u/Former-Yoghurt-7283

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I've been trying to quit smoking for 1 week now. My best friend is having his birthday dinner at a bar where everyone smokes and drinks. I told him I can't come because being around smokers right now is genuinely too hard for me and I really don't want to relapse after working so hard to get here. He's saying I'm being dramatic and that I should just "have willpower". My girlfriend agrees with him and thinks I'm being selfish and a bad friend. I feel like they don't understand how hard quitting actually is. Am I overreacting or is skipping a valid choice here?

everyone talks about the cravings. nobody warned me about:

- the insane vivid dreams every night - randomly crying for no reason week 2 - food tasting completely different - being irrationally angry at everything - actually missing the ritual more than the nicotine

what's the weird one nobody warned you about?