greenette,
Congratulations on your decision to quit and welcome to the SSC.
Your initial feelings of loss and sadness are very common, especially for women. Women are typically emotional smokers and men are typically functional smokers. Billy Joel, in the song "Piano Man", sings about an old man "making love to his tonic and gin". Well guess what? Many of us have made love to our cigarettes and now that the affair is over, we have feelings of loss.
New ex-smokers often miss smoking and the "good times" they recall from it. I'm as guilty as the rest in that regard. However, we need to learn how to move on with our lives and find happiness in that which we have, not that which we have lost.
Here is a great quote that puts a quit, and life in general, in perspective...
[b][color=blue]"May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness, let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have."[/color]
[color=black]Richard L. Evans[/color][/b]
Don't worry about letting your emotions out at this stage of things. Be true to yourself and whatever you do.. don't smoke!
Best wishes.
[b][color=Purple]Be Strong. Be Smart. Be Quit[/color]
[color=black]Joe[/color]
[size=3][color=Blue]Knowledge Replaces Fear[/color][/size]
[size=2][color=black]Illegitimus non carborundum est[/color][/size][/b]
[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 5/15/2005
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 264
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 6,614
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $646.8
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 46 [B]Hrs:[/B] 7 [B]Mins:[/B] 5 [B]Seconds:[/B] 53
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Quit Meter
$36,568.80
Amount Saved
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Quit Meter
Days: 9398
Hours: 16
Minutes: 35
Seconds: 54
Life Gained
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Quit Meter
45711
Smoke Free Days
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Quit Meter
365,688
Cigarettes Not Smoked
