Heeeeey Nicotine! How does it feel to be left all the way back there 4 MONTHS ago?!?!? I know it's cruel but you never did anything good for me.
That's right I'm 1/3 of 1 year quit today, the hard 1/3. The next 2/3 should be pie (what? I like pie). And maybe some ice cream for all you sweet teeth out there.
Happy 4 month quit anniversary to me, and a happy day to all of you beautiful non-smokers!
-Tim
Well done Tim, great quit going there
Well done yay! How you finding it tim? Are the craves becoming far between.now? How amazing for you. Nicotine is a horrible drug!! Xx
Nikki - I am finding it to be, I guess the right word is, empowering. I'm excited and quite happy to have made it this far. As far as cravings go, I still get the occasional situation where I will think "If I were a smoker still, I would go have a cigarette right now." Now all I have to do is let the thought pass right through and get on with my day. Before I would obsess over it and go smoke or go out and buy a packet.
It doesn't seem like I feel too much different as a non smoker, but I know that some changes have taken place. I've always played sports and I'll tell you I can catch my breath much quicker than I used to. I still get pretty winded but the recovery time is much better. I don't wake up in the morning having a huge lump in my throat that makes me cough until I puke any more. I feel like my moods have stabilized, I still have my off days but they don't seem as severe. After the initial eating binge when I quit, I feel like I am actually losing weight easier than before. Concentration is better and my head feels clearer because I'm not weighed down by that nagging "gotta have a smoke soon" feeling.
I'm happy I was able to stop now instead of later. I'm 30 and in good health, and quitting has made some real and positive changes for me. Smoking may not have been making a huge impact on my life now, but it was obvious that it was making an impact, and it was only getting worse. If I continued down that path, who knows what could have happened. All you have do to is read some of the posts in the forum and you get first hand stories on how bad nicotine affected people's lives. This is much more than you asked for I'm sure, but I hope everyone, no matter what stage of life they are in, will continue their quit and live their lives without all of the baggage that comes with smoking.
Debbie, I thought we were going through those doors together? I'll drag you through them myself if you don't come along quietly. On that note, this forum has been a really big help for me because I really really really don't want to come back and make a post about going back to day 1.
What scares me even more is that I know that if I smoke again, it might be a year or more before I come back to make a solid attempt for a quit.
