Sunday night was VERY hard, however. I had a friend over (who is also quitting) and a few drinks. If there had been ANYONE present with a cigarette, I would have taken one.Luckily, there wasn't. I waited and waited for the craving to fade but it wouldn't so I walked to the store and bought an Oreo ice cream sandwich, Reese's peanut butter cups, Cadbury mini-eggs, Pringles salt and vinegar chips, etc, etc, etc. And I stuffed myself just to get through the craving. But I did it!
I had to walk to work this morning (1 hour, in -13 degrees Celcius) to attempt to make up for it, though, hahaha.
But, yay, still going!
I'm now up to $101 in savings and 15 hours of added life expectancy!
I bet you're right, Lainey. Well, we'll see. I'm going out for dinner tonight and I'm sure I'll have a drink. If I get a really crippling craving, then I know that's it for sure. But, gosh, I can't give everything up all at once, hahaha!
Yeah, I guess it's not a sustainable idea - hahaha!
Tonight went fine. Very easy to get through. Now having a green tea and toothpicks and I'll be going to bed early to sleep away as much of this hell week as possible!
I feel fantastic today! At midnight tonight I will have been quit for an entire week! :) Woohoo!
Also, the cravings really are... subsiding. On the bus ride to work today I consciously noticed I was thinking about something a friend posted on Facebook last night and not about cigarettes. And when I realized that, I went right back to thinking about different things - not cigarettes.
I'm still repeating, "I release the need for this in my life!" over and over in my head (that quote was posted by Sandi), and I read Luna's long post in that thread you guys bumped. I loved the line, "I'm a junkie. I'm always just one puff away from smoking again". That really helped to... cement my decision to quit and reinforce how seriously I need to take it.
Oy... I was invited to a party next weekend. I'd really love to go but I don't think I should. There will definitely be smokers there, and possibly smoking in the apartment.
I'm the... point of contact... between the host and another mutual friend who is also quitting. I think I won't go and won't tell the mutual friend it's even happening. What do you think?
An old folk song - but it's kind of how I feel after one week of not smoking, watching the money roll in. :)
My family was poor as the church mice Even by Newfoundland standards, and then I met up with certain connections And oh how the money rolls in
We had an old barn in the country With a horse trough and a double pig pen Then we rented it to the Liquor Commission And, love, how that money rolls in
The Orange Lodge it was close to bankruptcy Selling meat and cheese for 5 cents and 10 So we tried what the Catholics calls Bingo And, God, how that money rolls in
Now Bessie Muldoone up on Thomson Street She had one dirty, broody old hen Then she joined the ag marketing set-up And oh how the money rolls in
This year they'll increase the baby bonus And, although we are living in sin If I can grab me a man in the morning, oh boy Then won't that money roll in
Now they say it's hard living in Newfie But to tell such **** lies is a sin You just got to know the right people And then won't that money roll in
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