Getting off the Cigarette's

I have never been addicted to cigarettes so I can not speak from that experience. However, they killed my father, and I have attended the final moments of two family members who admittedly died from them. If I had ever been a cig smoker I would have chunked them back then. And it can be done. My brother went from over a carton a day to zero overnight. It still killed him 8 heart surgeries and 45 years later.

It wouldn't matter how long I had gone without a cigarette, all it took was one cig to have me back at square one. It was so frustrating.

Everyone is different so we have to find what works for us. What works for one may not work for another.
So no need to beat yourself up, set-backs are just part of the process.

One statistic that gives hope; each attempt at giving up cigarettes brings one closer to eventually succeeding.

Replacing cigs for a pipe worked for me because I'd been heavily addicted for 35 years & because a pipe occupied my hands. (I used a pipe like a baby with a pacifier, often sucking on an unlit pipe. When I drove a truck I used an unlit stub of a cigar to suck on)

Good luck finding what works for you.

Shake it off Bud, I get stressed out that's the first thing I do. I look at it this way. If I smoke a carton in a week every other month, it's still better than smoking a pack and a half a day every day.

Oh I know that all too well. I wasnt really beating myself up over it, was more or less just an update on my recent quitting attempt.

Glad I never started smoking cigarettes. Both of my parents smoked like locomotives, and the smoke never bothered me.
I tried inhaling a cigarette once and felt like my lungs collapsed.

Just wanted to give an update. I have been able to stay off the cigarettes for a week. I used the patch for the first three days and no tobacco then stopped the patch and just have been puffing the pipe. I feel better and have saved some money already.