Kate18

Closer and closer to the Lido Deck...congratulations on 7 months free!

(And thank you to the Pineapple Company for the free use of their photo on Unsplash.) 

Congratulations on 7 years, Gary!

(Thanks to Patti Black and Unsplash for the free-to-use photo!)

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Congratulations!!!

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Wohoo, two months, looks as though you're on a roll!  Congratulations and many more to follow!!!

Jolly good!!! Congratulations on three months!!!

I must say, this is awesome!!! Congratulations on the first half of your first year!! 

Congratulations!  And wishing you many more months, years of success ahead!

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Someone to help with the heavy lifting, perhaps???

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@Brioski, congratulations on 5 months!   Wahoo!  The months are adding up!

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Happy Weekend!

Congratulations, Nancy!  Wow, 10 years!! And many more to come.   Thank you for all of your encourage and support over the years, Nancy. 

Congratulations, Doreen!  You are such an inspiration!  Thank you!

Congratulations, Pippa! A decade is a wonderful  milestone. May you have many more!

On 7/8/2023 at 6:03 PM, overcome said:

@Kate18 how are you doing my friend?

Thank you, all is well now. I was in a bipolar downward drifting phase. I'm back out of it with the use of strategies I've learned through the past few years.

Thank you for asking, and have a super weekend!

Also, I returned to my whole plant food based diet (with the addition of eggs). It's how I ate before Covid. I only slid away from it after four months of the stress of going to work before the vaccine came out. This past Winter, I attempted keto because it is supposed to lead to mitochondrial repair and an improvement - real healing, apparently - for bipolar.

Anyway, over the course of the past week, my daily resting heart rate went down 5 points, the % of time my heart rate goes below resting heart rate at night went from 0% to 90%. I'm above 5.5 hrs of sleep/night, now, almost 6. Still not enough, but it's the right trend.

Off to the gym.  Then the park with my dog. Sofia likes to wander a while, then throw herself on her back in a patch of clover. She spends 10-15 minutes, like that, just watching people and other dogs pass by on the sidewalk 10 feet away.  Have a great weekend!

3 hours ago, Cbdave said:

 

Stunning. We need a "WOW" emoticon.   

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Went to sleep. Slept about 5 hours. Drank a litre of water with electrolytes. Taking another dose of the prescription med and back to sleep, if I can.

Realized I felt warm. Temp is almost 2 degrees above my normal (I run cool, about 97.5).  Checked my email, and there is a notice that someone at work just reported they have Covid. 

Perhaps part of this is not feeling well due to a virus, whether Covid or not.

Thanks one and all. I live quietly, with only my son and daughter for society. I am grateful for The 'Train to turn to about smoking challenges. It means a lot.

Have a good week, one and all.

38 minutes ago, RhinoDragon said:

All you've got to think Kate is once you've had 1 the feeling will come back again, and again, and again and it will ... Unless YOU Stop it.

Then it Will slowly go away till eventually you won't get any feelings again. 

just try get to day 9 then 10 before you know it'll be day 30. Trust me.

The only way to do that is to not have one hence our NOPE - I know it's hard but you only have to do it once. 

Your at a brilliant amount of days not smoking - Also a critical point, another week or two tops you'll not get a crave, and if you did it would be a very mild thought only. 

Keep strong

Rhino - nice to meet you btw 

Thanks, @RhinoDragon. I'm 3+ years into a quit and this is by far the worst temptation point. It isn't the smoking cravings, it's the craving for sleep. And relief of bipolar depression.  I have a text to my psychiatrist in place, to which she will respond tomorrow, likely. Some well-intending podcaster suggested that nicotine helps with this.  Going to drug myself to sleep to get past this. Thanks for your kind reply. I appreciate it.