Well it certainly has been an odd week. Perhaps its part of the dreaded 3s (as I'm now in my 3rd month).
Monday and Tuesday - felt absolute cr*p! Could not get out of bed - and was all feverish and shivery - am now sure it was a flu like thingy (as you can see I'm no doctor!). Really got me down. And of course my shoulder is still mending (infact growing new bone so I'm told) - so my body is working a bit of overtime at the moment. But during this time I hardly thought about smoking or fags at all. So that was good.
Wednesday - felt a bit better (but still a bit tired) and made it into work - was pretty useless tho I must say. Still no real smoking thoughts.
Thursday - felt much better - so what did I think about all day - having a fag!! Madness!! Everything I did - cup of tea, have a bath, sit in front of the tv - my first thought was - "I feel like a fag". They were more feelings of something lost - rather than a full on sofa-gnawing-I'm-gonna-kill-you craving - and they passed. But it was odd.
Today - am in work - and better still. Not thinking about them so much - and work has been great today. But have got a sort of hollow feeling at the back of my throat sometimes - like I want a good drag of a fag to get that burning feeling.
I won't of course - and will wait for this to pass.
Rome wasn't built in a day - and I smoked nearly 30 years - so its a hell of a change for a body and mind to go through.
10 weeks monday! Here I come.
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You'll get through it mate. I can only offer you re-assurance that these feelings and thoughts do pass. I had a tricky 3rd month, i was prepared for it just in case so when it happened it didnt' surprise me. It was a bit challenging and on some days confusing a bit.. but it passes.
Stick with the game plan, your doing great. Keep being proud of what you are doing.
If you don't fancy posting something upbeat, please feel free to send me a pm with as many swear words in it as you like. sometimes it just helps to paint something exactly how it seems, i'll do my best to help out if i am able.
You're not alone in how you are feeling on month 3 though, but it doesn't stay like that, of that i can definitely vouch.
Its a lovely autumnal day.. go for a walk... get some of that fresh air in your system.. you don't need to actually be going anywhere.. just grab some 'me time'. When i had days where i felt a bit and :eek: i found a walk helped alot.
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