It has been 69 days since I quit smoking and I'm still working on it.
The wedding is over and we had a nice time. It was fun watching all the young people dance. It was a public building so there wasn't any smoking inside since Tennessee's new smoke-free-Tennessee took effect on Oct. 1. Since smokers had to go down stairs and outside, I wasn't even tempted any more than I always am. :)
I'm beginning to think that I will always long for a cigarette. I know that it's probably not so, but that's how I feel right now. I'm still waiting for the day that I feel better as a non-smoker and all of these withdrawal side effects have passed. I have to believe that it will happen one day.
I wanted to post real quick while I had a chance because I won't have much of a chance until the middle of the first week of November. I'm busy this week getting ready for my MIL to visit for 3 wks, then we are leaving for MI on Thursday so I'm doing laundry and starting to pack, and getting website work done because we will be there for over a week. Then, I'll have company until after Thanksgiving. Whew! I can't wait to see my son and grandbabies though. My two youngest ones live there now and we really miss them.
I hope everyone's quits are going well! Hopefully, I'll get a chance to post more before I leave.
Monday, October 22, 2007
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Sue, I understand looking forward to the day when a cigarette doesn't even sound like something I'd love to do if it could be done without consequence. I guess I have actually had plenty of days like that here and there, but I do think there will probably always be the part of me that remembers being a smoker and will sometimes remember that I used to really, truly enjoy it - well, aside from the part about it killing me. Anyway, I am confident that it does continue to get better with more and more time, and even if it stayed right like this, it would still be worth it considering what we are avoiding. You are awesome. Have fun in all of your busy times!
Thanks for your encouraging words Maggie.
I just feel like I'm missing something or there must be something wrong with me. I read about other peoples quits and they say how great they feel since they've quit and I don't. I just wish that there was one single way in which I did feel better, but there's not. What in the world is wrong with me? I wanna feel some improvement while I'm going through this trying time! Instead, I feel worse in many ways and I now have issues that I never had before.
I feel like a whiner when I talk about it, but it's either that or just not talk about it. One of my sisters is an ex-smoker and she said that she felt like he** for about a year! I can't imagine that! My luck, I'd get hit by a truck or something between now and a year so my last months would be terrible. :) I know, it's the junkie in me talking. lol
Anyways, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, it's just that the tunnel is longer for some and shorter for others.
Wow - you have a busy schedule. Hopefully being so busy you'll loose the urge somewhere. Enjoy and "safe travels!"
Sue, I'm just now getting caught back up on my reading, but I do agree that for some the tunnel just is a bit longer or at least different. If there is even one thing you can think of that's different, maybe breathing a little deeper or loving the smell of your hair or whatever, then it's something to cling to even when it's not all what you wish it was. You'll make it, and I bet you will get to that point when it really does feel better.
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