I'm here and I'm yelling it loud and clear.....YES THIS GETS EASIER!!!!!! It will finally seem 'natural' to no longer smoke!! honest.....it's the most wonderful sense of freedom you can imagine. Free from the clutches of that horrible, stinkin, deadly addiction. You are in the throes of 'hell week'. Just hang on....try to be especially good to yourself....lots of rest, eat well, have lots of healthy snacks to munch on, spend time soaking in bubble baths, reading, walking, etc.....any activity that seems to get you through not smoking. While the cravings can seem overwhelming,,,,,tell yourself that YOU are the one in control here...and you are NOT giving that control back!! Then reward yourself in some way....and do it often during these first few weeks.
we fortunately live in the country and when I quit I would rage through the house yelling that I was NOT going to let the beast get the best of me....then I would go and stand in the shower till I looked like a prune.....then I put on lots of bath & body lotions (rewards) and wallowed in the fact that I could actually SMELL them!! I took walks when the weather permitted and I took some when it didn't! Hubby rolled his eyes a lot and the kids referred to me as Sybil. I cried often, yelled often, slept very little at first and too much later on, drug everything that wasn't nailed down to my mouth and devoured it, gained about 10 pounds(that's a lie too).....but the one thing I didn't do was light up!! I was angry....angry that a bunch of rolled up burning weeds had taken almost complete control of my life. I wanted it back....clean and free....I determined that I just had to TAKE IT BACK!
I am here to tell you that you CAN do this,,,tough? yes....impossible? NO
so you just tie a knot and hang on and from that rope you keep kickin butt!!
Katy
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 1/4/2002
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 1477
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 59,112
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $8123.5
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 192 [B]Hrs:[/B] 18 [B]Mins:[/B] 9 [B]Seconds:[/B] 36
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$159,001.50
Amount Saved
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Days: 5344
Hours: 14
Minutes: 21
Seconds: 34
Life Gained
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45429
Smoke Free Days
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908,580
Cigarettes Not Smoked
