IndigoChilde

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Thanks! They really helped!

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Thanks everyone! I'm working on making this my sticky quit. It's my first time quitting aside from being pregnant. I quit for my pregnancy and breastfeeding but started back up again. Romancing the cigarette and all that. And I think that's part of my problem this time around. I'm having trouble not romancing the cig.

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I'm doing good. I posted an update on another thread. But I decided you guys were right and stuck with my quit. It's not been easy, since first thing in the morning I already want a smoke all over again, but I'm making it through the day. Bakon, I don't know if it was the smoke or what, but I felt nauseous and dizzy for a few days afterward. And my throat felt dry and grainy. I did not miss that at all.

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I really want a smoke right now. Having decaf coffee instead. But thankfully all the cigarettes are out of the house (mom's at Bingo) and I'm not driving anywhere to pick up cigs, so there's no chance of me giving into temptation at the moment. The day after my slip was really tough.Today I'm going hours between craves. I also downloaded a new game to my 3DS so I've been playing that. Fantasy Life for anyone who likes RPGs and whatnot. It's about $40. But a friend of mine who is working on quitting is getting the game later in the month, so we'll be able to play together.

I slept a lot when I first quit, I was so depressed. I think the first week all I did was lay on the couch, watching TV, or sleeping. But I always made time to check the boards and watch some videos. Especially when the cravings got bad.

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US based. I got this from a quit buddy on another forum: Stars being the way we track months of our quit. Maybe she's right. Maybe if I didn't decide to just continue my quit I wouldn't have come back Saturday. I probably would have procrastinated the way I did when I first thought about quitting. I kept trying programs to cut down on smoking and reset it every two weeks. Then I decided to follow dad's suggestion and go to quit smoking classes offered by my HMO, which were free. And that "forced" me into a quit date. I think without that class I wouldn't have looked for support and found so much on my quit forums.

I would have dreaded jury duty that I had this week. I had to get up and leave at 6:30 to get to the court house on time, and the plan was to stay until 5. Instead I didn't think about smoking. I just got up, had my coffee, and went to jury duty. Before I was craving every 15 minutes, and barely held out for an hour. As bored as I was at jury duty, I didn't think "I wish I could go out and have a smoke, even when we had breaks. I used my breaks to go for walks.

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Back on the train it is! I kept getting heavier and heavier cravings. I was feeling tormented. I couldn't understand why after three months I was suddenly having such strong cravings. It was like I never quit. Then I just thought I could handle one puff, and stupid me listened to that junkie thought. Then it was okay, I had a few puffs, a few more wouldn't hurt. And my impulse control tends to be s*** so that turned into a cig and a half before I even realized what I was doing.

Alright. Should I still change my quit date to today? Or should I keep my Feb quit date?

Unfortunately, after three months of not smoking, I relapsed today. I know, it was my choice to take a puff, and the puffs after that one. I've had a cig and a half today so I'm thinking this is a complete relapse. I'm going to start over again Saturday with a new quit date, and in the meanwhile rethink my strategy, watch videos over again, and go back to reading Easy Way to Stop Smoking. Find out where I went wrong, aside from taking that puff.