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Originally Posted by dy156
I feel your pain!!
I've done it for years, and am currently into my second week without it. I've "quit" twice before for more than a couple of months.
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I'd like to offer you a small bit of perspective that may help you, it did me.
I started smoking at 20, and I'm not regularly smoking now at 27. It took me from 25/most of 26 to stop.
I don't "socially smoke" or "smoke when I drink" like 1000 "light" smokers qualify their "not smoking/quitting" with. However, today I had one. Bummed of a pal, first one in.....5 weeks? Something like that. Before that I don't think I had one for 8 weeks. You get the idea.
My reasoning (and my point):
I did not quit smoking. I am not a non-smoker. I’m a smoker who is not smoking.
I hope that doesn’t sound stupid, but I’m trying to differentiate between “quitting” a problem, and dealing with one.
I am still a smoker. I still want smokes. I still crave them. But, it’s not a daily or even weekly thing.
Every once in a great while, I even indulge. Sometimes, it’s not cool because I’ll find myself going from 1…to 1 a day for a week. That is lessening a lot with time, thank goodness. The last time was when my sister, a smoker, stayed with us for a week. My dumb ass smoked at least one a day with her that week. The next week really sucked, but I never bought a pack; and, didn’t bum one.
Alcoholics have the right idea when they admit it's an addiction. Alcoholics’ first step is to admit an addiction, and then they come to terms with having that addiction as part of them.
It’s not something you “quit,” and I don’t think “quitting” is a good thing for smokers either. You don’t quit your addiction. You can stop indulging it on a regular basis though. It’s a real bitch, but you can do it.
Just don’t think you’re going to “quit.” It’s the wrong frame of mind. You can stop, but you can’t quit. The addiction will still be there, and it doesn’t quit. You deal with it, and choose to stop indulging it.
Now, because I’m sooo far off topic (though they’re related!!) allow me to say that dip, dipping, is just freakin disgusting. I know how gross smoking is. Dipping takes that to the next level. It’s just…nasty.