Stories and experiences by: Cuba

These are some of the things I do and think about in order to beat my cravings: 1. Take several deep breaths exhaling out my mouth. 2. A 10-15 minute silent meditation just focusing on cool air into my brain and warm air flowing out of my nostrils. Then change the warm air to cool for 10 mins then at the end back to warm. 3. Listening to some music that suits my mood. 4. Pulling out weeds i...

I felt I had to post today because today I had a super strong craving, wanting to go get some smokes and smoke the whole packet. I feel if I can’t be honest about smoking here it’s not going to help me or others. Anyway, certain things trigger me and awareness about these helps a lot. Also I’m going to write down on a card why I decided to stop and study it when I crave. It might take me a good...

My cravings have now gone away at least for the past few days and today. Really there’s no need to whinge at all, it is a real blessing to be able to never smoke again. I’m going into the new year free as a bird. No more coughing and not being able to walk up hills, no more offensive stench of cigarettes, no more of it costing me the price of a house ( in the end). It’s all so worthwhile to qu...

I’m still having a craving or 2 most days. They can be really difficult to deal with. I have to keep reminding myself that I have made the decision and that to go all the way to the start again would be a disaster. I find social situations the hardest, also something to do when sitting outside. I saw some people on their break from work having a smoke together and it made me want to have one. ...

I have actually lost track of how long I have now been quit but I think I have just passed exactly 3 months. It doesn’t sound like that much but for me it feels like a great achievement. I will now be seeing in the new year free of cigarettes and nicotine! It’s been very much worth all the trouble. I’m now focused on my new life as that’s what it’s like.

I’m about 10 and a half weeks quit and today I had 2 very deep and strong cravings to smoke that came out of nowhere and took me by surprise. I even had the thought of going to buy a packet but then I thought of how long I had quit for and that soon I’ll have racked up 3 months. After that I decided to ring a friend to distract myself from my thoughts. I think after you’ve quit for some time tha...

Going into week 10 soon. It seems to get just that little bit easier each week that I say a big NO to cigarettes. I’ve had plenty of times when I have had to talk myself through things. Don’t worry I still want a smoke at times and especially now it’s coming up to the festive season. But why not reword all of that and say that This year I will celebrate not smoking anymore. I can still party w...

Hi all. A story on here reminded me of why I wanted to quit, that was for my heart health but am many other reasons have come up. I suffered heart failure in 2018 but still I continued to smoke, even lying to doctors at the time. Nothing would stop me, such is the nicodemon. It’s heavy. Anyway it took until 7.3 weeks ago to finally get my headspace in the right place. I’m now just over 7 weeks qu...

I’m almost 7 weeks quit and I’m feeling much better, especially those first few weeks which were really hard. I’m starting a diet now to lose weight and get fit again as well. My smokers cough is nearly gone. Ive got a bad back so now I can afford to get that fixed up, ive had it for o year. I now feel it’s one of the best decisions ever.

I’ve just completed 6 weeks tonight of no nicotine. I had a slip a few weeks in of one. It was gone very quickly but left me feeling like I would fail again. There have been a number of times when I’ve thought of going to the shops to get some but I haven’t. Somewhere within myself I’m finding the strength to keep going with my quit, and also finding new ways of dealing with stress and difficult ...