Hi everyone,
I am a 26 year old female turning 27 in less than a month, and my biggest wish right now is to celebrate my birthday as a non-smoker. I actually quit on the 25th of August and made it nearly 72 hours before buying another pack today. I'm not looking for sympathy, I know it was my own stupid decision to buy the cigarettes and smoke them but I would like some support for tomorrow when I start day one again. I have what's known as generalized anxiety disorder and I'm scared of what may come up when I am not able to smoke anymore. I have dealt with the empty, insecure feeling over the past few days better than I had hoped but I'm scared they won't go away completely no matter how long I have quit for. Basically what I am after is some reassurance that the empty feeling is caused 100% by an addiction to nicotine and that no matter how bad it gets it will get better. I don't want to think that the cigarette actually does fill a void in me and use that as an excuse to keep smoking so if there is anyone out there who had the same fears and got through this, could you please let me know what strategies you used? I know I will always have stress and anxiety in my life, I just don't want to spend the rest of my life thinking smoking actually helped me deal with it.
Thank you for taking the time to read this, I don't really have many friends or supporters so I'm really hoping this site can help me 😃
