QuittingGirl is One Year Smoke Free Today!!!

[Stewbum]

Careful QG Reci is bringing over more party gifts.

 

[QuittingGirl]

11 hours ago, Stewbum said:

Careful QG Reci is bringing over more party gifts.

 

 

GULP, GULP, GULP!! 

[intoxicated yoda]

congrats on one year quit @QuittingGirl keep that momentum going

[QuittingGirl]

10 hours ago, intoxicated yoda said:

congrats on one year quit @QuittingGirl keep that momentum going

 

Thanks! 

[Brioski]

Congratulations QG!!! What a year gf. You should be proud of yourself!!!

 

[QuittingGirl]

11 hours ago, Brioski said:

Congratulations QG!!! What a year gf. You should be proud of yourself!!!

 

Thanks so much Bri!  

[QuittingGirl]

Yesterday I was a year and a half quit!  The time is going quite fast but every now and again I still get the urge when I have a few glasses of wine. Thankfully it doesn't last long.

 

Thanks again everyone for all the support you have given me!! I truly appreciate all of you helping me not to go out of my mind even more than I already was...LOL!!!

 

Onward to 2 years!!!

[Reciprocity]

Those occasional, fleeting thoughts of having a smoke are just that ... fleeting memories of your past smoker's life. They will become even more occasional in future.

I can't remember when I had my last serious thought about it being nice to light up a smoke. The whole smoking lifestyle just seems so ridiculous to me now. Hard to bekieve I wasted that much of my life attached to those things 

[jillar]

Happy year and a half @QuittingGirl, you've come so far from where you started, you should be super proud of yourself  

[QuittingGirl]

Thank you both so much!!! @Reciprocity @jillar   @Reciprocity, when you drank your drink of choice, beer or wine?  Right after you quit, and had your first beer right after you quit?  Same for you @jillar, please tell me what happened to you??  Anybody else, tell me how you dealt with all this if you drank whatever.  Thanks!!!

[jillar]

@QuittingGirl, I used my JAC a.k.a. jillars air cigarette and it still did the trick

I will tell you though that I kept having my couple beers a day but not in the garage where I also smoked. I stayed inside with my JAC at the ready

[Reciprocity]

I never stopped my normal drink routine all the way through my quit. Drinking was no more of a trigger to smoke than many other things for me and having a couple of drinks never weakened my resolve to stay quit so for me, drinking was not a major issue in quitting the smokes.

[Nancy]

I never gave up my wine, either.  I would just stay inside instead of walking outside, and sing and dance!

[Doreensfree]

Congratulations Sweetheart 

A year and a half already …

It’s been wonderful watching your quit grow 

I was never a big drinker , even though a joke about it for fun .

So it really wasn’t a problem , I did have the odd wine ..I put diet lemonade in it lol 

ok I’m a light weight . 
Once again well done

[Genecanuck]

14 hours ago, QuittingGirl said:

Thank you both so much!!! @Reciprocity @jillar   @Reciprocity, when you drank your drink of choice, beer or wine?  Right after you quit, and had your first beer right after you quit?  Same for you @jillar, please tell me what happened to you??  Anybody else, tell me how you dealt with all this if you drank whatever.  Thanks!!!

Thanks for being such a good inspiration @QuittingGirl.... I nomally drink wine or coolers. I had to have a plan in my head before I started drinking to remind myself that I was not going to smoke. I stayed in my smoke free apartment and read the news on my phone while my partner went outside to smoke. Essentially, distracting myself.

[Gus]

Congratulations @QuittingGirl! You’ve had an amazing year and I’m so proud of you!

[Cbdave]

Gday

Has it really been a year!!!

Congratulation …. Well deserved 

[QuittingGirl]

8 hours ago, Cbdave said:

Gday

Has it really been a year!!!

Congratulation …. Well deserved 

 

 

A year and a half!! 

Thanks again everyone!! 

[notsmokinjo]

Congrats and welcome to the Lido Deck. 

 

1 year is sensational. You've worked so hard and you've made it. What a wonderful achievement. 

 

 

[Reciprocity]

I can remember reading a couple of your posts, back in your early days, when it sounded like you were teetering onthe edge of throwing in the towel. We all have those moments but what separates quitters from those who don't quit is that quitters find a way to fight through those moments and stay quit. You proved to all, including yourself, that you COULD do it! That's something to look back on with pride and satisfaction 

[QuittingGirl]

11 hours ago, Reciprocity said:

I can remember reading a couple of your posts, back in your early days, when it sounded like you were teetering onthe edge of throwing in the towel. We all have those moments but what separates quitters from those who don't quit is that quitters find a way to fight through those moments and stay quit. You proved to all, including yourself, that you COULD do it! That's something to look back on with pride and satisfaction 

 

Thanks @Reciprocity   I definitely remember those early days during the first 2 or 3 months when I was climbing the walls.   I am so glad that is all behind me now!!  When I was going through the withdrawal, I didn't think that the urges would ever go away but they sure did, although I still get a fleeting urge every once in a while.  I hope one day that will all be gone!

[Penguin]

I still get the occasionally fleeting urge, too. Many of us smoked for a long time, and I think it takes a long time for our brain and body to get "reprogrammed," especially during times of stress. Congratulations on 18 months free!

[QuittingGirl]

57 minutes ago, Penguin said:

I still get the occasionally fleeting urge, too. Many of us smoked for a long time, and I think it takes a long time for our brain and body to get "reprogrammed," especially during times of stress. Congratulations on 18 months free!

 

Ohh yeah, I was a long time smoker.  40 years!  Although, I did quit once before for 6 years but this time will be the last time I quit because who wants to get those horrible withdrawal symptoms again!  No way!!!

[Reciprocity]

14 hours ago, QuittingGirl said:

 

Thanks @Reciprocity   I definitely remember those early days during the first 2 or 3 months when I was climbing the walls.   I am so glad that is all behind me now!!  When I was going through the withdrawal, I didn't think that the urges would ever go away but they sure did, although I still get a fleeting urge every once in a while.  I hope one day that will all be gone!

They do disappear, or at least get less & less frequent and weaker each time after the passage of more time