Hey Jenny, yep day 7 this hour as a matter of fact. I appreciate your support, and congrats to you for just taking the leap as I did. I was in the same sort of situation, I picked a quit date like a couple weeks out. Even though I knew I was ready to quit the moment I visited the site. I went almost the whole way, then the day before I decided to just quit already. I'm feeling good myself, but I have my moments. The thing is, I grew so disgusted with the "smoke" part of smoking that I don't want one, but find myself feeling uneasy when I'm idle, which was usually when I would go outside and smoke. But, I've got skittles for that now. ~grin~ And yeah, sleeping the first two nights was near impossible. But it's gotten much better after a week. I'm so happy for you because pretty soon it'll get easier for you too. My dead man walking reference hit me pretty hard too, especially every time I look at my son. He's 6 and had apparently learned in school that smoking is bad for one's health, so he's been kinda telling me to quit, in that cute "who can resist the cuteness of a 6 year old" kind of way. In the end, it's all about motivation. I'm a good dude and I want to teach him the right way to go, only I have to be the example and no matter what other things I do to remain healthy with diet and exercise, the smoking was still killing me softly. My last physical was better than I had expected, apparently I'm as healthy as an ox, low cholesterol, low triglycerides, no protein markers for any disease, BUT some yellow ass teeth and a pair of black lungs. I asked myself, WTH? Quitting is hard. Really hard. And I feel the withdrawal my body is going through, and I feel myself getting figetty, but I can't cave in again. Smoking sucks and we're too damn good looking to keep doing it!!! HaHa....
Incidentally, I love this group. It's just the right amount of shallow to go with my skittles...
Stay strong girl, we can do it...
