the second hardest thing to quit is Heroin. The first? Tobacco. Nicotine is the hardest drug to quit. You will never succeed tell you realize that you are killing yourself.
Now that I have bummed you out. I can tell you that if you are trying that is what is important. Yeah they can smell it, but you can cover it up by washing your clothes, and showering. and as long as you are trying they should not deny you.
After your last cigarette you body begins repairing the damage within 20 minutes. But you are still ingesting nicotine, the addictive substance. But you are still trying. Once you get over the hand to mouth habit the nicotine can be reduced slowly.
Why do you keep reaching for that pack? Because you are an addict, pure and simple. And like an addict you let it run your life. Can you beat it? NO. Why? Because you are an addict. You are hooked. Just like an alcoholic, you will always be addicted. You suffer the withdrawal symptoms. The bitchiness, lose of concentration, the shakes. All of it. You will be hell to even be around, even for yourself.
Do I sound like I am totally anti-smoking. You're damn right I am. You stink, your clothes stink, your house stinks, your car stinks. And I know it is a fact.
Why? Because I am a fellow addict. I have smoked since I was 13 and I am now 56. 43 years of being an addict. And like you, it is time to quit. Like Micheal said on Chantix 3 out of 4 people were successful. But in 3 weeks, who is kidding who. It just does not happen that quick. It takes your entire life to quit. The only day that you are truly free of smoking is the day you die, and that is a fact. You will never quit. You are an addict. You can't quit.
BUT you can choose to not smoke the next one. That is how it is done. No magic pills, patches, e-cigarettes, gum or lozenges, are going to make you quit. These things are just substituting one addiction for another.
Sounds really really depressing. But all you can do is not smoke that next one. Don't think of the one after, just the next one. that is all you can do, period.
You will fail. That is a fact.
But try again. And keep trying. Use what you have to, to get over the symptoms.
Oh and if I got you depressed about quiting, Good. Now get up off your depressed butt and quit being so full of I'm a loser. And just not smoke the next one.
I am not going to be your cheerleader and say you can do it. NO. I am not because it is a bunch of BS. Your are no quitter, because you are an addict. And as an addict you just can't live without your next fix. But you can stall that fix.
Oh and BTW! I am going Monday for yet another try at Chantix. And it takes months for Chantix to totally keep your addicted little butt from shooting up.
I am a long time smoker and I will tell you the truth. No Rah Rah junk. No Go Go Go AL. not of the BS. Because I know where you will be in a few days. Jonesing for your next fix. Because I have been there.
So quit listening to the cheerleaders and just don't take that next fix. Only the next one. There is only one person that can be your Rah Rah section and it is the junkie you look at in the mirror.
So junkie, are you going to shoot up that next fix? Let it run and ruin your life. So are you, junkie?
I am really in your corner. But until you realize you are nothing but a junkie, you will go back to your drug.
This is from one junkie to another. I am not putting you down, or making light of your attempt. But most nicotine junkies, aka smokers, will try at the least 20 times.
So go ahead and skip that next fix, junkie. Oh and I will continue to call you a junkie, because like me, you are a junkie and always will be. Just just skip your next fix.
And one day some may ask you how you quit, you will tell them you didn't. You just skip the next fix. You have been skipping that fix for X years.
Hey Junkie, got a hit?
