Tue, Dec-18-07, 10:46
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Dazilous
Posts: 2,657
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Plan: NeanderkIF
Stats: 140/114/110
BF:
Progress: 87%
Location: Toronto, ON
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Relapse after 2 years
I quit 2 years ago after numerous attempts (cold turkey, patch, Zyban/Wellbutrin) with Allen Carr's Easy Way. Easy as pie. Here I am though, having a relapse, and I don't know why. I'm writing this, I think, to try and figure it out.
Everyone around me still smokes, including my BF. Hasn't bothered me for 2 years. But lately, these past few weeks, it's crept up on me. Couple drags here and there, then bum a couple. I am not smoking regularly, but any smoking is smoking.
I've been having some major stresses - I know smoking doesn't help. I've gotten through stresses smoke-free. It's as if this time, I am just sick and tired of being "together" and I want to regress into old, comfy behaviours. I had to take a job I didn't want, and I have responsibilities that I don't want as a result - it's temporary, but it feels like I am shirking responsibility to myself, to my health, to make up for it. Makes no sense.
My BF is quitting for New Years, and I think I am justifying smoking now bc I can just stop again with him. Xmas season, lots of visiting - I have smoked since I quit 2 years ago once or twice a year if drinking with people (a few puffs) and it didn't bother me, other than make me feel like crap later. Never wanted to continue, never even had the urge.
I do not want to be a smoker. At the same time, I'm tired of caring. I know this is related to my job stress - but I need to find another way to handle this. I've not been myself since this job started. I am looking for another one. I am just disappointed in myself for these old behaviours. I thought they were long gone. I feel embarassed and ashamed.
Anyway...thanks for listening/reading.
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