Whoohoo!!! I’m back in the groove.
I’ve had cravings but I’m doing ok. I am already breathing better although I had a coughing fit yesterday at work. I think a couple people were ready to call 911. I finally caught my breath. I think this happens to me each time I quit smoking. My boss says that my lungs are not expecting so much oxygen and doesn’t know what to do with it. : )
My ex even came over last night, it wasn’t pleasant and I still didn’t smoke. That’s progress as far as I’m concerned.
I had a couple urges to go outside yesterday at work and light up but it passed quickly. I need to go for a walk when I get those urges.
I will not smoke, I will not smoke, I will not smoke… No matter what is going on in my life, I will not smoke.
Thank you everyone for all the nice and encouraging comments. This has GOT to be THE quit. I can’t keep doing this to myself.
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Its great to hear that you are giving it a go again Tammy, I’m right there in the early stages with you. Eventually, all the ‘chatter’ in our minds about smoking will drift away!!
Hi Tammy, Hi all. Great to see you back on the wagon again Tammy. I never thought the day would come, but I have to admit that I no longer get cravings (well, very very rarely at most). I’ve been in smoky pubs surrounded by smokers, but was never tempted.
I would like a cigar now and then, and if possible would stick to having one of these after a formal meal. However, I suspect that even just one cigar would take me down the addiction path again.
I’m also gaining weight, so perhaps will have to follow Fred’s example. For a while, to deal with the cravings, I went to the gym four or five times a week. This has slipped badly in the past few weeks, so some extra willpower is required.
Best wishes for the season to you all
Peter
Sorry that came out all wrong – i will be having fishy dishies, not meaty treaties, precisely because it is Good Friday – think I’m a bit confused, or may be i have premature senile dementia!!
Tammy I’m so pleased that you sound so strong – well done!! I think , really honestly I do, that this is the one for you. You’ve had to re-invent yourself and your lifestyle, and maybe now is the ideal time to quit. I so wish you all the very very best. I am off to bed in a minute, I’m just so stuffed.
I am really really looking forward to going away – I just wanna leave all the medical reports, and the routine, and all the sh** behind, have a good break and then come back, and start afresh.
I realise that while i like to think I’ve got it all under control, Meg’s diagnosis has really knocked the stuffing out of me, and i need a break to get my sh** together again, and move on with all of it.
My quit feels a bit dodgy. I can relate to what Peggy said, I am tempted more recently than I have been before, but I know its crapola, I’ve got this far, having a “thingy” won’t make me feel any better, but this junkie thing’s a powerful little shitenhauser, isn’t he?
I will just have to keep fighting that. maybe that’s the problem, I feel like I have no “oomph” left to fight all that much.
Anyway, Good Friday tomorrow – no fishy dishies for me……Happy Easter all.
Tammy, its wonderful that you are quitting and I will keep prayers going that you are able to fulfill your wish to breathe freely! My quit is still intact and has been tested a bit in the past few days; however, I am stronger than the urges and will beat the “demon” down. Its funny how some days its not even an issue but then there are days where a harsh word from someone or a bit of intolerable behavior towards me sends me into that thought of “maybe a cigarette would help me right now”, NOT!!!!
I cannot imagine allowing myself to fall into that trap, and I know that its a one day at a time thing and sometimes a one minute at a time thing and I have to simply talk myself through those ridiculous ideas. I have not smoked almost 2600 cigarettes and I’m so glad I haven’t. My wish is for everyone to stop being chained to this addiction, its horrendous and just kills our lungs and other organs.
Tammy, you said a real mouthful at the end of your post.
“I can’t keep doing this to myself.”
That sentence is just so full of meanings, on so many different levels. I can really relate.
Walking helped me a lot too when I would have cravings and start getting jumpy. I’d jump out of my chair, and go take a brisk walk around the outside of my office building. Even if it was snowing – just bundle up and go!
I rarely “need” to do that anymore, but what it’s turned into is a morning ritual of a brisk 15 minute walk. Three times around my office building is roughly one mile. I walk another mile after lunch, but that will have to stop on days when it’s too warm. Can’t be coming back into the office all perspired, and I sweat when I think too much!
Jo – from yesterday’s post – “down the gurgler” HA! I think that’s the same as when we say “down the tubes” in my neck of the woods.