ok, so i think most of you guys have heard by now. i smoked my last cig 3 hours ago. im done. ill explain...
so me and Peter were talking. i was telling him how i hate smoking. he asked why i did it. i said its a bad habit. i dident want to tell him the truth. its a way for me to deal with stress. my past record is now bad for managing stress haha. well i really need to find a way to deal now. any sugestions?
peter told me he wanted me to stop. this is the first time somone in real life has told me this. i guess it just clicked. i dont want it to sound like i was ignoring you guys, but it just dident make sence back then. i dont think hes into me, which i dont care about. i mean friends with drunk benefits is ok with me =P but i told you guys id stop with telling you about drinking. just for the resord though, i havent smoked weed in a month, and i havent drank in longer. but thats the last time ill post about that stuff (i hope).
so its cool somone close to me cares like that. its gona be so hard though. i got into a reutine already. i come home, take my dog out, smoke, do homework. thats that way its been this year. im goan have to make a new rutiene. (trying different spellings in hopes ill spell it right once =P). also, my mom smokes, so when im at her house, i sit and talk with her when shes smoking.
i picked up this stress reliefe habit from her. its what she does, so i guess i copied. idk. i just hope im done.
Peace!
PS new hollywood crush Chord Overstreet from GLEE!
alos PS, in Waterpolo, the JV captin looks like Tom Daley but with more stubble, and a little shorter. love that kid =P
And So It Goes (2014)
9 years ago
6 comments:
I'm totally behind you, kid!! It's a LOT easier for you to do this now, while you're young... I helped a 45 year old guy stop ,'cold turkey', about 25 years ago.. He kept a lot of hard candy available, and, chewing gum... i guess it helped, because, he was able to quit a habit of over 30 years, even tho nobody thought he could...
It is HUGELY important to your health, and, I would suggest that you enlist your mom in the war... She should want you to quit, and, must understand that exposing you to her smoking will make it really difficult for you. There should be a way to accommodate your attempt to quit, and still spend time with her son... I wish you the very best luck, Peter!! This is a very important task that you're undertaking!! luv, U.T.<3
p.s. {routine} lol...
Well done! Welcome to life as an ex-smoker. The longer you leave it the harder it is to give up. I gave up when I was on the wagon, the hardest times later on were when I was out drinking, beware! The thing I needed most was something in my mouth. Usually that means sucking on the end of a pen. A bad habit, but lots better than cigs. I guess I just to find something better to suck on...
JV rules!! lol enjoy. Peter!! luv, U.T.<3
I sure hope you can stick with this.
Hi there, Spys
This is great news - I'm really glad to hear that you're giving up smoking. I don't mind that it's needed someone in real life to make you do this - after all you see a lot more of him than you do of us!
Hmmm... how to deal with stress? Ideally, find the cause of the stress and make it stop happening. I know that's a lot easier said than done, but I would think that in at least some cases you're now in a position to negotiate with people about what they do to you, rather than just have to sit and take it. Other than that:
- some form of relaxation system, meditation or whatever
- some sort of exercise, to use up the adrenaline: running, sport, whatever
- some vigorous drumming: good exercise, and you get to make lots of noise!
How's this for a new routine? Come home, take your dog out, relax/exercise, do homework. I don't think you have to change what you do very much, just put your new activity in place of the smoking.
As tman says, you need to work out a way to avoid the times when your mom is smoking, and spend time with her when she's not. I'm pretty sure that watching someone else smoke, and smelling their smoke, will make it very difficult to avoid doing it yourself.
Best of luck in beating it!
*hugs*
Mark
Spys89,
WOW, progress. It's so hard to quit. All us onliners will help...you know we love you and want to help you quit. Dealing with stress is tough, and substituting something for smoking when you are stressed it important. I wish I had an easy answer. Finding something to chew, suck, or just put in your mouth is important, because from what I know about quitting smoking, that seems to help. Everything everyone has said here will be helpful.
Here's an example that will scare you off cigs, I hope: I watched my mom and dad smoke all of my life until dad had a heart attack at 52 (he's now barely survived 3 or 4). But mom died at 62. All of their problems were complications of smoking. Somehow, I managed to avoid smoking cigs, but not other things, until I quit that, too, in the last few months. So I can identify with you.
I will say that leaving the other stuff behind was tough, but I sure feel a lot better, and I'm pretty sure it will help my overall health. (And you don't have to hold back about talking about "that stuff". It is/was a part of you, and I'll not judge you for talking about you - "judge not, that ye be not judged" (Matthew 7:1, if you subscribe). I'm not sinless. 'Nuff said.
Peace <3, friend,
Jay
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