I smoked for 20 years, 20ish cigs a day on average. For me quitting was all mental, using logic. Every time I tried and failed was the same thing: “I feel like I’m finally ready to quit”, then back at it a few days/weeks later. I was always waiting for the day I was ready for it and kept telling myself that day was coming.
4 years ago I was finally honest with myself. I’m never going to be ready. I like it too much, that magic day is just never gonna come. That’s when I realized that if I quit, the only way I would quit is when I wasn’t ready for it, and if I quit when I’m not ready, today’s just as good a day as any other. Logically I’d never be any more ready than I was that day, and if I didn’t quit the day I realized that then I never would.
Haven’t touched a cig in 4 years. Crave it every day though haha.
I find that the cravings get less frequent. When I just quit I’d yearn for a fag every hour. After a year it was about every day. Now it’s every couple of days.
Sometimes though I’m surprised I didn’t crave one for about a week. Pretty cool.
I smoked for 20 years, 20ish cigs a day on average. For me quitting was all mental, using logic. Every time I tried and failed was the same thing: “I feel like I’m finally ready to quit”, then back at it a few days/weeks later. I was always waiting for the day I was ready for it and kept telling myself that day was coming.
4 years ago I was finally honest with myself. I’m never going to be ready. I like it too much, that magic day is just never gonna come. That’s when I realized that if I quit, the only way I would quit is when I wasn’t ready for it, and if I quit when I’m not ready, today’s just as good a day as any other. Logically I’d never be any more ready than I was that day, and if I didn’t quit the day I realized that then I never would.
Haven’t touched a cig in 4 years. Crave it every day though haha.
I find that the cravings get less frequent. When I just quit I’d yearn for a fag every hour. After a year it was about every day. Now it’s every couple of days.
Sometimes though I’m surprised I didn’t crave one for about a week. Pretty cool.