3. Former smokers, why did you decide to quite and how did you do it?

Former smokers, why did you decide to quite and how did you do it?

Every single time I've stopped after picking up the habit (3x now) it's for a couple of reasons:

  1. It makes my dating pool more shallow. I don't mind a smoker, but other people do, so why limit myself?

  2. It fucks up my car/clothes. Burn holes aren't cute and tobacco stench isn't easy to remove.

  3. It physically hurts after a certain point. When I can feel my body hurting I try to listen to it, and there is no benefit to smoking.

How? I stopped buying them. Cold turkey, cravings and irritability and all. If I didn't buy them, I couldn't smoke them. It takes a lot of willpower but it is possible.

Every time I pick up the habit again it's because I am in a shitty place in life and want to punish myself for being alive and "kill myself faster". Pretty bleak, but it's true. So now that I know what triggers me into smoking, I am more mindful about my moods and how to dig myself out of the hole of self-loathing before I do destructive things. It gets easier with practice, that is for sure!

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