Well got through day 5. I'm not feeling as spaced out at all but the cravings are still very apparent. When do they stop or at least get less? They do pass but are quite frequent and I'm hoping they will lessen in frequency soon?
Hope everyone else is having a good day and managing to keep on track.
Lauren xx
Hi Lauren 5 days is great almost a whole week
My experience of cravings sort of come and go. Bit like waves really, you just need to ride them.
The surf is up let's ride
Hi Lauren, I remember when I quit cold turkey and the first 3 days were horrendous. I woke up on day 4 and things felt much better. Given that I had only ( I say that loosely) been smoking for 10 years I think it was easier than if you have a 30 year habit. Give it time and I am sure in a few days you will feel much better. These cravings will get less believe me. You really have done the hard bit. Keep on Keeping on as they say and you will win this battle for sure.
They get less Lauren. Honest. Weaker and less every day. You wont even notice hardly till one day you suddenly think........'oh aye...fags...i'd forgotten'. Its all going to be a much smoother ride very soon. keep at it and you'll see
PS..... have your unobservant family noticed yet?
PS..... have your unobservant family noticed yet?
No they haven't It's getting silly! Thing is, I never smoked in the house and used to nip out the back door when I was making a cuppa, so nobody would notice I wasn't actually doing that. I will tell them when I get to one week.
I am really experiencing quite a lot of waves of cravings tonight. I can't think of anything worse than having a fag, I really physically dont want one, but mentally I don't know how to stop thinking about them, it's really weird. It really feels like two different people inside my head.
How many weeks/days have you been stopped Dippyegg?
Lauren x
I am really experiencing quite a lot of waves of cravings tonight. I can't think of anything worse than having a fag, I really physically dont want one, but mentally I don't know how to stop thinking about them, it's really weird. It really feels like two different people inside my head.
Lauren x
Well done Lauren, nearly a week
I know what you mean about not wanting to smoke but not been able to get it out of your head, that's me too but I suppose after smoking all those years it's more habit than anything.
Denise x
I can't think of anything worse than having a fag, I really physically dont want one, but mentally I don't know how to stop thinking about them
In the great scheme of things Lauren I'm not so far ahead of you. I extinguished my last cigarette at five to midnight on 4th May. So if i'm working this out right I will have been stopped for 6 weeks on friday. Wow! What you mention here rings a MASSIVE bell with me. From about day 4 on I knew I didnt want a fag. I knew I was in no danger of having one. Yet I remember almost pleading at my daughter saying.......WHEN WILL I STOP CARING? I just so didnt want to care about them anymore. God knows why I thought my poor little lamb cake daughter would have the answer......and God knows when I stopped caring......but I did. Sometime around about a fortnight in (I think...maybe less) i realised I just wasnt caring anymore. I realised that I was just living my life pretty much the same as I always had....doing the same things......and the fact that I was doing them without smoking was becoming increasingly insignificant. I think its a miracle. A great big lovely miracle that after so many years of smoking.......of everything I did in life revolving around when I would have the next cigarette.....or whether I would have a cigarette and then do the thing......and then maybe have another cigarette when I'd done the thing. Well you get the picture. I think its a miracle that after years of that......i stopped even really caring at just a week or two off them. Hope its the same for you
Well done Lauren, nearly a week
I know what you mean about not wanting to smoke but not been able to get it out of your head, that's me too but I suppose after smoking all those years it's more habit than anything.
Denise x
I know what you mean. After smoking for 38 years I keep thinking about it
Walked past someone today who was smoking and it smelled awful, so hopefully just the horrible smell will put me off for the rest of my life:confused:
Day 5 - cranky biaatch!
Day 5 Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
