Corey

4

okay

3 I feel like I can't leave, geez they really are

1 I should probably be watching the videos or something...

-1

Hi guys, NOPE, not on this fine day

3, is that bus GIF for real

hey doreen, -1

-3 hey joe

You get a beautiful, shiny, and painful sting. I insert my dog's rawhide chew

Hello! -6

haha, i think yes. -7

-9 looked like you guys needed help

-11

Thanks for the hearty welcome, friends! First morning is going by... I'm just trying to let it pass. Drinking water, not coffee, and doing plenty of deep breathing. There's a small family get-together tonight of all nights that I'm dreading a bit, but other than that, just taking it one hour at a time :)

bored

It's a big NOPE for this evening.

Hey, nice work! 5 days is awesome, and just think, you'll never have to go through those 5 days again! Moving forward...

Hello all, I'm new here and just starting out on the next chapter of my life. All in all, it's been about 7 or 8 years that I have struggled with nicotine addiction, with accelerating usage throughout. What started out as a fun college pastime with friends, smoking the occasional hookah on the porch, then developed into wanting something more mobile, which is when I started rolling my own, which then developed into wanting something that required less effort, which is when I began buying packs, followed by packs and packs and packs. Anyways, I have decided the best idea would be to quit and try to move on. There is so much in life to live for. Live for another day! Also, I think my dog will enjoy getting out more. I look forward to meeting you all and working together on beating this thing! A special thanks to Sazerac for a warm and encouraging welcome.

Evelyn, as I am a smoker just in the beginnings of quitting as you are, perhaps I can give you some perspective from where you just came from. I gave myself a quit date of today and decided to get involved with this forum. This afternoon, I decided that I could just do it tomorrow and went and bought another pack. Big mistake! I feel even worse now that I have caved. It was hard to delete the QT ticker I had just created hours ago so proudly. Now I'm just going to have to experience the withdrawal symptoms all over again tomorrow. Great. In other words, just keep going and get past it! Know that the baseline you have now for feeling good, which has required heavy cigarette maintenance, will be replaced by another baseline for feeling good. I will be joining you shortly, as the pack is already almost gone. In my nicotine-infused state, I hope you can appreciate that I feel no better than you do, just in a different way. It is a never-ending cycle until you just break it. Tomorrow I am going to feel like absolute hell again, and I'm not looking forward to it. I will be relying on this community heavily in the coming months, and we all support you, Evelyn. Keep on with it. Don't start over. You're going to feel better. Way better!