Remember, the third week is also known as "blah" week. A week marked by
frustration, fatigue and just feeling "blah".
It is temporary and it will pass but until that time, be kind to yourself!
Reward yourself often and do anything and everything that may make you feel
better.
The past day or two have been fine, I'm better rested and less stressed and hardly thought about smoking. Patrick, I really appreciate your words of advice. I think I've been putting myself in temptations way, like I'm testing myself, and honestly I'm not ready for that. All it does is make me cranky, and then the addict starts talking. I hear things like "what's one puff, just to prove you can stop again" or "who will know, just sneak around the corner, step outside, it'll take the edge off". I have to change the way I'm living and how I'm socializing.
I'm also having the studying challenge ICL, I will generally study for an hour, take a break and reward myself, with a nice walk around the garden and a smoke. How was it smoking was linked to reward??? I hate that!
Cece
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 5/26/2008 Smoke-Free Days: 25 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 300 Amount Saved: $63.75 Life Gained: Days: 2 Hrs: 7 Mins: 12 Seconds: 6
Fell asleep for a few hours, woke up and looked at the clock and saw that it was 10 and I jumped out of the bed convinced that I'd slept through the whole night and that I was late for work! That was really weird! I'm a bit disorientated at the moment! I had something to eat and I feel a lot better than I did earlier, I really just need to be careful of my moods.
I think I've been alone a bit too much this week and I need to go out a bit more and I've been very irritated. This week has been tough but it'll be over soon and I will have 4 weeks under my belt. It is tough but its easier than previous quits because I used to entertain the thoughts of cigarettes for much longer until it consumed me but now, I'm just trying to move on as quickly as possible and distract myself. It is a bad idea to allow yourself to be seduced by the addiction! I'm going to have a shower and go back to bed!
Goodnight all!
Paula
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 5/26/2008 Smoke-Free Days: 24 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 552 Amount Saved: �208.38 Life Gained: Days: 1 Hrs: 15 Mins: 12 Seconds: 40
Thansk for the advice Patrick, you could be right. I find the problem isn't when I'm with smokers, its when I'm alone. If I'm alone then no one will know. Apart from me of course. I'm wishing that I had stayed in work an extra few hours tonight rather than come home, its just so quiet here. I feel rotten, just going to lie down for a while.
Talk to ya all later
Paula
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 5/26/2008 Smoke-Free Days: 24 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 552 Amount Saved: �208.38 Life Gained: Days: 1 Hrs: 14 Mins: 51 Seconds: 6
Paula, you're three and a half weeks into your Final Quit. Can you not just talk to your Nan on the phone instead of going up there almost every day? I hear you when you say that you "can't" not be around her - but you need to really establish yourself in this fight against the addiction (like a bull has his "safe" place in the bullring) and it must be awful for you to sit in your granny's place and see her smokes and smell the smoke and look at her tapping the ash into the ashtray and maybe have those fantasies about "Look at her, she's so old and she is still untouched by her addiction to cigarettes...Don't I have the same genes? Why can't I smoke like that and live to a ripe old age like her..." and blah, blah, blah... And you still stand around with the smokers outside the pubs and restaurants and I understand that it's because you're a very social woman, but you are nevertheless putting yourself in the way of temptation - just asking those triggers to be pulled back and the addiction-gun to go off by reaching out to grab somebody's cigarette or whatever....
I won't mention this again because I have'nt a clue what the circumstances are for you really vis a vis your Nan. My gut is telling me that your getting too many whiffs of smoke from one place or another and that it's niggling at your resolve...
Please stay away from smokers - as far away as you can until you are really strong in your quit and when the cravings are not triggered by sights and smells and sounds of smokers...
Excuse the preachy tone here but you're right at that danger point now where you have the fears going on that you'll break and re-enter the cave of the addiction... stay out in the open where the air is fresh...
P
My Milage:
My Quit Date: 1/18/2008 Smoke-Free Days: 153 Cigarettes Not Smoked: 3,825 Amount Saved: $1,721.25 Life Gained: Days: 28 Hrs: 11 Mins: 39 Seconds: 55
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