Bonjour Week 2 :)

[nsd_user663_40405]

Hello everyone, first day in week 2 meaning it's cold turkey day 8, still short of breath but it too early I reckon, cravings arn't too bad for today and can handle them, eating still 11/10 on the eaterscale but still no fag and that will do for me. good luck everyone

[nsd_user663_39959]

Nice one.

Eat as much as you like (blood sugar is a bit funny when you quit CT!).

[jae0404]

Well done Steelfixer,another step closer!!!

Jackie

[nsd_user663_40405]

Thanks feel ok, a bit tired again at the min, wondering when all the stuffs going to cough up.

[nsd_user663_17077]

Hey, congrats on the quit! I only started coughing gunk up in the last day or so, felt that congested feeling the last three days.

Yesterday, prior to today's arrival of 2 feet of snow, I popped to the shop for mucinex; beer; apple juice; diary and toilet cleaner! Sure the girl on the check out thought I was insane, but made for a fun evening writing in all my appointments, drinking beer, while coughing gunk up thanks to mucinex - all while having clean shiny toilets!

Oh, I suppose I should mention I was supposed to get toilet paper, not cleaner - I blame quitter brain! We have had to resort to kleenex today as too dangerous on the roads (Level 2 snow emergency) to justify taking a five year old out for bog roll!

Anyway, enough of my ramblings, congrats, and I think the gunk time is different for everyone

[nsd_user663_40405]

lol

the next gunks on me

[nsd_user663_40405]

Well its day 9 for me and day 9 is my record for giving up, never made day 10 before and it was before i joined on here, i know now I'm gonna make it no danger, been has a good sleep but for some reason today I've had controllable

cravings but have been a grouch all day, grrrrr at anything.

[nsd_user663_40807]

Well done wish i had the balls for CT Have you tried other methods before NRT\Champix etc ?

[nsd_user663_40832]

I too have much respect for the CT's. Sounds like more pain early doors but must feel good once cravings reduce. Makes me feel like a cheat using the patches, and the knowledge that at some point still need to beat the nicotine addiction worries me.

Good effort and keep it up day 10 into double figures

[nsd_user663_40405]

Thanks all, yesterdays grouchyness has gone back to wherever that came from, not craving are weak today but but ive had a little bit of crap cough up today and has made me feel a bit off and sickly like you can feel it happening inside but I think thats whats keeping the cravings at bay, everyday it seems one thing comes and goes and then another crops up like all the smoking damage is curing itself in a orderly form, still very strong in the mind with this quit, its the hardest out of all ive tried and i think ive come this far in what i want to get to and im not going to put myself back to square one as things will only get better, one day at a time, i sometimes think of putting a cig in my gob and now instead of thinking if lighting it i automatically think how shitty it's going to make me feel and light headed for what? absoloutley nothing whatsoever, only for the chance of going back to day one and putting Cold Turkey again, no point at all, Ive come this far through the shitty days and trust me, I'm going all the way.

Good luck everyone. Lee/steelfixer

[nsd_user663_40405]

Well done wish i had the balls for CT Have you tried other methods before NRT\Champix etc ?

No ive never tried anything apart from CT, if patches help others then great stuff and good luck and i really mean it, i believe that get the nicotine and carbon monoxide out of your system for a couple of days and then 1 days at a time battling every symptom through out the day until it realises "hang on, This quitters not going to buckle, im off"

[nsd_user663_18145]

:DWELL DONE ON GETTING TO WEEK TWO

Your sounding positive which is the best way

Are you still munching as much?

Onwards and upwards

[nsd_user663_40405]

Still munching but not as often and no where near what I was in amounts but still going overboard.

[nsd_user663_34425]

Still hanging in there! Good for you!

Don't worry about the food scoffing at the moment though. One thing at a time!

I found that I went through shocking amounts of crisps and small chocolate fudge bars in the start, but thankfully it's calmed down now (just noticed I'm writing this with a danish pasty on my desk!)! But I don't think my weight is any different now to when I quit.

