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I am not going to smoke today. NOPE.

G’day NOPE .....Not One Puff Ever.

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NOPE not today! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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G’day NOPE .....Not One Puff Ever.

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NOPE for today! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

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According to the ticker it is now 26 days since my last 'Sigaret' (sorry for the local language). I kept notes on my quit but noticed that I recently have skipped some days. While the first days I wrote almost every hour to document how I felt. I think it is a good sign. I am still reading a lot. I tried to find an explanation of what it was that I was feeling in the evenings after the 2nd week of my quit. It was a feeling around the stomach. Not intense but continuously there. Not a sort of hunger. I tried that It really felt as a physical side-effect of quitting nicotine. Yesterday evening I noticed it was easing up. Finally. It did not make me wanting to smoke. I just wanted it to go away. Bit disappointed that I still have side-effects while most explanations are that after 2 weeks they supposed to be gone. I still do have the automatic thoughts and actions to light up. This happens in 1/100 of a sec: done this - where is the pack and lighter. My eyes really automatically doing the search. As it is the situation where I would normally smoke. Task completed, or delaying a new task. In the early days I was a bit afraid of those thoughts, but now I can see that it is just something that needs to fade away with time as I smoked so long. No real new rewards, But I bought some nice food for a luxury lunch last weekend. I do already notice some positive effects. In a way also a sort of reward. I sleep better. Or better said I get tired early and not delaying to go to sleep by lighting up another cigarette, or two, or three. I really was an evening smoker (therefore I think the feeling in my stomach area in the evening has to do with that). No trouble with falling asleep because my feet first need to warm up and that took ages.

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What you're feeling and going through sounds pretty standard for someone quitting. We all may have different symptoms that we notice but I think we all expect the [process to move ahead more quickly than it does. Quitting the nicotine is one thing and I feel that part is where many of the unwanted, temporary symptoms come from. But the real act of quitting, the part that transforms you from being a smoker to becoming a non-smoker is a very slow slog of daily rinse & repeat living without "Sigarets" involved in your daily life. It can't be rushed because reconditioning your dialy lifestyle to excluse smokes just takes time and repetition. One day you'll get all excited because you realized that you haven't thought about having a smoke all day! Put in the time and like all of us here, you'll be a life long non-smoker and there's NO better feeling

Your doing Great …Keep feeling proud , because what your achieving is flippin amazing balls , Be kind to yourself this is a journey … your journey and it takes as long as it takes , 2 weeks , wow that’s a very early Quit , You are still very early in your Quit , this is why we always say take the year pledge , it’s only then , you are on your way for sure , You smoked for decades , your body has a lot of healing to do Don’t worry about where you are , your right where your supposed to be to be Your already a fabulous non smoker .. All you have to do is hold on to that

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I am not going to smoke today. NOPE.

Pfff. I did it!