Two weeks! When will the arrests start? Hebrews 12:1 "Let us run the race that is laid out before us." Start winning, even if it's only yourself! Me, I'm day 23 sober today—I've thrown alcohol in GITMO. Trust in God. And believe in yourself. We struggle together, and WE WILL WIN, TO GET HER!
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Congrats! That is so awesome. My main vice is nicotine. I’ve tried to quit so many times over the years. I am a creature of habit, and just cannot quit. Don’t know what to do with my hands. Don’t know what to do after a meal. Think about it constantly until it drives me nuts. I switched from cigarettes to vape about 5 years ago, so at least I don’t deal with the smell of smoke or the yellowing affects of tar anymore. I still would like to stop my dependence on nicotine though. They say it helps protect you from covid, so I haven’t felt compelled to try to quit the past couple years
Me too, I stopped the cigarettes almost 8 years ago but am still vaping. My first grand baby was on the way and my daughter did not want the smell around the baby. I do not have the desire to quit altogether, but pray some day I will.
Same. Like I want to want to quit if that makes sense lol. Maybe one of these days
I want to but then again I enjoy it. I pretty much am in the same boat you are. When its forced upon me like it is now, I rebel and will smoke out of spite.
Me too. The more people tell me to stop, the more my brain is like nooooo do it more lol. I can recognize it’s self sabotaging, I just can’t get over it
I remember symbolically throwing 1/2 a pack of lovely Superkings lights into a river and watching them float away in 1999
http://www.cigarettespedia.com/index.php/Superkings_(Lights)L-10-H-_England
Finally gave up around 7 years later.
Smoking is really addictive, and there's probably an aspect of self medicating for anxiety for some people. Maybe for me.
I still think about it occasionally. A cigarette break used to help me concentrate.
I have had anxiety for as long as I can remember, and yes nicotine and the physical act of the hand to mouth motion is like my safety blanket
I’ve never even made it a few weeks! The longest I’ve gone was one week like ten years ago lol
Drinking when I was younger is what started me off smoking in the first place. Drinking and hanging around others who smoke. And then being drunk and just being like hey I wanna smoke too. Then I just never stopped. I could kick myself for that
They make these nicotine free mint pouches. My buddy used them for a year and hasn't had any tobacco since. Quit those too. Got a little fat though, so exercise is definitely a must when quitting lol.
I vape right now, and I could easily just lower the nicotine in the juice I buy. You can get zero nicotine vape juice. I’ve done it before, but it always seems that something stressful pops up and then I head back to the store to get a higher nicotine juice. Addictions really are hell. I’m so responsible and controlled in every other area of life, except this
I hear ya I smoked a pack a day for 15 years and chewed a can every other day. Very hard to quit. And if you have a beer or 2 it's even harder.
Just keep reminding yourself that you're a badass and you got this, and your kids and grandkids (either future or present, as i dont know you) deserve to have you around for as long as you can be.