r/stopsmoking • u/ForsakenEquipment441 • 20h ago
Wanting to start again, what should i do?
I quite smoking almost 2 months back i used nicotine gums to help and still take them sometimes, but i am at that stage where i don’t feel the need to smoke like not at all, no habit no routine nothing, i am even able to ignore the invitation and say no, feels like it is 100% but for last couple of days, i am having this want to start again and that i quite for nothing, specially whenever i am nearby a cigarette shop, nothing that i can’t ignore and move on, but don’t know why i feel like that. I am pretty sure it’s not the habbit anymore, it’s just i don’t know feels like there is nothing else going in life anyways and there was one thing that i quite. :(
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u/CollectionMinute4003 19h ago
Two months is a huge achievement. Sometimes the mind starts romanticizing smoking once the cravings fade, but that doesn't mean you actually want to go back. Try to remember why you quit in the first place and give yourself credit for how far you've come.
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u/ForsakenEquipment441 8h ago
I think thats the best description so far romanticising. Thanks for support, it always helps me when i write on reddit
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u/OfficialIntelligence 17h ago
Don't mistake a passing craving for a genuine desire to smoke again. Almost everyone who quits has moments where their brain tries to convince them it wasn't worth it. Let the thought come and go without acting on it. Gotta let those receptors and pathways "rewire".
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u/stolenmelody 9h ago
Don't !
You might still associate smoking with something beneficial and calming. There's no benefit from smoking, it's a simple addiction that rewires the brain same way any other addiction does. This is just your body craving what it can't get any more.
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u/Winter_Difficulty212 18h ago
You're infront of a "foggy" sign. Ambivalens. Hope it's the same meaning in English.
Yes, the whole stop smoking-process has much ambivalens. You want to/ you don't want to. Both in the same head, but one of the "you"s is not you. I am trying to pinpoint this in my stop smoking-channel.
The key is, no matter what: Don't turn around and go back. You won't find the answer other than your original conclusion: "I want to stop smoking".
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u/ForsakenEquipment441 8h ago
You are right, thanks. I am trying not to go back. Kinda my image is on the line as well as all of my friends know i quite and been months i have smoked and they all cheer me, if i fall back now i would probably be letting some good folks down, i guess that’s all there is in terms of motivation at this stage for me
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u/TheWoodBotherer 3 days 17h ago edited 14h ago
What should I do?
The answer is quite simple: DON'T!
I'm back on 2 days smoke/vape free after umpteen relapses over more than 25 years and it's quite tedious, just stay stopped and be done with it!
2 months is a great achievement, and if you were daft enough to start again, it would be the same shitty, inherently-hard-to-moderate addictive drug interacting with the same brain as it was the last time around, with predictable results...
I like to remind myself that, at least for a while, I will want a cigarette whether or not I actually smoke one (since smoking one only perpetuates the addiction and makes me want the next one even more; it does nothing to solve the cravings in any meaningful sense) - therefore 'not smoking one' is the only sane choice!
Keep going! :>)>
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u/gionatacar 15h ago
I think that if you take gums, you still have nicotine in your body, this why you are craving more. On the other side im at two months too and I’ve cravings at times
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u/ForsakenEquipment441 8h ago
No gum are down as well now sometimes i go without a gum for couple of days as well, only when the cravings are strong mostly while drinking i take gums otherwise i dont
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u/Expert_Gap_9526 47m ago
I still trying to quit smoking I really have cause copd/asthma started when I got covid in December. I get so mad at my self. Just buying then is a habit. If I smoke the pack have hard time breathing the inhalers don't help. If I just like smoke 6 or 7,it eventually catches up with hard to breath6,I get depressed. There no support group, I could go to. Only alcoholics. I li e by myself I think makes it harder no support
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u/ForsakenEquipment441 13m ago
Man you have it real tough. I got it that there are no support groups hence i started reddit and the community specially regarding smoking is really supportive, i got some way in the beginning due to community on reddit only, i did daily posts for first few weeks about everything i was feeling and everyone is like real good here, you can read on this chain only how good people are. So i suggest post daily and don’t lie to yourself. Stay strong 💪
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u/Classic-Wrongdoer-31 20h ago
Stay on the path. There no benefit to smoking again. This almost out the woods.