It's hard to quit cold turkey because cigarettes are seductive. Yes, it could be that you weakened your self-control, but, bottom line, cigarettes are a hard habit to kick. I mean, check out the name you gave this thread, you
yourself say that cigarettes are
killing you, and yet you find them hard to give up. I think most of us smokers feel the same way that you do.
Cigarettes are
way too easy to get, so this particular addiction can be especially hard to fight, but you can do it.
It took me
years to stop smoking. I wish I could claim that I did it on my own, but I was kind of forced into it.
Years ago early one morning, I left my young son asleep, alone in our house, and I walked a few blocks to a store to get myself some cigarettes.
Long story short, in the store, and on my way home from the store, some strange, wild-eyed man started following me and started to run after me. Scared me half to death, shook me up. I was shaking like a leaf.
Had to go through all of that because I just had to walk to the store for cigarettes. What if the man would've hurt me? My young son at home in the house by himself wakes up and his mother isn't there and she doesn't come back? I quit smoking that day.
That stuck for about 5 years, but the thing about cigarettes, they're
everywhere. With many other drugs they are illegal, you have to have a connect, or you know somebody who
knows somebody to get to your drug of choice, but not with cigarettes, you can go to any store and pick them up. Totally legal. So after 5 years of not smoking, I started back up again.
I smoked on and off for another 3 years, but I've given it up again.
Hang in there, don't give up. You can quit smoking, but don't beat yourself up about things when you fall short, just
keep trying. You fall off the horse, get back on

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