You're probably onto something here. We'll meet at the 7-11 in the Pine Sol aisle. Whatever you do, do NOT play the Lottery. That's how they keep track of us.
Especially the part about melting facial bones for two weeks at a time. That happened to me once. People kept asking me, "Hey, Sheila, why the long face?"
Big difference between looking and turning your head around like an owl and making rude comments about how you'd like to "get you some of that." If I'm with my mate, you can bet I'll spot a good-looking man while we're out, but I'm polite enough to keep my thoughts to myself and contain my drooling while in his presence. It's all a matter of respect.
Kat, you're not giving yourself enough time to get over the withdrawal symptoms before you light up again. I smoked and drank (often heavily) for 30 years and quit cold turkey on Sept. 30, 2003. I haven't had a drop to drink or anything to smoke ever since. It was tough for the first few months, not because I wanted a cigarette or a beer, but because the physical symptoms were hell.
I forced myself to go outside and get exercise and sunshine every day. At first, it was rough and the least little thing made me tired. But day by day I could do more and more.
And I also took a multivitamin/mineral supplement and took Niacinamide. I can't say enough good things about this B3 derivitive. Do a Google on Niacinamide and how much you're supposed to take. I got the 500 mg tablets and one whole tab does produce a "Niacin flush" in me, which I couldn't handle but if I cut them in half I'm fine with it. There are also 100 mg tabs. You can't get them OTC, but they are available without a Rx at the pharmacist's. I got mine at Wal Mart, for about $5.00 for a bottle with, I think, 200 tablets in it.
All of the toxins in your body have to be eliminated and you have to get past the psychological "gotta have a cigarette" frame of mind. That's where the vitamins, especially the Niacinamide, comes in. It helps keep you naturally feeling calm, which is what I really liked about it. I didn't want to have to rely on Xanax or Valium and I also would never do the gum or patch -- way I look at those is, I might as well be smoking.
But you are stronger than any cigarette is; you've just convinced yourself otherwise. I know; I've quit a few times before myself. But never for this long and the difference is this time I really wanted to, I was tired of it, and it was the right time. I knew that I wasn't getting any younger and that my lungs couldn't stand too many more years of being filled with smoke. That, and remembering my aunt, whose aorta had a "blow out" and she died on the way to the hospital in the ambulance, from massive internal bleeding, from having severe complications of COPD and emphysema, etc. I don't want to die that way, that's for sure.
You can do it! You just have to be strong and disciplined and follow a healthy diet and vitamin and exercise regimen.
I'll continue to chat with people even when I do find someone...but that's CHATTING, not FLIRTING. I don't even wait until it's "exclusive" to stop flirting with other men; I stop that as soon as I see a potential for something permanent happening, all the way until I know for sure, one way or the other, where it's going to go.
It's not the other men are not going to be around when I get back and, even if they're not, no biggie. There will be others to flirt with in the future, I'm sure.
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RE: What would you do if?
You're probably onto something here. We'll meet at the 7-11 in the Pine Sol aisle. Whatever you do, do NOT play the Lottery. That's how they keep track of us.