Alysheba

Glad you're back endless. 23 days is awesome!

No smoking for me for the next 24.

Good luck all.

endlesspatience

Thanks Alysheba. I am using patches at the moment and that seems to be working out OK for me. I have an appointment to see my local nurse on Friday and we will talk about smoking cessation again then.

Bubovski

Let's all keep up our guards!

Desires can be so so sneaky, and once you've given in, you feel really rotten!

grtgrandpa

I'll have another 24 in Maryland today.

DG0409

24 more for me.

endlesspatience

There we go. That's 23 day since my last cigarette and a month since my last drink. Feeling grateful for the changes I have made.

Alysheba

Feeling grateful to not smoke today.

DG0409

Good job on getting back at it EP.

24 more for me.

grtgrandpa

I'll have another 24 in Maryland today.

Alysheba

I'll take 24 more too.

Bubovski

'Smoking kills! If you're killed you've lost a very important part of your life.' Brooke Shields.

Keep on keeping on folks!

endlesspatience

I was re-reading the Allen Carr book this morning. He says there are two reasons ex-smokers relapse. One: They haven't fully recovered from the brainwashing and still wrongly feel deprived by not having a cigarette. In fact, they're not deprived: they're free from an addiction. Two: They think that by having one or two, they won't get hooked again. In fact, experience shows that they were hooked before and are likely to return to an addiction which without some effort on their part will enslave them for the rest of their lives.

I have 25 days since I smoked now and a stop smoking pack arrived in the post from the health service yesterday. I also have an appointment to see a nurse about smoking cessation on Friday.

I'm also posting here, as you can see.

Alysheba

Good for you endlesspatience. Good information.

No smoking for me today.

grtgrandpa

I got home at midnite last night from the surgery performed to connect a pacemaker to my heart which made me quite late posting today.

So I'll have another 24 without the nicotine that would have done in my heart If I had not quit smoking.

hiddenzebra

thought I'd check in and say being smoke-free is awesome. Gotta watch what I eat, as everything I liked before is (still) so much better now, but it's worth it.

DG0409

24 more for me. No way I want to relapse. Been there, done that. It sucked. Ever single time I did it.

grtgrandpa

I'll have another 24 in Maryland today.

Alysheba

Great to see you back and well grtgrandpa.

No smoking for me today.

DG0409

No cancer-sticks for me today.

Funny how I thought I needed cigs and alcohol to help with stress and anxiety, but now that I quit, so much of the stress and anxiety slowly faded away. Granted, I had some rough times in the early days, but_they were so worth it.

UnixBer

A true vent. This is my 27th day without any nicotine, and while the first 3 weeks apparently were "the danger zone" today I've felt myself slipping in the wrong direction in my mind. I've craved for cigarettes today, but the feeling appears to be more psychological than physical.

I just don't get it. I get this far and this far I surely should be having a strong attitude of wanting to go onwards at least a month or two more, as I know some recovery and with the alcohol it was like that. It is all just so strange.
Still hanging on... But very close... I found filters and rolling papers from my drawer. Is it av again or what?