Yeah Alex, it is.......I'm at that stage at the moment where I keep thinking "I wish I'd done it years ago"! It would be nice to think that I will always feel like this and I don't seriously expect to, but I've felt this way for about three weeks now so will settle for that! I just can't believe that I smoked for all that time and now feel like this after just 54 days, I didn't expect it.
Good evening Angry bear glad to hear that your beginning to enjoy being nicotine free rather than that horrible feeling of enduring being nicotine free which I sure we all suffer in the early stages of quitting. It certainly helps to feel that all the "sufferings" of early days have ben worth it.
Fantastic post from a fantastic quitter. I love it.
May 4th 2012
I smoked. Boy did I smoke. I smoked and choked and smoked and choked more. I dragged myself to work.....sneaking out at every opportunity to smoke more and more. I smoked because I was scared not to in the end. I was dressed from top to toe in a cloak of utter fear, utter denial. I coughed....and coughed......and coughed.....and had another fag to console myself at the coughing. I worried I was dying.....so smoked some more to make it ok.
August 15th 2012
I didnt smoke. I didnt even think about smoking or remember I was someone who ever smoked. I cycled to work. Get this though......I'm having to take longer routes round to work coz its getting too bloody easy and I want to get a bit of excercise. Heh heh. It rained today.....and its been so bloody hot and humid lately.....I stepped out for a bit. Not to smoke (dont be daft)....but to feel the cool rain on me. I cycled home in the pouring rain and I bloody loved it. Must've looked like a right nutter....coz I was grinning from ear to ear and happy as a pig in the proverbial. I love August 15th
Dippy, Karri and Sue thanks for the replies, and Karri you're right; without meaning to and even with smoking in certain areas of the house, it still happened, I just didn't notice at the time and they were so used to it they never commented, which says it all really
Well done Angry Bear I am really pleased that you feel so good but I am also very envious, you are only 1 week ahead of me and I wish I could say that I felt half as good as you do but I don't.
then I used to be full of energy and always on the go
now I feel lethargic and tired all the time.
then I used to go to bed, fall asleep and know nothing until I woke up the next morning
now I watch the clock every hour all night long
then I used to feel generally pretty healthy and happy
now I feel fat, bloated and unhealthy
I hope I feel different pretty soon.
Well done again to you though and keep it up, despite the way I am feeling I am determined to stay a non smoker.
Well done AB just wish I could say the same for me self nearly on me 4th month now and still feel like shit on a stick. I'm starting to think that giving up smoking had ruined my life. As now I feel line I Carnt even go out with the anxiety it's gave me. The docs won't give me nowt for it just tell me to do relaxing exercise that have done nowt since iv bin give up
Hey Karri they are I think, every now and again one of them goes "hey you still not had a fag?" and look surprised. They're soon getting used to it, so that's good too
Well done AB just wish I could say the same for me self nearly on me 4th month now and still feel like shit on a stick. I'm starting to think that giving up smoking had ruined my life. As now I feel line I Carnt even go out with the anxiety it's gave me. The docs won't give me nowt for it just tell me to do relaxing exercise that have done nowt since iv bin give up
Ah Shelly that sucks, 87 days is a long time, you still miss them and think about them that much? I must just be lucky I guess...I wish you well, it's because of your posts among others too that I've got to where I have and you deserve better
Ah Shelly that sucks, 87 days is a long time, you still miss them and think about them that much? I must just be lucky I guess...I wish you well, it's because of your posts among others too that I've got to where I have and you deserve better
Thanks AB
I don't really miss them or hardly crave them it's the anxiety that iv had since quitting. Just wont go. Or it Wud be a brill quit. As there is things that are better like my hands are so much better now got carpol tunnel and had to wear splints in bed do t have to now. Breathing better. But that's all.the only thing that's stopping me is business school as I started as a non smoker. Wud be totally emmbarising smoking. But I'm done in 2 weeks or so. And me lovely white teeth. But the anxiety killing it
I am thankful that I have saved £827.98 and the decorators are coming next week
I am thankful that in the last 3 days I can again enjoy eating. Only took 9 weeks of everything tasting terrible.
I am thankful that I only feel sad occasionally and the anxiety attacks are getting less and less.
I am thankful that I never crave for a cigarette.
I am very disappointed that I have less energy than I had before quitting.
That said, I thought I would never enjoy food again but I do now and some things even taste better. I have come to believe that I will get more energy eventually.
I would have been 12 weeks quit today if I hadn't had that one bad day and went back to day one.
18. My car's clean and tidy, no rizla packets, plastic filter strips or ash.
Reading this one line actually got me excited!! I'm booking a day off work to clean my car...because I am sad and a clean freak and because my car is boggin!!!! I thought smoking with the windows down would mean the car didnt smell of smoke....after 5 days of not smoking I jumped into the car and realised how wrong I was
Plastic filter strips....ggggrrrrrrrrrrrrr!! Evil evil little things! Plus roll up ash is as controllable as a jelly ball on a flippin vibro plate :mad: it goes everywhere!!!!
OoooH!! Cant wait to have a clean car (claps hands excitedly)
18. My car's clean and tidy, no rizla packets, plastic filter strips or ash.
Reading this one line actually got me excited!! I'm booking a day off work to clean my car...because I am sad and a clean freak and because my car is boggin!!!! I thought smoking with the windows down would mean the car didnt smell of smoke....after 5 days of not smoking I jumped into the car and realised how wrong I was
Plastic filter strips....ggggrrrrrrrrrrrrr!! Evil evil little things! Plus roll up ash is as controllable as a jelly ball on a flippin vibro plate :mad: it goes everywhere!!!!
OoooH!! Cant wait to have a clean car (claps hands excitedly)
Oh but trust me I am not always a happy camper!!!! It's the skittles (nom nom nom)...taste the rainbow!!!! Gotta dash the man in the van is coming to take me away..again!!! He has got to catch me first - "with a swish of my cape I am gone into the night..."
Sometimes its just a case of I have to laugh or I will cry...and when I cry I get snot bubbles which can be very embarrassing
Onwards and upwards troops...for we are the nicotine avengers!!! Ta da da daahhh (that was a small trumpet blowing by the way ;))
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