will help deal with the physical battle but not the mental one. Take stock and evaluate why quitting is important for you and learn from this attempt. If inventors had given up their first attempt we would have no light bulbs, no internet or HSV's to drive. Quitting is no different and failure is no option but feedback we'll that we can do something with. All the best and keep on keeping on it's a marathon not a sprint race to the finish.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again, you can do it. Failure is only an opinion, success is a result.