Trying to quit again

Stop "giving up" and just be a non-smoker!

"Giving up" or "trying to stop smoking" is just a mental crutch to help you when you start again.

Quitting is easy, you stop buying them and stop smoking them.
If you don't want to smoke then don't smoke, if it's "to hard" etc then you obviously don't want to stop so keep smoking and shut up about it.

I smoked 30 a day for 6 years and one day decided that the cost and the fact that they kill you is just a kick in the nuts. One or the other is fine but both is just a piss take.
All this shit about go and look what it does to you is bollock as well. Smoking is fucking great, that's the reason smokers enjoy is so much.
I gave up 12 years ago and I still have dreams where I'm enjoying a good smoke, I wake up sometimes disappointed that I haven't got any. BUT....

I might miss it but it wasn't hard. I just stopped.
Everything else is just whinging.

 

P.S. Bollocks to all this anonymous shit.

Matth.

 

Good point well made. Respect for staying off the ciggies mate. :up:

 

can remember when my mum stopped smoking.... threw EVERY ashtry out the house and said that is it

that was 12 years ago and hasn't touched a fag since
... not even a gay joke

 

Well matth you were lucky. Some of us find it harder than you did. It's got easier and I'm not thinking 'just one fucking cigarette' anymore and anyways it wouldn't be one it would be 10 or 15 and I'd be back on a packet a day in no time. I'm hoping I've cracked it. I'm sorry I annoyed you with my whining.

 

Haha.

 

Don't remember saying it was easy.

 

I think your missing my point. Which is.
Thinking like a smoker who is not smoking is not the answer.
By not smoking you have given up, you are not in the process (something that is much easier to think you are not going to complete).
There is no such thing as giving up, that's what a smoker says/thinks they are going to do.
There are only smokers and non-smokers, you just have to accept you are the later.
There is nothing hard about stopping smoking, it is not climbing a mountain or building a house. It is just not doing something you have done in the past.
Everything else is just in your head.

Make the decision, stick with it. Voila non-smoker.

Talking about it makes you think about it makes you do it. Stop talking about it. You are not a smoker anymore, the topic should be dead to you.

Matth.

 

^^^understood

 

Does the "h" stand for Hitler, Matt?



I actually like your thought process....but does that mean if you crashed your bike you'd no longer be a rider?

 

Good point. After all an alcoholic is always going to be an alcoholic, just a recovering alcoholic.

However it's a lot more positive to be a non-smoker so I'd stay with that.

 

Yep, I'm a Nazi for having a strong mental attitude towards stopping smoking.
Keep "trying" I'm sure you'll get there in the end.

 

A few lapses but I haven't had a fag for a few months now, and I don't want one either. No urge at all, unless I see or smell someone having one and then I think 'yes I'd like one if not a whole bloody packet but I'm not going there again' . ANd usually I think 'shit, did I stink like that?'

 

We done mate.

 

Very Impressive E.... err, "mate"..

Let's hope that all the other victims of cancer-stick addiction on here may read this & decide to try to emulate you. Top bloke.

 

i havent had a ciggy for 4 months...i use one of them electronic crack pipe type things...started at full strength, now at the lowest...and i can now swim at least twice as far underwater than i could a year ago
well done for quitting mate, keep it up

 

My Mum & Dad both stopped cold turkey one day when he found out that he could have legs or ciggies, but not both. She can't believe the financial mountain they blew between them after both starting at 14 and stopping at 70+, neither of them could believe they stunk like other smokers they encountered and I lost count of the amount of times they apologised about it to me and my Sister. Glad I didn't start - it was a stark choice bike petrol or fags.