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3K in 23:46 mins. 20 minutes weights. Sun salutes, stretching.

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26 mins running, 20 mins weights, sun salutes, stretching. I hit that bliss stage when I ran, where I know the endorphines will keep pumping for the rest of the day. Sooo sweet! Many hours later now, I still feel in bliss-land! I'm floating....makes me forget my sore muscles..... :)

Day #4 is almost over. I had some why-don't-I-just-go-buy-some-cigarettes-and-smoke-them-and-then-quit-again thoughts this morning, but they passed although they left me feeling a bit depressed and a failure in life in general. I think I'm just unaccustomed to living a no-smoke life. I had a great workout at the gym, and there was a moment in my running where I felt that I was getting high. So I knew I would feel wonderful for the rest of the day. I'm on hour 5 of bliss since my workout. Plus some assorted pains from pushing myself at the gym My goal is to go to the gym as soon as it opens, so I avoid all of the morning-without-cigarettes confusion and instead start the day off in a great mood from working out. It should be doable. And I'm incredibly curious to see the gym at 5:30 in the morning! Who the hell is there? What do they look like?

I stole this advice from Humbled: Take it minute by minute, hour by hour and day by day -it's like a big game and if you are competitive you will certainly win - habits and cravings versus determination and will....you already won round one so kick hell week in the arse and never look back. We are here to encourage you but you just like the rest of us here have to do the hard work on your own.

NOPE! Begone, psychological cravings!

Congratulations, Marti!!! What a great accomplishment! :)

Hi Julie, welcome. I was non-smoking for almost a month, then i relapsed for a few days. I'm on day 4 now. Glad to have you here!

At four this afternoon I finally hit 72 hours. Btw, this morning I had a very long but not too hard craving. It only ended when I had to rush to an appointment with my eye doctor and got distracted by doing this. This afternoon I had several more cravings, but I wanted to at least put it off until after I had hit 72 hours (the logic was that I had been so focused on the 72 hours, I wanted to hit that mark). And now, at the 76-hour mark the cravings are no big deal. I’m going to be hit with cravings probably for a very long time to come. That’s just the way it is, and it is commensurate with the many years I’ve been smoking and how engrained it is in my life. It worries me a bit that my “fighting spirit” for staying quit seems so low. It’s like I’m not serious about it. Which kind of doesn’t make any sense at all when you take into account how many, many, MANY times I have tried to quit and stay quit, using every method under the sun to make it happen. Why would I do that if I was not serious about quitting?

That's fantastic, Jess. My mom had life-threatening pneumonia last summer, and was in the hospital for 10 weeks where I was with her almost all the time because she was so delirious and paranoid. She now has a collapsed lung, and it makes it difficult for her to be as active as she is used to and likes. Congratulations on weathering a tough time! :)

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I'm stealing this from Marti to Rob, it's good: I want to be real for a minute. Sometimes, I used to wish smoking was the answer cause not smoking felt hard. The next day it would be like a gift of an easy day and it would re set me. This does not happen anymore Rob, I promise! I learnt that when it felt hard...THAT IS WHEN THE QUIT WAS GROWING... like got that day done, don't ever have to face that again, winning!

Bike to gym where I did 20 mins run and 20 mins weights. I've gained 4 kilos since I stopped smoking on Jan. 9, and it feels very unpleasant when I run. My knee bothers me much more with this weight, too.

Hi Batgirl, and welcome.:)

I've changed to the avatar I used more than ten years ago to stop drinking alcohol. Alcohol, btw, follows the same logic as cigarettes so you are really only deluding yourself that you enjoy drinking alcohol, in reality it is a vile cancer-producing neurotoxin disguised in pleasant smell, taste and color, surrounded by clever marketing and cultural permissions, that, if you ingest it dilligently, will hook you and make you addicted. The same goes for sugar, and all of the other psychotropic substances. Sic transit gloria mundi. Anyway, I spent the morning swearing and I constructed enormously long sequences of expletives. I'm at 44 hours into the 72 hours as I write this. I'm eating white cabbage, raw. There were some really fresh cabbage heads at the supermarket yesterday, and eating them provides a great and satisfying crunch. The aliveness of this food beats the soulless and nutritionally dead candy.

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Congratulations, Gabby. Great accomplishment! :)

This is where I am pretty sure it changes you more fundamentally; to have successfully gone from being highly addicted to something through "conquering" your addiction to living addiction-free. There has got to have huge personal psychological benefits to your self-esteem and sense of self-worth, and that has got to reverberate throughout your life-situation. I'm just sensing this, obviously, as I have only been able to stay quit for a year before.

It was not an illusion, and yes, it was enjoyable. But DOING IT is just not a good idea for all the obvious reasons. Besides, I've been wanting for a very long time to see what lies beyond life as a smoker. .

Big congrats! Proud of you! :)

Thanks. You guys are so sweet. Day two ain't fun, that's for sure. I'm distracting myself and counting the hours. Drinking tons of ice cold water. Banishing evil thoughts. Tomorrow I WILL go to the gym, no more excuses.

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Dear quit friends, I regret to say that I will not be celebrating a month of no smoking because I RELAPSED! I'm back on the wagon, so I'm looking forward to my 30-day celebration in a month's time. :)

I stumbled and fell. I'm on a new first day. Yes, it's true - if you take just one puff, you plunge. Not right away, but give it time and you're back to where you were before. So.....that was no fun. But I am here again, and I want to stay quit. I really am not a smoker, I don't know why I keep kidding myself that I'm one. On the fringe upside, there's a great endorphine high waiting for me when my endorphines are low because of several days of no nicotine and I then go to the gym - I remember the last one, it was awesome. :) Always look at the bright side of life. :)

I'm ok. I've been a bit wobbly in my quit. But my apartment is almost done, and tomorrow I'll be able to use the kitchen again. For some reason I can't seem to kick myself in the butt to get going to the gym. Just general malaise, I guess....I think my brain is subconsciously romancing cigarettes.