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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
They key is to know you will have a slip up here and there and not beat yourself up over it.
If you break down and smoke a cig or two, just think about it for a minute and move on. Don't beat yourself up or tell yourself it's impossible.
Smoking is very hard to quit because there are virtually no immediate consequences for starting back up again. The nicotine isn't that powerful of a drug, it's just there is really no downside for starting back up and your brain knows it. If you are trying to quit crack or something, usually after a few attempts you think of all the horrible failures, the money you stole, the family you lost, the friends you lost, the arrests, and you quit. Smoking has none of that. Just get over the mental part of it and the drugs hold only lasts about a week.
Quitting smoking is 99% mental, the nicotine is very weak in relation to other drugs.
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That's like the worst advice you could ever give someone trying to quit smoking.
Every time you have a cigarette, withdrawal starts all over again.
The only way to break free is to break free, never take another puff.
If you can make it for 3 days, you can make it for the rest of your life, but if you ever take another puff, then it's like you never quit, and the withdrawal pains will start all over again.
It's not a "habit" that you can wean yourself off of, it's a drug addiction.
You wouldn't tell a crack addict that it's ok if he smokes one or two rocks in rehab. You wouldn't tell a heroin junky that it's ok to shoot up once or twice.
Same principle applies to cigarettes. Nicotine is more addictive than heroin BTW....you've gotten some very bad information vis a vis the power of nicotine and you should really stop giving advice to people trying to quit smoking.
