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Cbefree
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5 14 158

Greetings everyone....51 days & wanted to touch base with myself & anyone who might read this.

Just now had a feeling come over of the tinniest sensation of congratulations to myself. This hasn't happened before now, it wasn't that I was pushing away the triumph I think it was more that I felt too precarious to allow it to seep through. I feel like the last 50 days has been just pushing through; one foot in front of the next step, like having zero affect or emotion no extremes, keep everything flat feels safer. I have never been this "present" in a quit, this reflective of the journey. It makes sense that this is useful, especially with the adage "what we resist persists". 

Be well

Cindy

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Recently retired at 69 which means I've smoked for over 50 years! Serial quitter like many of you, this time it's different. I've never had an opportunity to stay this present in a quit. In reading old posts of mine, I welcomed feeling everything & do I ever! All feelings are heightened good/bad/indifferent. I've lived in the Sierra foothills since 2003, very happy to be retiring here and be addiction-free.