Not feeling too good, just need some encouragement/motivation/positivity

@twiigss well what ever reason you have it is a more heathy personal option

@smiler2012 Oh definitely, I cannot argue with that at all. Because, not long after I quit smoking, one of our dogs had died during winter, and I was out helping my dad shovel out a grave in the hard ground. I found I had more breath and could exert myself more, so it was beneficial for me to quit.

@twiigss rather sad in a sense too find out you are more healthy at the the expense of your dog but it is sadly the way of the world we are are born we die

@LilPrincess Oh thank you for the kind words and the motivation, it really means a lot to me 😊 And congratulations on 6 years sobriety. I hope it keeps going for you.

@twiigss you're welcome and that ya. 😊

@come2gether Thank you for the kind words, it means a lot to me having the encouragement to keep going 😊

@OogieBoogie I can tell you exactly how it all went down. So in the class we got a month free of quit aid. Gum, lozenge, patch, Chantix, so the instructor thought I would do well with a 2mg lozenge.

The instructions were simple, on 3/25/15, is first day of no cigarettes. On this day start the quit aid. In the first week, if you get a nicotine craving pop a lozenge in. Now they don't fully dissolve and you don't want to swallow like anything that comes off the lozenge you want to absorb through the skin. So I put my lozenge between my front bottom lip and gum.

Now for me the lozenge wasn't enough. So I took a piece of paper and made a tube out of it that looked like a cigarette and would go out on the front porch for 10 minutes and puff on this tube I made as if I was drawing from a cigarette and also exhaling. I needed the nicotine and the physical action of smoking.

Week 2, default pop a lozenge in the morning, say 3 hours later you get another craving, try to skip that lozenge, but on the next craving after that one, pop a lozenge etc.

Week 3, default lozenge in morning, try to skip the next 2 cravings. And what ended up happening is I was sitting here and 7 hours had gone by and I realized I hadn't popped a lozenge. I went, hmm, and from then on no longer needed the nicotine.

@OogieBoogie Well, with today just about all said and done, Eastern Standard Time in the States, from reading all the posts here and from a Facebook group I joined, I had a quit coach respond and he said things to me that my instructor would normally say. So with everyone writing back, I was able to reflect on it more and I feel way better, and realize that I don't need a cigarette.