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Beat not EAT - the boredom away

Posted in Staying quit
schedule 12 Feb 2013

Hi, 330 days and counting Ive saved over seven grand but I find lately that I tend to be "craving" carbohydrates. Bread, chips, menthols and peppermints all the foods that are comforts - I tend to think it is only boredom and I rationalise when I'm shopping that it is better than buying those damned cigarettes. Being slightly mobility impaired which doesn't lend itself to exercise too well also doesn't help. Those many years of smoking certainly has effected my will

schedule 12 Feb 2013

my goodness - 330 days and still counting. Does a person actually ever forget? I would have thought that by this time it would be a forgotten distant memory. I find that a scary future.

schedule 12 Feb 2013

leighdo13 - with regards to still counting - I hope I never forget to keep counting the days and the money saved. You say that you find that a scary future" but it is a future that has a chance of life - it's the alternative that I truly find scary"had I not have stopped the deadly habit.

schedule 21 Feb 2013

Rainbow 4006,

You're absolutely right - the truth is that you know one would lead to another, and I imagine everyone on this site knows deep down that it is so.