24 Hour No Nicotine/No Smoking Club - Part 12
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: St. Paul Minnesota
Posts: 4,360
It's day 100! This is a personal best (excluding pregnancy which doesn't count). I've lost track of how many times I have gone back in the 2week-2 month range. Not this time.
here are the stats
Money saved: $1493
Life regained: 597 hours
Cigs not smoked: 3980
The best part is that I've not gained a single pound over this. Part of the reason may be because with that method I used a person is told when they have a craving what they really want is a glass of water or a deep breath and not a cig. Sometimes I will catch myself doing a deep breathing thing but I don't feel a craving for a cig.
I started taking Yoga too as a way to have a "thing" I look forward to that "helps" me.
Keepa Go!
here are the stats
Money saved: $1493
Life regained: 597 hours
Cigs not smoked: 3980
The best part is that I've not gained a single pound over this. Part of the reason may be because with that method I used a person is told when they have a craving what they really want is a glass of water or a deep breath and not a cig. Sometimes I will catch myself doing a deep breathing thing but I don't feel a craving for a cig.
I started taking Yoga too as a way to have a "thing" I look forward to that "helps" me.
Keepa Go!
Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
Posts: 2,308
Way to go SR!!!! PS 9 months over pregnancy definitely counts (but I get that this quit may be harder to do!) you rock!!! Keepago keepago!
Originally Posted by silentrun 
It's day 100! This is a personal best (excluding pregnancy which doesn't count). I've lost track of how many times I have gone back in the 2week-2 month range. Not this time.
here are the stats
Money saved: $1493
Life regained: 597 hours
Cigs not smoked: 3980
The best part is that I've not gained a single pound over this. Part of the reason may be because with that method I used a person is told when they have a craving what they really want is a glass of water or a deep breath and not a cig. Sometimes I will catch myself doing a deep breathing thing but I don't feel a craving for a cig.
I started taking Yoga too as a way to have a "thing" I look forward to that "helps" me.
Keepa Go!
here are the stats
Money saved: $1493
Life regained: 597 hours
Cigs not smoked: 3980
The best part is that I've not gained a single pound over this. Part of the reason may be because with that method I used a person is told when they have a craving what they really want is a glass of water or a deep breath and not a cig. Sometimes I will catch myself doing a deep breathing thing but I don't feel a craving for a cig.
I started taking Yoga too as a way to have a "thing" I look forward to that "helps" me.
Keepa Go!
Member
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: AZ
Posts: 336
3 whole days and facing my first weekend of breaking non work routine.
I have smoked off and on since I was a teenager quitting sometimes for a year or so here and there.
In less than a month I will celebrate my 2 year anniversary sober. Pretty proud of that.
Unfortunately I think I have used smoking as a substitute for some deviant or rewarding " fun" instead of drinking the past two years. Justified it in my mind.
Crazy thing is I am an endurance athlete that competes in some pretty intense cycling events! I know makes no sense. But again....I think it has been my "high" to substitute in instead of booze the past two years.
So anyway 3 days free. All these firsts now to work through to never have any again.
Can it be done?
If you woulda told me I would be sitting here 23 months ago I would not have had a drink, I don't know if I woulda taken that bet!
I have smoked off and on since I was a teenager quitting sometimes for a year or so here and there.
In less than a month I will celebrate my 2 year anniversary sober. Pretty proud of that.
Unfortunately I think I have used smoking as a substitute for some deviant or rewarding " fun" instead of drinking the past two years. Justified it in my mind.
Crazy thing is I am an endurance athlete that competes in some pretty intense cycling events! I know makes no sense. But again....I think it has been my "high" to substitute in instead of booze the past two years.
So anyway 3 days free. All these firsts now to work through to never have any again.
Can it be done?
If you woulda told me I would be sitting here 23 months ago I would not have had a drink, I don't know if I woulda taken that bet!
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Rogersville, Tennessee
Posts: 2,659
Originally Posted by Santiago
3 whole days and facing my first weekend of breaking non work routine.
I have smoked off and on since I was a teenager quitting sometimes for a year or so here and there.
In less than a month I will celebrate my 2 year anniversary sober. Pretty proud of that.
Unfortunately I think I have used smoking as a substitute for some deviant or rewarding " fun" instead of drinking the past two years. Justified it in my mind.
Crazy thing is I am an endurance athlete that competes in some pretty intense cycling events! I know makes no sense. But again....I think it has been my "high" to substitute in instead of booze the past two years.
So anyway 3 days free. All these firsts now to work through to never have any again.
Can it be done?
If you woulda told me I would be sitting here 23 months ago I would not have had a drink, I don't know if I woulda taken that bet!
I have smoked off and on since I was a teenager quitting sometimes for a year or so here and there.
In less than a month I will celebrate my 2 year anniversary sober. Pretty proud of that.
Unfortunately I think I have used smoking as a substitute for some deviant or rewarding " fun" instead of drinking the past two years. Justified it in my mind.
Crazy thing is I am an endurance athlete that competes in some pretty intense cycling events! I know makes no sense. But again....I think it has been my "high" to substitute in instead of booze the past two years.
So anyway 3 days free. All these firsts now to work through to never have any again.
Can it be done?
If you woulda told me I would be sitting here 23 months ago I would not have had a drink, I don't know if I woulda taken that bet!
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Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Midwest
Posts: 120
It's been 5 days for me now. I'm nervous because I have slipped up on the weekend on previous quit attempts. I can't do much errand running, because I'm trying to follow doctors orders and rest my foot.
I haven't had coffee in 5 days and I'm having a glass of wine now, but no drinking alcohol/coffee right now. Good grief, if I could only talk to my younger self.....
I haven't had coffee in 5 days and I'm having a glass of wine now, but no drinking alcohol/coffee right now. Good grief, if I could only talk to my younger self.....
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