intoxicated yoda

Nice! @BAT Wishing you a great day and healthy life

kills in battle

ducks like bread

@GusI'm finding out there's a few things I can't do without the nicotine. Caffeine and sugar have become poison to me it seems. Maybe they always were...hmmmmm.

I decided this morning that I would try some coffee since I hadn't had any since Sunday. Big mistake. I feel like I got kicked in the head. Not sure why I keep doing this to myself but lesson learned...again. I guess I was looking for a little morning boost. Thank God the reaction was almost immediate as I hate to think how I'd feel if I drank the whole thing. I drank less than 1/4 of the 16oz. cup so it would seem i've gotten extremely sensitive to something in it.

@Krisso sorry to hear about your migraines. I used to get those pretty bad in my twenties. not sure what changed but haven't had a really severe headache in long time. I still get headaches just not the debilitating kind. I'm sure you will get back to feeling like you have some energy. Part of why I'm doing my current diet change is to see if I can get some more energy and hopefully improve my sleep. Wishing you the best and praying you get a great nights sleep.

@jillarI haven't drank very much soda over the last 10 years and I pretty much quit drinking 4 or 5 years ago. I love beer, especially those super hoppy IPA's, but it got to where I would feel like crap for days after I drank a couple. I may sneak a cup of coffee in here and there but I definitely notice some pretty harsh reactions to anything related to carbs or sugar. Sucks to be me I guess but at least the brain fog is starting to lift some. I think I'm just now finding out that there are a lot of foods that I'm just allergic to. I'm gonna try to tough this out for 4 or 5 months and then start reintroducing some vegetables back to the menu. In the long run i'm just doing a pretty strict elimination diet to find out what I can and cannot eat.

The board has been really slow the last couple of days it seems so I figured it's time for me to update my progress and hopefully give y'all something to laugh at or maybe even stir a little motivation. I started the new diet on 12/26/21 and I have to say I've been less consistent with that than with quitting smoking. This is day 17 and i've cheated pretty bad on 3 of those days. That gives me a record of 14 and 3 and still kicking ass. The good news is I think my digestive system is beginning to show signs of straightening out. My weight has been pretty consistent for the last week in spite of cheating for 2 days straight Friday and Saturday. The craves have been coming in waves for everything especially cigarettes. There not as bad as they used to be but they are a lot worse the last 2 days than they have been for the previous week or so. I might be just craving coffee really bad instead of the cigarettes though so there is a little bit of confusion. It's quite eye opening to see just how addicted I'd gotten to coffee and sugar. When I was smoking it was much easier to avoid sugar. Coffee was a bit more of a challenge but not hard to do without. Now, it's much harder to not eat sweets and drink coffee. I'm sure part of it is convincing my mind and body that it isn't necessary to be constantly eating, drinking or smoking non stop through out the day. Thinking back, I probably only got a few hours in at a time where I wasn't ingesting something throughout the day. Now, I only get thirsty a few times a day and I really don't get hungry but once or twice a day so I might be going 16 to 24 hours without ingesting anything but water and then when the craves hit they are intense. Hopefully in another week if I can keep from cheating the sugar craves and caffeine craves will be gone and life will get easier. I'll put up with those cravings to not have the god awful bloating I was getting. Anyway, that's the update from 139 days deep into the quit. I hope everyone out there is staying strong and having a great 2022.

Awesome job @kenzie_peyton

00

0

Rhyme for me

do you prefer baseballs or footballs?

mauve

the ones with 4 or more legs What kind of cheese is the moon made of?

-3

@KEL That's great that you've made it to 100 days. I'm at 130 something and I can tell you I went and am still going through what you are describing. I had about a week of what I would call relief and then the crave started to build. Feelings I thought I had beaten soundly started to pop back up. Nothing has been really intense but it's noticeable and annoying and slowly building. It's almost like my body is missing something and doesn't know how to ask for it. I guess it's just part of the process but it's still a pain in the rear.

hi @maybaby66. it gets better. you've got a good list of reasons for not smoking and you will get through it. try and focus on the reasons why you are quitting and not so much on how much it sucks.

@KELJohns Hopkins has done studies on smoking cessation using psilocybin with success rates of around 80% after 1 year. There is a microcap biotech company working with them to develop a micro dose psilocybin patch. I think one of the keys to using psilocybin is that the dose needs to be strong enough to disconnect you from reality for a brief period of time so as the neurons reconnect they make different connections from the ones formed by habitual use. All in all I think it's got a lot of potential for removing the psychological addiction. PS. They are also working on refining the psychoactive molecule so the half life is much shorter. This way you can get the intensity of dose needed and be back to a normal state of mind within a couple of hours instead of needing an entire day for a treatment. cool stuff.

Awesome quit @Katgirl. 3/4ths of the way to the Lido Deck. Congratulations

Hi Sal...It's pretty obvious to me you see it as a problem on some level since you asked about it. In my opinion, if it's getting you off the cigs it's what you gotta do for now but a terrible long term solution. Same with the patches. The junkie mind will do all kinds of things to get you back on the drug and it could be real easy to turn smoking something into smoking your favorite brand again. I mean, didn't we all use cigarettes for personal issues? You've got a good quit going, don't try to justify yourself out of it.

Congratulations @Linda You are one of the ones I've been following very closely here on the train cuz your journey seems to be very similar to mine. I'm so happy and proud of you for making it the first year. I pray so hard that your journey gets easier from here on out. Now get on the Lido Deck and party!!

Congrats Ace. Have a great day