Hello everyone. I hope all are finding recovery. I started this thread for the purpose of sharing my experience with cigarettes. I started at age 10. Smoked weed at age 8 (which was a contributing factor in my schizophrenia among other things). Anyway, I quit cigarettes in 2014 when I had a leg injury and stayed off them until May 2, 2019. So almost 5 years I had quit. I was feeling depressed and angry so I turned back to cigarettes as a way to relieve symptoms and stress. I am going to quit again soon before I get too deep into the addiction again. I will use nicotine replacement, a quitting app on my phone, support lines and I’ll replace smoking with healthy lifestyle decisions. Why do so many people with schizophrenia smoke? Any comments positive welcome. Thanks.
I was a smoker from 14 to 29. Tried everything and nothing worked till Champix/chantix. I didn’t even finish the course. It was way too expensive to smoke over here in Oz so that helped. I just got to a day and never smoked again.
Almost 10 years later I actually go and hang out with the smokers at the cricket club to have a chat and I have no desire in the slightest to have a cigarette. If I have one then I’ll have 10 and get addicted again and I like not being a slave to nictotine.
It’s worthwhile doing it. Chantix is easy if you can get over some side effects. Don’t pay money to poison yourself!
Thanks rogueone. I appreciate your comment. It’s good to hear about success stories with quitting. I really need to quit. I’m reading Allan Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking. Wish me luck.
I started at 11 and I am 31 now. I did give up for 18 months before, but the same as you went back due to stress.
I would like the give up. I am currently smoking 100g of tobacco a week, which is not great.
I just don’t feel I have a strong enough reason to quit.
You can do it! 6544578864
A lot of people can backslide. Peter Jennings started smoking again after 9/11. I’ve known people who have quit for 15 years and started up smoked and quit again.
Just move forward. No point in looking g back.
I just could quit for a while with medication but then relapsed. I’m probably getting Chantix if my therapist says it would be ok. I just smoke now since two years, and I start to like it more and more. But I also want to quit. It can be very tough, so I’m getting medication to quit. Had over twenty quit attemps.
I actually just decided 30 minutes ago to quit smoking. My neighborhood has become very unsafe to be up at night smoking. I went to a friends house not far from me and we were smoking outside when we heard gun fire not far from us. I decided that that was it I was not going to die over a bad habit.
I’m using a quitting app and working out to quit cold turkey!
Thank you for all your comments. This is such a nasty habit. I’ve noticed that I’ve been sleeping very deeply, too deep, since I began poisoning myself again. I think it’s my body putting me to sleep to repair the battle of destruction going on inside me. I’m keeping a record of my dreams too to see if I can gain any type of insight into the nature of why I specifically smoked. The biggest reason I think I smoked is the buzzed high feeling I get plus the Hollywood cool glamorous aspect of it that the tobacco industry has spent trillions of dollars to brainwash us all to believe about it. I know I can quit because I’ve done it for five years up until this weak moment I had. If I can pinpoint what triggered me that would be a step in the right direction too. Thanks again for all your comments. I really do appreciate it.
Good luck with your quit.
Don’t be too hard on yourself for starting up again.
At least you are doing the right thing.
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