My first two months..
hello to you all, I am now 71 days into my journey and I know for sure I am not out of the Woods yet. I just wanted you all to know how much I appreciate your stories and the way you share your experiences - this have been of great help for me in my journey Thank you all. I will try to contribute the best I can with my experiences so far. As I said I have been nicotine free for 71 days. I have been smoking since I was 15 years and I am now 59 years - a long time moking and I started to feel the effect on my health. I have tried quitting before but not for any longer periode. I didn`t even consider quit Cold turkey - I used champix for nine weeks. One week still smoking then went off the nicotine second week. I don`t think I would have been able to quit without the pills. They somehow made me not wanting to smoke anymore and this in turn made me realize the workings of the addiction. Unfortunately I had to quit using champix as I felt sick and got cramps. The cramps are still lingering three weeks after I quit taking the pills.. During my 71 days of quit I have experienced heavy abstinence - everything on the list I guess but I am hanging in there - still not smoking and heading for 3 months :-)
Hi Ajahr, you are doing so great, 71 days into a life that you only dreamed of and now
its reality. Keep being positive and tomorrow will be 72 days, all you can do is take 1 day at a time.
Your body would be craving everything you have denied it in the past 71 days, and this will continue for some time.
Mind games are very testing and a challenge...
Please continue to use this great forum as a diary as we all can bounce off each other,
We are and still have our daily challenges, but as time goes by, these challenges become faint,
but still there..... smoking was a great part of out lives for so many years.....and definatley not
something that can just be erased over night, but take each day as it comes, be posiive n determined
we can all achieve....
Thank you Jenno, and you are so right, I am going to a life I have only dreamt of - never thinking I could achive. And its sure a mind game but not entirely. I have red somwhere that some of the nicotine we put in our body will transform into nornicotine (hmm, I hope this is the correct English name for it.?.) and this will act up sometime between day 60 and 120 after quitting, making us feel like we hav just recently smoked a sigarette. This might explain why som many are falling off the wagon by apr. three month of abstinence. I am sure trying to be prepared for this in any way I can.. Good luck to you and to me and all of us fighting for our lives.