New Quit Date

[jelash]

Hey everyone. I pushed my quit day a week, so today is the day. I have my patch on, my gum, toothpicks, and my determination. So far, so good. I've had one craving so far today and did dished instead. It worked!

Hope everyone is well. Have a great day 🙂

[Puff-TM-Draggin]

As you'll hear many times along your journey, only YOU can keep your commitment to quit, but if that smiling, little grumpklin sharing your photo isn't all the inspiration you need, I'm not sure what could be.

Glad your here!

[YoungAtHeart]

Distract, distract, distract!  Go for a walk or play some ball with the little one.....dress up silly, make instruments out of household stuff and be a marching band!

Change up your routines, too!

Nancy

[YoungAtHeart]

P.S.  Your arsenal might also include some sugarfree mints or gum.

[bonniebee]

I used the patch and straws take a regular straw cut it into 3 pieces ....it really helped me with the hand to mouth habit which does ease up after awhile Only once in awhile do I still use one and it is  usually when I am tense   about something .

Congrats on day 1 !

[Giulia]

OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY!  Day One is more than half over.  The more you keep busy and distract your mind, the easier it will be. 

[MarilynH]

You can and will succeed, drink lots of water to help flush out your system and maybe have some raw carrots and celery sticks when I was having a bad crave, I would chomp on a carrot and the chomping noise seemed to relax me and I kept a bag of sugar free mints around in case of an urge.

Marilyn 

[SkyGirl]

Congratulations on Day One, Jelash!  Stay very close to EX during the next few days.  Don't be shy about asking for some encouragement.

And promise yourself thIs: If you ever feel like you are about to smoke, you will FIRST come here to EX and post a blog titled "HELP!".  You'll be amazed at all the EXers who will come running to support you and help you save your Quit.

xxxooo,   Sky 

[TerrieQuit]

WTG! Jelash! Congrats. on Day won! I had 3 rough days over the weekend and blogged HELP! and had several responses in just a few minutes, so what Sky said really works! Hang in and stay close!!

Terrie  85  DOF

[jelash]

Thank you so much everyone. Yesterday went well, but not without it's intense cravings! I feel much better today. I think having the patch on for 24 hours made a huge difference. It's not as hard to picture myself as a nonsmoker now 🙂 I will remember to blog HELP! if I need to. Thanks for the tip 🙂