[Verencat]

Originally Posted by ravenne

CONGRATS!!!! 4 days already, that's great! You can do it, you know it, you're stronger than this little devil sitting on your shoulder and whispering in your ear!!!

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

yes !! congratulations ! it's wonderful. try to distract yourself so you stop thinking about it ! and not necessarily with lollipops, i mean maybe watch a film, listen to music, read a book... you can do it !

Originally Posted by Slite

Hang in there! I celebrated my first anniversary as a non-smoking smoker last friday! The good thing is, it DOES get easier, the bad part is, the craving really never goes away fully. There are still days I could easily kill someone for a cigarette. Those are thankfully pretty far between by now

Originally Posted by Wetdogeared

August 25th was my fourth smoke-less year. We couldn't afford a mortgage and smoke at the same time so we both gave up smoking when we bought our condo. Quitting added about $7,000.00 to our annual budget.

Hang in here. WDE.

Originally Posted by Lady Blue

I haven't read that book, but I'll be 2 years smoke-free next month, and I can confirm that the psychological addiction can be much stronger than the physical one. You have to totally change your behavior. The habits you develop when you smoke are very hard to break. You get so used to picking up a cigarette when you do certain things and have half of it smoked before you realize you even lit it.

Good luck VCat. If you've been smokeless for 4 days, you can go forever (believe it or not.)

Thanks guys, and also congrats for those awesome milestones!!!!! What troubles me is how smoking always stays in your mind, even after years... shitty thing, really.

Question: I'm coming down with the mother of all indigestions (that's why I'm home, my boss kicked me out because I look green), and I wonder if it could be a side effect to the quitting. The first time I quit, I was shaking uncontrollably and losing my balance a lot, but this time around, there's nothing like that. I hate being sick and I'd love to be able to blame the addiction (one more reason to never start again).

Originally Posted by pilotbob

...make sure you do it naked.... and take a pic... your avatar is a bit stale.

BOb

Originally Posted by FlorenceArt

Well in that case you can stop looking for it. It was right there in the commode where I left it - wait, that can't be right

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