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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 615962" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>It's hard and I think that one is never really a non-smoker through and through. I think it's like any other addiction. You constantly have to make the decision not to smoke. I make that choice several times a day. I hope that as time goes on, I will be presented with that choice less and less often.</p><p></p><p>It's all about choices. There are those who enable smokers just like those who enable other addicts. I don't view smoking as a disease, but it is self-medicating in it</p><p>s own way.</p><p></p><p>I know that relapse is only one puff away.</p><p></p><p>My parents weren't happy that I'd started smoking, but I think that because they both were heavy smokers they felt they couldn't say anything. My psychiatrist told me that BiPolar (BP) folks tend to have addictive personalities and that they are more likely to start smoking and have a harder time quitting. This after he told me he didn't recommend Chantix because he felt it would exacerbate my BiPolar (BP) sx.</p><p></p><p>I can remember borrowing enough $$ from dad to get a bottomless iced tea and a pack of cigs. I was sixteen at the time and tobacco wasn't the only thing I smoked at that age.</p><p></p><p>I've skirted other addictions for as long as I can remember. I'm working in therapy to change how I handle the feelings that trigger a desire to smoke...in my case, anxiety for the most part as that is the most debilitating part of my mental illness.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 615962, member: 1963"] It's hard and I think that one is never really a non-smoker through and through. I think it's like any other addiction. You constantly have to make the decision not to smoke. I make that choice several times a day. I hope that as time goes on, I will be presented with that choice less and less often. It's all about choices. There are those who enable smokers just like those who enable other addicts. I don't view smoking as a disease, but it is self-medicating in it s own way. I know that relapse is only one puff away. My parents weren't happy that I'd started smoking, but I think that because they both were heavy smokers they felt they couldn't say anything. My psychiatrist told me that BiPolar (BP) folks tend to have addictive personalities and that they are more likely to start smoking and have a harder time quitting. This after he told me he didn't recommend Chantix because he felt it would exacerbate my BiPolar (BP) sx. I can remember borrowing enough $$ from dad to get a bottomless iced tea and a pack of cigs. I was sixteen at the time and tobacco wasn't the only thing I smoked at that age. I've skirted other addictions for as long as I can remember. I'm working in therapy to change how I handle the feelings that trigger a desire to smoke...in my case, anxiety for the most part as that is the most debilitating part of my mental illness. [/QUOTE]
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