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3 Months!

barb6
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‎04-04-2009 02:20 PM
Cant believe it has been 12 weeks since I quit. I am doing great! Had a rough time yesterday and some today. I recognize that I am romancing the thought of smoking. I called a counselor yesterday so I wouldn't stop for smokes on my way home from work. But I worked through it, and today I did not buy a pack while grocery shopping.

Does it ever get easier??? I sure hope so. This is really really tough, but I HAVE to stay smoke free. Not even a puff.

Barb
83 days, 21 hours, 17 minutes and 31 seconds smoke free.

1678 cigarettes not smoked.
$290.50 and 12 days, 19 hours of my life saved.

My quit date: 1/11/2009
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6 Comments
jan__tx
Member
‎04-04-2009 02:53 PM
Congratulations!!!
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cindywilson
Member
‎04-04-2009 03:00 PM
just one more week and you will be at the 90 day mark, they say that is the you won't turn back as fast mark. I can tell you as someone who quit for almost two years and started again, you have to know your triggers, sounds like you do and always remember you are an addict, longtime quitters tell me it gets easier, but that occasionally they still think of it 15 to 20 years later, but it is fleeting....so there is the good news. Congrats on your quit! you deserve it!
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william9
Member
‎04-04-2009 03:13 PM
You're doing great!
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libby
Member
‎04-04-2009 03:42 PM
It does get better, but even after a long period an urge can come out of the blue and blindside you.
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suzzy12345
Member
‎04-04-2009 04:06 PM
Keep on going, and never look back! You are doing great in your quit
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carole_
Member
‎04-04-2009 06:36 PM
Other addiction programs do 90 meetings in 90 days for good reason. Lots of changes happenin' mentally and physically in the early part of a quit as you can attest. It's like the first big and major hump time. And, absolutely it gets easier. I truly don't think about them, and the idea to smoke rarely comes up. Last memorable thought occurred in a really tough emotional time, the loss of my adopted Mom last May. It tapped my shoulder a few times, but I wasn't screaming for one. I likened it to having a deep memory to smoke when things were really at their breaking point when I was smoker. Cigs were part of the deal then. Emotionally I was a wreck with her loss, so it made sense. Worth going back to being a slave junkie again? Absolutely not. I've quit enough times in my life that this last one was it for me. I get it now. I'm an addict, period. Huge, huge, huge congratulations on 90 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I knew you could do it! 🙂
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