Journaling the 1st day of quitting

It helped me before to get the HOUR down that I stop smoking rather than a certain day/morning (which makes the day ahead soo long). So at 9pm on the 25th/01/23, after I googled ‘’How to stop smoking’’, I impulsively decided to leave the rest of the 7 ciggies in the packet (as I don’t enjoy smoking anymore anyway and it doesn’t give me the rush like before) and stop immediately, cold turkey. I handed the rest of the cigarettes to my 13 year old son, who’s wish for a while was for his mother to stop smoking! He laughed and didn’t believe me though. But I will show him...

First evening.. I feel dirty, and am still surrounded by dirty ashtrays and lighters. Besides, I go sleep stressed and hungry (not much food in the house), I havn’t eaten dinner even. But after I let everyone on the forum know that I decided to go Cold Turkey, I’m going to take a hot bath now as a first stepping stone to my no smoking journey, and go to sleep...

Waking up...still stressed...a messy house to clean...still hungry and only get paid on Friday (so bread has to be my crutch till then)..but amazing news...I finally got an open booking for the gym...and for the 1st of Feb!!

I also let some more people know now that I quit.

This is going to be a tough day. But this evening at 9pm, its already the start of my 2nd day really..

Keeping a Journal of your first days of quitting is a great idea...