Quit Smoking Plan 4
Don't Scrap the Whole Plan if You Slip-Up
When you try to quit smoking, you have to understand that statistically, most ex-smokers had to try multiple times before they eventually quit. It is completely normal and in no way a failure if you slip-up and start smoking again. The key, though, is to not give up: you simply can't say yourself "okay, it didn't work, it's impossible" etc.
If you do slip-up up - let's say you were doing fine and then went out with friends and drank heavily and smoked all night - try to quit again immediately. Don't wake up hungover after a night of smoking, get up and go to a store to buy cigarettes. Instead, acknowledge the lapse and understand that it is a common part of the process. You are in no way a failure, and you can still get your quitting attempt back on track.
This doesn't mean, of course, that you should think of lapses as something that is completely okay - you can't say you've quit smoking and then go out and smoke every Friday night. On the contrary, you should very much try and avoid even the most innocent of lapses: don't get stuck in the line of thinking where "one drag" is okay.
If, however, you do have a lapse, you have to make sure it's not thought of as a failure. You should still think of yourself as a non-smoker. To give up and decide that you're going to smoke again after you slip-up is to deny one of the most fundamental realties about quitting smoking: it is a very difficult thing to do, and for most people takes multiple steps.
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