Quitting smoking = failure


As I mentioned in my last post, I planned on quitting smoking this past Monday. Well as usual from as many times as I’ve quit before it didn’t work out. I woke up and said ahh I’ll just have one, then 1 turned into 2 and 2 turned into 3 and well yous all know the rest of the story. I stayed positive and said I’ll try again today (Tuesday) and well that didn’t work out either, same thing happened.

For me I think a big part of the problem is habit: I’m use to waking up throwing a cup of coffee down my throat and smoking a few cigarettes. Additionally, I’m really not a morning person and pretty much brain dead in the morning which means I’m impatient in the morning. Trying to quit smoking + impatience = failure.

So here’s the deal, I’m thinking I need a different method of attack. I currently smoke about 2 packs a day which is a lot, and quitting cold turkey means a whole lot of nicotine is no longer there that my body expects to be there.

My new plan is by the begining of November at the latest I want to be down to 10 cigarettes per day. Once I get down to 10 cigarettes a day or less for a week I’ll go cold turkey.  Now I have to set weekly goals and figure out how accomplish them which I’ll list here as soon as I figure them out. ;)

  1. #1 by kim woodin on September 23, 2008 - 6:25 pm

    Don’t allow smoking in the home, second hand smoke is the worst, by the winter time you will probably reach your goal!

  2. #2 by Therese Kriek on August 30, 2010 - 7:56 am

    Us smokers, we start early on to put up a mental wall of denial between our smoking habit and the reality of the harm we’re causing ourselves by smoking

  3. #3 by Georgia Miller on October 5, 2010 - 2:03 pm

    if you want to quit smoking, then you must be a very determined person to do that.*;

  4. #4 by Plastic Pond  on October 20, 2010 - 3:41 am

    since smoking is addictive, it is really hard to quit smoking”".

  5. #5 by Health Benefits of Liposuction · on November 9, 2010 - 5:24 pm

    anyone will always have a hard time quitting smoking because nicotine will infect your system and makes you an addict :

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