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Half way through Day 2 and getting it, maybe.

alysonoholic
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I feel like I'm starting to understand the difference between NRT and cold turkey already. I haven't been irritable and the cravings haven't been awful yet but it definitely feels different than using the patch. 

But the waves of craves are hitting the shores of my brain, mostly on schedule - those work breaks and moments throughout the day that were typically followed with a cigarette. I'm a little fuzzy and fatigued but I am hoping that some yoga tonight will fix me up. I have been slacking the past few months but I am going to try a new studio nearby and see how I like their program.

In other news, my BFF (best friend forever) is moving from Seattle back to New York in a week and I have no freakin' clue what the heck I am going to do with myself. I'm also kind of freaked out that I'm going to be feeling a lot of feels that I am not used to over the next few weeks, so I am trying to come up with a game plan for coping. Maybe if I just submerse myself in my studying and exercising and writing I'll be able to distract and express myself enough that I won't just be a sobbing mess hiding under the covers. 

I do imagine I'll be here A LOT.

Since Sep 8, 2013: 
1 day smoke free,
23 cigarettes down,
10.35$ and 02:18:00 saved!

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This is actually my third wind on becomeanex.org - in February 2013 I quit for over 6 months before relapsing and realizing I was going to have to start all over again. And then that happened again. So, I'm back here to get at it. I've tried quitting so many times now it's not even that funny. I had basically been smoking since I was 13 (so, 25 years now) and was tired of letting something so stupid and expensive run my life to the extent that it did. In general, I am a pretty healthy person. I work out regularly, I eat well most of the time..it just seemed ridiculous to keep subjecting myself to being stinky and ultimately sick. I know cigarettes don't actually bring anything positive to my life, it was just hard to think of a future that didn't include the habits I had built around them. But now that I am 38 I am determined to live a healthy, well-balanced life and take more time to enjoy my home, my friends, my 2 cats, my city and a life free of cigarettes.