Get the Support You Need

Learn from thousands of users who have made their way through our courses. Need help getting started? Watch this short video.

today's top discussions:

logo

Stages of change

Ashley -> Health Educator

2024-06-25 11:19 PM

Managing Drinking Community

logo

What have you learned?

Ashley -> Health Educator

2024-06-19 12:26 AM

Quit Smoking Community

logo

Emergency Happy Questions

Ashley -> Health Educator

2024-06-11 2:42 PM

Depression Community

logo

Questions to challenge negativity

Ashley -> Health Educator

2024-06-03 3:43 PM

Depression Community

This Month’s Leaders:

Most Supportive

Browse through 411.760 posts in 47.060 threads.

160,800 Members

Please welcome our newest members: MANA MARIE, mandie1991, AGAMBOA, BMARCOS, KLIGO

Hell week wasn?t as hellish as I expected!


12 years ago 0 2778 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Hey Mica!!!
 
      Congratulations!  You've really got a great quit going!!!  Awesome!  Hopefully you're ability to take everything so smoothly will motivate your husband to jump on the band wagon!  Don't forget to reward yourself for your accomplishments!!!  They really help!
 
            Jim 
  • Quit Meter

    $44,730.00

    Amount Saved

  • Quit Meter

    Days: 1070 Hours: 11

    Minutes: 37 Seconds: 14

    Life Gained

  • Quit Meter

    5964

    Smoke Free Days

  • Quit Meter

    178,920

    Cigarettes Not Smoked

12 years ago 0 270 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Mica,
 
Sounds like you've got some great coping strategies lined up. Good stuff! Keep it up, you are right that quitting has successfully been done by many people! You can do it too! 

Please keep us posted about your progress.

Sonia

12 years ago 0 1080 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Mica, delighted to hear you're through Hell week and it wasn't too bad for you. I was like you too, my quit was very smooth, but I do appreciate that I am the exception and for most people the quit can have some trying times. I hope your quit continues in the same way, mine did which only made me wish I'd done it years ago.
Keep us posted how you're doing. 
12 years ago 0 39 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
For keeping my quit I will continue visiting this forum & watching my stats add up. The emergency coping plan is working for me... avoiding is difficult with my husband still smoking, but as I said it doesn't bother me nearly as much as I thought that it would.
I'm also using other Quit sites & reading lotsa information. I've been practicing mindful meditation for about two years, and that helps, too.
Knowing that any cravings I get will go away is probably my number one coping skill, though.
Thanks to all who have commented, and for all the posts that reinforce the fact that it has already been done, many times by many people!
12 years ago 0 270 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Mica,

Congrats on seven and a half days of smoke free living! You are right, don't give in and take things one day at a time.

What are your plans for coping strategies during Heck week should they be necessary?

Sonia
12 years ago 0 1095 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Hey Mica.............a hearty congratulations on your completion of "hell week".   Keep your attitude going, it sounds like you have made up your mind to quit smoking.  Trust me there are some ups and downs yet to come but you can do this.  It gets easier day by day and just keep reminding yourself that you have joined the ranks of non smokers.
Again congrats and post often.
 
Duffis
12 years ago 0 39 logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo logo 0
Well. I've made it through seven & a half days now; & don't feel as if I was tortured.....
In fact, I'm pretty damn proud .  My morning coffee is a little rough, but I've got my Inhaler & it is doing such a good job! My husband's smoking isn't driving me crazy, I barely notice.
For some unknown reason I'm finding it difficult to think of myself as an ex-smoker yet though. hmmmm...  I wonder how long it'll take me to get that feeling. Oh well, as long as I don't give in, I'm happy.
 Onwards & upwards into Heck week!

Reading this thread: