I am down to four cigs a day after relapses by two means last week. I was psychotic and other bad ■■■■ happened and I started smoking because of it. Now I can’t stop smoking four cigs a day. Once I make it to the late afternoon and take the Xanax, it helps, then I take more before showering and going to bed, then I am okay.
I keep running and I’m still in shape, I just am having serious trouble with not smoking in the mornings and then one in the afternoon.
The Xanax really helps, drugs like it are given to people in severe withdrawals like delirium tremens or something.
But like ■■■■ I am afraid of losing my stamina I have ran and boxed for six months. Like really afraid of falling back to smoking half a pack or more. Right now it’s at 4 cigs a day.
Any advice from people who have quit? I get agitated and it calms me down. Like the story of my life is getting agitated and then something addictive calming me down. I’m like dammit.
But I am okay with this, it’s just not ideal, not perfect, and I want ideal and close to perfect. Perfect would be no cigs ever again, but I am not crazy enough to swear to that. I at least need one when I wake up- the best I ever got to was one every morning and nothing else.
When I smoked in the army I kept my cigarette smoking down by not buying cigarettes. I had to bum them off other people, which is rude, I know. I did a lot of favors for people so they wouldn’t feel bad about giving me a cigarette. That kept them from feeling like they were being taken advantage of.
I have not smoked now close to five months at all, at your age I did not smoke at all, but it became a habit much later after I had returned from America. In my society people smoke quite a lot although it is quite expensive. You might want to watch some images of a smoker’s lungs and this might motivate you to stop. I still have some nicotine gum sometimes.
i use to smoke 60 a day when i was working in the garage, nicotine may have caused my journey down the rabbit hole if i think about it, or contributed towards it at least,
i stopped tho bc i wanted to give up completely, i use to smoke first thing as well but i was forced to smoke somewhere i didn’t like much bc my friends asthma was playing up, also i had trouble with ulcers and it stopped me smoking as much bc i just couldn’t bc i felt like i would die,
I am doing the lozenges for now- it’s an option I hadn’t tried yet. I had one a couple hours ago and it did the trick.
I’m gonna have to maybe be on lozenges a few times a day for life. The research says nicotine helps our cognition, and when I did completely absolutely quit, I couldn’t read effectively for a week and then quit reading.
I smoked 10 years and i lost many of my teeth.but now i m free from smoke since 6 years.i don t even remember how it feels.i think it s better to sabotage your wanting instict when you want cigarettes.you can do that simply try different thing when you want smokes.quitting smoke is very easy i think.you just need strong manner.as i told you just try to thing different things when you want smoke.
My brothers friend just quit a 10 year habit of chewing tobacco . He’s like a few months in and says he feels totally messed mentally.
He’s saving 500 a month now though
and proud of it