Woohoo it's 7 Days!!!
It's been 7 days without a smoke and let me tell you all it has been the longest 7 days of my life!! If I'm honest I have probably coped better than what I thought I would. I havn't clawed my husbands eye's out of his face yet, but I suppose there is still plenty of time:)
I managed to get through the first 4 days fairly well, and I thought to myself, you have done the hardest part, the rest should be easy from here on in. How wrong was I??? Day 5 was an absolute day from Hell!! I would have cut my right arm off for just one cigarette. I spent the whole day fighting, what felt like one big fat long craving that just wouldn't go away. I some how managed, to get through that shitty day without a smoke, thankgod!! I'm sure there will be more of these days to come and just hope I'm better prepared for it next time. I will just keep reminding myself that my Desire to be a NON-Smoker is stronger than my Desire to be a smoker!!!
Since I stopped smoking though, I have developed a nice irritating, annoying cough, that helps to keep me awake half the night, like I already wasn't having trouble sleeping. I hope it goes away soon. I am meant to feel better for quitting the smokes, not worse right???...lol.
My journey has just begun, and thankfully I have found this forum with all you amazing people who have given me so much inspiration and support. I truly believe these last 7 days would have been so much harder without you all. So a big thankyou:) I am now counting down untill I reach the double digits...only 3 sleeps to go, or in my case 3 sleepless nights to go!!
Have a wonderful night everyone:)
Well done Roseyk and you can do it, I'm on 3 weeks today and if you read mine or anybody elses old posts you'll realise we all suffered and the feelings that you're having while being abnormal..... are not abnormal to those of us who have been addicted to smoking, sad fact, but we made our bed and we have to lie in it, don't get me wrong it's a bitch of a thing to beat, I'm still not sleeping, had 3 days of headaches, still want to belt someone (though less often now), I don't feel cravings necessarily so much as if something is missing sometimes, then it dawns on me and I'm able to move on, usually only a few seconds.
We will all beat this, of that I'm sure and it'll suck, but then it'll be great when we've done it, I never had an ounce of faith that I could do this when I set out, but I'm doing it, we're ALL doing it and I'm going to win this battle and I'm positive that you will too and being only a little ahead of you time wise, I promise the crappy times do get less.
Take care and have a great day, we're all rooting for you.
RoseyK I am so excited for you! Well done. And listen to Meanie's words of wisdom - he is right. It will get better. Still in for a bumpy ride but it's worth it.
Make sure you treat yourself today as a reward for getting through the first week. Congrats!