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.
