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Quit Smoking Don't Scrap the Whole Plan if You Slip-Up When you try to quit smoking you have to understand that 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 but then you went out with friends and drank heavily and smoked all night -- try to quit again immediately. Don't wake up hung over 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 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 you do have a lapse you have to make sure that it is 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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