Another few days into week 3 and you've really broken the back of this! Well done!

[nsd_user663_40651]

day 8 halfway through

well day 8 is almost halfway through for me..

the constant thinking that i should be dong something when i would normally have a fag is ********** annoying to say the least . but i feel a lot healthier and cleaner so it will have to be just a ********** thought

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and breathe ..

[nsd_user663_40405]

Still hanging in there! Good for you!

I found that I went through shocking amounts of crisps and small chocolate fudge bars in the start, but thankfully it's calmed down now (just noticed I'm writing this with a danish pasty on my desk!)This made me laugh out loud:D:D

Next day for me, another new one from packing in, Gastroenteritis, I'm starting to wonder if id drank paint stripper as it feels like it, but everything else is a total plus today, cravings are low, good sleep and not as tired any more whether good or bad sleep i was still getting knackered, chest is feeling tight but along better, still eating over well but ok just generally a lot better, days are not dragging any more as if the nicotine had purposly slowed them down, good luck every one, although im only on week two and still battling i think back to day one and think, this is working

[nsd_user663_3282]

For some reason I didn't think Danes would call those pastries 'Danish' ones. No reason why not, I suspect.

Congrats Steelfixer, on your steady upward march into healthy pink lungs. As you say you think back to day one and then you'll also remember reading in (possibly) awe of those that were on their second week of quitting.

Everyone that is quitting smokes should be awesomely proud of the clear daylight they are putting between their old smokie selves and the much healthier position they are in now.

You are doing champion, Steelfixer :cool:

[nsd_user663_40405]

Thanks and yes your spot on over the day one situation, soon came around with effort, look now, in the middle of week two :cool::cool::cool: and also lookinng forward to tackling week 3 as i read it's pretty gruesome but once climbed,

well we will see how it goes im feeling very confident about it, paassing my record seems to be doing wonders and the forum as well, it seems instead of worry or caving when you have a bad day/crave just try and turn that crave hit against itself and be positive although it can be very hard, it a must have way if your going CT as you'll go mad otherwise.

[nsd_user663_40405]

Next day in my quest to start battling week 3 on sat at 15.30, feeling good today, just a bit tired and and a bit of dry throat but everything else is behaving good luck all.

[nsd_user663_40405]

Had the cravings back all day today, well most of it, not the come & go ones the naughty ones that say "have a smoke, NOW!" nooo, so i purposely strayed from smokers and keep my head on other things, i really must have looked like a weirdo to others the afternoon but I didn't cave and they have now gone back to where they came from, urgh, cravings like that that sneak up on you belong in the gutter and if your not carefull they'll try and take you there, too much positive efforts gone into the last week and more just to throw it all down the grid In my opinion, stay strong everyone, although reading through it may not sound like it and yes on off days are still happening with different emotions constant at the min but think back to how you felt at the time that made you want to quit, i bet it was a lot worse health wise than you feel now, just get by the craving and the emotional train journey to hell and back, we'll get there

[nsd_user663_39959]

If you can do that week 2, when they happen in week 3, or 4, you should be able to bat them away no problem!

[nsd_user663_40405]

Thanks for the advice lol

Well todays been a lot better cravings wise, sleeps been sound and just a much more better feeling today, for an unknown reason I've developed a liking of bags

of marshmallows:eek: dunno why as i never eat them, if i was a female peope would think i was preggers :D:D any, 15.30 tomorrow is the start of theweek that is the topsy turvy sounding week 3.

[nsd_user663_40405]

The next time i log in I'll be eligible for week 3, so if you've just joined week two or you are reading from week one then as tough as it is please do your uttermost best to keep going, no one said it was going to be easy and i can confirm it's not but is getting better, still a while to go myself but keep at it please

[nsd_user663_40832]

As lots of poeple have said on here it does go fairly quick 2 weeks gone seems a lifetime away at the start. Hopefully the next markers 3 week, 1 month and on will come and go smokefree