quit smoking support @ woofmang.com people helping people beat the addiction to nicotine
|
View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
THREEGRAND
Quit Date: March 28, 2004
Posts: 631 Location: RHODE ISLAND
|
Posted: May 23, 2004 8:08 PM Post subject: Triggers are still very many |
|
|
I'm just about 2 months quit and didn't realize how many triggers and cravings to go through yet....Thi s weekend we went up to our summer place. I haven't been there all winter. Well-the trip driving up there was a trigger, being there was another, When I was cleaning there was a faint smell to smoke.....(gross, but I felt like I wanted a cigarette) Thinking I could really relax if I had one........NICODEMON WAS EVERYWHERE THIS WEEKEND'''' I couldn't believe it....I'm okay at home most of the time...Driving I'm getting used to not smoking.....This weekendd was all new.....Don't worry friends I'm not going back to smoking ,,,but boy the cravings and triggers weren' t fun.....I can see now if you don't guard your quit every moment, how easy it could be lost.... Gail |
|
Back to top |
|
|
|
skiermom
Quit Date: July 25, 2003
Posts: 148 Location: Long Island, NY
|
Posted: May 23, 2004 8:59 PM Post subject: |
|
|
Good for you for staying strong.............it'll get easier! Keep up the good work! _________________
Today is a gift........enjoy it!
Eileen |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Marvel
Quit Date: -
Posts: 297 Location: Tennessee
|
Posted: May 23, 2004 9:58 PM Post subject: |
|
|
Hey Gail,
It's been said that we have to experience everything as non-smokers that we did as smokers before we break the connections and get through experiences without urges. Even after 7 months I have occasional cravings and wonder, where did THAT come from, but I remind myself that Hey, this is the first time I've sat on the patio in the spring since I used to smoke, or Hey this is the first time I've had a dog to drive me nuts since I smoked!
Yep, that takes a long time, but on the bright side, it does get easier and easier and craves will get weaker if you don't feed the demon. You're doing great hon. Just keep taking it one day and one experience at a time. And stay strong. _________________
Marvel
QD 10/21/2003
|
|
Back to top |
|
|
bjj
Quit Date: April 7, 2004
Posts: 1056 Location: Ohio
|
Posted: May 24, 2004 3:26 AM Post subject: |
|
|
Hi Gail,
I related to your post. I think about everything in my life is associated with cigarettes! I guess that is not surprising since I have smoked at least two packs a day all my adult life until now. I also relate to sometimes needing to post just to vent that this is not easy! I have done that a couple of times. It felt good just to vent and have others understand. I know you are not going to smoke. I also understand that the urges are very, very hard to resist sometimes, and fighting them is difficult and wearing. Congratulations on winning this battle and not smoking! _________________
Bonnie
"Always think of what you have to do as easy and it will become so".
Emile Coue |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Pamela
Quit Date: -
Posts: 3542 Location: Gardiner, NY
|
Posted: May 24, 2004 8:08 AM Post subject: |
|
|
I think at about 6 weeks to 2 months was the hardest for me. Not only do you lose some of your early quit motivation, but people don't praise you any more....so you start to feel a little sorry for yourself, and how this is not worth it....blah, blah. Well, it's worth it. you just have to sit out the process. _________________
FIVE + years of freedom and loving it! |
|
Back to top |
|
|
Tammy
Quit Date: February 16, 2004
Posts: 2565 Location: Florida
|
Posted: May 24, 2004 9:31 AM Post subject: |
|
|
Gail, I agree we have to always be alert, not letting our guard down. Glad you made the choice not to give in to the nicodemon. He is such a liar. Good for you for staying free! _________________
Tammy
Free and loving it! |
|
Back to top |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
|