12 Tips for the Brand-New Quitter

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12 Tips for the Brand-New Quitter

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Mandy L Discussion started by Mandy L 5 years ago

Copied from a post by Random 68 (Craig R):

8 years quit: “What advice do you offer a brand-new quitter?”

1. decide you need to quit smoking.

2. choose to quit smoking.

3. learn about quitting smoking.

4. find some sort of support to help you quit smoking.

5. warn the family that you are going to quit smoking.

6. prepare your substitute habits, actions, sunflower seeds, toothpicks or whatever you use.

7. QUIT SMOKING.

8. know that 3days are physical withdrawal and painkiller is allowed.

9. know that a week is just the beginning and the mental games begin.

10. keep your quit moment by moment and two weeks in the smoking dreams will start...if they haven't already.

11. deal with your habits, recognize that urge to light up as a medicational tool you used in the past and now you have a new way to deal with the stressor of the moment.

12. CHOOSE TO KEEP YOU QUIT...right this moment. yes... that means this one too.

Keep your quit one day at a time. It doesn't matter how. The tools are out there to learn the impacts quitting has on your body and brain as the drugs and habits and mental reactions all get reprogrammed.

oh...

and the last thing...

it may be the most important.

Know who you are quitting for.

(I certainly hope that your quit is for YOU)

8yrs quit...

I remember my cigars like yesterday.

I could pick them up tomorrow and begin where I left off with no problem whatsoever. That is what this addiction is. Its always there.

But it gets easier as time goes by. I recognize each insidious thought for what it is... and I learn to care for myself.

and I learn to deal with my problems and not cover them up in a smoke screen

and I learn to feel my emotions instead of numbing and running away from them cause they could offend someone.

Its easier to be quit today, because I keep practicing my quit. I choose every time. I choose correctly to be a non-smoker, every time.

I am Craig

I am Sober and S'mober

I am quit and hope you are too.

It is so worth it for me to quit for me and you to quit for you!

~Craig