One day at a time
Hi everyone, I am 126 days cigarette free✋ woohoo me and I am calling myself a non smoker now, which feels good and so helps with the psychological cravings, that I still have. I've been reading a few previous posts and can relate to the insanity of the minds craving for a cigarette, but that is addiction. I had a revelation the other day, I was having a mental craving for a cigarette and I asked myself why? What did smoking do for me? And the answer was, it gave me something to do while I thought? I would have a smoke and think about everything, good stuff and bad stuff and somehow I thought that smoking made that process better? That by the magical puff of a cigarette, I would be able to solve all my problems, deal with my emotions and create my dreams? 😆 seriously, and I did that for 31years, so it's gonna take time to change that programming, because at the end of the day, I'm the one who's going to solve my problems, deal with my emotions and create my dreams, not a cigarette, it's not that powerful👎 And today, I stopped on my walk, to look at the water , when this lady walked past and said "you smell nice", I just stared at her, then smiled, no one has ever said that to me before, but they did today, because I am a non smoker😍 keep going everyone, you can do it .
Good for you . There is nothing to gain from smoking and everything to lose :-)
Hi Miss Lizzy,
congratulations on your 126 days it's an inspiring achievement.
I totally agree with everything you said and I also told someone I was a non-smoker for the first time yesterday & it felt great and worth all the pain and heartache. We all need to be on guard always against the psychological cravings, thoughts and habits. We can all do this with each others help.
What an amazing achievement, and what an amazing group of supportive people we all are, I may have never met you, but I class you as my friends, and I know that I couldn't do it without you, .you are all so wonderful
I agree with you Chezzel......this site has a bunch of great guys and gals....and even though we all i presume have never met, i for one feel i have great friends on the site and will always try to give and take good advice. Cheers.
Well done, all of you. Miss Lizzy, you and are found this site at about the same time. I am 130 days smoke free and without all you guys helping and supporting and encouraging me to stick with it, I would have failed. I know we are each in control of our destinies but this network has been so very important to me, even to just give me some time out from thinking about not smoking in the early days. To read everyone's adventure and to feel the emotions in each and every one of you. Just shows that we can do anything we want to as long as we want it enough. Hugs all round.