Melbourne

Hey good to hear from you! hugs quitting smoking is the hardest thing I ever did (I smoked for 20+ years). Mr P finds it too hard, refuses to quit and keeps smoking (he's been smoking for 50+ years). Good on you for getting this far, it's often a case where you quit in sort of fits and starts before you quit for good. One thing I found really helpful was cutting down with a view to quitting. Over time I went from a pack a day to half a pack, to 6 cigs a day. Then I started to view it in terms of time. It took me 10 minutes to smoke a cigarette, so 6 smokes = 1 hour of the day spent smoking. I told myself, "stop complaining about not having enough hours in the day when you're wasting an hour every day!" Whatever works, the most important thing is to keep trying. Every time you try and don't succeed, you learn more about what your triggers were and what made you start again, so the next time you try I find you're more mindful and prepared and more likely to succeed. It took me about 15 goes before I was successful, so please don't beat yourself up too much about it. You'll get there!