Hi Paula,
Welcome to your very own Freedom from tobacco and the naturally occuring highly addictive chemical compound it contains - the real culprit and causitive agent - nicotine. We win back our natural birth-right to live clean of chemical dependency a little bit - one second, one minute, one step, one event, one day at a time. I assure you it is very much worth every bit of effort and determination to take back your life that you'll expend these next few weeks of adjustment. We all share a real chemical dependency and abrupt cessation sets us on th path of recovery of normal. Our real normal, not what became our nicotine normal as we lived dose to dose.
image You are now about half way to joining the Freedom Green Club. You are making grand progress along this transitonal process of recovery. Be proud of yourself and be confident that you too can make it through to the other side by following the lessons and advise help in the information provided here and at www.whyQuit.com. This forum and the materials and suppport provided here will help to provide the knowledge and understanding of how to stay quit and live absolutely free of the constant demands of our shared chemical dependency. We did it and you can too. Read as much as time permits, put the lessons into proactice but most important ly live naturally free by never taking another puff, piece, patch, pinch or whatever method nicotine is available to enter our now healing bodies.......and all ya gotta do is live naturally.
Some articles that your introductory post brought to mind:
Joe J free 3 1/2 years but wanting to explain that in one important way we are exactly the same whether we are quit Three years or three days - all we have to do to stay free is to not intake nicotine by any means ....just for the rest of today.image