Why is reaching one month of not smoking giving me the same relapse-y feelings the same as one year of sobriety from alcohol gave me? This is very strange for me and I don’t know if many people on here can relate, but putting down the drink and keeping it that way was a bit of a struggle for me and took time to be able to do it.
Quitting smoking though, is by far harder and so very different!! But this similarity of the craving feelings getting more intense after one month of not smoking like they did after one year of not drinking is obviously psychological, but why?
Is it like, “Okay I did it, now I get to reward myself! I proved it!” I haven’t “proved” anything. There is nothing to prove. There is everything to gain, not prove. There is a life without smoking to KEEP. It can be mine for good if I just keep taking it one day at a time. That’s what you all keep telling me is all I need to do. One more day of freedom.
I couldn’t stay in my right mind without all of you. I want to thank you with all my heart, because this has truly been a challenge that this support network has made a solid quit for life possible to be able to even see as achievable (for an addict like me) out in the horizon of my future.
