@MommaH: Thank you for welcome! Smile My wife's case is even more simillar to yours. She was trying to quit several times, but she was unable to do it. She finally did it, when we found out that we will have a baby. We went out to smoke the last cigarette together, I relapsed in very short time, but she did it. It is almost 20 months since then and she is successful ex-smoker. She only smoked 2 or 3 cigarettes in first month or two, but she cares deeply for our little one and thus she made it. It is few months since he would not be directly affected by her smoking (only accidental second hand smoke) and she is still doing well. She is saying that she still has very powerful cravings, but she says she endures it for our little one. So clearly, she is doing it for him, not for herself and I am afraid of that a little.

@JohnPolito: These detailed explanations of what is actually happening are probably the one thing which helped me to make it past that 24 hours "magic line" and also past this first week. Thank you so much for all your and Joel's work here! As for Bryan, I hope that I will help to add to achievement of the noble goal of last few weeks of his life...


Well, I completed my Glory Week, but I was here already, thus the biggest challenge is still ahead of me. Until now, it went very much the same as my last longer quit. It was very easy, compared to quits before I found WhyQuit.com. Especially first three days. I was feeling withdrawal, all right, but it was very very mild (same as last time). I suppose, it has to do with my solid decision I made. It surprised me though, that at least half of my 4th day, I experienced almost unbearable craving. And it repeated (with lesser intensity) also on 5th and 6th day. I overcame it successfully, but still, I would be interested in some explanation, if any exists, of why it came so late, after first three days being relatively very easy and calm.

Those cravings are gone, now. But since they faded away, I am feeling somehow strange, yet I am unable to explain it in more detail. It is not a kind of urgent feeling like crave, it is rather lingering on the background for some time, now. I thought, I want to eat something sweet. So I did try to eat something sweet only to find out it was not what I wanted. I tried to drink water, but with the same result. I was not hungry, either. Few moments ago, I prepared sweet black tea and went out to balcony to drink it - exactly the same as if I went to smoke one of my evening's cigarettes: it's dark everywhere, only street lights and lights in windows are shining, everywhere is calm... With "small" difference, of course - I did not smoke and I must say I almost did not percieved that difference. It satisfied my strange feeling, but only for very little. Though, I am 100% absolutely positively sure that it is not craving for cigarette - it feels very different. Did someone experienced something like this before?

And I do have one more question. It is nothing, what I really need to know - I am rather curious about this. It is written many times at the WhyQuit.com site (and also at several other independent places), that nicotine bounds itself to a4b2 nAChRs very fast - at most 10 seconds after puff. And I am curious how is this possible: it must be absorbed from smoke by lungs, carried by blood from lungs to heart (pulmonary circuit), from heart to blood-brain barrier, through it and only then it can bound to receptors. How is all this possible in 10 seconds?


.mq.

I have chosen not to use 168 deadly nicotine delivery devices
in last 1 week, 1 day, 10 hours, 32 minutes and 57 seconds,
saving 28.14 EUR, and more importantly,
14 hours, 3 minutes and 57 seconds of my life.


Edited 1 time by Mareq Oct 31 10 7:24 PM.