welcome and congratulations for you decision- and for your courage in posting- it is always weird the first time... sometimes, it is still weird for me even now, 2 months into my quit, when I realise I am opening up to complete "strangers"- but who understand me, in some points (our common addiction, its effects and reasons) more than my closest friends in "reality". Here is where we come for support, inspiration and strength.
I am 33 years old myself, so I understand where you are, at least age-wise....
Stay strong tonight!!! Go to bed early, drink a lot of calming tea (do you have camomile or anything?), watch a DVD, read a book, call a friend and post on this site! You might already be checking if somebody is answering you ;-)
See you here soon
Cat
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 4/14/2009 Smoke-Free Days: 63 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 1,260 Amount Saved: �289.80 Life Gained: Days: 5 Hrs: 1 Mins: 34 Seconds: 8
And thank you, Goofy...I always feel as if I am sucking so much energy out of everybody else, constantly complaining and wondering. I am touched to hear that I helped you in your early quit. It means a lot to me. And thank you for the "good things happen to good people". I need to believe that right now. Even if I am sometimes all but sure I am "good"- I am human, like everybody else...
I would so much like to be the one who gives energy... Oh well, it will come someday.
Cat
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 4/14/2009 Smoke-Free Days: 63 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 1,260 Amount Saved: �289.80 Life Gained: Days: 5 Hrs: 1 Mins: 37 Seconds: 8
" P.S - BTW when I got a craving at the 1, 2, 3 month timeframes this time around I just said "I'm going to keep doing this over and over again until I make it through and quit for good so why not save myself the aggrivation of doing hell, heck, etc week over and over again." That helped give me the strength to push through."
That's JUST it, Mr Quitter :-)
It's difficult when so many people think that it get's better every day, every month... When, looking back on my smoke history, it was after a couple of months that I was the most fragile- and always slipped. Basically, then, because I was just FED UP with the struggle. And the things that annoyed me most- the dependance, stink and worry- seemed to have lost their emotional strength. I kbnew all this, but I didn't feel it any longer. I just couldn't care anymore.
KEEP STRONG! Keep your guards up!!!
Cat
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 4/14/2009 Smoke-Free Days: 63 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 1,260 Amount Saved: �289.80 Life Gained: Days: 5 Hrs: 1 Mins: 37 Seconds: 31
In a way, I guess I am lucky: I recently moved and could not afford a new cupboard/closet. So I have verything handing an a rod in the middle of the room. Not very pretty: but the smell is gone...
I'm sorry for your love... fighting battle after battle is gruesome: I hope for him- and for you- that this victory will take him a little further than the last- and that his body will become stronger and stronger...
Hold in there!!!
A Chorus Line: I used to have the poster in my room- and I saw the film so often that I still know certain passages by heart ;-)
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 4/14/2009 Smoke-Free Days: 63 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 1,260 Amount Saved: �289.80 Life Gained: Days: 5 Hrs: 1 Mins: 38 Seconds: 14
I can relate to the socialising and that being a reason to smoke...
But thinking about it: you want to gain confidence. Stopping smoking will help you with that, most certainly. And that confidence, the new "status" you will have amongst your smoking friends (yes, even if try to convince you that quitting is unnecesary, they will envy you) will in a way make you the strongest amongst them. You might lead in a new "fashion" of not smoking- every movement needs somebody who steps the path first.
Welcome.
Cat
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 4/14/2009 Smoke-Free Days: 63 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 1,260 Amount Saved: �289.80 Life Gained: Days: 5 Hrs: 1 Mins: 39 Seconds: 44
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