I quit smoking

[cat_mioux]

7 days ago.

Don't talk to me. Don't even look at me.

*cat stomps off into the kitchen to eat to eat something*

[soul_art]

Huge congratulations ms mioux.

Whenever I've stopped for a little (very little) while, the one thing I really notice is the smell of my hands.  My hands smell lovely !! lol No idea about any other part.

As for reasons to stop, well, I think the only way is if the person wants to stop....really wants to stop and it sounds like you really do, so congrats again and enjoy smelling your hands !

[soul_art]

Huge congratulations ms mioux. 

Whenever I've stopped for a little (very little) while, the one thing I really notice is the smell of my hands.  My hands smell lovely !! lol No idea about any other part.

As for reasons to stop, well, I think the only way is if the person wants to stop....really wants to stop and it sounds like you really do, so congrats again and enjoy smelling your hands ! xxx

[lloydslights]

Well worth repeating Soul.

DEB

[fiestas*girl]

Keep going catty, April 2011 i gave up

I do things now i neverf thought i could, ie shopping, i love shopping!! i can afford to buy what i want guilt free

in 20 days i am off to UK for a holiday -

I ahve a puppy who has her own pet insurance

I can affored gym membership

I have savings now,

I have income protection and health insurances...

most of these things would not be possible if I had kept smoking, all little things but significant to me

thats a fact

[cat_mioux]

Nics

Hi Soul and Kylie and fiesta!

Thanks for your inspiring posts!  There are so many benefits to not smoking and none to smoke. I saved over $100 this week from not smoking.

It's Day 9 of my Quit. The cravings are getting less frequent and less in intensity. I'm still coughing and it's gross. Good Lord, I must have a lot of crud deep in my lungs.

I can sit around other smokers at work (no problem), I can drive without a cigarette, I can cope with stress (a kitty with the runs) without a cigarette .... 

[2106greencat]

Well done - I gave up for 2 years - then decided I could be a social smoker........

turns out I was wrong !

[imastawka]

Social smoker    hahahaha

Keep it up miss mioux - doing well.                     

[2106greencat]

Yeah Yeah, I know.....NOW!

[cat_mioux]

greencat I started smoking again after a 5 month quit, 13 years ago. I started off botting a cig off Mr Ex, then only smoking weekends then smoking every day. It only took a matter of weeks to go from 0 cigs to 25 cigs a day 😞   It was as if I'd never given up.

Now I have a mantra "one puff away from a pack a day". All it takes is one puff and the addiction part in your brain becomes activated by 50%. ONE PUFF! Holy cow!

Today is the first day I feel okay. I'm hardly coughing thank goodness. I must be at the bottom of the crud barrel.

10 days smoke free      Yipeee!

Congrats to all who are smoke free! It really is worth quitting for so many reasons.

[kopenhagen5]

"one puff away from a pack a day"

That's the trick, to not have that one puff. And you probably won't ever feel like having that first puff, not physically anyway.

Everything about smoking stinks and makes you feel terrible at the beginning.

Just remember that. And Mr Cat (if there is one) won't have to kiss an ashtray now.

Great effort, many are behind you all the way.