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A daily/weekly account of giving up smoking forever.

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No One Ever Said It Would Be Easy

A short blog, a few words, I just want to pen a quick thought.   The past week I have hit a low spot in my quit. I'm not really sure what has triggered it, have I lowered my guard? I don't know. I have just past my 4 month quit mark and all of a sudden i'm getting waves of urges to smoke.   The one thing that has kept my resilience, stubbornness and downright refusal to give in, is the fact that I have read about how people have faced the same struggle; even after months into a quit, just li
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Nothing Exploded

Nothing exploded. I gave up smoking and stuff carried on as normal, the world didn't blow up nor did I fall over and curl into a ball - things carried on.   Stuff still happened that annoyed me, stuff still happened that made me happy and I dealt with that stuff - stuff is easy without smoke, you find a way in the end.   It's almost 3 months for me after 25 years of smoking, the most annoying thing about the quit is that I didn't do it sooner. I'm not talking about those half arsed quits, y
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The best things about not smoking

For me, the best things about not smoking, becoming a non smoker, are the small things. I have never been driven by 'how bad' smoking is for your health, of course, clearly, smoking is terrible for your well being. Somehow, my brain had learned to navigate around that fact, because of the nicotine, the drug; It was dismissed - 'it won't happen to me' attitude. So finding a driving factor for my quit has never been clear cut, until one day I had a moment of clarity.   The day I threw away smok
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End of day 3

I think this afternoon and evening has been the hardest in terms of physical withdrawal. Although I felt pretty rough! I took myself out for a 2 mile run, showered and relaxed and feel a lot better.   I do a lot of writing both in work and out of work. The out of work writing was very much associated with having a smoke; so I need to find another way to step away from writing and have that moment for thought. I'll figure something out.   I can feel the urges getting weaker and my resilience
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Day One

So i'm nearing the end of day one.   I have been here before a few times in the past, I knew what was coming and what to expect. A few hot flushes, a nagging voice to 'go buy some smokes'. Getting past trigger places through the day; keeping my mind occupied.   I only had one really bad moment in the day, that was early evening, when I would smoke the most. It's about snapping that routine, 'doing something else'.   I smoked for 25 years, sometimes heavy sometimes not. I liked smoking, I e
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