I quit on 2 November 2025 at 12:00 CET

[Reciprocity]

Good job on rewarding your milestone @GonSo!

[GonSo]

Morning all,

 

Today will be an emotional day for me. My current foster kitten goes to his forever home this afternoon. After very intensive care since he arrived at the 6th of September, only 10 days old, it is time to say goodbye to a healthy and beautiful kitten. It is the one in the avatar. At that point he was ~3 weeks old. 

The handover will happen at the animal shelter where I work as a volunteer.

 

First hurdle is that I no longer can avoid the gasstation as my car needs fuel otherwise I will not make it to the shelter.

Second hurdle is that a lot of my colleagues are smokers. 

[QuittingGirl]

Hi @GonSo Just know that you took care of him and made him the happy and healthy kitten that he is.  You will do fine today, there will be many hurdles that you will overcome along this journey.  Just take a deep breath and say that you are just filling your car with gas and that's all.  No more buying cigs there and when you see your colleagues smoking, just be strong.  YOU CAN DO THIS!!

[GonSo]

Pfff. I did it!

[QuittingGirl]

You are doing great @GonSo 

[johnny5]

I'm sorry for missing this thread until now.  Welcome @GonSo and congratulations on doing so well in your quit.  Keep up the awesome work!  You are doing a great thing in quitting smoking.

 

 

Edited November 22 by johnny5

[GonSo]

Thank you!

Your avatar makes me smile everytime I see it 

[Reciprocity]

Good job  @GonSo! You realized the potential triggers before hand which is a huge advantage in getting past those difficult encounters. 

 

Sorry you had to part with your kitty that you cared for so well. Take pride in knowing that cat will have a happy life and you had a hand in making that happen!

 

Here's a pic of a Norwegian Forest Cat to hopefully cheer you up a little 

[catlover]

Huge Well done GonSo, so proud to read how well you are doing. Stay strong, Stay determined

[Doreensfree]

Congratulations on both of your beautiful achievements 

Your Amazing …

[GonSo]

10 hours ago, Reciprocity said:

Good job  @GonSo! You realized the potential triggers before hand which is a huge advantage in getting past those difficult encounters. 

 

Sorry you had to part with your kitty that you cared for so well. Take pride in knowing that cat will have a happy life and you had a hand in making that happen!

 

Here's a pic of a Norwegian Forest Cat to hopefully cheer you up a little 

It did. Beautiful cat. 

[GonSo]

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.

 

[Reciprocity]

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 

[Doreensfree]

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

[GonSo]

Thanks for ensuring it is kind of normal for quitting.

And yes, got it, need to be patient. Never had much of that, to be honest. 

 

[QuittingGirl]

You are doing great @GonSo  I can relate when you say you never had much patience...me neither! LOL!!  In the beginning I wanted the withdrawal symptoms to go away very quickly but unfortunately, it takes time, but after a while they really do go away.  Just hang in there and you will get there.  One day at a time and it will happen!  For me the first 2-3 months were the worst and then everything started to get easier.  Just keep doing what you are doing!