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JonesCarpeDiem
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Keep track of how many bad days you have in the 100 days after your first month? Write it down

I believe the reason people give in during those 100 days of No Mans Land is because they get a craving that lasts a few days.

You've possibly not experienced this before in your quit or, it's been awhile. That's why it's so surprising.

I don't think many have more than 10 days out of that 100 that are bad days, perhaps less. They just seem more distressing because they can be in a row.

I remember days 53-55 were extermely difficult for me. And I remember a couple days stacked after I reached the triple digits.

Write it down.

You've made it through the first month. Don't give up in NO Mans Land and you will most likely NEVER have a 2 or 3 day crave again.

Use your tools that got you through the first month and you will get through.

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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.