WK/47: Group Discussion, Video - Every Quit Is Different

[MarylandQuitter]

Every Quit Is Different

Video discusses how it is impossible to determine with any certainty what kind of withdrawals or problems a person may encounter when quitting because every quit is different.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYHkaGt-YhE

 

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[MarylandQuitter]

So many times smokers are afraid or discouraged to try quitting because they hear horror stories of how awful withdrawal is but in reality, things are rarely as bad as we build them up to be in our minds.

 

You could tried to quit in the past and found it difficult but this time it could be easy.  The opposite if also true but make this your last quit and you'll never have to quit again.  Some people who quit say they will never smoke again simply because they don't want the first fews days of quitting.

 

My first quit was pretty easy and when I relapsed for ~one week, I found it harder to quit!  The pull of the addiction was very, every intense and it actually scared the heck out of me because I had never felt the addiction so powerful before.  I knew that I had to quit that night or else I could run the risk of being a smoker for the rest of my life, shorter as it would no doubt be.

[JackiMac]

The whole thought process behind quitting and the fear I had was what stopped me in my early days, I always find the initial few months to be easy and I think I became complacent too early and too soon.  I have known many people, with many ways of quitting, some successful, some not, but the thing that seems to come across in most quits is the thought process behind it, simply saying No, or I will succeed, being positive in your quit, viewing yourself as a non smoker.  I must admit that when I quit in the past I always had this underlying thought that it was not a forever quit, I always knew I was going to go back to smoking at some point, daft!  No not really just the addictions way of coping with me trying to attempt to quit.  This time I stood up, I told myself I was an addict, that I had nothing to fear from giving up, I was only creating the fear myself to put off what I really deep down wanted to do, Stop smoking, become a non smoker.  We have different ways of dealing with a quit, but the most important thing is we all reach our ultimate goal, quitting and keeping quit.

[MarylandQuitter]

I must admit that when I quit in the past I always had this underlying thought that it was not a forever quit, I always knew I was going to go back to smoking at some point, daft!  No not really just the addictions way of coping with me trying to attempt to quit.  This time I stood up, I told myself I was an addict, that I had nothing to fear from giving up, I was only creating the fear myself to put off what I really deep down wanted to do, Stop smoking, become a non smoker.  We have different ways of dealing with a quit, but the most important thing is we all reach our ultimate goal, quitting and keeping quit.

 

This is a very important point about thinking that you knew at some point that you would go back to smoking.  I think this is the reason for many early relapses.  Then, you took control of your life and shoved the cigarettes back to hell where they belong.

 

I guess what I take away from your comments is that if you're going to have a successful quit (never to take another puff,ever), you can't straddle the fence.  You have to make a firm decision to quit and stick with it no matter what.

 

You know what, I think quitting was easier than becoming addicted in the first place.  My first cigarette as a preteen tasted like crap, made me feel like that and I did not like it.  But I wanted to be a smoker so I kept at it until I was conditioned to be a full-fledged addict.  In comparison, quitting was much easier because I felt better when I quit!

[Nicole Diver]

When I first quit I told myself that If I lived to 65 I could start smoking again. Because I knew I could quit, had done it before and been super miserable. Then I starting learning more about the addiction and really tried to be open minded to Allen Carr. And low and behold this quit wasn't near as bad as my previous attempts. Wasn't a walk in the park, but not the black despair I feared I was walking in to.

Anyway, now I think how silly that was the 65 and can smoke bit was. Why would I ever willingly go back to slavery. But it helped me in my early days.