If I try to change my self all the unwanted thoughts trigger.
Is there a way to change ? I want to stop smoking and become responsible. But I can’t or unable to or my illness is not letting me to.
I want to be or get religious too but I am unable to become this way. All the thoughts trigger.
Any of you have every have made a successful change in life. ?
I have more success with changes if I break them down into teeny tiny steps. My kids seem the same way. After years of unsuccessfully attempting to quit nicotine, they both did well with the “tiny reduction” method. So they spent a week taking a baseline. No attempt to quit, just marking it every time they took a hit on their vape. Once they had an average “hits per day” they just tried not to go over that amount for two weeks. Then they reduced it by one for the next two weeks. Then by one more for the next two weeks. They could always pause and not reduce anymore for a bit, but the goal was to never increase back up.
It is also the same “slow weaning” method my doctor used for me when we were switching my meds.
That seemed to be more sustainable, because they both get triggered by major life changes (due to their past traumas). This allowed them to ease into a new routine at a pace they were more comfortable with. Now, did it take a full year to go from their baseline to nicotine free? Yes. But they have been able to stick with it.
I just started viewing cigarettes as trash. The enemy. At the end I bought a 20 pack, smoked one cigarette, broke the remaining 19 in half and threw them in the trash. I did that twice, then I was able to stay off it. That was 7 years ago.
Thanks @Ninjastar and @Mr_Hope
I believe. That more than nicotine I am craving for some other chemicals found in the cigarette.
I tried to vape but it went down hill. Also I am unable to smoke any other brand of ciggerate. I can only smoke one particular ciggerate anything else I relapse with all the thoughts.
Not sure what’s in that particular ciggerate they say there is honey dew mixed.
Also I can’t smoke more than 5 in a day I would get severe headache I believe it’s because of bupron sr 300.
But yes if I keep the smokes in reserve I don’t feel like to smoke much. But when I runout or plan to stop the frequency of smoking increases.
As you said i need to stop one by one in a cycle of a month.
I think I try to shift my focus to studies when, I want to escape the reality believe there are wonders other side of studies. But I have memory issue what I studied last month won’t remember this month. I don’t even know what I did yesterday until I back track one by one.
I have that sometimes. Writing down what I did every day helps. I don’t have to be thorough, but if I can jot down at least three activities, it usually helps me remember how everything else went also.
There are hundreds of things manufactures have tried to put in tobacco. I’ve seen some lists. What stood out for me was beet juice and sugar.
They want people hooked on cigarettes to make money.
The first couple yeas I was off cigarettes I chewed on straws. That was a little hand and mouth thing I didn’t have to give up at the same time I was getting free of nicotine.
Hey @Jayster, did you know this forum might close down and there’s a new forum? I thought I saw you on the new forum but I’m not sure.