Checking in Day 17 AF!!! 
Iāve been feeling good about sobriety. No real temptations, cravings, or desire to drink. But man do I need to kick these cigarettes. I started smoking waaayy more when I quit drinking. Hand to mouth (repeat). My lungs are not happy with me. I know smoking is going to be way harder to quit, so trying to come up with a good plan of attack!
Take your time. I know trying to stop too many things at once isnāt always successful. In the past while trying to quit I felt out of control emotional, crying nonstop. In Jan '22 I got a month sober and quit cigarettes. When I picked the bottle back up, I didnāt reach for a smoke and never looked back. At least I succeeded in one thing I thought.
Have you been on the smokers trying to quit thread? Might be some good advice there 
Hey Jasmine. It turns out my dad has vetoed the visit this weekend as my mum hadnāt discussed it with him and he feels their home isnāt ready for us visiting. Iām a bit disappointed, especially as Iāve been hearing about them having visitors recently (although not three people at once to be fair)
I sometimes wonder how well my parents communicate with each other.
Iām off to post that parcel.
I came on here for my daily check in and seen this post and got pretty emotional, not for me, for you Megan, oh my do I have experience of that feeling, please donāt give up, Iām sorry you are struggling right now, please try and eat and drink water, just do that to start with, try not to overwhelm yourself with thoughts of āthe rest of your lifeā.
Just wake up each day and try and get through that day, eat, drink, put some comfy clothes on, if you need to sleep then sleep, come on here and talk, I have chronic pain and itās just about unbearable sometimes and Iāve got this for good now, but I manage it each day at a time.
You have support here and a full life ahead of you and your stronger than you think, you can do this, sending a huge hug your way 
Checking in day 16, another lazy day for me, still on holiday from work for the rest of this week and itās been good going for a walk early morning with Coops and relaxing all day, I definitely need the rest this week and Iām taking it 
Hope everyone has a great day/night
Oh Delia I am sorry to read this -I know how excited you were to be visiting them.
At least your mom did open up the invitation this time and hopefully soon your dad will be up for the company as well. 
honestly i wonder too ā i work with my family. i have to reconfirm anything my mom says to me with my dad and brother to make sure everyone is on the same page. Maybe just something mothers do?
I do hope you have a wonderful day sweet Delia!
Day 346
Another crazy day at work. 50% staff is missing again, the pregnant coworker got sick too.
This morning we had an IT crash (again, happens every other week) including our phones to die too. Yeahā¦the only thing Iām doing rn is breathing.
If nothing changes nothing changes. Weāre still running this office like having full staff, the boss doesnāt care but is giving us major pressure to work faster. Sureā¦ patients keep on waiting 2-3 weeks for us to call them and that wonāt change. Period.
Let me do my job and shut the eff off.
I wonāt take this home with me, but I have to let it out somewhere and thatās you guys 
Have a beautiful sober day friends, stay strong 
Good luck with quitting the cigarettes, I have never smoked but my husband does and he finds it so hard to stop heās tried several times, but you managed to cut out the booze so I have faith in you that youāll quit smoking, it might just take a bit longer and a bit more effort but Iām sure youāll smash it
Checking in for day 50.
Have a blessed day everyone day 2
@SadMemeQueen It is so hard when you donāt have the energy to do the things that would help give you energy or lift your mood (food / movement, etc). Just try to do a little and get that vicious cycle into a virtuous cycle.
@Deelzebub Congratulations on triple digits!
@Amy30 That sounds incredibly frustrating. Fingers crossed for you!
Day 1120-something.
Have been getting ready to go back to work on Thursday. Organising the google classroom, uploading things onto the LMS, emailling back and forth about various details. It is nice to feel productive again. I wish I was the kind of person who could manage themselves better, but unless I have things I HAVE to do I tend to do nothing. I could tidy up the house, go swimming, cook some more complicated dishes, but I sit and scroll and feel guilty about it. But compared to when a free day meant a drinking day, things are a whole lot better. Kids are settled back into school. There are so many events coming up in the next month or so, I am sure I will have things clash or forget stuff. But I know those are first world problems.
Checking in on Day 62. Happy Tuesday!
Day 997,
Feeling ok, my reaction to the medication increase seems to be temporary. Still a lot of sleep, which is strange since the medication should give me more energy. Might be the thyroid, but that being said, this afternoon Iām feeling quit good. Did some sports in the center and had a brief shower after that and went to the supermarket. Sounds little but gives me the feeling my activity is increasing.
My son messaged me about this weekend, itās going to be a real father son weekend. Looking forward to that already.
Nearing my 1000 days of sobriety, donāt know yet how I feel about that. My mind says I should have my life together by now. But itās odaat.
Greetz ,
Rob
Checking in today - great to see so many folks here fighting the good fight and getting and giving support. I want to get back to checking in/sharing on my personal thread as I think that makes more sense for me versus posting longer posts here, even though they may get less exposure. Plus I simply canāt keep up with this busy busy thread!
Itās more about putting my thoughts out there and itās often a lot of repetitive shit (in my mind) like my continued health struggles, my mental health space (those two are of course intertwined) and how I feel like life is at the moment. Some recurring stuck feelings, especially. It helps me to post on my thread so I can easily see the patterns and times where I think about doing xyz but then donāt always follow through. Itās been a weird, wonderful, stressful and life changing year and good things can be incredibly stressful, too! Hard to always keep that in my mind and deal with the stress and anxiety with the tools I have. As always, life continues one day at a time. Iām grateful I no longer drink over these challenges or for any āreason/excuse.ā
Keep up the good work, everyone. This is one of the most important things you can do for yourself. Glad to be here with you all. 
@Qhob13 congrats on 17 thatās amazing!! iām day 3 AF and same, nicotine needs to go!! gonna be kicking the vape out of my life on thursday when i fly to texas for a hummingbird festival with my besties. planning to make it a nice lil ritual. 
smoked for 12 years, vaped for 1.5 since my son was born. OVER IT. feeling so much new energy from this alcohol sobriety commitment iām gonna magnify and expand it towards nicotine. iām ready, are you?? i know for certain our lungs are!! 
lungs are looking at us like āexcuse me? can i have some of what Liver is having?ā we can do this!!
Woooooowwwww thatās so beautiful
Iām doing nicotine as well as AF. ten days in, smoked on and off for about 25 years. Vape for past 8 on off. I did lozenges to get off the vape then patches to stop the oral routine of lozenges. Only did patches three days then stopped completely as they were giving me night terrors. Good luck.
wow amazing!! thank you!!
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Evening checkin. Smooth tooth extraction done, not even a painkiller needed. Resting. I am okay with resting and void. I am realy fine with myself today.
