askjoel

I have supposedly quit smoking 8 days ago. I say "supposedly" because I have slipped three times in the last 8 days. Once I had only a drag (4th day in) but the other two times (6th and 7th day in) I had one whole cigarette. I'm hating this.

I'm having a hard time with my quit. At first I quit because everyone had been bugging me to and I promised them I would quit in January even though I didn't really want to. I have to admit that the first day of my quit I had a lot of resentment. Now I like not smoking...sort of. Ok, I like not smoking as much. I do want to remain as smoke free as possible. Doesn't make much sense I know.

I can't get over not having ONE. I've gone a couple of days without one but then will break down and have one. Always at the end of the day. I'm fine for the entire day until the evening when I break down and have that one cigarette and surprisingly enough the one cigarette for the day is totally sufficient. FOR NOW.

I'm worried that I'll relapse into smoking full time if this keeps going. But more importantly, I'm supposed to have QUIT ALTOGETHER!!! I shouldn't be having ONE at all!!! But I can't get past it! I need some advice on how to get past that one smoke a day. Today is a new day and I'm going to try getting through the day without one and hopefully that will start me off to a new start. But do you have any advice for me? I could really use it! Thanks!
Mel

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