Newbies Nest
Evening nest, great to hear your stories. Enjoying looking round the forum and the tools thread is very uplifting with suggestions, plans and links to other great sites.
Day 2... which has been harder. Perhaps because having done one day free, I'm thinking, "well done - have a drink!" I don't know how physiological the desire for a drink is, or how much it is psychological?? I used to smoke (good going K9, by the way!) until I gave up 4 years ago, but with smoking i physically felt my body desiring it's next nicotine hit - certainly more so than with a drink. I think.
What i experienced giving up smoking, was, as some have pointed out, how my sense of smell and taste improved, as well as feeling i'd cleaned up my lungs - yes, no morning hacking cough. But also, when i had the occasional smoke a year or so after i gave up (ok, i admit i had a short relapse about 18 months after giving up), was how even having only one cigarette of an evening, i would feel how it would affect my body for up to two days after - especially a rancid, residual metallic taste in my mouth.
And so i am genuinely interested in how i feel after abstaining from AL for a while - physically and psychologically...
But I feel good that i averted giving up the evening to AL, when returning home from work find a leak dripping water from my bedroom ceiling onto one half of my bed. That's the sort of event that would provide the excuse to head out for a bottle of red. The plumbers called for tomorrow am. I'll sleep on the far side of the bed tonight.
Evening nest, great to hear your stories. Enjoying looking round the forum and the tools thread is very uplifting with suggestions, plans and links to other great sites.
Day 2... which has been harder. Perhaps because having done one day free, I'm thinking, "well done - have a drink!" I don't know how physiological the desire for a drink is, or how much it is psychological?? I used to smoke (good going K9, by the way!) until I gave up 4 years ago, but with smoking i physically felt my body desiring it's next nicotine hit - certainly more so than with a drink. I think.
What i experienced giving up smoking, was, as some have pointed out, how my sense of smell and taste improved, as well as feeling i'd cleaned up my lungs - yes, no morning hacking cough. But also, when i had the occasional smoke a year or so after i gave up (ok, i admit i had a short relapse about 18 months after giving up), was how even having only one cigarette of an evening, i would feel how it would affect my body for up to two days after - especially a rancid, residual metallic taste in my mouth.
And so i am genuinely interested in how i feel after abstaining from AL for a while - physically and psychologically...
But I feel good that i averted giving up the evening to AL, when returning home from work find a leak dripping water from my bedroom ceiling onto one half of my bed. That's the sort of event that would provide the excuse to head out for a bottle of red. The plumbers called for tomorrow am. I'll sleep on the far side of the bed tonight.
Keeping it simple. Keeping it real.
Well done !!!
?.be ready for those thoughts and know how you are going to handle them without drinking. Oh, and be prepared to stay home from social events if they are going to be too tempting for you?at least for a little while.
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