Coping surprisingly
Today is the clearest my head has been for a week since I started, so I can attempt more than 2 lines!! For the last week I either had clear head with cravings, or fuzzy/foggy brain no cravings, but couldn't make the brain go linear or hold a thought, even long enough to write it down!!!
It has not been easy but I am surprised that I am dealing with it okay, weirdly last Saturday at home was the hardest - stay busy?? I was exhausted by days end as I didn't sit down to rest minus the ciggie, so worked all day. Hate to say it but nearly wanted to come to work where the cravings were less! Quandary - home and cravings or work and less cravings!!
I have had bad patches but seem to be quite positive about being successful, it is only a week but a week is a great start, and the only 2 or 3 times I have tried in the past 40 yrs I only lasted a week, and suffered for the whole of the week so stoped trying.
The zyban and all the other quit aids (every quit aid I could find!!) seem to be helping heaps luckily, and coming here every day reading others successes is great for continued motivation
Will just have to make sure now as my head clears, that the "I don't smoke" thought doesn't clear with it!!
Well done Larch it all sounds familiar to me what you are going through it does get easier im at 7 weeks smoke free and feeling great keep up the good work.
i thought you were using bach flower remedies to help you quit, well all the best.
hi stoprightnow
I'm using whatever I can that seems right to me, I was short on willpower so was chucking everything at it at once!!
zyban, bach flowers (rescue, larch, scleranthus and hornbeam) brauer homoeopathic smoke-eze, plus cathay herbal smokers tablets are the main ones!! And I'm going for apt 2 'luminous way' healing tonight!!
I don't care what works as long as something does (or I might go broke trying!!)
thanks
Hi Sconie
I certainly hope the furry head bit gets better!! I like the sound of feeling great though, and well done on your 7 weeks
Hi Larch, a week is THE huge start! Well done. I love the thought of you throwing everything at the addiction. I'm just over 10 weeks a non smoker, and can barely lift my handbag with the weight of Nicabate lozenges, sugar free mints, sugar full mints, various other lollies, and Quickeze since they seem to help with the mouth ulcers the Nicabate give me! But somehow this concoction is working for me, and that's all that matters. Go for it!
Hi Larch, sounds like you had a rough first week, well done an important milestone you are on the way, so stay strong. The fuzzy head is not nice experience , it is quite normal to be dizzy which is from the brain getting more oxygen. All that matters is you stay on this journey with all of us. It is so worth. That fuzzy head will go. Keep posting here.
ha ha, I can equate with the lozenges, mints and lollies!! I just got sneaky, some in the car, some at work, some at home so I don't need to carry them!
It is weird though the habit of patting your pockets to make sure your smokes are there before you go out!!
I should never have opened my mouth about coping either, as yesterday and today have not been the best - I'd just like the thought to leave my head about just having a cig before I do this work - perhaps I should just stop trying to work (nice thought!) and give in and walk around in circles til home time!!
It is weird that the thought is there that I should have a cig, but I don't actually want to have one, just need something to put in its place!! Hang in an hour then I can escape.
Thanks for the support it does really help, and I haven't actually told anyone what I'm doing yet, as it'd feel like I was being watched which would make it worse, and help from people that have been there certainly helps more
Wow that certainly sounds like my head is garbled!!