Quit Smoking
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- Horp0
I'm with epill on this one. I stopped being a smoker around ten years ago and I relapsed a couple of years ago temporarily, then decided not to be a smoker again. 'Quitting' and keeping a track of the days is merely torture disguised as some kind of personal reward. You don't need to know how may days, weeks, months or years... its not relevant or useful information.
Also, I personally believe that announcing to friends and family that you're quitting is a really really terrible idea for many reasons that I can't be arsed to type up. Its much better to take the public pressure off by not telling anyone, and if people (particularly other smokers) notice you're not partaking in your usual smoking ritual and ask you of you've quit, just say no, you just don't feel like smoking.
So much better to prevent it becoming a spectator event. As soon as people know you're trying to stop they ask you how its going, keep reminding you about it, and eventually serve as an irritating moral weight that drags you down so you feel bad and end up having a smoke anyway.
Just keep it to yourself.
- quality advicetgqt
- ‹‹ this is exactly my point,
thanks Horp.e-pill - also a great way to pass that point from others "Asking" is to just say "i dont smoke"e-pill
- I think voicing it out works as an incentive in my case, I might be wrong, 1st time I try thoughernexbcn
- Yes, tell yourself yr not going to smoke _today_. When you manage to do it, repeat the same the next day.lukus_W