5 Months
Hello everybody, hope everyone is doing well on their quit journey's. I still cannot believe I have made it to five months. So happy out now and glad that smoking is part of my past.
To everybody starting this journey and to those who are thinking of it, do not hesitate, it is so worth it , it would be one of the hardest things I ever had to do but so so glad I stuck to it. I get the odd longing sometimes, but nothing major, it is more of a 'I used to do that before' ..... but that is as far as it goes, a fleeting thought most of the time.Just a reminder of past behaviour. I do not like the smell of it , everything about it , repulses me.... I don't know if that strong aversion was developed by champix still remains.... but I still feel like the first week on Champix when you start to completely turn off smoking , uncanning it still is there. Has anyone found that ? Anyway's keep up the good work everybody, to healthier future's.
good for you converse, soon it will be a year no looking back, it is full steam ahead it is 83 days for me well all the best.
Hi there Converse good on you for making the 5 months thats a great effort, like you i dont like the smell of someone who has just had a smoke,however i will still sit outside if my friends are having a smoke that doesnt really bother me. The smell of the ashtray outside is revolting and when they all leave i empty is straight away it does annoy me that i have to do that because it really smells. The thing that amazes me is how much i dont like it but yet i smoked for 30 years without realising what everyone else has had to endure while i was smoking,crazy how giving up changes so many things but its all for the better
well done converse. I am at 20 months and most days never think of smoking, but occasionally I have a quick thought but dismiss it.
What I find strange is that not many I see are smoking. It stands out when I see someone with a cig wheras before I would never have noticed.
Hey Converse, five months is great, and I love your reference to smoking being part of your past, it's the only way to view it really, a silly and expensive habit that has no place in your life now or in the future. Well done!!!
Hi Stoprightnow thank you for your support 83 days well done.
Thank Sconie, yeah you are right the smell is terrible it is mad to think I was completely unaware how I stank. Thanks Gerry1, 20 months good for you well done.Someone smoking does stand out now, there is a whole new world of non smokers and many positive doors to open after. Thanks Solo, I love your posts. I am running free, out the other side now, quitting smoking was very psychological for me, and yes I have changed my thinking on alot of things for the better. I think you are right on the receptors they were brilliant it does linger. Your neighbour at 20 it is hard to watch that now as a non smoker, to be free from a dependency and see someone walk in eyes shut, we walked in eyes shut too. Love cats have one called molly she is 19... Dottily thanks too for your support , cheers everyone!!