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Being stubborn this time

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  • 05-06-2008 1:01pm
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    Nikster
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭


    I'm on my 3rd day of not smoking. Any time I stopped smoking before I always found it difficult at 3 days, 3 weeks, and 3 months, don't know why. Anyway I know it's just as simple as just NOT having another cigarette. I'm trying to be stubborn about it this time, cos I seem to be stubborn with everything else in my life and I don't want to give in to the stupid poisonous addiction this time. I'm too young to be smoking 10 years already. I don't want to smoke anymore. I want to be healthy.
    Fingers crossed I can do it this time


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    govinda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 213 ✭✭govinda


    Best of luck Nikster...I know what you mean about reaching certain milestones, I found it helped to make and keep as full a list of reasons for quitting as possible and a quit journal to refer back to and reinforce my desire to quit whenever I might need it; I wouldn't write in it every day but its surprising the things you notice (deeper breathing, sense of smell coming back) that you forget as time goes on.
    I smoked for 13 years and same as you, didn't want to be a smoker anymore. I kept telling myself that by my next birthday I wouldn't be a smoker but it never seemed to happen. I finally quit last August and I never want to smoke again.


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    pclancy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,939 ✭✭✭pclancy


    Patches dude....really making this time a breeze for me right now and I dont think i'd be off fags without them!


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    Pal
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    good luck Nickster. If you have done 3 days then you will probably be ok without patches. doesn't make sense to put nicotine into your system at this point. you've just got it out. day 4 is much easier. hang on.


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    #5
    Nikster
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭Nikster


    I got drunk last night and I had 3 cigarettes.
    I haven't smoked at all today, and don't have any intention of smoking, but I still feel miserable and weak:(


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    govinda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 213 ✭✭govinda


    Don't worry about it too much, you're not smoking today. I think very few people quit on their first or second attempt; this time round you know what not to do where alcohol and cigarettes are concerned - each failed quit (and I've lost count of mine) teaches you something else about how to quit, don't give up.


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    Ballyman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Ballyman


    Best advice I can give you is to pack in the booze for a few weeks.

    If you cantdo that then try and make sure there is a non-smoking friend boozing with you at all times:) so you can stay inside when all your smoking buddies go outside to continue on their quest to kill themselves slowly and painfully with some horrific disease.

    I really really hope you can beat it. Best feeling in the world.


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    Inevitably
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    I'm off the smokes two weeks now, and I would agree that its probably a good idea not to drink for a couple of weeks. After that its probably ok cos you wouldnt' have one anyway ( hopefully)


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