Quitting Smoking - Days 3-4

Happy weekend everyone,

I got a bit tied up yesterday and today.

It's been challenging, but I wanted to mark that I did in fact make it to 72 hours, and then 96 hours, and have continued to be smoke free since noon this past Wednesday.

A bit of mixed feelings from the past two days. A lot of ups and downs.

We went to a theme park with some friends. Although I did experience some strong cravings, I managed to get past them. More importantly, I also had some extended periods of times (often up to several hours) in which I was not preoccupied with smoking. Even when smoking, I was often thinking about when I'd get to have my next cigarette. And of course, now that I'm quitting, I'm devoting a fair amount of mental energy thinking about smoking (or more accurately that internal battle between the desire to smoke, and the resolution to stop). But those few hours here and there where I"m not thinking about it are blissful. Is this what's it's going to be like all the time once I'm on the other side of this? If so, then it'll be worth it.

I'm looking forward to posting here tomorrow about 120 hours.