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130 Days. You Do Not Have To Be Miserable For 130 days.

JonesCarpeDiem
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You will feel down and up and down and up for the first 30 days

then you will feel like you got it beat. You may get apathetic and let your guard down.

But the next three months are critical because you will get hit a few times out of the blue with unexpected

thoughts of smoking. They may last for an hour or a few days

You aren't automatically going to be miserable for the whole 130 days unless you choose to.

The good days will always outnumber the bad.

I've seen this thousands of times over.

Relax into it at that point but, be vigilant and remember the benefits of doing this.

This journey isn't about quitting in the end its about learning to live without smoking.

Hundreds of thousands, millions even,  have gone before you and felt exactly as you feel and succeeded.

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.