I need help. I quit cold turkey and stayed off of this drug for 8 years. I have been smoking this time for 23 years. I have to stop It is more difficult this time..
Basically, you know that quitting smoking by going cold turkey is possible considering you did it before. You also know that over time not smoking becomes relatively easy--a belief you probably didn't have the last time around. The most important think that you should know this time is that one puff--even after eight years, has the full potential of taking a perfectly good quit and tossing it out the window.
That one lesson is the most important thing you are going to have to understand if you are going to pull off a permanent quit. As far as recent attempt to quit being harder than before, that is fully possible. Every quit is different and often I will encounter people who at one time had an easy quit--lost it thinking that quitting again would be no big deal, only to find that the subsequent quits are much more difficult than the first time around. Difficult or not--quitting is possible and what ever suffering you may encounter from quitting will pale in comparison to the suffering you might go through if you don't quit and end up developing any of a number of conditions that cigarettes can cause.
I am actually heading out the door to a program I am doing tonight. If you go to the AskJoel board (http://groups.msn.com/AskJoel/askjoel.msnw) you might want to pose your question there. Another manager may be able to steer you toward some material to help. Otherwise, let me know if it is okay to post your letter there and I will direct you to some articles to help--although I many not be able to get to it until tomorrow morning.
Let me know if you want to proceed at the board.
Joel
You may post it. Just to let you know the first time I quit smoking I fooled myself and thought that one cigarette 8 years later would not lead to a full addition. I was wrong it lead to a 23 year addition which is more difficult to stop now. I know I am in over my head this time.
One cigarette can lead to a life time of misery
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