I'm a terrible sleeper, have been for years but I have noticed I have been having weird dreams since my quit. The one that keeps coming back is climbing stairs but than I drop something and have to climb again-now I know that this is a metaphor for the climb in becoming smoke free and dropping something is for the those times I have slipped or are thinking of having a cigarette. Do I ever get to the top or is it just a forever climb?
I know it feels like a forever climb so early in your quit, but you WILL get there in real life (can't promise what will happen in your dreams!). You smoked for a long time, and this quit thing IS a journey - but I promise there will come a day, maybe after a few months, when you look back and realize you didn't think about smoking at all that morning. It is a gradual process and gets easier and easier. After awhile, you will notice you went a whole DAY without thinking about it. I don't remember when it finally happened for me, but eventually I didn't EVER think about smoking, except maybe in those rare instances where an association I hadn't relearned came up (like raking leaves) and I would think, "gee, a cigarette would be nice right now." By that point it's only a memory, and easy to dismiss with a shake of the head and "nah!"
Hang in there! Celebrate each day! Notice what physical (and mental) improvements you see.
Nancy