Whoa a Difficult Saturday from Nowhere

Hi All

Well I am not exactly sure what happened on Saturday morning just past - but instead of day 36 it felt like day 3, I wanted a ciggie extremely badly and really thought I was going to have to give in.  Walking did not help, water did not help it was in my head and would not get out.  I ended up phoning my mum who said just get through today, maybeyou are having your six week test at five weeks.

Anyway, skip to post Saturday morning and going for a massage and a haircut (this made me stop thinking about smoking) and then meeting friends in a beer garden for a late lunch.  Well, I was like  a new person.  Was not even thinking of the stupid things.  And I was with one smoker, one non smoker and one quit just a week after me.  Quit a week after me, was saying I cannot believe how many people are smoking.  I was surprised as that had been me - nnoticing smokers here there and everywhere and I had to turn around and look and say oh yeah.  I did not notice.  And I hadn't notice - what a great thing to happen.

So for what it's worth the lesson I found at the weekend was you can be kicking along nicely and then get a huge wake up call that says you are still not through the hard yards yet but it can turn around in minutes and you can be doing fine again.

So today it's day 38 - and just quietky was a bit shocked at my Saturday morning but proud I did not cave and then a bit stoked about my non awareness of smokers Saturday afternoon.

Hang in there all.