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End of day three - HELP I so want to smoke


18 years ago 0 70 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Hi Niks, Thanks for the support, there will be a lot of prayers going out this weekend for you...God knows what I need. I will let you know how Monday goes. I have a plan for this weekend to keep me busy....work on Saturday and a massage and lunch with my friend on Sunday. Woke up this morning feeling pretty good...took some gulps of water and threw in a cough drop to suck on. Just checked in for a little this morning and I am heading off to work in a few to drown my thoughts in my workload. Take care today and keep your chin up...I will do my best to follow that advice too. Darcy [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/12/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 4 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 69 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $16 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 9 [B]Mins:[/B] 19 [B]Seconds:[/B] 48
18 years ago 0 70 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Hi Niks, I slipped this morning and was a little overwhelmed by my actions. I didn't want to but I did. Someone said because I took my patch off that I really didn't want to quit...not true, I took it off because I remember being on it before and when I my weeks were over I felt like I was starting over with the withdrawals. Well I have put the patch back on this morning, took my Xanax and called for an appointment for Laser to quit smoking. My appointment is Monday at 9:30...there are many excellent stories of the Laser and I feel that after Monday I will remove the patch...I don't want to put nicotine in me when they say I will not need it after the treatment. I will let you know how it goes. Niks, you and I stopped the same day and I had a setback today...please don't follow my mistake. I will be spending a lot of time at work tomorrow...I found that to be my salvation today (that is when I finally made it in close to 12:30 and then cried all over my boss) She agreed with me that I felt so much better after staying there for three hours today. Took my mind off of smoking, but I sucked on a lot of M&M's today--hehehe! I am trying hard to stay away from the hard candy, my first time I quit I cracked two teeth and ended up with two crowns and a root canal...very expensive quit!!! It is in the New Orleans area, it is endorsed by the BBB and has excellent results. I am looking forward to my excellent result on Monday. Take care and keep the faith, Niks, we are in this together. Don't be like me and have to subtract two cigs from the cigs that it claims I have not smoked since Monday. I am keeping my quit date as the 12th with a little setback in between...I think that is ok for a peace of mind for me. Talk soon, Darcy [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/12/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 3 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 61 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $12 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 8 [B]Mins:[/B] 16 [B]Seconds:[/B] 5
18 years ago 0 772 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Aragh its been a horrible day. I was in a meeting this afternoon and completely forgot that I stopped smoking. Finished the meeting, and realised that i was no longer a smoker - no reward. I was driving home from work, and it is totally consuming my thoughts, my head space,I feel so low and depressed I just want to cry. I feel awful. I cant work out whether i really feel like that, or whether it is real and my head is playing tricks with me. Its been three days, and to be honest, until now, it had been ok, cravings had been ok. I now feel like I am going out of my mind want to pace the floor - pull my hair out, scream shout, burst into tears. Fortunately there is this group. So i can write and vent here. I feel awful. So not looking forward to day 4. :o( [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/12/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 3 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 72 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �15 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 7 [B]Mins:[/B] 36 [B]Seconds:[/B] 17
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I am SO GLAD that you people are here. I tried to talk to my b.f and like usual he was non supportive and made me feel like crying. So its good to get some support. I just realised something, everytime I quit and them relapsed, it was because i thought i was going mad, and I didnt want to go mad anymore, I wanted to be normal again, so I would go back to smoking. For the first time, my view is changing. Now i see that if it really makes me feel that bad, do I honestly want it in my body? Its not a friend of mine if it makes me feel like that, the sooner its gone the better I will feel. Being able to write and get it out of my system really is helping. Right now I feel paranoid, tearful, nervous, angry confrontational, just totally weirded out. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/12/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 3 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 73 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �15 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 7 [B]Mins:[/B] 44 [B]Seconds:[/B] 39
18 years ago 0 772 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Well those awful cravings have gone now. I do still feel a bit vulnerable but I dont feel like I am going crazy. I feel pretty much ok and switched on. Thank you to all those that took the trouble to reply to my post. You really did make a difference. Thanks [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/12/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 3 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 73 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �15 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 7 [B]Mins:[/B] 48 [B]Seconds:[/B] 45
18 years ago 0 772 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
I smoked 20- 30 a day for 22 years. Been smoking since i was 15. So I need to think completely differently. Thank you for helping me to do that. For helping me to remember the mind can play tricks and not to get pulled in by it. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/12/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 3 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 73 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �15 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 7 [B]Mins:[/B] 40 [B]Seconds:[/B] 24
18 years ago 0 772 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Thank you for responses. I have seen a doctor and am on Zyban. I have a follow up appt on Tues. I really appreciate your posts back, its so good that someone is listening. I was doing good, cravings were very little if at all, Then today BANG it just hit me. I feel so down and so vulnerable. I know its a lie, its the nicotine craving - crying out. I know that nicotine stays in your body for 3 days, so this is why I am probably feeling so awful, it has run out of supplies. I just feel like I want to run and hide, but I have nowhere to run to. If that makes sense? I am trying to think now - if it makes me feel this bad, if I am having such a bad time giving this up, thank god I am getting rid of it for good. I will keep reading and posting. I know that this time, I really can do it. Thank you. I am still going nuts, but it helps to be able to express that, in a calm rational way. Not let it take control of me. I have to stay in control of it. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/12/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 3 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 73 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �15 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 7 [B]Mins:[/B] 40 [B]Seconds:[/B] 16
18 years ago 0 772 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Darcy I hope that you will continue to post. I do understand about what you mean with the patch. I never really got on with patches, as it was the nicotine that i wanted to get off from. Well I woke up at 1am, and ended up going to the supermarket, back here its now 2.30am. Being at my house is always worse, because I used to smoke here.At my boyfriends house i never smoked anyway, only in the garden. So i am back at mine. middle of the night typing on this, not really knowing what else to do with myself. Its been a rollercoaster of a day/night. How weird am I, its nearly 3am and i have to get up early for work tomorrow.Thank god its the weekend... Darcy i hope you continue to post! Let me know what happens with this laser treatment on Monday. I dont understand how that works. I never did do the whole NRT thing. Everytime I go back to the doctor (I have to go back on Tues so I can get prescription for Zyban) they try to offer me everything really lozenges, gum, patches, inhalers - you name it. I cant see the point in getting nicotine back in my body when it is nicotine that I am trying to get away from. Sorry if i seem like a space case, thats kind of how i feel.. But I reckon its a bit like labour for childbirth in reverse... I guess it is a new beginning - of myself. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/12/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 3 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 78 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �15 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 8 [B]Mins:[/B] 15 [B]Seconds:[/B] 42
18 years ago 0 772 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Thank you everyone for your support yesterday. I had a terrible nights sleep (what sleep I had) woke up in a sweat. Aha but it wont trick me. I am not going back to smoking. One of the greatest things for me, is that it is morning, and I am not gasping for a cigarette.. which I normally am. I can just drive to work, fresh and clean. Tonight is Friday night, in all my previous quits, it is my toughest day. But I dont know maybe i hate smoking, and going back to day one so much... that this time, it really wont bother me. I hope so. [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/12/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 4 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 83 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] �20 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 8 [B]Mins:[/B] 47 [B]Seconds:[/B] 5
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NIKS [IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b63/thagoona/smoke.jpg[/IMG] [B]My Milage:[/B] [B]My Quit Date: [/B] 6/6/2006 [B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 10 [B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 440 [B]Amount Saved:[/B] $159 [B]Life Gained:[/B] [B]Days:[/B] 0 [B]Hrs:[/B] 21 [B]Mins:[/B] 41 [B]Seconds:[/B] 41

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