How are the quitters doing? I’ve been a non smoker for 3 weeks now! Yey! Today I’ve gone down a strength in patches, I’m just desperate to get off the patches now but I won’t rush it, need to give myself the best chance!
BlueMerchant I have a panic/anxiety disorder at the moment that I’m in therapy for. I was very much the same as you worried that now wasn’t the right time to quit, that it would make me worse. I can safely say that my confidence has sky rocketed since quitting. I was so so scared about my health and dying early, I would lay awake at night, full on panic attack, sweating and chest pains, the lot, then go have a fag to calm me down. I was stuck in a cycle. I’ve got/had ptsd from having my son (we both came close to loosing our lives), just wanted to reassure you that if I can do it, you can do it. In terms of the routine being different, I would recommend the Nicolette inhalators, my routine stayed the same and I gradually changed it, I would wake up and stand in the garden in the rain with the inhalator, just like I did with a cigarette for the first week. I’ve replaced cigarette smoking for self care, I brush my teeth more and have a skincare routine instead. I paint my nails, declutter my house etc, your routine will evolve and you achieve so much more with your time. It’s really really great.
And to the poster who said about high horse, I am so so smug it’s unreal (inwardly of course) saw my sister at my nans funeral and she said “coming out for a fag?” The buzz I felt when I replied “no thanks, I don’t smoke.” Was insane 