Don't quit quitting. I did and now I'm right back to where I was going through it all again when I was almost done. I was just a few days past where you are now.
Smoking never added one day to your life. It never cured an illness. No doctor ever said "I prescribe a pack and a half of cigs a day and in 7-10 days you'll be fine. Call me in the morning." Smoking does what all drug dealers do. It creates a need, then fills it. You were not born needing a cigarette. That need was created and imposed on you by cigarettes. Now cigarettes seeks to fill that need.
Believe me I know how awful it feels. The one thing is that that feeling and it is just a feeling, will pass and when it passes you will be that much stronger to overcome that feeling the next time it comes. In time the feelings come further and further apart. When they are gone, you won't even know it. Until something reminds you that you haven't wanted a cig in a long time, you won't even think of it.
I had an immediate slip up. I had high hopes and lots of confidence. Then, my partner went into the hospital to get his new knee (finally) and he had a medical event with his heart and it sent me into a tizzy. A real tizzy and I bought a pack and smoked it all, practically all at once.
But I am back on track and on day two. It makes me feel really good to be on day two. Not as good as when it was day 30, but I'll get there for good this time.
It's day two for me too. I can't buy a pack and keep it unopened. If I got a pack, it would be gone by 5 pm.
That's how I got started after I quit for a month in January. I found a pack under the car seat, and that was that for three months.
Good luck to ya we both have to keep hanging in there.
I too used cigs to transition from task to task. It was a way to change gears mentally. A way to take a break.
I don't always do it. But I'm trying to get to a place where those are just interruptions that I don't need.
I made a crave list. From 1 to 200 and if I run out, I'll make another.
I figure that no crave will be repeated. Once you get through one, it's over, cross it off the list. Each crave is one less that you gotta get over.
Hang in there Eve! It's just a feeling and it will pass. Take a nic gum or commit. I started off with commit, but it looked like I was eating chalk with a white ring around my mouth so I switched to the gum.
Sometimes when its a bad crave I just say "This will pass, this will pass" and it does.
I had high hopes two days ago, got some bad news and by the time the news was found out to be not that bad, I went through a pack. Reset the meter and am heading off again. Almost got one full day in, no cigs around.
My partner is in the hospital getting a new knee. His heart started acting up and I wigged out temporarily. He's on the mend for sure now and I'm back at the grindstone.
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 4/19/2006
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 0
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 0
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $0
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One of the reasons I want to quit. Probably the main reason is I have a chronic cough that went away when I quit for a month. Now its back,naturally.
I have always been afraid of COPD. I've had some coughing spells so bad that I couldn't breathe and they were very scary indeed.
For me, it's the mornings. Those mornings, I'd have like 5 in a row. Then settle down. This morning was pretty bad but I got through it. The rest of the day was fairly tolerable. I'm almost through day one. Which is a big plus.
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