Who managed to quit smoking? or is trying to quit?

[farouk]

3 minutes ago, Anne2 said:

Well, not as good as I was a few weeks ago. I am looking to get on track to 5 a day again. I was pretty good at that for about several months, but......other health issues have occupied me at home, so it made it harder.

Thanks for asking farouk...

YW, @Anne2

I guess in personal terms you can feel some success at having cut down to 5 per day for several months; so you know it's doable. So I guess there are at least 2 aspects: 1) it's doable; 2) don't let anyone guilt-manipulate you as a smoking lady.

[Anne2]

42 minutes ago, farouk said:

YW, @Anne2

I guess in personal terms you can feel some success at having cut down to 5 per day for several months; so you know it's doable. So I guess there are at least 2 aspects: 1) it's doable; 2) don't let anyone guilt-manipulate you as a smoking lady.

Thank you farouk...Yes, 1) it is doable 2) don't be guilted about it. 3)  ESPECIALLY BY MYSELF WHICH IS MOST IMPORTANT..

[farouk]

7 minutes ago, Anne2 said:

Thank you farouk...Yes, 1) it is doable 2) don't be guilted about it. 3)  ESPECIALLY BY MYSELF WHICH IS MOST IMPORTANT..

@Anne2 Well...you must know your own thoughts, right? there is sometimes among conservative folk the idea that it's not ladylike, but, hey: even though it's excellent to quit, so many women have done cigarettes, especially from around WW1 onwards.

[Anne2]

7 minutes ago, farouk said:

@Anne2 Well...you must know your own thoughts, right? there is sometimes among conservative folk the idea that it's not ladylike, but, hey: even though it's excellent to quit, so many women have done cigarettes, especially from around WW1 onwards.

I was thinking more along the lines of this...Years (many) ago I had 7 cigarettes left in my pack and said to myself, I want to quit. I won't buy another pack. Was gonna try training my brain  (lol)to not respond to a craving, by taking a few puffs after the craving had faded. Those 7 cigarettes lasted me two whole weeks. Never touched them until my craving had passed.

In the end of it all I failed.... Which can lead to doubt it is doable and give up....Sometimes we put more than we should on ourselves. So I am not going to judge myself either way. God allowed it before, he is holding me now (not nearly where I was) and wait to be able to go at it again is all.

Edited Friday at 09:23 PM by Anne2

[farouk]

Just now, Anne2 said:

I was thinking more along the lines of this...Years ago I had 7 cigarettes left in my pack and said to myself, I want to quit. I won't buy another pack. Was gonna try training my brain to not respond to a craving, by taking a few puffs after the craving had faded. Those 7 cigarettes lasted me two whole weeks. Never touched them until my craving had passed.

In the end of it all I failed.... Which can lead to doubt it is doable and give up....Sometimes we put more than we should on ourselves. So I am not going to judge myself either way. God allowed it before, he is holding me now (not nearly where I was) and wait to be able to go at it again is all.

Well, hoping you will succeed, @Anne2. It's all part of basic demographics, though. For example, it used to be - and often still is - the case that nearly all nurses smoked.

But now nearly all of them get tattooed; yet as for the smoking, the fact that a lot of nurses have succeeded in quitting despite the stresses of their profession shows it can be done, right?

[Anne2]

Just now, farouk said:

Well, hoping you will succeed, @Anne2. It's all part of basic demographics, though. For example, it used to be - and often still is - the case that nearly all nurses smoked.

But now nearly all of them get tattooed; yet as for the smoking, the fact that a lot of nurses have succeeded in quitting despite the stresses of their profession shows it can be done, right?

Yes. I was offered patches by my doctor. I just do not like that for personal reasons. However it might come to that. For right now I am just not going to beat myself up.

[farouk]

1 hour ago, Anne2 said:

Yes. I was offered patches by my doctor. I just do not like that for personal reasons. However it might come to that. For right now I am just not going to beat myself up.

@Anne2 Like I was saying, you as each smoker have your own individual thoughts.

Didn't your daughter quit already a long time ago? (People have their own individual dynamics, of course...)

[Anne2]

1 minute ago, farouk said:

@Anne2 Like I was saying, you as each smoker have your own individual thoughts.

Didn't your daughter quit already a long time ago? (People have their own individual dynamics, of course...)

oh yes she did.

[farouk]

2 minutes ago, Anne2 said:

oh yes she did.

Smoking really did use to characterize nurses (I think she was a nurse, you said).

Some demographic shift seemed to happen several years ago and now it's getting tattooed, while the smoking seems to be successfully resisted by many of them.

This nurse says:

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Corgiverse RN

At this point- honestly it’s almost a requirement. Every single one of my coworkers is tattooed. reddit dot com

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[farouk]

Any more quitting stories, ppl?

cc @Anne2