Thanks so much, everyone, for your responses…………..
Right now I just seem to be an emotional mess!!!!! 
And a physical one as well………….
But I am not smoking!!!!!!
Thinking productively, however, seems beyond me…………
I shall sit and read and hopefully absorb…………
And hope I soon get over this need for constant nap time….
Jean
(5 weeks today!)
Uh oh. This sounds familiar. Hubby and daughter just cannot understand what
we’re going through. The emotions will settle down after a while, though.
Communication is the key. Keep reminding them that you’re going through a
healing and learning process and you appreciate their patience. Even if
they’re not very patient, which to you they aren’t, they think they are, so
will appreciate you acknowledging that patience. Yes, perceptions are a
little out of sync right now.
And here we go with the stinkin’ thinkin’. How convenient. When I’m angry,
it’s so easy to let myself slip to that stage where I think it’s just not worth
it anymore. That’s why my anger scares me sometimes (besides the fact that I
usually have a mess to clean up from this awful habit ot letting things fly
through the air). Fotunately, my anger is slowly coming under control, even
more so than before I quit smoking. My ABC’s have a lot to do with
anticipating my careless anger as much as other triggers. I find myself doing
them when I anticipate situations where I would become angry with my family.
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In a message dated 04/02/02 07:36:40 GMT Standard Time,
jbrinklw@… writes:
Hi Jean
Well done on your 35plus smoke free days - whatever you do DO NOT CHOOSE to
go back to smoking. Don’t stress out about cog quit - just take it one
choice at a time ie choose to have a cig or choose to do something else to
help with the discomfort you are feeling.
I haven’t got much time to write just now as I have to get ready for work but
I’ll write you later.
Indi
I’ll start this by saying `I’m not sure why I’m telling you this but
I need to `get it out’ I got home a while ago from having lunch with a friend who quit 3
yrs ago. I hadn’t seen her for ages, and had been looking forward
to a good old gossip, sitting in the non-smoking part of the
restaurant. Had the starters, decided on the main course, and then
got to discussing `the quit’ - comparing symptoms, the degree of
comfort we were experiencing, methods we’d used, etc. I’d seen Mo
right at the start of my quit, on the 2nd day, and again about 2
weeks into my quit. I was floored when she started telling me how
grumpy/irritable/hyper I’d been, and that she was glad she hadn’t
had any of that to deal with. (Moi? grumpy/irritable/hyper?)
Ha! I have to say that she’d been exactly as she’d described me.
Mo, I should explain, is one of the `hang in and hang on’ breed of
quitters, who never tried to understand the approach I used in my
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In a message dated 03/02/02 03:17:52 GMT Standard Time, todora@…
writes:
Oh Gail doesn’t that feel good - I know it did when mine turned over that
first month - I’m very proud of you.
Indi
In a message dated 02/02/02 23:08:21 GMT Standard Time,
katie2905uk@… writes:
me too Katie - done a long post about it just gonna send it out and see what
respons it brings (if any)
Indi
Well done to you, Marde !! I know you really wanted to go through
that 5 week marker.
take care
Pam
Carried away with what?
Hey, run nekkid thru the streets all you want (geez, you yankees and your cabin
fever!). It will take a lot less energy than gardening and you’ll still get
your mojo going. Just keep doing your ABC’s and don’t smoke, Whatever it
takes,.
- Anonymous
scared me. I’ve had the same body since junior high (except for pregnancies –
and that’s another story). To see 6+ pounds hop on my waist in 4 weeks, and
getting bruises from the waist of my jeans was uncomfortable to say the least.
For the past few days, I have not been eating like a pig because the junk I
bought for my quit (a lot of JUNK) is all gone. Today, the scale is one pound
down. So, I think we all may go a little nuts for awhile but not to worry.
We’ll get back to our senses soon enough. The only substitute that I am keeping
is my instant cappachino’s (100 calories each - 3/day). Spring will be here
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It just occurred to me that I haven’t done any ABCs this week. I actually sit
and try to think of where I can apply an ABC each day and come up with zip.
Don’t get me wrong, smoking runs through my brain about 65% of each day and I’m
constantly thinking cognitively and talking and training Warren throughout the
day. But my days are such that I rarely do things that cause ‘triggers’ (at
home mom at this time). I think it’s because I’ve been living a rather ‘hermit’
type life style during this quit. The activities I do partake in have
‘built-in’ ABC’s attached, i.e., husband (quit-buddy with), school/child
function with the kids but mostly staying home reading or going for walks where
cigs are far away. The limited times I’ve gone out socially/alone where there
are anticipated triggers, I’ve done my ABCs and will continue to do so. Just
got back from running errands/grocery shopping and I can proudly say that those
type ventures are not even triggers anymore - it is just not a choice in my
normal running’s around where it used to be puff, puff, puff. That’s progress.
Often daydream about what triggers there are for me and came up with one while
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I know ‘Who’s Warren’, but who’s Hermy? :-))))
Sheri
-I have no recollection of any memory loss.
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