Don't stop, you'd better swim every day. I started from August 20 10, and now I have been practicing breaststroke for a whole year (swimming almost every day), and I am slowly practicing crawl. In order to practice swimming, I quit smoking and didn't touch tobacco for a whole year (I smoked three packs of cigarettes in the past two days and actually quit). I haven't had an intravenous drip this year, and my face is very good.
After learning a little, you should stick to a long swim. I can swim five times at a time and 10 times at a time, which slowly prolongs the continuous swimming time. After practicing for a month, I slowly began to lengthen my distance. Two months later, I swam 40 times in the 25-meter swimming pool, which lasted for more than half a year. I think this is very important, it can improve skills and endurance. Moreover, if you swim for a long time, you will feel water, and even if the direction of your palm changes a little, you can feel buoyancy and resistance.
It's fun to learn swimming from scratch, and I feel this progress myself. May you get happiness and health in swimming!