I have reached week 12

[Lyns36]

Hi I have reached week 12 and have been struggling ☹️ I realised when I gave up the nicotine spray the only thing I had done was replace 1 bad habit with another, for me personally I regret using nicotine replacement, the challenge for me has been the last few weeks. I'm hoping I don't slip back to my old ways but my moods have really changed along with struggling to stay away from cigarettes. Feeling really low. 😭😭

[TheTabbyCat Administrator LONG TERM WINNER]

Hi Lyns,Super well done for reaching your 12th week. I'm sorry you're feeling down.Replacing cigarettes with the spray was not really replacing one bad habit with another. The spray is a valid form of NRT. 3 months can be a bit bumpy anyway.

I suggest you go back to the spray,maybe try to use it less frequently. The spray won't kill you hun. I realize that it's frustrating but you're no longer smoking and that is BRILLIANT. Just give yourself a little more time,don't be so hard on yourself.💖🚭💪XXX

[jillygirl Administrator Queen Bee]

Hi Lyns, you are doing so well. You have reached 3 month mark which for some reason seems to effect lots of us. It does pass and it does get better.

Here is a link to explain....

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[Briarwood Administrator Ducky]

Hi Lyns, hang in there coz it won’t always be this hard💪

You have done so well, keep going🚭✅

Be kind to yourself and this will pass👍💕🌻xx

[Alex_Vega LONG TERM WINNER]

Hey Lyns, you're doing great, even if you feel low at the moment! I know how it feels..grey and lonely and depressed and just awful all around. But every second that you're feeling depressed or craving nicotine means that your brain is being rewired this very moment. It is 100% necessary for this to happen. Only now will your neural adaption take place, so every second of that nasty feeling actually is a signal that your body is repairing and healing. It is right now quite busy rewiring the deep connections that smoking had within your reward mechanisms and pretty soon all the connections will be gone. In fact, this is even visible in an electron microscope. In the first 1-2 weeks after you quit nicotine, the majority of nicotinic receptors are being replaced by healthy ones. After just 6 weeks, every last connection is done and nothing is left of them, but only after abstaining from nicotine products entirely, so well done quitting the spray. After this, you'll have occasional cravings of course, but not in any way based on a real physiological underlying except old habits that you will quickly get used to once you live though all the situations which you used to smoke in a few times without smoking. That's how simple it is. You've got this, 100%. Just stay the course, this whole madness will all be over soon, you have my word!

[Witty41 LONG TERM WINNER]

I know the feeling after the first 2 weeks I stopped nicotine replacement I was using patches. I cut down to cutting the lowest level into 4 peices. So I knew I wasn't getting much from a little square so I stopped. After I got past month one things seemed a little easier. Now I am almost 3 months and the last week and a half I find I'm back to having cravings and my moods are very unstable. I just try to remind myself that I quit smoking for my boys and they are very proud of me. I breath better I have more energy and there is no way I want to go through those two weeks I went through at the beginning again! I also tell myself over and over again it will only make me happy for a few minutes it won't change anything that may be causing me sadness or anger.

I try to push myself to do some things I wouldnt normally do. Lately I started wearing makeup everyday. Being a stay at home mom I gave that up years ago lol but lately I have the time to do it cause I'm not spending 30 to 60 minutes every morning smoking.

I work out as much as possible I do anything I can that makes me feel good. But you have to try and search for what makes you feel good or happy. And somedays I just have to say to myself suck it up buttercup and trudge on. I wish you good luck keep strong your doing a great job😊

[Happybear LONG TERM WINNER]

Good morning Lyns36, well done to you. Last few weeks I have been feeling rather low too after a couple of months of feeling quite fantastic! Smoking won't make us feel better but our minds like to kid us that it will. Keep going, life is like this up , down, sometimes flat sometimes we feel are riding the crest of a wave. It will pass. Good luck and big smiles, happybear.

[Busterbenny 4 YEARS WINNER]

Keep at it Lyns I had real trouble getting off the pesky spray, but worth it in the end!