Good Day ,
So today is Day 28.. I wasn’t able to post yesterday, just had a lot going on and it wasn’t a good day .. I forgot to do something very important on my behalf and just wondering where my mind is these days .. I’m so glad that I’m not smoking anymore.. but everything else in my life is just .. feels like out of control in a sense.. I know I’m a strong person because I picked a very stressful time to quit one of the hardest things I felt like to overcome.. I still get the urges here and there some stronger than others especially when I’m feeling overwhelmed.. but I can’t imagine having to deal with both right now.. Thank god I can come here for support because I’m not finding it anywhere else.. I’m greatful beyond words.. Have a great day ...
Your mind is taking a mini-vacay ---- it will return as you get further along in your quit. Happened to all of us when we quit. I planned a quick beach trip in the Fall after the summer I quit - and just could have cared less about planning what to do - or applying much thought at all to getting ready and packing. Made a hotel reservation and that was about the limit of my brain power. Didn't check the weather forecast, took the wrong clothes ---- was chilly, then too warm. Didn't take any snacks or even what I usually took to keep the cost down by packing breakfast cereal, fruit, milk and lunch type foods.
THEN I had to survive major craves with the addition of my first trip to the beach as an ex-smoker, the drive, mornings at sunrise without a cigarette.....on the balcony without one, walking along the wave's edge without a cigarette, etc., etc.
In retrospect, it was probably a bad idea ---- but I survived, smelled the salt air for the first time in YEARS, and got the first beach trip without smoking over with......
Knowing what I do now, I probably wouldn't have done it - but I survived - and so did my quit!!!
Hang in there - it does get better!