High9's Goals & Progress

[violaactuary]

Nothing wrong with a "blah day" every once in a while. I think you are doing awesome! Is your yoga a beginner class? or is everyone in the class at a different level?

Soon you will have your own "independence day" from smoking, but in the meantime- Happy 4th!

[high9]

I'm not weighing myself for now - just focussing on the food (still going well) and quitting smoking. I was down to 5 smokes a day this last week and I had my last smoke today already, so now I'm quit and feeling positive about it because I have all the tools to cope now...

[violaactuary]

Originally Posted by high9

I'm not weighing myself for now - just focussing on the food (still going well) and quitting smoking. I was down to 5 smokes a day this last week and I had my last smoke today already, so now I'm quit and feeling positive about it because I have all the tools to cope now...

Good for you!

[Maine-iac]

Excellent work!

[high9]

Thanks ViolaActuary and Maine-iac for the support. I'm not weighing myself formally, but I have picked up 2 pounds - Once I get into exercise again, I'll shed it, but more importantly 1 week without a cigarette today!

Generally I either feel fogged over as my body detoxes or I am filled with a rage and a short fuse for stupid people. I know its a passing phase and was warned of it beforehand - so as long as I don't kill/ physically harm anyone, it should be good. (Although the opportunity to ride over my ex boss while he was walking to his car and I was driving in mine already did present itself on Monday... I was restrained though.)

[Maine-iac]

Originally Posted by high9

I'm not weighing myself formally, but I have picked up 2 pounds - Once I get into exercise again, I'll shed it, but more importantly 1 week without a cigarette today!

WELL DONE, SIR!

(Don't know if it would help you or not, but when my Dad quit, he cornered the market on starlight peppermints, which got him through it. )

[high9]

Thanks - I think I am making the shareholders of Tic Tacs and Smint very rich.

Well 3 weeks today and no smoking - I'm past the pure withdrawal symptons for quite a while and rarely think about smoking so thats been pretty seamless. Smokenders is finished and I got my certificate where they recorded I smoked for 16 years - more than half my life!

On the bad side, my serotonin uptake is out of whack, so insomnia is wrecking my life - its slowly getting better- taking 5HTP to promote the uptake of serotonin. Otherwise I'm generally hazed over - I know this will take time, and is temporary, but in the end will be worth it. My personally severe physical reaction to the cessation of smoking, is probably what made me never quit for more than a few days in the past (except that one time...) as I used to smoke when i needed to focus on a task at hand - since I'm hazed over, that caused the need to smoke when i had quit.

If anyone does want to quit smoking, I will recommend SmokeEnders- it gave me a framework to quit and the understanding of my psycology of smoking. More importantly, it taught to dislike smoking, which is something no other quitting technique has given me. On Saturday night, went out with friends to dinner and we sat in the smoking section and I wasn't even tempted to smoke, which a few months ago seemed an impossibility to me. (Oh yeah, while I personally dislike smoking now, I'm not joining the rabid anti-smoking gestappo either because I understand whats it like to be a smoker...)

Regarding the diet and exercise, its all gone out the window, but it will be making a vengeful return tomorrow...

Thanks to the forum for giving me the space to blog my thoughts about this, and keep a record of it for future reference for me as a reminder. And also thanks to Maine & Viola for the support, it helped a lot

[tommie frazier]

good for you, and good luck staying off the smoking wagon.

[Maine-iac]

Excellent!

[high9]

Thanks for all the support

I think this thread should be called High9's quitting smoking thread, because I am closing in on 2 months smoke free and hardly tempted, but exercize and eating went out the window. I'll get back to all that after I refocus.