Quitting Tip #1 — About the Torture

So you need a bit of help with your motivation? Here you have another little thing to think when you've a bad craving.

Quitting isn't torture; not quitting IS torture.

Remember this...

Quit with Lana del Rey — Lesson 2: How to survive to your first smokefree day

Now you have read the book, you aren't another victim of Big Tobacco's brainwash. You've had your last cigarette, and it was disgusting. And now, today, is your first day without smoking. Isn't it beautiful?
Each lesson with the How to survive style will have some points like Motivation, Facts, What to do... So we can focus in each one of your problems, and solve them. Let's begin then!

Motivation & What to do

This is very important for your first day. Even the first thought you have in the morning can decide whether you'll success or not. If you think "Oh, I can't have a cigarette, dammit. I want to smoke so bad," you won't success. It's your first day being FREE. You're no longer a slave of the nicotine. See it this way: the Nicotine monster thinks you're still his slave, but you know you're free, so until the monster realises you won't be his slave again, it will try to remove your freedom again with the cravings.
So don't think that. Think: Oh, this is going to be a wonderful day. I won't smell like smoke. Everybody will notice I smell pretty now. I won't have to smoke! I won't have to spend $6 in a pack! I won't lose 100 minutes of my life smoking!
Therefore it will be a wonderful day. Breathe clean air. Feel the smoke air going into your lungs. Feel your flood having oxygen, not CO. Feel your lungs cleaning themselves. Cough a lot so you put all the rubish out of your lungs.

Facts

  The first day is decisory. If you act like we told you, you won't have any difficulties. You will have cravings, yes. But look at the clock. Cravings won't last for more than three minutes. When you have a craving, think This is the nicotine monster going outside of me. How wonderful it is to be free! I don't have to smoke again so the nicotine monster goes inside me again!
And again, look at the clock. If it's a hard craving, breathe deeply for three minutes. Then, think: The craving is gone. I'm free and I even enjoyed it, I don't mind if I have another craving sooner or later!

If you keep this attitude for the first weeks or months, the "smoking habit" will be replaced by the "quit smoking motivation habit," so you won't have to think in all that stuff. If you have cravings, you won't mind. You will be free...

I KNOW YOU WILL BE FREE, BECAUSE YOU AREN'T WORSE THAN ME

Lana's Smokefree Journal — Day 4

My fourth day being smokefree. It has been horrible. It all began yesterday, May 31st. I was so happy to not have to smoke May 31st (I never smoked a May 31st and never will), but I was really stressed. Even though, I remembered that smoking would stress me even more. Lucky me, if I smoked, I'd be much more stressed!
But then my stupidness came. When the stress was gone, I began to revisit old vintage cigarette ads... Stupid me. I chose a brand to buy today (tomorrow), just because of the advertisment. I wanted to smoke again, poor me.
And today, I went to the shop and I bought a pack of Winstons. Lucky me. I was about to light one up, but the lighter didn't work. And I didn't smoke it. If the lighter had worked, I'd be a smoker again. Lucky me.
And now, I'm with my dad, and he likes me to smoke, so I'm really pissed off because he allows me to smoke in his home... But I survived. Then I went to the American Cancer Society page, and my cravings disapeared.

I'm so happy I didn't smoke today!

I really am. I have more cravings than never, but if I survived to today, I'll survive to tomorrow. I won't smoke again. Tomorrow, I'll just throw everything to the trash. Yes, I will. I didn't want to for some stupid reason (e.g., I'll fail and I'll have to buy everything again), but now I will. The other times I failed I didn't last more than a day. Now I've lasted 4 days and going.

I'M SO HAPPY I DON'T HAVE TO SMOKE NEVER AGAIN!

So then, why would I want to have a pack of cigarettes, a cigarette box, a rolling tobacco box, a rolling machine and a lighter? A non-smoker doesn't have those things. Let's throw them!

TIP FOR THE NEW EX-SMOKER: Throw everything away. An ex-smoker doesn't have cigarettes, lighters... Why would you want to have them then?