Post #460199 by tiki mick on 06/08/2009

On 2009-06-08 14:12, Son-of-Kelbo wrote:
It WILL get easier, LV.

The best bit of advice I got when I finally put the nasty things down (early 90's) was, "Just forget what that habit was. When you see it going on, just tell yourself you don't understand what you're looking at, don't recognize what that person's doing." I know it sounds a bit corny, but it helped me with the psychological aspect of getting free, a battle that went on a while longer than the physiological jones did.

Best thing you could ever do for yourself. Just remember, and I speak for experience, because I had to go cold-turkey twice to make it stick: Those poisonous little cylinders are like snakes -- you can't "flirt" with them after you're free, bum a loose one, that sort of thing, 'cause if they get that venom back into you, you'll have to start all over. "What is that thing? I don't know, and don't want to." Not trying to preach here, just trying to help.

You've already done the hardest part, and every day will get easier.

Long Aloha,
SOK

That's totally good advice. There is no logical reason to smoke cigs, and that is the way you have to look at it. It's not like you are missing out on something.

I look at kids (young kids) and they don't smoke, and seem perfectly happy. A bit fidgety, yes, but not all jonesing for cigarettes!
I want to be like them. A non-smoker.

I have to mentally bring myself to a place where I don't even know what a cigarette is, just like SOK said.