New to this group. Does anyone have tips for quitting smoking in the summer? And dealing with depression and other emotional disorders at the same time? It's nice out, so I have a place to smoke, outside. Life has sucked, a lot, for me for the past three years and on top of my own emotional issues I am watching my mother-in-law drink herself to death, my husband and I have been in counseling for three years, our cat is sick with stage two kidney failure (which some might not think is a big deal, but I helped give birth to her 17 years ago and helped her mom raise all of the kittens so she's seriously like my baby), and thinking my career might be over. How do you quit smoking when it's all you have to hold on to?
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Wow I wish I could give you some advice on this I am still smoking and want to quit too.
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@Jennipain I quit for three years back in 2007 using the patch. Once I got off the nicotine totally, even the slightest whiff of cigarette smoke made me nauseous. But then I became a public school teacher. The stress, and a cousin turning 21 and asking me to “just have one” with her for her birthday and that was that. When I did quit it was October 7 and getting too cold out to smoke. But my lungs feel bad and money is really tight. So I don’t think it’s a good idea to wait until fall. It’s just smoking on my balcony is a self-soothing thing for me. Although, if I am in bad shape, I use cigarettes harmfully, so quitting would be good for me in more ways than one. So hard when it’s nice out.