Quit reasons

[Still winning]

For those who know I'm a single mum now with shared access. Every other weekend the kids Dad take them. He's a good dad and a good man, this I know. BUT, being without my little reasons for being is a trigger for me, I have learnt this from weekends gone by because wow, I'm two months quit now and very happy about it.  

 

Still,before at this time, I could smoke in my house. My mama is upping her smoking intake in the house - this means it's time to post. Give me your very bestest quit reasons or the push over the edge that forced you into quitting. Experience helps and saves the SOS board if my partner comes home and is not the best chris he could be lol.

 

Pizza en route and early night planned but help greatfully recieved!

 

For me, I got an infection that meant I struggled to breath properly for a couple of days.  It was just hard work and exhausting. I had "tried" to quit so many times since last July it was becoming laughable. I didn't even tell anyone when I tried anymore. I did a healing course, i got the illness and wondered why I couldn't self heal...then considered this. My nana died of emphysema. My uncle (loved like a dad but do have a live somewhat clueless/useless dad) died of lung cancer. My mum Copd and I am now a registered carer for her, my life is on hold and she still smokes (although less) and something went - CLICK!  

 

I took champix, it made me bat shi...., well pretty nuts, I still took it and quit, I called it "my last chance" but really I meant jeez, I do not have another quit in me. My first post said everyone still smokes so I will find it hard - first response sarge - saying so what!! haha. So what indeed but I am more needy then him so share ya stories for an english chick who could use some firming up and support for the weekend. xx

[Paul723]

When I first quit, I kept reading posts by people that had quit before me, some by a little and some by a lot, that would say, "It gets better."  No one ever said it gets harder or it gets worse.  For some people I've read that it gets way beyond better, it's great for them.  Early on, I believed that it gets better.  So if I felt uncomfortable or craving, I could calm myself by remembering this.  If you need some help, just imagine each of us on this board, one at a time, telling you, "It gets better Marti".

[Tink]

it was just time to stop dodging the bullet for me my dad died of lung cancer at 49 and all my elder members had died from smoking related cancers, my mum is disabled from smoking and I am a survivor of cancer at aged 29

 

it was time to man up and take control of my ship

 

get your big girl pants on, strap yourself in and fight and shout at every crave that tries to trip you up

 

you can do it - I can, you can xx

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Trying for a baby originally, but now I see that there are so many other benefits it's unbelievable.

 

Btw you are an amazing person Marti :)

[Still winning]

I always like to read the stories. I don't know, when I feel restless it makes something stick in my head to know other reasons to quit. Some resonate, some don't but all have a real strength about them and that's what I take. I am all good, but restless, I will be fine because I have put in place measures to secure that but these are the times when my levels drop. I'm not on guard so much, so this is me reminding myself to stay on guard I guess. 

 

Thank you for your support. x

[Nicole Diver]

Marti chantix did the same for me!! Looney friggin toons. I thought that was who I was without the cigs, scared me out of trying again for 5 years. Will post more later but just wanted to through that in.

[JackiMac]

Hi Marti, you know you don't really want to light up, its just a nasty thought in your head, tell it to "f" off, I stopped with Champix which I took for 6 weeks, but I found the support on here to be invaluable, if I feel myself craving, I come on and read stories, they make me laugh. they make me cry, they are real, emotional, honest and open and before I know it the crave is gone, my son smokes Marti and he comes back into the house and I think bleurrrg wot a stink, it can still trigger a crave, but look beyond the crave and know it will pass, it will get better, it will get easier, if you think back to the very early stages how we grasped at everything like we were drowning, now we are kinda floating on the surface, you are in control Marti, you will overcome the crave. xx

[Nicole Diver]

Marti, I equated for the longest time smoking=good times that are the in past.  (Maybe like a hoarder would hold onto things?)

So I was a closet smoker since my last failed crazy Chantix attempt and I always knew I needed to quit but never thought that I truly would.

I was sooo miserable for the 4 months I quit before.  I didn't want my life to be like that forever.

 

Anyway, fast forward 5 years, my company started an initiative that if you smoked you had to pay more on insurance each month and if you didn't tell them you could get the axe.

As much as I did not want to quit, "coming out of the closet" was not an option for me.  So that is what prompted me to really quit.

 

Of course the throat clearing and the lack of stamina working out bugged the heck out of me too, but that is what really gave me the shoe in the pants to quit.  I am THRILLED to say that the junkie thinking of smoking=good times, you start to realize it is not so. 

I tend to think in my head, "mind over matter, and if you don't mind, it doesn't matter."  Allen Carr's book helped me to get a much needed attitude adjustment in my early days.

 

Maybe I was a social butterfly in the 90's with my cocktail and cig, and all my best friends still smoke to this day, but this isn't the late 90's anymore and smoking is not going to bring the past back.  We all have to grow up sometime and smoking is not in any way sociable anymore.  So it's not a bad thing at all to put the cigs behind us, it's the best thing ever.

 

And isn't it just amazing not to worry about smelling like stale smoke?  A cig burning when I walk by doesn't bother me, but when I am close to someone who just smoked, it's not a nice smell at all.  Ick.

 

After a year I very seldom ever think I want a smoke and I know 99.999999% I will never again.  I will never go back to that slavery.  It's not worth it.  Like Allen Carr says, no non smokers want to be smokers, no ex smokers want to be smokers, and most smokers don't want to be either.  The ex smoker holds all the cards. :yu:

 

Keep up the great work, you are worth it Marti!! :ok:

Let us know whenever you need a ear to vent or just want a distraction. :gamer1:

[Still winning]

Made it, thought I should and could but read the stories a few times to re-inforce so thank you. xx

[Nancy]

I knew you would make it...you are amazing!!