Yes, I definitely had more energy each time I quit. I doubt it has anything to do with the patches. Probably more so the fact that our bodies take in more oxygen. Smoking inhibits the amount we absorb, causing us to breath harder, which in turn tires us out more. I remember not being able to sit still for very long. I was like the energizer bunny, haha.

Hmmm... kind of makes me want to stop again. Some day!

Thank you! And yes, I feel that alive and bubbly as well. Just now was on the phone for near 2 hrs, I'm like a speech waterfall hahahaha.
But I can't sit still either. I have to cos my back is causing me trouble at the mo due to yard work. But dang, I could turn my entire house upside down and inside out at the moment, clean every ridge and nook and cranny, hihi.
Crying shame my body doesn't agree with that. I'd finally get my front room upstairs tidied grin. And maybe paint some walls while I'm at it.
OMG this is crazy hihi.

Thanks, glad to know it's not the patch! What you say about oxygen makes a lot of sense. And also not getting so many toxins in my body anymore. Not the nicotine per say, the other crap.

As for you maybe wanting to quit... I can already tell my complexion has changed? And I never looked like a smoker at all, not even my skin tone. It's really weird.
I might go speed dating LOL.

Lol, I'm glad you're enjoying it. Just remember to take it easy, haha. Maybe put the extra energy into something creative, like painting? That way you don't end up bed ridden with pain from over doing it.

I don't have that solid commitment and resolve yet to stop again. In the past, that's what it took. A no reservations kind of resolve. But there is a part of me that's tired of smoking and there's always been a part of me that doesn't like to smoke, so I imagine there will come a day again when I stop once and for all. Right now though, the part of me that likes to smoke is overruling the other part, haha.

I've been thinking about channeling my energy into another direction too. Like you say, something creative. Painting, maybe writing, and maybe even a nice card reading as that will make me go inwards and slow me down. And lord knows it's even different now to use my intuition?

As for quitting... part of me didn't want to either. Mostly the health thing that made me want to quit. But I didn't -and still don't- have this rock solid conviction 'I'm going to do this!!'
Really kind of weird as I do find nothing much can get me off the quitting path nonetheless. It's like a different kind of resolve than I've ever had before? Not so clear or intense, more like a gentler undercurrent, but bloody powerful regardless.
Not sure how to describe this as it's really new for me.
Maybe this is the best way for me as I remember when I quit when I was around 32 I felt similar. I was just fed up with it and didn't care about quitting at all. I just did, hihi.
Maybe if I do get all worked up and intense it's not going to work when I want something?
Hmmm... now there's food for thought!! Wowza... I'm gonna write that down.

Hmmm, that is food for thought. Thinking back to when I quit before, it just fell into place. I had gone back and forth for a while in considering it, but the more I considered it, the more I smoked. Then one day I just decided today is the day and I was done. First time was for 12 years, the second only for a few months and this last time for a year. So I got the stopping part down pat. The tricky part is not starting again. Remembering how much energy I had/have. Remembering how alive every cell in my body felt.

Oh, and spiritually... Holy cow, much more in tuned and clear. Maybe that's part of why I start again, it hindered my gifts? Until recently, and perhaps even still, I wasn't ready to embrace that part of me fully yet.

I see that undercurrent in you as the Universe helping you to embrace your path more fully. To do the light work we came here to do requires us to be a clear channel, kind of hard to do that fully when we're filling our bodies with a bunch of toxins. It's possible to some extent, obviously, but just think of the possibilities when we aren't counteracting the light that flows through us. :)

Yes, absolutely right! I felt that very powerfully when I had decided to quit last week and also decided which day once the patches had arrived.
I could see and sense and feel it'd be like a new life? New doors opening, new possibilities etc. So in that sense like what you're saying too. Like a life changing thing, far more than 'just' quitting smoking really.
Wait and see! Kind of exciting, but now not in a way that makes me nervous anymore :)
More curiosity.
You know what in a way also helped me on my path, although I haven't taken serious steps concerning: reading about my North Node. It gave me a specific understanding about myself I never had. A lot of loose pieces suddenly fell into place.
And not ready to take real action upon it, but at least I have the insight.
Maybe this quitting smoking is part of that one way or another.

Could very well be. When one door closes, another one opens. I'm excited for you! :)

My taste is really different now. Things taste weird, not necessarily for the better. Coffee is starting to taste totally horrible.

Good news... I put away the first E20! (approx $25)
I intend to do that every week. it's not the full amount I used to smoke, but close to it. And this way it also leaves me with a wee bit more to spend each week.
So the first instalment for my Scottish holiday!!

I'd already checked a few weeks back what a cattery would cost me. If I'm gonna go have a great time I want my 2 furry babies to be well taken care off too. And last time when I went to the USA I still had a daughter in law and good friend 4 doors down the street who looked after them.
And... to my surprise a cattery is quite affordable :)

Anywho, it is kind of weird, this not smoking. I wished my coffee still tasted good, hahaha.

I'm pleased for you and so are a lot on here

Take a baby aspirin twice a day, when you wake up after breakfast, and again in the evening after dinner because that will help take the edge off your cravings.

Today was quite rough and difficult. I was about to give up. I SO wanted to smoke again and be done with this.
Took me till mid-afternoon to deal with it and get back on track. I did the 1-Mile Walk (fitness) and went for a walk around the block just now after dinner as well. It is quite nice to be moving a bit more. I hope I can keep up the walking after dinner and doing the 1-Mile Walk 2-3x a week. I know I easily get lazy...

What helped to get over myself was to realise that I am getting out of a near 40 year addiction. Like someone has to kick of from using speed or other drugs.
That was a new angle for me as I never regarded smoking as an addiction but as something normal.
Feeling you have to let go of something normal is far more difficult and makes you feel sorry for yourself and resist it because, hey, it is normal and why can't I do it?! GRRRRRRRRRR *hihi*
While if it's letting go of an addiction... suddenly it is something not normal, and that thought helped me get back to wanting to get rid of it.

Funny how this works, isn't it! Nothing really changes except for how I regarded it.
That also helped to be a bit gentler on myself. It IS quite something to do, I should pat myself on the back for having come so far already, and pat myself on the back every day or several times a day because it is BIG!

Today is day 8, and it's 6 in the afternoon. Back on track. Dinner was ruined by a dressing that made me wanna puke and a burger that didn't taste right as it was 50% pork (yuk!). But even that doesn't matter Jack Chit.
I did NOT smoke! Right now that's all that matters.

Yep, I'm proud of myself.

You can do it! Just keep thinking of all the benefits there are to NOT smoking.

I will. I am. Thank you!!

Way to go crystal
Takes 2 weeks to break a habit... you're over half way there..
You've got this

Well done Crystal. Keep going, you’re doing great

Great job sticking to it Crystal.

Only 2? And yes, starting the 2nd week :)

Thanks, Delightful! That's what I will tell myself more often as well :)
I know I'd feel utterly sad and like I failed or haven't a backbone if I quit now that I've gotten through the worst first few days.
And then knowing my trip to Scotland will be out of reach... that thought brings tears to my eyes! For the first time in yonks I got something like that to look forward to! Damned if I let that go to waste now.