Day 5 on Patch and urges are REALLY STRONG!!!!

[olivia]

O.k. I have not held a smoke to my lips since Midnight Dec. 31st (So Jan. 1st is quit date) and have been on the patch since then. I woke up today in a rotten mood, wanting to actually smoke! Now, the only reason I can come up with is this: The whole time I have been quit, I put the patch on a bedtime and would sleep with it on all night. Last night however, I decided to take it off at about 7pm and just put a new one on this morning when I woke up. That must be it because I woke up at 8am this morning, wanting a smoke. I put my patch on straight away but the damage was already done in my thought process.....being an a**hole cause I wanted to smoke early this morning. So I am now upset that all day today ......all I can think of is smoking! I guess I will be o.k. if I just refuse to run to the store and buy smokes. I will be o.k. if I keep busy today. I will be o.k. by the support I know you guys will give me after reading this blog. LOL 🙂 Right now my body does not need nicotine, my Brain wants to SMOKE. It's all in my head and I am smarter than that. I will keep my lungs clean so they can heal gosh darnit! I refuse to go back to slowly killing myself with toxic smoke! I am free from all that! I am a quitter and will remain so! Thanks for listening to me rant, I needed to get my feelings out there and talk myself down 🙂

[lmiller08]

Stay strong Olivia. You will get through today and everything will be okay. :]

[Breakinchains]

Live by one simple rule. CIGARETTES ARE NOT AN OPTION. You can do it, it will get easier with time.

[olivia]

Thanks guys....I feel much better  and am going to work out now, lol! Cigarettes are 100% NOT an option!

[jackie6]

hello olivia now might be a good time for you to go read at whyquit lots of info there about nicotine addiction even thou you are not smoking you are still putting nicotine in your system its not the cigeratte you want its the nicotine whyquit is filled with info to help you it saved my life its a cold turkey site im not saying cold  is the way to go what im saying is it will explain why your feeling this way  i truly believe information is key to successful quit i was a 2 1/2 pack aday for 35+ yrs smoker the stuff i read at whyquit just made perfect sense to me a simple thing like saying gee i really want some nicotine rather then gee i really need a smoke helped me to divorce myself from the love affair i had with smoking go see if something there doesnt click for you as it did for me good luck on your wonderful journey and always remember FREEDOM IS CALLING ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS SIMPLY CHOOSE TO NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF NOT ALWAYS EASY BUT SIMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.............I have been quit for 2 Years, 4 Months, 2 Weeks, 1 Day, 1 hour and 50 minutes (868 days). I have saved $9,071.39 by not smoking 47,744 cigarettes. I have saved 5 Months, 1 Week, 5 Days, 18 hours and 40 minutes of my life. My Quit Date: 8/21/2007 7:58 AM

[nuffznuff]

Thats the spirit, remember what you can do when your 'brain' gets the urge. Stay busy, read a book, learn a hobby, call a freind, drive somewhere that smoking isnt allowed. pop some sunflower seeds. go to the gym, fold laundry, clean out the frig, there has to be something for that brain of yours to do! You can do this, the human will is the strongest thing if you choose it.  We are all very proud of you, and i dont even know you. Go Girl!!!

[suzanne-bridgeland]

Olivia...I am using the patch too...I can not sleep with the patch on (bad dreams and poor sleep) so I put it on first thing when I wale up.  Everyone is different so if bedtime works for you then that is great.  I know that giving up cigarettes is so hard...but YOU can do it!  I am one of those lucky people who has not felt the craving for a cigarette as of yet (day 6 for me)...I feel like there is something missing @ times and realize it is the cigarettes...but have not crave one at all...matter of fact I have rarely even thought about it at all.  Keep strong...and you are right...you should not go to the store and buy some...even if you tell yourself you only want one you will smoke all 20 of them...so resist the urge.  I HAD to lose weight years ago when I was over 200lbs...and I did too.  Lost like 60 lbs!  And one of the things I changed is the food I stopped buying...I have NO snack food in my house...why...because if I had it here I would eat all of it...so if it is not available I won't eat it...and I have not bought cigarettes either...just in case I were to think I wanted one...if they are not here I can not smoke them! 

Jackie, yes patches put nicotine in your system but it is way better than smoking...and slowly the dosage drops so that eventually the nicotine is not needed any longer.  Cold turkey is great for some but for others the patch or loz or gum is the answer...as long as the outcome is QUITTING SMOKING!!!!!