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Anonymous
I was on this schedule of having maybe a couple puffs a day in the afternoon, but the weekends were still rough - I would get drunk and go through a pack on the weekend, then back to not smoking at work during the weeks.
Finally, after I started going to the gym, I realized I like ym throat and lungs not killing me, so after I spent 3 weekdays without having a cigarette, I locked myself in my house for the weekend and didn't smoke, then continued all through the next week without smoking.
I went out the next weekend, but I didn't drink and I had to use a fair amount of will power not to smoke, but I mean if you're willing to tough it out at the gym, you have the willpower necessary to quit at this point.
After you spend 2 weeks without smoking, it becomes an occasional tug, where old habits make you want to have a smoke, but when you think about it, it becomes more unattractive to you.
We say we smoked because we wanted to, but I never really realized how much of that was simply addiction to it. It's pretty repulsive when you think about it in detail.
I haven't had a smoke in over a month, and last weekend I, completely hammered, went out with a few friends, chatted wiht them while they had a smoke and didn't even think about or crave it at all.
So it can be done, you just need to control yourself, cut back and maintain your levels, reducing by as much as you can take. Baby steps until cold turkey is not so harsh.
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