10 Days......... That's it!!!!
10 DAYS!!!! <<<< Just wanted to see it staring me in the face, I wouldn't have believed I could last 10 minutes when I decided to give up, I would have bet against myself, I've no idea what happened but I'm still going strong and I think (or hope) that I'm getting more determined, noticing that I can breathe better than I can remember evr doing, my mouth doesn't taste like crap every morning.... it still feels like I should be doing something sometimes and that's when I wonder how many times I smoked just for something to do in the past, I don't know whether anyone else has felt like that.
Made a decision over the weekend too, I NEVER want to give up smoking again, it really sucks, so I have to make the best of this attempt and stay quit because I really don't want to start from scratch again, it's bloody awful.
Ok I think I'm done sharing my observations for now, hope everyone's still going well and thanks again everyone for being here.
OMG 10 days is awesome!! so so happy for you!!
Meanie you rock, I totally get that Im not doing this again feeling, every time I do get a craving I think of the first week and say to myself HELL NO!!!!!
Cant wait for the 14 day mark for you, but please be aware of the times coming up that will have your brain saying ok Ive gone this far lets just have one!!! We have to be smokers that choose not to smoke even that one!! Kepp up the good work and tell the world what a winner you are!!!!
Double figures, well done Meanie (I still want to say Melanie after Tiger's original comment). That is awesome! I still remember how excited (wait I wasn't excited) how shocked I was to get to 10 days. It is by no means a small achievement.
COmpletely get the not wanting to stop again - that first couple of weeks, I never wish to repeat - pretty sure those around me do not want me to repeat it either. I was either yelling, pacing, snapping or eating anything I could get my hands on. And I didn't sleep properly for weeks - so nope do not want to go back there.
Also fully get the smoking for something to do. I must have done that heaps and not even realised it. It's weird especially at work I still sit here some days and think I will just pop downstairs - oh hang on I have no reason to.
Go you, and be careful as tiger pointed out - the brain really starts to play tricks on you and you start to think, well I will just have one. But don't let it trick you. And you start to dream you have had a smoke and wake up thinking well I have done it now might as well have another one! Freaky.
But keep your not going back to day 1 resolve. How is the Movember thing going by the way?
Ten days, woo hoo almost a fortnight!!!
Thanks Rosey, Tiger and The Winner, day 11 out of the way too now. Sleep would be great and I have had odd moments where I half wonder if I've smoked, knowing full well that I haven't, I think it must be force of habit, let's face it we all know when we would have had one. I'm finding that I'm thinking about smoking a lot less but then when I do suddenly remember I feel quite vulnerable, fortunately it only lasts a few minutes and is becoming less frequent........... as for the Mo, it's the best in the office and I've been hoodwinked into dying it bright pink for the last week on the proviso that the girls raise at least $100 for MOvember, seems like a fair trade to me.