You can do it. If thousands of people quite smoking every day then so can you. You’ve got to tell yourself that and believe it because it’s the truth.
You have to want to quit, and stop making excuses to yourself as to why you can’t quit. Deep down everyone knows there are no negatives to quitting, only plusses. So it’s only the addicition keeping you smoking.
I quit nearly 2 years ago now and its the best thing I ever did. You don’t realise how unhealthy it is until a few weeks after when you feel so much better in every respect.
I tried the patches, but they didn’t work, and I tired the gum as well, but I didn’t like them. I found that the lozenges (I tried Nicorette lozenges) worked well, on 4mg, then reducing to 2mg after a month, and then down to 1mg until you feel you can live without them. But everyone is different.
The first 2 weeks are hard, and you might feel worse before you start feeling better while your body gets rid of all the toxins stored from your smoking. But after that, you start getting your smell back and smelling things which you had long forgotten, your sense of taste gets better, you don’t feel as much out of breath, you have more energy.
After the first 2 weeks or so it gets easier. If you tell yourself that you don’t want to smoke today, then the day passes and before you know it months have passed and youve successfully quit the habit.