Can quitting smoking be easier with a support system?

[honestrosewater]

Thanks HRW! You must be on two or three weeks by now, right? Huge congrats. Be sure to give us an update when it's a month. I can't even think that far ahead yet.

I started cutting back on the 18th, but I had my last cigarette on the 27th, so it's been a week. Yeah, a month will be super.

 

[Astronuc]

Great news, HRW. Best wishes for success.

Hang in there - you can do it!

 

[El Hombre Invisible]

I started cutting back on the 18th, but I had my last cigarette on the 27th, so it's been a week. Yeah, a month will be super.

You're a week too?!? Anniversary dance!

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[mattmns]

Awesome!
KEEP IT UP!

 

[Astronuc]

You're a week too?!? Anniversary dance!
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That's bloody brilliant.

And congratulations too, on one week!

 

[El Hombre Invisible]

That's bloody brilliant.
And congratulations too, on one week!

Cheers mate, but alas I am undeserving - I smoked 6 cigarettes on Saturday night. Ah well. I have not restarted - just a drunken glitch.

 

[Kazza_765]

Just caught this thread now. I had a serious attempt at quitting about a month and a half ago, but then broke up with my girlfriend and started again. I'm in the middle of my exams now and quite stressed, so I am going to quit after my last one this Friday. I think having others on PF quitting as well will help :) Keep up the good work guys, I sure as hell know how hard it is.

 

[El Hombre Invisible]

Just caught this thread now. I had a serious attempt at quitting about a month and a half ago, but then broke up with my girlfriend and started again. I'm in the middle of my exams now and quite stressed, so I am going to quit after my last one this Friday. I think having others on PF quitting as well will help :) Keep up the good work guys, I sure as hell know how hard it is.

Yeah, my decision to quit followed my last exam too. It's a good time to do it - there's already a sense of renewal as the intense revision ends and that corner has been taken. Sorry to hear about your girlfriend. You'll find new love sooner if you don't reek of cigarettes. We'll all get through it together.

 

[Moonbear]

You guys are all doing great! El Hombre, I guess your friends weren't very supportive. It's toughest to be around others smoking when you're trying to quit. As someone else pointed out earlier in the thread, they had to give up drinking too, because both went together. Probably have to at least avoid getting drunk since you're not going to have any willpower to resist smoking if your inhibitions are all relaxed. Oh well, no big deal, one slip-up isn't the end by any means, especially when you're only a week into quitting. HRW took a couple of weeks to just wean herself off the cigarettes, and you tried going completely cold turkey, so give yourself a couple weeks to get to the same point.

HRW, that's great to hear you feel like the cravings are lessening or you're at least handling them better. That's got to be the toughest part to get past. Yay!

Kazza, sorry to hear about the break-up. But, yes, El Hombre is so right...you'll find a new girlfriend so much faster when you don't smell of cigarettes. And once you've found a nice non-smoking girlfriend, it'll be even easier to stay smoke-free!