It's probably not the best time to try and kick this with all the stuff I have going on, but I'm going to at least try to cut back to start with. I'm sick of coughing, and I'd like to start walking again but I'm out of breath after 5 minutes
I moved my cigs, ashtry, etc. into the other room and will only smoke in there, and if I am smoking I will do nothing else at the same time...no tv, no books, no music, no computer, etc. (the whole mindfulness thing) I'm also going to make myself wait 30 minutes in between cigs to start with (and that's a lot for me; I'm a chain smoker). So we'll see how it goes today and hopefully no one in my apartment building ends up getting strangled for having their music too loud
I did quit once for 3 years, but I had a lot of incentive; I wanted to try and get pregnant and I refused to do anything that would harm a fetus, so I tapered off meds and quit smoking cold turkey. I actually got "lucky" that time and caught a bad case of the flu for a couple of weeks and I couldn't have smoked if I'd wanted to. I picked it up again after a traumatic incident.
Wish me luck!
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From the movie The Hours: "If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark, and that only I can know. Only I can understand my condition. You live with the threat, you tell me you live with the threat of my extinction. Leonard, I live with it too."