what can you say that will help me quit smoking?

Question

Im 22, Ive been smoking cigarettes since I was 9, daily since 14 and marijuana daily since I was 18. (- my pregnancy and a short time thereafter). I really want to quit but Im addicted and everytime I come close to quitting I freak out and become another person. I want to not be spending all my money on that crap and I dont want to live my life stoned. My daughter deserves more than this. Is there anything you can say, any stories you can share that I can print out and keep with me to look to for inspiration and courage?

btw, my daughter is by no means deprived of food or electricity, or clothes, or toys, she has everything a girl her age (16 months) should have.

Answer 1

At this Hour

At this hour I hungered for something,
it was not food.......it was not drink
Those are not my burdens.

I made it through the last hour by fulfilling
that hunger with the love for my children.

When I desire that demon and he begins to
take me over I will ask my child to protect me and they will.

Our love is stronger than anything in the world and there is nothing more that I need to make my life happier. I am happy .....NOW

I need nothing as I have it all.

I am protected by the purest thing in this world... the love of my child.

I will overcome and live another day thanking my child for being born!




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Then the focus should take away anything else that your afraid of. If you ask your child (if they are big enough to know about the boogie man) to protect you from that which is trying to take you away from them. They will fight to keep you safe from anything!

...............hope that helps as I am not a poet.........think about it.

Answer 2

Quit the cigarettes first, and allow yourself the occasional joint or bong to celebrtae the quitting of tobbacco.
When you are sure you have quit tobbacco, then work on the marijuana.

Quitting smoking is a great opportunity to learn about ourselves.
Congratulate yourself on having the desire to stop - then you are over the worst, but still need to maintain your resolve. It's just so easy to start thinking that just one won't hurt, but it does. Just one achieves nothing except feeling the need for another. Whatever you do, don't have just one. Beware - alcohol will weaken your resolve.
Here's a few home-brewed tips that might be useful.
It's not just nicotine addiction - there are 50+ chemicals in cigarettes. Also the main problem is habit.
We have been used to having body sensations which we translate as 'my body needs something', which we have attempted to satisfy by having a cigarette.
When we try to stop smoking, we still get these 'my body needs something' sensations, and we still feel that we want a cigarette. We have to train our body to be more selective. When we feel we need something, we have to work out what it is that we actually need.
A glass of water is an excellent substitute if nothing else comes to mind, as it helps with the clearance of the toxic substances in our body. Another good substitute is a bag of salted peanuts, used in combination with the water.
Another thing to do is to find an activity which occupies the mind or body. Go swimming - nobody wants to smoke while they are swimming. Slowly, as our body adjusts and translates the 'want something' feelings into something other than cigarettes, then the feelings begin to go away. We know its not a cigarette that the body really needs, because as soon as we've had one we still have the feeling, and want another!
We will have a few bouts of feeling or even being short tempered. We must try to bite our lip, and control; ourselves. Recognise the short temper as being the removal of toxins which are trying to find a way out. They went in through the mouth, and they try to get out that way to. We must learn to keep our mouth closed, and force the toxins out the other way.

After we have stopped for a while we will begin to feel that just one wont to any harm.
All that leads to is a desire for just another one. We must guard very strongly against the desire to have just one.

Answer 3

The reason I don't smoke, and never will, is my Granddad.
When I was kid, I loved him more than anyone else in my family. He was the one I looked up to and the one I wanted to spend the most time with. When he was younger he was in the Navy and was a muscular man. He and my grandma grew up in the age where smoking was cool and the health aspects hadn't been considered. He'd been smoking since age 15ish- by the time I was old enough to spend time around him and actually have memories of him, he was begining to lose all that muscle and had already had cancer once.
My gradma died when I was about 5 from cancer...my granddad died a year and a half later. I saw him right before he died and the image never left my mind. What had once been a muscular man full of life was a skeleton on a stretcher. He couldn't hold me and barely had enough energy to hug me. In the span of 5 years he went from being able to go fishing with me to not being able to hug me.
Your daughter does deserve more than this and if you stop now, you'll have your life to spend with her. Don't leave her with the last image of you not even being able to hug her or pick her up. Do whatever it takes, you are your daughter's world. She's going to grow up looking up to YOU. You need to be the one that sets the example for her to grow up with- doesn't matter what you want now, you need to do it for her. SHE NEEDS YOU.

Answer 4

Look at your child, what kind of an example do you want to set...Do you want your child to grow up without a parent or a parent who is so stoned all the time that there is never enough money for food of electricity..Sorry but if you really wanted to quit you would not be asking these questions, you would have already put the everyday welfare of your child first.

Answer 5

If you really wanted to stop/quit, for your daughters well being you would...

Of course your a different person, and "freak" out... you're addicted to drugs and cigarettes, quiting any habit makes most people irritable, or as you say a "different person" it is not a bed of roses depriving your body of something it craves/must have... This is the price you pay, for allowing yourself, to get addicted.!

Just DO IT...!!!!....one day at a time

gl

Answer 6

I smoked for 15 years, two packs a day. The only thing that will make you quite, is if your really want to. You get to a point in your life when your tired of smoking and tired of cost, tired of smelling and you just say enough.

A couple things I would look at is first the inside of a smokers lungs, not pretty. A big thing is do you really want to be walking around married to an oxygen tank. You have to carry it everywhere you. Not me.

Answer 7

i started smocking when i was 14-15 years old when i was out in cubs, open air restaurants, at my friends, never at home or at school. at first i didn't inhaled the smoke i was just playing and my best friend taught me how to smoke. I've told my parents about the smocking and they told me it's not healthy but they didn't stopped me they knew it wasn't working like that. till i was 17 y.o. i used to smoke between 2-5 cigarettes a day when i went out.
I've tried two times to quit smocking after 1-2 months i restarted the unhealthy habit. the 3rd was a success, i bet with myself to quit smocking and offered myself a worth rewarded, plus i saw what smoke does to the skin especially the face texture, i was too scared to be an addicted.
so at 18 i quit smocking and i advice everybody it's best if you quit because you have a target to get, something worth achieving.

good luck!

Answer 8

Yes, you can go to your local mental health department for counseling. You've already achieved a major step - WANTING to stop!!! And for the right reasons. These people have training to help you and give you the inspiration you need to have a "normal" life and bring up your child in a wholesome environment. I can tell you if you don't, you'll end up like my step-son's mother....in the nut house. Her background is similar to yours and she's in her 50's now (looks 70) and nuts. Do your child a favor and call TODAY for an appointment! let me know how you progress. Godloveya, honey.

Answer 9

Hi.
Addiction is a horrible thing to deal with, but I am glad you are trying to quit for you and your daughter's sake. I suggest you don't try to do this alone. I recommend you go to a program with councilling included. If you need visual confirmation of reasons to quit you should go to a hospice and see what it is like to die with lung cancer. It isn't pretty and it isn't easy. I wish you the best of luck with your addiction, but you can do this!!! Lots of people do. You have a beautiful little girl who needs you and loves you, and you don't get better motivation than that.

Answer 10

It depends if u really wanna quit smoking. I was smoker for 10 yrs and in one day I,ve decided to not smoke again. Since the day after, I really quit smoking. Is not easy, but must be strong. Go ahead!