Congrats, **rachelellogram **and BangTheDrum. You’ve both made great choices and I’m rooting for your success. You will love the freedom you feel by ridding yourself of a nasty, expensive addiction.
I smoked my last cigarette on May 25, 2008. Can’t say I miss it at all. 
I quit smoking thanks to the Dope over 9 and a half years ago. The first month was awful - I was lightheaded and dizzy most of the time and just utterly miserable but once it was over, it was over for good and I’ve never had to go through that again. Totally worth it.
I’m actually drinking more coffee than ever. Its pretty much become my main substitute for cigarettes. Not that all that coffee is good for me, but its a damn site better for me than smoking.
Oh, I agree. Don’t go into it with so much adrenaline that you decide you are going to reform your entire life by stop smoking, drinking, start exercising, eating healthy, donating to the poor, and stop swearing, whoring around, and working on Sundays. One step at a time.
The only thing I said was that coffee and booze were huge triggers for me to smoke, especially in the first few days/weeks. I remember that I quit coffee for the first 5 days and booze for the first month. I don’t think that I could have resisted were it not for that, and perhaps the OP is in a similar situation. But if you can quit while still drinking coffee and booze, then by all means indulge.
Have you been peeking at my weekly planner? 
But seriously, I’ve been chugging coffee so much since I quit smoking that I may need a book called “The easy way to stop drinking coffee”.
Checking in. How is the progress?
ALl are welcome! VERY VERY happy to have helped by steering you to it!
Now. It’s the 8th. Doctor?? DOCTOR???
Bang?
Anyone else? Everyone hangin’ in?
I’ll be glad to talk you through it. I’ll give you my number or Skype if you need some handholding…
I quit for three days until about 15 minutes ago.
I bummed a cig and it made me feel like crap. Don’t make the same mistake I did.
Well, don’t give up completely. Look at it this way, how many cigarettes have you NOT smoked in the last three days? See, you’re still waaay ahead of the game. One cigarette does not make a habit, right? Keep up the good work.
Nah, if anything I’m glad I did have it. It literally made me feel like crap. I felt sick for a second and I couldn’t even finish the thing for some reason. I’ve lost what little desire I had left because of it.
I must have had a hundred or so of those 3 day quits. Just think of it as practice for the real thing.
Oh and FYI, yesterday was my 8 month anniversary of being smoke free
Hey, Stoid! I’m doing OK. Really, I am. 9 days smoke free and still rockin’. No slips, no cheats. Still craving a bit, but nothing intolerable.
And mookie? Hang in there and resist further temptation. I started a thread 9 days back when I started my quit and got lot’s of great advice in there. Check it out. Link