day 17

[nsd_user663_5198]

Well, day 17 is here. Not sure how i feel today. Yesterday was sooooo easy but today has started off slighty on a downer.

I'm determined to get through it though !

anyone else experiencing these problems? the fun of giving up has now left somewhat and it feels like abit of a hassle to be honest

[Levs 1000 Days Smoke Free]

It is hard once the novalty has worn off. That was one of the main reasons I ended up starting again when I quit last time. I just got so bored of trying to quit, of constantly thinking about it and going on about it, did my head in.

I was prepared for it this time and have found myself a couple of hobbies to keep my mind and hands busy. I have found it much easier on that side of things because of it. I knit and am doing paint by numbers and they both help.

You have done really well getting to day 17, yo should be proud of yourself. Find yourself a hobby to take your mind off things.

Stay strong.

[nsd_user663_16968]

Good morning Kirkn

Well done on getting to Day 17, that truely is great and deserves a really big WELL DONE and BIG SMILE TOO.

As for the novelty i agree with Levs that now you need to try and find a hobby or something else that will give you a reward if you like and also keep you busy too. There is almost like a climax to the stopping then its almost like its does not matter, a sort of "So what" but its not easy to stop and you have to be proud of yourself all the time as others will too. Yes over time it will be almost forgotten that you ever smoked but thats what you want really, to forget and move on if that makes any sense. Whatever u do though dont go back on the Cigs because you have come so far and it would be an awful shame to go back to that past that now you proved you can live without.

Good luck my friend. Take care

[nsd_user663_5198]

thanks both for your messages of support

i have in fact bought a puzzle which keeps my mind occupied and works really well.

I'm just having a bad i guess where i feel quite bored with giving up and want to spark up a ciggie

[Levs 1000 Days Smoke Free]

I'm just having a bad i guess where i feel quite bored with giving up and want to spark up a ciggie

I was like that last week and now I am so glad that I didn't. Wasn't that I was really craving just that 'oh I can't be bothered with this anymore, I could so smoke right now'.

Look at it this way. You quit for a reason? if you start again those reasons will come back and you will quit again. You will get to this point again, where you just get fed up of it, again. You then have the same choice you have now, go back to smoking or stay quit. Why go through all that when you can break the cycle now?.

Get through this tough bit, break the cycle, if you go back to smoking you will end up stuck in a perpetual quit. If you stay quit now, the next time you come up against a tough bit, you will be that bit stonger to fight it, and each tough bit after that will get easier and easier until there are no more tough bits.

If you go back to smoking you will always get tough bits that just get tougher.

Think, is that one smoke worth it?

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Day 16

Morning All

Oddly enough I feel exactly the same, just kinda wnatm to spark just one last fag.

Wont be doing it though!!

Hey did I hear someone say they have taken up knitting? It is very cold out today and I could do with a piar of gloves and a scarf please!