Stories and experiences by: Miss lizzy

Today is day 2 cigarette free, have had lots of cravings but that is to be expected as I have fired up them nicotine recepectors again, by picking up a cigarette and relapsing into smoking again, this will pass ,all I have to do is one day at a time and no matter what never ever pick up a toxic, poisonous and destructive cigarette.

Today is the first day of the rest of my life, as a non smoker. I have gone back on the patches and I know I can do this! Cigarettes do not make me or my life better in any way, what they do is destroy my body, my health and my mind and they chain me to a toxic, all consuming addiction. I want to be free of this addiction, I want to breathe in life and I want to live. So one day at time I can do ...

Today is the first day of the rest of my life, as a non smoker. I have gone back on the patches and I know I can do this! Cigarettes do not make me or my life better in any way, what they do is drstroy

I thought it would make me feel better emotionally, but it didn't?, it's made me feel ashamed,guilty, smelly, dissapointed,depressed and more anxious.so I am quitting again tommorrow and I hope and pray that this time it's for life. I want to breathe in life and live as a nonsmoker, not suck in toxic, poisonous,destructive chemical smoke. I can do this, one day at a time.

So, I picked up a cigarette 10 days ago and I slid right back into being a smoker? Like I had never stopped? I had 6 months an 2 weeks cigarette free! This has Taught me a hard lesson, that no matter what? I do not pick up a cigarette. I thought it would make me feel better

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Today is 6 months cigarette free, well done and woohoo me 🤗 That's 1/2 a year that I have been a non smoker and hopefully will stay a non smoker for the rest of my life. I say this as smoking is a nicotine addiction and you have to deal with it on a daily basis until you have enough time away from it and enough practice of dealing with life,without it that it's not Even a thought anymore? This h...

So today is 161days cigarette free, which is 23 weeks👏 woohoo me. I am struggling to deal with the extra weight I have gained since quitting? But I keep telling myself "you can always loose weight, but you cannot loose a lung!" It hasn't been easy, especially with an mental illness but it is so worth it, and it even helps me to deal with my illness better now,as a non smoker. And it is so good ...

My cravings are so intense today??? I nearly caved in and went and bought some? Today is day 154 smoke free,which is 22 weeks and I have come so far that I don't want to give up now😖 but I thought the cravings would get less as time passed,and today has shaken that thought? Oh god, when does this mental torture end? Smoking is such an awful,self destructive addiction,but then no addiction is not...