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Haha. This is beautiful, girl! Well done you!

Thanks. This was great, and really helped. Thanks, also, for the encouragement to just start right in with exercise. Because I just know I'll get bored with counting quit days, and nothing else, so I'm trying to look ahead, so as to avoid dangerous mental states. Besides, I'm curious to see how much air I can pack into these smoke free lungs. Thanks, again.

Dear LORDS AND LADIES OF THE QUIT... Thank you for helping me get to this lofty aerie of one month... YOU GUYS ARE BEAUTIFUL! Thank you for your : SUPPORT WISDOM JOKES LAUGHTER WARMTH BITE STRENGTH CHALLENGE ADVICE BUT MOST OF ALL FOR THE INTEGRITY OF YOUR QUIT, AND FOR GUARDING YOUR VERY PRECIOUS QUIT. I came on here on Day 18. I didn't have a quit philosophy in place. I've worked to put that into place, and I'm going to continue building it. My quit is now priority. Like everyone else I have lots going on in my life, but the quit gets center stage for now. I cherish this quit. I love and adore this quit. Thank you, LORDS AND LADIES OF THE QUIT for helping me deliver this newborn babe called "My Life" - I will promise daily to not drop her on her head. :wub: cpk one month

Wow! Had a normal night's sleep. I went to sleep and slept and woke up early without alarm, feeling great. No weird dreams. Just normal restful sleep. Everyone here keeps saying it gets better...and it's the truth! :rolleyes:

8 eat all the peas on your plate 8 8 it's never too late to feel really great 8 8 clean air's the best quit rebate 8 8 do a pirouette on one roller skate 8 :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: ...and three more! Keep going, mate! 8888888888...

What a drag! :negative: This is something I am going to ask about in interviews. I want smokers a half mile away from the entrance, and around the back of the building. I hate the smell... :big_boss: :angry: nasty get oughta my space... Don't romance their pleasure. :diablo: They desperately desperately desperately want to be YOU... someone who is free, living free. :angel:

:girl_hospital:nope :girl_hospital: nope :girl_hospital: NOPE

Well, actually there is one day I can't forget - and doubt I will. It was Day 8. Something really stressful came up. I dealt with it but that evening had a major anxiety attack, or something. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't sit, or walk, or sleep. I was alone and thought I should go to the hospital. I turned on my vaporizor, threw a towel over my head and breathed in the steam. I actually fell asleep like that. I never, ever want to have to repeat a quit and a Day 8. But, also, I found a solution. Steam heat really helps me breathe through stress. PJ, that you say the quit is bringing me the GOOD hours, and GOOD days...what a pearl of wisdom! Thanks!!!

Yes, well, first I heard 3 to 6 months, then 6 to 8 months, then a year to 18 months...which is all a lot longer that 4 weeks, or 6 weeks, or 8 weeks. (Here I'm talking about real physical improvement.) I'm willing to grow with the process, and as a rule I can be patient, and so can stretch that and be more patient. However, having said all this, I need to put some new goals in place, like fitness goals, professional goals, and so on...because continually taking this quit's temperature is going to drive me nuts! So, for me, it's about being attentive, and growing my quit...but also letting it be, too. Does that make sense? Hmmm. I think so. Hope you are doing well, by the way.

I was listening to you, PJ, even if I was squirming around and fidgeting, like a teenager. :tease:

I've been doing some research online - various sites - and one thing I've noticed is that all those into new quits are extremely impatient, including me. All the newbies are asking, "When will this fatigue get better?" "I feel like crap...when will it go away? "My sleep is all off..." and I won't even go into the weight thing. The general sense I have is newly quits are a pretty impatient lot. I think part of it is what I'll call the "freak out" --- There are so many changes going on, good and bad. It's almost like being a teenager. It's just a general freak out, at not having a handle on what's going on with the body, the mind, the emotions, one's responses and reactions to the outside world. As well, teens have more social pressures, increasing responsibilities, heavier workloads... When my son was a teen he'd open the refrigerator door and just stand there... I'd say, what are you doing?, if you want something, get it and close the door...why are you standing there...? He'd act like he was just waking up, would say, I don't know what I want...and he'd close the door, but would be back 20 minutes later and do the same thing all over again. That about sums up this experience for me. I'm like a teenager. I don't know what I want. I think patience would help me see this isn't a bad thing. I'm freaked out because it's all new. I'm uncomfortable a lot. Like a teenager. But hey, being teenager-like at my age is okay for now.

Thanks so much, as always, Marti. Within a given day I will feel really great for a few hours...and will think, oh wow, -- to be followed by a few hours of feeling like absolute crap, like I'm dying. It's soooooo weird. I'm not talking about cravings but energy level. I've been researching this, and it's just common knowledge with the quit. I am absolutely gonna stop worrying about things like month three, and do today...thanks, you're so sweet to reply so quickly...

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, on and on...

Okay. Will take with a grain of salt. Did same with preggers books and new baby books...then threw them all out and just had a lot of fun with my kid, quirks and all. It may be in my favor that month three will be just as winter is ending...so, more daylight...opportunities to play outside on weekends. Just saying I like the timing of my quit. Day Three of Quit? Hell, that was what, 24 long days ago...I don't even remember Day Three! Haha. Not trying to be flip. Humor keeps me strong. Thanks for everything. Your support and wisdom has been so appreciated, along with all the other great Goddesses of the Quit here. :wub:

Month three dangerous? I'm not getting it. I'm finishing up month one. My idea is to give each month a theme...month two for me is for getting into exercise, month three is about doing some weekend day trips with money saved, and hiking, because I'll be healthier, month four is SPRING, month five is SUMMER, month six my quit day is on the 4th so I'll be celebrating the 4th of July with the start of a six month quit and fireworks. Now got it in my head after reading some stuff here that oh month three dangerous, gotta watch out...and this is just a thought month one i;ve had a big mouth and a lot of irritation so maybe month two will be about exercising until i'm breathing deep, not talking just saying...all newbies not fighting off the relapse every second... me, i'm filling up my toolbox which is getting pretty heavy so i need more muscle to carry it with me everywhere i go...

Congrats. :tender:

I started going through the albums and cutting all the cigarettes out of the pictures... Is there anything more insane than that???? Besides all the physical grossness, smoking is crazy making!!!

Wanted to add, why I quit... I was never a comfortable smoker. It always felt like something foreign to do... the hardest thing, mentally, was always straddling the fence from smoking to not smoking... This site has been a godsend because it has finally helped me put my values front and center... and to put a quit philosophy in place. This quit has been insanely difficult...but the support here has been GOLD... When I have done and dusted one month I am going to be posting a big thank you to all the Lords and Ladies of the Quit (that will be later this week)...

Favorite "gain" this week: Have a lot more time in the evening to read, without interrupting myself to go smoke on the porch, making me physically ill. Sometimes the small pleasures have the greatest impact! Reading smoke free rocks! :good:

Congrats, you go girl! :music: :music: :music: :music: :music: :music:

Congrats! ;)

Congrats, quit angel! :angel:

Nope!!! !! :girl_devil: :girl_devil:

OMG, bakon, you make me laugh all the way to the bank!!! Every day. Thanks, wooly wild mind.

Dedicated, this week, to Rob and to Oneistoo: The Heartful Quit This is the heartful quit, the sticky quit. This is not the quit of steel. This is the quit of flesh and blood, The quit of tears and love. cpk 4th week