Feeling Good - 31 days smoke free

[freesoul2]

Hello ex smokers,

I am now 31 days smoke free now, quit cold turkey after smoking for 10 years almost.  

Feeling good as days goes by, though i hear a voice which still says the cigarette is precious... I am sure it is the nicotine demon trying to put me in its hook. 

Question to ex smokers : when does the thought go away about smoking ? Will the sub conscious mind continue to crave secretly for a cigarette , which doesnt exist ?

However, i will always remain mad what the tobacco companies did to me and to my body. They took away my courage, freedom, my money,my health, my energy and making me a slave to this damn cigarette

[YoungAtHeart]

Give yourself 130 days.  The cravings will be replaced by smoking "memories" as you go forward - and you need to be careful not to "romance that cigarette." You know the one.  Your life was calm and you were loved, and you had this morning on the beach with your coffee and a cigarette.  You may want to recreate that moment - but you need to understand it was the MOMENT not the cigarette which made it so special.  There was a cigarette because, well, there always WAS a cigarette.

Be wary, too, when you travel through what we call No Man's Land. It is the period from the 2nd to the 4th month of your quit (when you may have become complacent in your quit and craves have become few and far between)  An intense crave may ambush you out of the blue and almost bring you to your knees.  You may start to feel as though you just can't fight it anymore.  A lot of quits have been lost at this point.....but it doesn't need to be.  If you are vigilant and understand that these will leave as suddenly as they came, you can use your distraction activities to get by them just liike you did early in your quit.

I know you can do this!  Carry on!

Nancy

[Deena-A-Yenni]

Nancy said it very well.  I also would like to ask you to go to Jonescarp's page and read his blog.  It's simple reading and mentally prepares you for your journey.  I just read it yesterday again and I'm much better today.  It helps.

[JonesCarpeDiem]

there was a blog not long ago. you may have a day or two where you realize you didn't think aboiut it. right about 100 days

[gr8_start]

Listen to Nancy and Dale, they know what they are taking about!

[freesoul2]

Thanks Everyone. I will definitely take your suggestions to aid me in the quitting process

[Strudel]

Congrats on 31 days! Stay close here!

[johio]

Everyones quit is different....I had crazy craves all the way through NML.  Hang in there they finally subside and the feeling for me is better than I ever expected.

[johio]

Everyones quit is different....I had crazy craves all the way through NML.  Hang in there they finally subside and the feeling for me is better than I ever expected.

[promise_judy]

I still have mini revalations--you know like you look at a dirty ash tray and think "uge that is so sick". When I first quit I did hope to help everyone I knew to quit--don't do that now cause as soon as I suggested they stop their walls went up. I sometimes think that maybe if we called our "quit" something more positive. I don't think of myself as an ex-smoker because I just don't have any desire to smoke. I know that if I wanted to not think about cigarettes it would be impossibly because I try to get on this site at least every other day. I have never had any cravings like I have heard of and I remember when I quit before--but I have had times when my mind tries to reason with me as to why it is ok to just have one. LOL that is so silly even to say it out loud I have to laugh. I mean they come in packs how can you just have one. LOLOLOL. I do spend alot of time trying to figure out how to approach people who want to quit and give them the information they need. Unfortunately most people just want it to go away without trying to understand. I always have to remind myself that I was addicted once and as an addict you think differently.

Simply do not question your quit because it is the best thing any addict can do for themselves.

Freedom is real--just keep adding those days.

XOXO

[green1611]

It does exist for a while. 100 days to 150 days are good enought to get into territory where you feel you are out of smoke related cravings,

It also depends how accerlerated feeling you have about quit. Even when there is no craving, you feel better with freedom from smoke, during that time also keep warning yourself NOPE - not one puff ever. No. No. No. -I  have quit smoking & thats the right approach to get back to my smoke free days.

Also, good to read books like Alan Carr, usefule site like this. It helps to "tune" brain's unwanted signals to go for it once..........and get hooked.

All the best.

Day 252.

[freesoul2]

Yes, i quit smoking after reading the Allen Carrs book. and as he says in his book, we cannot under estimate the power of brain washing.

As we continue to be ex smokers, we still are getting brain washed from seeing  smoking in movies and also see some of our friends smoke