i read in another thread where Spase/Sapce said as soon as he took this seriously he was able to quit.
i am working on that. so far today i have only had 2 cigarettes, each about 3.5 hours apart. usually i would be smoking every hour to hour and a half.
Well... It didn't make it easy. It just made me able to make myself do it.
I sorta thought of it like this when I had a craving. This isn't as bad as that time I broke my back. It's not even as bad as being really sick. We suffer through those things because we have no choice... but it helped to remind myself that as much as I wanted a cigarette my cravings were not unbearable.. it just felt that way sometimes when I didn't put it in perspective.
I mean.. I'm pretty sure living (or dying) with Emphysema is a good bit more unpleasant than those cravings. So either I was going to deal with it now as my choice or later when it won't be my choice.
Addiction's fucked up though. What makes it hard is that damn voice in your head telling you that the end to all your suffering is a short trip to the store away.
Also, I dunno if I said this... but I told everyone that I had quit and that I wasn't smoking anymore.. so I'd feel like kinda an idiot if I started again. Guess pride's good for *something* huh?
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i've been on Welbutrin, for depression, and while i was on it, i didn't want to smoke, and that's actually when i quit. near the end of the time i was taking it, i started shaking really bad, more so in the mornings, so the doctors took me off of it.
i am still trying to quit, but, i suppose 'trying' to quit isn't quitting, is it?
