From time to time I copy down the reasons folks slip and fall. These were
all taken from QuitStop posts beginning about March ‘00 and ending ... not
yet. These are all reasons that one of us gave away the quit – lost the
chance. Perhaps your junkie talks in similar ways?? Or perhaps you have
an especially tricky junkie lie to contribute?
I know I quit, but I can’t continue one more minute! I have to smoke because ...
1. I own/work in food service and the people are mean to me.
2. Work was hard tonight.
3. My husband/wife is making me crazy.
4. My spouse doesn’t smoke. It’s too hard to quit when s/he doesn’t understand.
My spouse smokes. It’s too hard to quit when s/he smokes.
5. I can’t write unless I smoke.
6. I’m going on vacation and I don’t want to spoil my vacation by being mean.
7. I got drunk.
I got drunk but the cigarette(s) I smoked doesn’t count cuz I wasn’t in my right mind.
8. Just one won’t count. It was just a little slip.
9. I’m really a social smoker. I just forgot I didn’t really need to quit altogether.
10. I thought I would pretend to be a smoker, a heroine from one of
those old movies – the gals who blow smoke in sexy poses. I thought I would
just pretend and not inhale.
11. I am getting a divorce.
I am getting married.
I am getting over getting married.
12. I found this hidden cig on the shelf.
13. I quit without warning and didn’t get to have that one last smoke.
14. I am doing so well at quitting that I can have just one, easy.
15. It’s my wedding anniversary.
It’s my birthday.
It’s not my birthday.
16. It’s too hard.
17. They are around here. So I had to.
18. It’s Christmas/Yom Kippur/Ramadan/Winter Solstice.
19. I have learned how to be a social smoker.
20. I just can’t resist – it’s an irresistible force for me.
21. It’s worse for me. I’m a bigger addict that you are.
22. I’m so mean and nasty that my husband/wife begged me to smoke! I didn’t want to get a divorce, so ....
23. I did it to show my wife/husband how mean s/he was.
24. I have smoked so long; what’s the use of quitting now?
25. I have to because of the garbage in my life.
26. I was tired
27. I couldn’t think straight.
28. Just a few puffs won’t hurt, doesn’t count.
29. I’m bored with quitting.
30. While I was buying gas, I saw the cigs behind the counter and could not resist.
31. I didn’t get a letter from my boyfriend.
32. I didn’t plan this quit so well.
33. I only smoke on weekends.
34. Stress. I just had to.
34. I was overtaken.
35. I had a car wreck.
36. I could not resist. I don’t know what happened.
37. Somebody died and it made me nervous.
38. I'm going to die of something!
I have the right to choose my own death
39. It was laying there burning so I picked it up.....
40. I was visiting friends and they all smoke, so what difference does it make?
41. I am gaining too much weight.
I can't get into my clothes."
I'm getting fat!
42. I am home alone and can't resist being bad!
43. My Grandad lived to 97, smoked unfiltered camels since he was 13!
44. You'll never REALLY be happy again without a smoke.
45. I deserve it!
I need it.
46. Oh, you can go ahead and smoke one... just don't inhale it....
47. You've been quit so long now it would be like water off a ducks back... wouldn't even bother you..
48. If I share a cigarette, it doesn’t count since it isn’t *my* cigarette.
49. I want to go golfing and if I smoke, I won’t have to eat while I’m playing.
50. My soul mate broke up with me and I couldn't handle it.
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