The Final Stages of the Journey
I have resurrected this post up because many are cresting, top of the hill, and it is important for newer quitters to know that the top of the hill is closer than imaginable.
Stickin to it at day 230:
I am at the point in my quit, some 230 days, that the act of smoking has become a distance memory. To forget the memories of smoking is what I consider part of the quit goals, not to forget that I once smoked.
With the fading of the memories there goes the fading of those triggers and normalcy begins to take hold. I know I don�t need or want to smoke. My last serious urge came around my fifth month of quit, a trigger came out of nowhere and I had to stop what I was doing and take up another activity.
I�m not feeling any urges at all anymore and haven�t for a couple of months. Today I am a non-smoker, and wonder why I didn�t quit so much earlier. If you stay with the program you will be happy, self confident, and a healthier individual. I am glad that you came to this site. It shows that you have the desire, and with that desire, hope, and that yes, yes, it can be done. Look around; see how so many can succeed. It is their will to succeed, their can do, want to, will do, positive attitude and actions.
Think positive, use distractions, up, up and over, the top of the hill!