If you’ve tried several times before and you just keep going back to your old habits in just a few days, maybe you need to do a different approach.
Maybe you need to do it slowly. Creating a quit smoking journal will help you address all the challenges that come with quitting smoking. You could look at these challenges to make a more viable action plan. Every person is different so don’t be hard on yourself if you know someone who quit in just couple of days.
What’s great about keeping a journal is that it is tailored to your specific needs. Write down everything including your triggers and how you usually deal with your cravings. Try doing activities that you really enjoy to distract yourself and write them down in your journal.
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Hi Caz,
It sounds like you are “ready for change”, and that’s the best time to do it, when the momentum is with you. Great news that you are not clinically depressed.
Congratulations on those 60 days! Wow! In this “middle period” of the quit, people can sometimes feel disheartened that things are not improving as quickly as they would like, but the rewards ARE ahead. Anything you do support yourself and keep yourself going during this period is a good thing. You will definitely notice a difference in 60 days time.
Many of us on this site started smoking in our teenage years, and any crisis would see us running for a smoke. Therefore we never learned emotionally to deal with “stuff” – we were always running away. Interesting, eh?
This is a safe place to discuss smoking/quitting issues – whatever it is you are experiencing, someone is likely to have been there before! We also do celebrations, every week in the stats parade, and celebrate milestones and plan rewards....so you don’t have to have a crisis to visit!
Keep going day by day, and shout whenever.
Cheers,
Lizzie
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