So somewhere around 9.30 this morning, I will have officially made it 1 week as a non-smoker. It's so very hard to believe.

Reflecting over the week I can say it's been so much easier than I thought and so much harder too. Some thoughts....

1) who knew it could be as simple as 'don't smoke?'

2) insomnia....did not expect that

3) nicotine really only stays in your body 3 days

4) quitting is 5% physical, 95% mental

5) I'm stronger than I thought

6) why oh why did I wait so bloody long???!!

7) I cried a few tears on the first 2 nights. I don't even know why. I was suddenly overcome with emotion. I guess my body was overcome with experiencing its first days without nicotine since I was eleven

8) I've realised my brain has never freely experienced happy hormones/reactions and has been chained by nicotine all of my adult life

9) I'm free

10) I love it

Happy Monday to everybody.

Happy Nicotine Free Monday!!!

It's gonna get crazier Pork.

Brace YO-SELF!

Congrats on 1 week!!!

Just look at you - when you joined the board everyone mistook you for spam, and now you've become some sort of hybrid porcine food product. How things have changed. Oh, and you made it through "hell week", and every soul here knows what that means. Congratulations pigblanket, you really hit the ground running.

Thanks weird mutant duck bee. It's nice to be on the winning side.

 

TEW: I know, I'm suitably cautious. I'm hoping knowledge is power and reading up as much as I can. But, I know it's coming and 'shit gonna get real'. I suspect for me it will be days or weeks or heaven forbid months down the line. I'll get overconfident or start thinking 'I'm cured'. Anyway, im ever alert but for now, I never ever ever ever thought I would even get this far. Genuinely. Last Sunday I had no plans on quitting other than the vague 'I'll quit at some point'. I Think that might be why I managed it. It's like I got slapped and concussed and by the time I realised what happened, it was done already!

So, happy porky pancake peeps. X

Whooohooo congratulations

Huge congrats....your doing it....stayin smoke free one day at a time....

1st week done and dusted....high five ...pancake...week 2 coming up..x

I couldn't be happier for you.  Congratulations!  I love the list and your attitude.  Bottom line is NOPE and you're good to go.  Hell week is over, awesome.

congrats on week 1!  A massive achievement :) Well done!

 

It's not harder or easier, just use the same steps, nope, no smoking, smokings not on the table, can literally do anything else but smoke...and make each day. 

 

I heard a saying that quitting is a journey, not an event. I like that. Ups and downs, but real talk here, smoking never helped any single thing for us. You got this. xx

YOU are walking the walk now!

 

Congratulations! 

Great work! Congratulations

Well done!  Hell week is over, and you will never have to do it again!  Congratulations!

Congratulations to you!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Hell week done and dust, never to be done again.