It was only after the second eye surgery for a detached retina that I gave in to temptation and took a cigarette from my daughter who was my caregiver at the time.
I hate smoking. I was really disappointed in myself.
I am now back on the smoke free road. Today is day 1.
A big help is that I am back at work after being on disability for 7 weeks. Also I talk to myself (non-verbally) and tell myself the craving will be gone in 10 minutes and it always is. I remind myself how good I was feeling before I relapsed. How I enjoyed walking up the three flights of stairs each evening without having to stop 1/2 way to catch my breath.
Thanks, Jim. It has been a full six days and already I'm feeling better. In fact, today I go back to the retina specialist to see how the progress of the right eye is after the two surgeries I've had. I think it will be a marked improvement as the smoking was truly bothering my eye.
I'm not without cravings but so far, I have talked myself out of them and will continue giving myself the same pep talk when needed.
Unfortunately, I took a detour on my road to smokbriety after 24 days and am now back on the right path and celebrating 7 full days of not smoking. I started again with Chantix and it was not that difficult to get back to smokbriety. Now I am getting strong cravings to go in and purchase a pack of cigarettes but I have been stronger that the urge so it has been okay so far.
It was not this difficult with my first quit back in February and March. This time around I am fighting myself each and every hour not to bum a cigarette (shame stops me on that one) and not to buy a pack at a store.
I've reached the 12th day of my quit and that is good. No drugs, cold turkey, me, just me, willpower and perseverence
I believe the difficulty this time around is that the first time I celebrated my want to stop and concentrated on the positive. This time I'm thinking of the negative, such as "I want to smoke".
Any hints for turning it back into a positive attitude?
Still handing in and doing okay. 14 days under my belt. Taking it one day at a time and am starting to reapply old positive habits instead of negatives to my thinking.
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