Day 35 tomorrow and really struggling....

[nsd_user663_2707]

Hi everybody,

Im really down at the minute...:(.....as you can tell by the time im posting this, i'm not sleeping very well because the cravings are soooo bad,they have been for 2 days now.

Im on day 35 tomorrow and its been driving me crazy over the last couple of days.How i havent had a fag i'll never know.Why do I feel like im way back on week 1 again..? i dont understand!!!

I thought the cravings would have gone by now,i feel so disappointed that ive come this far and still no signs of it easing up..ggggrrrrrr :mad:

I really miss havin a cig and i know the million reasons why i should quit but at this moment it just doesnt feel worth it.

Why some days do i feel really positive but on days like this its really hard to make it to the end of the day cig-free.

Sorry for being so negative guys but i feel so fed up

Catch you tomorrow,hope everyones ok... Lisa xxx

[nsd_user663_2737]

You have done really well to get to this stage. What a star!

Dont give in giving up, i regret my descion to have a cig, I am now back to day 6, I should be flying high on day 39.

I read someones book about quitting, i saw it posted on here. I couldnt read it all but skimmed through it and it made a lot of sense. Maybe you could read it too to give you a boost.

[nsd_user663_2176]

Lisa,

hope you managed to get some sleep. Shame I didn't check on here last night as I was awake most of the night too - and doesn't everything seem a million times worse when it's dark and you feel like the only person awake in the world?

Hopefully you're feeling a bit better this morning. Just take things slowly and it WILL get better - which may not seem like much comfort now but it really will ease soon and then you'll be so pleased that you stayed strong.

Look after yourself today, have a walk in the sunshine, get your hair done, whatever makes you feel better. Hope you pop back on later and let us know how you are.

H x

[nsd_user663_2739]

I thought the cravings would have gone by now,i feel so disappointed that ive come this far and still no signs of it easing up..ggggrrrrrr :mad:

Hi Lisa,

I don't want to disillusion you, but my sister was saying just yesterday how she can sometimes smell the smoke of a cigarette when it's just been lit, and could still just fancy one. And she's been given up for over 20 years! As it turns out, we both feel the same way about smoking - we would love to smoke but we don't want to be smokers. I don't know if that will make sense to anyone else.

So far, the desire to smoke, which is still there, is not as strong as the desire to be a non-smoker. I guess as long as it stays like that, I'll stay off the fags.

I have been quit for 1 Month, 1 Week and 24 minutes (38 days). I have saved £197.29 by not smoking 760 cigarettes. I have saved 2 Days, 15 hours and 20 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 04/01/2008 11:45

[nsd_user663_1704]

It gets hard before it gets better just the monster clasping at straws before you turn the corner to a new life x x x

You are very close to getting in a full nights sleep and waking up a new person!!! the craves, as trevs' sis says, do still come and go afterwards, but they are fleeting thoughts, not tie you down and whoop your arse type of mental craves

Hang on in there Lisa you are so close to the other side x x

[nsd_user663_1988]

Hi Lisa,

I don't want to disillusion you, but my sister was saying just yesterday how she can sometimes smell the smoke of a cigarette when it's just been lit, and could still just fancy one. And she's been given up for over 20 years! As it turns out, we both feel the same way about smoking - we would love to smoke but we don't want to be smokers. I don't know if that will make sense to anyone else.

Please be careful how you word it as it makes new quitter think that it won't get better. We know it gets better!

It's the same old 'I've been speaking to people who have not smoked for months/years and they still say how hard it is to not smoke - once a smoker always a smoker'

When people hear stories of people still thinking of cigarettes years after they quit, they worry that they will crave cigarettes for the rest of their life the same way as when they first quit.

I personally don't think you'll ever not think about it as you'll always going to remember what it was like to smoke and the feeling you got from it. The only way to never think or not crave a cigarette is to of never smoked in the first place.

The thoughts become so infrequent that they are only passing thoughts and not to be confused with cravings like the early stages of a quit. They go away as quickly as they pop into you're head. I have been quit 7 1/2 months and I had a thought yesterday. I just thought instead 'Yippee! I'm a non-smoker!' and it went straight away!

[nsd_user663_2707]

Hi guys,

Thankyou so much for your replies,they mean such a lot.I guess its really got to me the last couple of days.

But dya know what..? I have been really craving but yet i HAVE NOT picked up a fag because i dont want all the hard work ive put in so far to be for nothing so that must count for something...right?

Today is a new day and im ok so far so thankyou everyone,dont know what i'd do without u all

Day 35 onwards and upwards...again :rolleyes:

Lisa xx

[nsd_user663_2737]

Good on you for not giving in to the evil monsters

[nsd_user663_1733]

Hi Lisa

So very pleased you got over you bad patch. I know it feels longer but I found on this and my last quit the bad time only lasted two days at the very longest and there is many more good than bad days. You are doing really well keep moving forward the bad days will soon be a memory I hope HEHE. Linda xxxxxxx

[nsd_user663_2142]

I hope you are doing well now! Day 35 is awesome! Keep up the good work!