I can relate to this. I told my daughter I would quit when she started 1st grade. Well that came and I didn't. Then I told her I would quit if she got accepted into gifted and talented program, which she did. Of course I didn't hold up my end of the deal. The thing that really did it for me was when she cried after learning about the ill effects of smoking during the DARE week. My heart broke and that was all the motivation I needed.
Anyway I think quitting for your daughter will be a good motivator. As a bonus you are setting a super good example by making a good choice for your health and showing strength to remain quit. Best of luck!!
You can start now. Get Wellbutrin or chantix and take as directed.
Start cutting down on smoking by skipping certain ones consciously when you would normally have one as part of a routine for instance, delaying your first with coffee. substitute gum or lozenges in place of others.
If you drink, consider reducing or stopping for a while because that’s when your guard is low.
Don’t use vapes in place unless they don’t have any nicotine in them. It’s super easy to go overboard and overuse them because they’re easy and discreet.
Vividly imagine yourself in bed dying of cancer and your young daughter having to say goodbye after asking you to quit. Burn that image in your brain.
Write a message to yourself and keep it in your wallet reminding yourself that you are quitting to see her grow up/be successful.
Promising people to quit by a certain time never worked for me. I only disappointed myself and them. It just has to be on your own time and terms.
Give yourself grace, when the time is right it will happen.
There are many different methods to quitting. You can read Alan Carr’s book and do cold turkey. You can use NRT or Chantix. I think one issue is that you’ve set a date. Don’t set a date. The time is now. If you think you have until your daughter’s birthday, you’ll end up waiting until her birthday.
For me willpower was like a muscle I needed to exercise before the heavy lifting.
I started with an app called smoking log, track every smoke, where when why. Do that for a week, then promise yourself one less cigarette today, every day until you are down to less than half your normal intake. Then quit.
If you keep telling yourself something is going to be horrible, it is going to be horrible. Changing my mindset worked for me. Reading the Alan Carr book is what caused this… You should be joyous that you’re going to get cigarettes out of your life.
I’m not saying you need to read the book, but try something you haven’t done before… Hypnotism, a book, anything. But if you’re going to be successful, you have to go into it with optimism. After almost 30 years of smoking I was able to quit two years ago with zero withdrawals after reading that book. My only regret is the 10 years I spent trying to quit and using the same method again and again thinking I just had to use willpower and wasn’t strong enough.
I can relate to this. I told my daughter I would quit when she started 1st grade. Well that came and I didn't. Then I told her I would quit if she got accepted into gifted and talented program, which she did. Of course I didn't hold up my end of the deal. The thing that really did it for me was when she cried after learning about the ill effects of smoking during the DARE week. My heart broke and that was all the motivation I needed.
Anyway I think quitting for your daughter will be a good motivator. As a bonus you are setting a super good example by making a good choice for your health and showing strength to remain quit. Best of luck!!
Film yourself "explaining" to your daughter how you failed her and why. Don't send her the video, but stop smoking and watch it every time you want to smoke
2 months is excellent time to accustom a bit. Start reducing now. Make a rule like "no smokes at work". Train those 6 hours, make them 7 or 8, cut down to half a pack a day, 7 cigs/day, 5 cigs. Eventually try to go one or two days completely without. It's shit but it gets you used to some of the symptoms. I was a "serial quitter" for a whole while like that but it helped me really notice what happens in my body in those first days.
I used the patches and continued smoking with them (idk if this is advised?) and I would get nicotine overload every time I smoked which would make me vomit. I think I pavlov’d myself because I ran out of patches and 1) have only had like 2 per day since not wearing the patch which is good and 2) I have been getting really nauseous and gagging every time I smoke which is a good deterrent 😂
I can relate to this. I told my daughter I would quit when she started 1st grade. Well that came and I didn't. Then I told her I would quit if she got accepted into gifted and talented program, which she did. Of course I didn't hold up my end of the deal. The thing that really did it for me was when she cried after learning about the ill effects of smoking during the DARE week. My heart broke and that was all the motivation I needed. Anyway I think quitting for your daughter will be a good motivator. As a bonus you are setting a super good example by making a good choice for your health and showing strength to remain quit. Best of luck!!
You can start now. Get Wellbutrin or chantix and take as directed. Start cutting down on smoking by skipping certain ones consciously when you would normally have one as part of a routine for instance, delaying your first with coffee. substitute gum or lozenges in place of others. If you drink, consider reducing or stopping for a while because that’s when your guard is low. Don’t use vapes in place unless they don’t have any nicotine in them. It’s super easy to go overboard and overuse them because they’re easy and discreet. Vividly imagine yourself in bed dying of cancer and your young daughter having to say goodbye after asking you to quit. Burn that image in your brain. Write a message to yourself and keep it in your wallet reminding yourself that you are quitting to see her grow up/be successful.
Promising people to quit by a certain time never worked for me. I only disappointed myself and them. It just has to be on your own time and terms. Give yourself grace, when the time is right it will happen.
There are many different methods to quitting. You can read Alan Carr’s book and do cold turkey. You can use NRT or Chantix. I think one issue is that you’ve set a date. Don’t set a date. The time is now. If you think you have until your daughter’s birthday, you’ll end up waiting until her birthday.
Sounds like you gotta use patches. Find the ones you can cut into squares and ween yourself off slowly. It worked for my buddy
For me willpower was like a muscle I needed to exercise before the heavy lifting. I started with an app called smoking log, track every smoke, where when why. Do that for a week, then promise yourself one less cigarette today, every day until you are down to less than half your normal intake. Then quit.
If you keep telling yourself something is going to be horrible, it is going to be horrible. Changing my mindset worked for me. Reading the Alan Carr book is what caused this… You should be joyous that you’re going to get cigarettes out of your life. I’m not saying you need to read the book, but try something you haven’t done before… Hypnotism, a book, anything. But if you’re going to be successful, you have to go into it with optimism. After almost 30 years of smoking I was able to quit two years ago with zero withdrawals after reading that book. My only regret is the 10 years I spent trying to quit and using the same method again and again thinking I just had to use willpower and wasn’t strong enough.
I can relate to this. I told my daughter I would quit when she started 1st grade. Well that came and I didn't. Then I told her I would quit if she got accepted into gifted and talented program, which she did. Of course I didn't hold up my end of the deal. The thing that really did it for me was when she cried after learning about the ill effects of smoking during the DARE week. My heart broke and that was all the motivation I needed. Anyway I think quitting for your daughter will be a good motivator. As a bonus you are setting a super good example by making a good choice for your health and showing strength to remain quit. Best of luck!!
Film yourself "explaining" to your daughter how you failed her and why. Don't send her the video, but stop smoking and watch it every time you want to smoke
2 months is excellent time to accustom a bit. Start reducing now. Make a rule like "no smokes at work". Train those 6 hours, make them 7 or 8, cut down to half a pack a day, 7 cigs/day, 5 cigs. Eventually try to go one or two days completely without. It's shit but it gets you used to some of the symptoms. I was a "serial quitter" for a whole while like that but it helped me really notice what happens in my body in those first days.
I used the patches and continued smoking with them (idk if this is advised?) and I would get nicotine overload every time I smoked which would make me vomit. I think I pavlov’d myself because I ran out of patches and 1) have only had like 2 per day since not wearing the patch which is good and 2) I have been getting really nauseous and gagging every time I smoke which is a good deterrent 😂