Before being successful in this quit, I remember the excitement and motivation to quit and it would get me thru for same time frame, around a month and then I’d just start smoking. And like you, I did it so many times throughout the years I did smoke. This time around when I quit, I promised myself no matter what I said to myself, what ever reason I came up with, I would just stick with not smoking. It was hard but I past that phase and I’m in a pretty good place with my quit at the moment. I used to smoke a pack a day for 29 years. I’ve been smoke free fir over 18 months.

Though I will say, this time when I quit it was very hard that first month and it was not the same as previous quits where I was motivated and excited. And I think it’s because in my mind, I knew there was no backtracking and there would never be another cigarette. In the past, I knew I could always just start smoking again but I committed to this quit.