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Just one?

  • 30-07-2010 10:19pm
    #1
    marlie2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭


    Hi all,
    I'm off the cigs since 3 jan and delighted to say it is getting alot easier, I don't even think about them at all now really.
    Have to say you guys really help me through the start of this whole process but what i would like to know is why is it that so many people after giving up for months and even years can get back to square one so quickly..

    I would love to know as I really want to avoid this.

    Is it because we think we can handle ' just one '?

    I love being an non smoker and want to keep it this way but many of my strong will-powered friends have given up for a few years only to fall back into the trap, have to say I'm a bit scared I might too...


Comments

  • #2
    hiorta
    Closed Accounts Posts: 457 ✭✭hiorta


    Gave up in 1986.
    The desire for a ciggie takes longer to subside, but is so easily deflected, especially as time passes.
    Think of yourself as a non-smoker and brush the notion for a fag aside, switching your attention to something else It takes only a second or two to restore the good feeling.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Its because we're addicted. No matter how long you are off something you are addicted to, once you give your body some of it no matter how long since the last time, it will switch a switch inside you and you will want more of it again.


  • #4
    antiskeptic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭antiskeptic


    marlie2005 wrote: »
    Hi all,
    I'm off the cigs since 3 jan and delighted to say it is getting alot easier, I don't even think about them at all now really.
    Have to say you guys really help me through the start of this whole process but what i would like to know is why is it that so many people after giving up for months and even years can get back to square one so quickly..

    I would love to know as I really want to avoid this.

    Is it because we think we can handle ' just one '?

    I love being an non smoker and want to keep it this way but many of my strong will-powered friends have given up for a few years only to fall back into the trap, have to say I'm a bit scared I might too...

    The main dangers lies in the nature of the cigarette trap. Once you stop smoking, the reasons for stopping diminish: you are no longer spending a fortune on them, you no longer stink of them, no longer does their filth get everywhere, no longer are you hacking up gunge or heading out a midnight to the 24 hour garage because you've runout.

    And because all the reasons to quit diminish with time you are prone to forgetting just why it was you so desparately wanted to stop. But if the brainwashing is still there - the idea that cigarettes actually give you something good, then you can potentially meet a day when your defences are down, you're out having a pint or summit. "Well, just 1 can't do any harm.. surely"


    I went on winter sun 10 years ago as an ex-smoker, smoked a couple of joints containing tobacco and came back with 600 duty free in my case. It was 2 years until I managed to escape the trap again.


  • #5
    marlie2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭marlie2005


    Thanks guy for the advice, I needed it this weekend...
    Had a hen night out last night which i knew would be a heavy session with alot of heavy smokers. I really needed to refresh my mind as to why I gave up in the first place before this weekend came about as I knew I would probably cave, especially with old friends and old habits..
    There were times after a few drinks that I would have fancied 'just one' but thanks to all the posts above, I knew I couldn't...

    thanks guys

    I'm still an non-smoker..... yippee


  • #6
    pambelina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭pambelina


    I gave up smoking 3 months ago, found the first three weeks a struggle, but the next 6 a doddle and wondered why i hadn't given up years ago, however the last few weeks have been a nightmare, it feels like day one everyday, i fell off the wagon tonight and had "just one".......since then i have had firm conversations with myself, promising that it will never happen again, and thoughts of heading to the shop to buy a pack of 20! I remember hearing the phrase, the best way to stop smoking is never to have started, how true. However unfortunately I did start, 12 years ago, and now must face the consequences of that fatal decision that I made as a naive 17 year old. I have read many success stories here tonight and am delighted that this site exists, I'll keep posting if nobody minds and would very much welcome advice from those of you who can tell me when or if it finally gets easier, or is it that we just learn to live with it.......

    hoping I get some sleep and start a fresh again tmw


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