Quitting Smoking...?!
Question:
Quitting Smoking...?
My husband and I have just quit smoking cigarrettes for a variety of reasons. We both have an awful temper and are at eachother's throats (obviously we both quit together at the same time, cold turkey). My question is, how can we tame our tempers and get along while quitting? Does anyone know of a good online support system for trying to quit?
Answers:
I stopped smoking about 24 years ago now. I was two packs a day. And I still have the cravings for a cigarette. It doesn't go away.
What you guys are trying to do is extremely difficult. First you must realize that. It can be done.
Yes immediately after stopping smoking control of tempers is one real facet of the quitting of smoking. An online system may help but in this situation you guys started to do this together you got to maintain together.
It is not your partner's fault. This is king tobacco addiction calling you to find any excuse, any excuse whatsoever to force you to start smoking again. No online source will help you effectively.
What you must do for the next week and months is that when you feel that craving and anger is to instead state "tobacco craving". Then hug the person saying I love you, I love you, I love you.
Okay you have just quit smoking. These symptoms will return in a week, a month, three months then the full year. You will not feel physically better for two years. You will feel great after five years of stopping. but cravings do not go away. You will not have the actual physical demand for it. They are two different things.
Hey Good luck. I know its hard for you guys. But do it. And fight the anger towards the other. Its only King Tobacco screwing up your life again. Hold hands more often. If you feel a rage again its nicotine the queen of addictions speaking again. You both decided to help each other and it behooves you to actually try. This means everything intimate.