I am going to paste in some comments I posted to another thread earlier this morning:
As I was waking into the building from the parking lot this morning I happened to think that I was NOT thinking about smoking! And when I saw the smokers out in the courtyard I did not envy them in the least! In fact, I found a good deal of pity for them.
It is nice to see that after 5 weeks things are really starting to come into better focus for me and that everything that has been said here about what to expect in the quit process is true.
One thing that struck me from the first time I looked at whyquit.com a month or so ago was the fact that what was being said FELT like it was the truth! They say that truth has a certain "feel" and "ring" to it and this site had that. I felt like there was no hidden agenda (like I did at another site I had already signed up for) here and that was very important to me.
I lost my very first quit through just one puff! I was at work having lunch with a co-worker in the breakroom of the company where we worked. We got to talking and he was smoking (this was back in the days when you could still smoke in the employee "lounge"). I remember finally saying to my co-worker "Give me a cigarette!" and he did. I had been quit for about 3 months at this time (but I had quit because the girl I was dating asked me to and we had long since broken up) but by the end of the day I had bought a pack of my own and was back into my addiction. Except for a couple of short-lived quits I would smoke for the next 11 years before I made another really serious effort at quitting.
I often ask myself "WHY did you ever start up again?" but by now I have realized that beating oneself up over the past is a pointless exercise. Besides, there are no guarantees that I would not have started again at a later time, although as time went on the chances would surely have decreased.
Robert, I sincerely hope you are still with us on the smoke free fence! Stick with it for the next hour, it is so doable! Life also truly does get better as time goes on as well!
yqb, David One month, five days, 2 hours, 28 minutes and 19 seconds. 631 cigarettes not smoked, saving $47.39. Life saved: 2 days, 4 hours, 35 minutes.