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kevin Site Admin
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Posted: August 10, 2007 10:32 AM Post subject: what lame excuses have you used to justify a relapse? |
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here are a few lame excuses i've used to justify past relapses:
- i've been under so much stress lately...
- i really miss smoking when i'm out with my friends...
- it'll ony be this one, and then i'm right back to being quit...
how about you? _________________
keep choosing life!
kevin
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Kristen
Quit Date: August 8, 2007
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Posted: August 10, 2007 10:41 AM Post subject: |
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Let's see, it's been almost 48 hours since I quit.
I've been having conversations with myself trying to justify picking up a cig. I know in my heart I won't do it though. I've come this far and will not smoke.
So far the excuses I've come up with are..
The stress associated with my husband being deployed.
Dealing with my out of control 15 year old.
I like to think of myself as a smoker that chooses not to smoke. |
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alleghany
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Posted: August 10, 2007 11:16 AM Post subject: |
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"I'd rather be dead than 10 lbs overweight."
That was followed by a tantrum worthy of any two year old (I being 35, should have gotten an Oscar) with clothes and shoes flying from my closet. Of course, now I know that I was in the throws of nicotine withdrawal.
I still cringe when I think about making that statement.
Thankfully, I have lived to know better! _________________
Face your fears.
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Rusty
Quit Date: December 13, 2004
Posts: 497 Location: North Florida
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Posted: August 10, 2007 12:22 PM Post subject: |
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After a one-year quit:
"I'm safe now."
Rusty _________________
The Buddha says: Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful. |
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Genevieve
Quit Date: February 6, 2008
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Posted: August 10, 2007 12:28 PM Post subject: |
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I remember thinking that I needed to just sit and think, I was a single mother raising 5 children and working long hours.
I wanted the relaxing time I used cigarettes for, a time only for me, away from the chaos. You know I think I used the phrase, " my cigarette, my friend".
How did I justify this type of thinking? I lied to me. What we do for this addiction...... I never asked me the question. Was I willing to die for my friend, the cigarette?
Now I say out loud, My choice, my way. I m staying in control.
A great day
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Melody
Quit Date: August 19, 2004
Posts: 1103 Location: Ontario
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Posted: August 10, 2007 2:08 PM Post subject: |
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None.
Not an option now or ever. _________________
I'm a NON-SMOKER thanks to everyone here |
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jahunta
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Posted: August 10, 2007 2:22 PM Post subject: |
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My first quit almost 1 year after I started, it was almost always...
"...I'll have just one."
yeah...whatever... _________________
Quitting is Living!!!
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daggy12
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Posted: August 10, 2007 5:23 PM Post subject: |
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mine is me time!!! _________________
Life can only be "understood" by looking backward, but must be "lived" by looking forward.
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UCanQuit
Quit Date: July 7, 2004
Posts: 148 Location: Seattle
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Posted: August 10, 2007 11:27 PM Post subject: |
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I have never smoked because of a lame excuse. They have always been for very good reasons. OK, LOL, yeah they were lame excuses. I think I have said just about all the ones already said, but another I used to say was
"I'm just too addicted to quit smoking."
Eric _________________
The factor that really shows the addiction is not how hard or how easy it is to quit. What really shows the addiction is how universally easy it is to go back. One puff and the quit can go out the window. |
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Barbara K.
Quit Date: December 23, 2004
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Posted: August 13, 2007 8:13 PM Post subject: |
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If I don't smoke I'll bust at the seams from all the food consumption. Okay, maybe not literally but I sure felt like I would. Mind you, since then I have lost almost 20 pounds after awhile with this quit. _________________
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn arouind and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Blessings,
Barbara K. |
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Seabrez
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Posted: August 17, 2007 3:20 PM Post subject: |
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Gosh, Kevin......are you asking for me to write a book?
Stress
Extreme emotions....just can't deal with life without a cigarette...nerves on edge and I need to feel calm.
The me time excuses....just want to sit and have a smoke and think.
Private revenge against whoever ticked me off at the moment...The I'll smoke and then they will feel bad for it
The ole "just one" ploy.
To get rid of the nagging thoughts to light up....the thinking that I just can't do this any longer (quit).
I'm worthless and life is hopeless....so, what the hell!!! I might as well smoke.
It's the one thing in my life that I can count on...it's soothing.
Here's a classic....watching someone else smoke who seems to have it together and not wretched....and thinking...well, they smoke and still have a great life! Smoking really isn't all that bad.
I'll quit later...I need to tend to this or that right now...it's more important, and it would be easier to deal with doing it while smoking...and once it's done...I'll quit then. (which...never actually did do whatever it was to do, and continued to smoke anyway)
My life goes to shit when I quit...I'd rather have a calm life and smoke, then deal with hell and not smoke.
The major bitch syndrome....I'm gonna hurt someone or tear them a new ***!
There are no doubt more that I just can't think of right at this moment...and some relapses were a combination of excuses listed above.
Regardless, what I've found....when peace inside is lost, it's easy to justify by excuses the act of lighting up. When there is peace within...the excuses aren't so readily available to use.
Hugs _________________
Living in Freedom
Deb
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corn 5:17 NASB |
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marw
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Posted: August 21, 2007 4:53 PM Post subject: |
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Been meaning to answer this!
Here ae mine:
1. I am in such pain, I have to smoke until I get better! (My first quit years ago, when I had to quit in order for the surgery to heal properly.)
2. I'm just not myself if I don't smoke.
3. My brain will not work right without smoking.
4. I'm so addicted that I can't quit.
Gosh, this is scary just writing this stuff! Thank God, none of it was true. _________________
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Wanderer62
Quit Date: April 30, 2014
Posts: 69 Location: Western New York
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Posted: September 13, 2007 7:02 PM Post subject: |
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I think the worst one for me is: "I don't care enough about myself to not smoke." There's also the spoiled baby attitude, "But I WANT TO!" And the old standard you mentioned "Just this once..."
Kate |
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Priscilla
Quit Date: September 25, 2007
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Posted: October 10, 2007 10:42 AM Post subject: |
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there's too much going on right now. I cant deal.....
I will quit again tomorrow.
then tomorrow turns into a few days, a week, a month.... and so on.
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Cowgirl UP!
Quit Date: July 26, 2004
Posts: 5029 Location: Ala
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Posted: October 13, 2007 9:56 PM Post subject: |
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Duh, I know I am slow....
I'll show him/her I will smoke...that will get them.....
I cannot humanly handle all this by myself.....
I am going crazy and cannot function like this until I smoke just a couple of drags....
I will slip into the bathroom at the bar...no one will ever be the wiser....
sound familiar????
Kay _________________
All with a little help from my friends, COWGIRL UP |
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