So I officially have twelve days until quit day. I have a mixture of nervousness and being excited because this website has already helped me out so much with the community, the comments, and the support. So as a suggestion from this website, since I have been doing the proper homework because I don't want to get bitten lol!, I started changing my routines around. This morning, I woke up later, decided to focus on picking out healthy things to eat, and planned my day so to speak because I work as a manager in retail, so there's a lot to do with planning especially at Wal-Mart haha. I have noticed that as I begin to eat healthier, the cigarettes taste nasty. At one time, I was the kind of girl that lived at McDonalds and all the maor fast food restuarants. If it was quick, greasy, and cheapt I was there however, chaning my diet to more health concious foods, I drink no caffeine, I drink a lot more water, and I drink a cup of tea for digestion at night, I have noticed that cigarettes leave this really nasty taste in my mouth and I sit there wondering why am I doing this? That is a positive step in the right direction I figure yay 🙂
I also wonder from my fellow community members, as I have asked this question to a quit coach because I am also part of quit.net which the community is really nice over there as well, did anyone actually feel afraid to quit smoking? I don't know, maybe I am different however, I am always a little scared because I guess it's my go to thing for all my emotions: i.e. if I am sad I smoke a cigarette, if I am happy smoke a cigarette, if I am stressed obviously I am grabbing one. I think one of my triggers as I research to identify them is for a long time, I felt like I had no control over my life if you will so the one thing I could control was my smoking habit, I do ask if anyone has felt that way and been able to change that, some advice would be very much appreciated.
Also, I have been wondering as well, why I went back to smoking so quickly. I think that I was pushing myself to much on quitting different things. As I wrote, I was a major fast food junkie so I was trying to eath healthier, stop smoking, learning proper way to save money, and quitting caffeien ALL at the SAME TIME. Definitely do not recommend this to anyone because I believe I actually shocked my body doing that.
But yea this was on my mind today so I thought I would share with everyone because of course we all have our own unique stories and I'd like to hear them all. I am hoping that through this, I could meet some good connections and make some friends while doing so. So if you would like to chat as I mentioned, I do have another email that I linked to this website so feel free to share whatever you have on your mind.
Until I write again, be positive everyone, it gets difficult, I know but with all of us backing each other I know that all of us will be met with great success!
