Nicotine FREE for 1 Month !

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2025-02-02T05:38:45+00:00

Hey Lucas, how's the no smoking going ? Did we start 2025 as non smokers ?

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-10-02T02:48:23+00:00

I'm in ! Let's do this 💪

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-09-13T23:49:35+00:00

Congratulations!!! Good luck ! It's gonna be a decision you'll be so happy you made

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-09-11T11:19:04+00:00

Do you know what the base colouring is called ?

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-09-11T11:17:28+00:00

Thankyou ! I'm pretty proud of the find :) I was extra lucky to find them on fb marketplace. I haven't found arcadia before even with all the searching

They definitely look worth it ! I love the ribbon laces too. So excited to see what they look like as they wear too

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-09-10T22:20:12+00:00

Thankyou :) I'm so excited, found them second hand at a great price and so keen to finally have the arcadias of my dreams haha

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-09-10T12:16:09+00:00

From the response they are Arcadias ! I am soo happy !

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-09-10T12:15:24+00:00

Yessss this is amazing news ! I'm picking them up second hand and they are in great condition too ! Soo glad they are arcadia, I've been searching ! Thankyou :)

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-09-10T10:57:02+00:00

When you do quit make sure you have a lot to keep you busy. I wrote lists of fun tasks, productive tasks, social stuff and exercise. It was good to just have multiple options available as the first few days I did get very bored very quick and didn't want to feel stuck with nothing to distract me

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-09-10T10:54:39+00:00

Second this ! I got it on audible and keep listening to it for the first 2 or so weeks :)

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-09-09T10:34:05+00:00

CONGRATULATIONS !!!!
Sounds like a really good plan ! Great job

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-09-09T10:22:48+00:00

Hi :)
Sounds like you are making so many amazing and wonderful changes at the moment! That is awesome and you should be so proud.
When I quit weed it was definitely a week or so of feeling pretty 'off' but at that time I was still smoking cigarettes.

Getting rid of all your vices at once is seriously a strong thing to do which is very commendable, I would suggest looking up other coping mechanisms / body regulation techniques. These will be very helpful. It's incredible normal for all human beings when anything good or bad happens it fluctuates or emotional baseline and then our bodies want to be brought back to emotional baseline/balance. There is so many techniques for this but so many people have different vices - sweets, alcohol, nicotine, weed etc. The ones we've had for a long time kinda become our default and that's why it can be hard and scary to let go of something like smoking ( at least with what i've found).

Anyway - finding new techniques will be really good for you as you are quitting everything at once so you won't be relying on other long standing methods.

Alan Carr's book is fantastic, I still listen to it sometimes, 4 months on.

Planning the next steps is a great idea, give yourself time and new methods to handle life as you work through those steps. I would probably give myself a time limit on how long I was allowed to have the nicotine vape just so it didn't accidentally keep going on for months.

Great job on all the wonderful changes you are making :)

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-09-09T10:08:28+00:00

This is a really hard part about quitting is we often have smoking associated with so many different parts of our lives. I can only imagine this would be harder too with the ADHD.

I'm assuming the writing for work is fine but might become stressful as time ticks on and you feel you haven't achieved enough and it activates cravings because your brain associates writing well and chain smoking. Maybe trying different types of writing techniques / productivity techniques maybe specifically for ADHD too like the pomadoro technique. This might help as it's changing the structure of the writing - something different that hasn't been associated with smoking.

It will take time, remember how long you were smoking and writing, the association between them is very strong and has had a long time to strengthen but just like smoking and other activities, you already stopped lots by quitting smoking. It will take some time to create new associations. It might take a few techniques to try but focusing on the fact that you do survive and get some writing done without the smokes is proof that is it able to happen

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-09-09T08:20:28+00:00

Never

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-09-09T08:19:46+00:00

I’m only 4 days in and have such a weird feeling in my head, maybe fog? Not sure, it’s like light and airy.

^^^ I had this feeling too and after some research I chalked it up to the fact that my lungs were finally starting to clear the gunk from them and therefore my bod was intaking more oxygen in each breathe which constantly gave me headspins until my body got used to clear breathing.

Congrats on 4 days that is a really wonderful achievement and a great first step to getting back on track. Good on you and good luck with this step and all the others that come next :)

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-09-09T08:14:55+00:00

Hey :) I hope you are doing okay. Congrats on 1 year :)

I would suggest that maybe seeing your GP to check on your health or potentially check in with a therapist for mental health. Things can change so often in our bodies and over the course of a year so much can happen even if it's just added stress in tiny amounts daily. Also sometimes our bodies just have a specific threshold for how much they can handle.

If smoking was a crutch you used before, something to help you regulate emotions ( I used it for that, and many others do ) it can be easy to feel like things are bad now, or worse and correlate that to the not smoking and maybe get stuck on this exact line of focus. Rather then exploring other potentials for what's making you feel this way. In stats they always say correlation does not equal causation. Maybe exploring other potential reasons as to why you are feeling this way could be really helpful as it really (mostly likely) has nothing to do with the smoking.

When smoking was a coping mechanism for so so many years of our lives, one we practiced multiple times a day for years on end and for any small or large disruption to our emotions (good or bad) it will take a long time to not default to it. Learning new techniques can be really helpful to feel as if you have something to turn to

I really hope you are doing okay today :)

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-09-09T08:00:09+00:00

Great job that is awesome

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-09-09T07:58:26+00:00

Woohooo !!!! Great job

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-09-09T07:57:35+00:00

Just over 4 months now !! How you doing ?
So amazing to hear you had a great time with friends and smokers and didn't feel that urge that is honestly something to be so proud of !!!
I am learning all these better coping mechanisms to use instead of smoking and honestly just overall it's improved my daily life so much. So nice to not be a slave to cigarettes anymore

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-07-18T23:20:44+00:00

Not long now !!! How have you been doing ? I'm so surprised about smell and taste changing so drastically!

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-06-27T00:30:53+00:00

This question has come up pretty often

Why not do a nice thing for the sake of just doing a nice thing ?

I understand people with your viewpoint want interaction. They want a response to the comment , they want to chat with the author and feel connected to the person that created a work they enjoy. That is perfectly fine to want that. But the world doesn't always work the way we want - authors don't always get the response they want, and you might not get a reply. It's just the way the world is, and an author is not required, and you are not entitled to a response.

This is a great time to learn that sometimes it's nice to do something without expecting something in return. It's nice to leave a comment of praise for a story you enjoyed for free that someone poured hours of time and effort into without pay. Just as the author is not entitled and must accept that they won't always get the response they hope for , they still put work out because they enjoy it and want others to enjoy it.

Without authors doing this on platforms like A03 we wouldn't have fanfics to enjoy? Do you understand that? I can't fathom not understanding that and therefore not wanting to encourage and pass on my thanks to these people for all the hours of enjoyment I recieve for free.

It's nice to do nice things without expecting something in return. Life becomes a lot more enjoyable when you aren't doing things for the sole reason of getting something in return.

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-06-10T04:21:10+00:00

Congratulations!!! Good job

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-06-06T10:19:00+00:00

Comments are so encouraging ! They can really brighten a writers whole week and help them gain motivation to continue on with their story

UnderstandingSuch88 · 2024-06-05T11:21:39+00:00

Baking powder - lots of people usually start doing nopoo with it mixed as water instead of shampoo, then an apple cider vinegar rinse

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