Hey quit family!
Fifty-two days in. Woo hoo! I can feel the nicotine receptors in my brain shriveling and disappearing. I picture it like little fairy twinkles happening all over the inside of my skull as I lose those bad boys.
I feel like the every day triggers have lessened a lot at this point. But these things that I don't do often, but associate with smoking...woo doggie! My husband and I went to this restaurant that we really like and hadn't visited since I quit. After dinner, as we were pulling up to the house, I had this urge to pour a night cap and sit on the porch and smoke - a strong urge...probably the strongest one that I've had since I quit. It's what we ALWAYS did. It took me a minute of running through my thoughts, reframing, observing myself. It was so strong that I finally told myself, "Give it 20 minutes. If you still want to smoke then, you can" which now feels like a dangerous bargain, but did help me stop obsessing over it at the moment and then I forgot about it and was thrilled with myself later that I held tough.
Jeesh. How long does this keep happening? I know I'm still a recent quitter and should expect it, but for those of you who've been quit longer, I assume that this stops at some point?
