Hello again! Nicotine is a stimulant too so no wonder it’s a quick fix for exhausted parent. It surely affects your sleep as well as other stimulants like caffeine. @siand gave some good tips that could be useful although you might not be into yoga thing. I started regular meditation and breathing exercises before quitting cigs and it really helped me to calm down so that every conflict didn’t trigger me to go puffing my brains out. It works. I cannot handle multitasking (and what else is rush years than mt?), so I try to be realistic of what Im able to do with current circumstances. Sometimes just 5 minutes of something (meditating, push ups, breathing whatever) is enough. Step by step. Change by change.
Yea I use yoga for the basis of my stretching but tbh in under 5 mins stretches are fairly generic! Just any movement helps be here now.
Yes 
I practice regular yoga too, but meditation and pranayama is proven best to ease my mood rollercoaster and increase resilience.
Love this !!! Thanks so much great idea
Hope you’re all holding out my non-smoking friends! here’s a little inspiration for you all and some pride for me!
Congrats Menno!! @Mno
Great job 
Thanks for checking up. I’m doing quite good, day 55 for me.
Say hello to Luna from Paavo 
Oh I missed this - 2,000 days is amazing! Thank you for all the great info you share to help us get there too! 
Another repost, from Quitnet, my old quit smoking forum. This time from Gummer who had some great things to say about quitting smoking and addiction in general. For your distraction and knowledge.
Repost By gummer Dates Unknown
These reposts all say essentially the same thing… Smoking is the cause of your distress… so don’t ever be fooled into smoking again to feel better - it cannot ever work! Smoking has done a major job on you. It will take time and effort to straighten things out again, so be patient. You need to allow yourself the time required for your body and mind to return to normal. So hang in there! It doesn’t matter what it takes, just hang in there and you will get through this. Its gonna happen… Cravings ARE going to hit you out of the blue. Thats the way quitting goes. It may happen at day 5, or day 27, or day 152… cravings CAN and DO come out of thin air.
But never let them surprise you. EXPECT them, and when they do arise, treat them just as you have all the others… SIMPLY DONT SMOKE. Ride them out... recognize them as a natural part of the process... as a sign of healing and progress... until they go away… In time they will stop bothering you at all. But until you reach that point, do not be discouraged if youre suddenly slammed by a craving.
THATS WHAT SMOKING HAS DONE TO YOU. And thats what you have to go through until you free yourself. Never be fooled into smoking again… because it was smoking that got you here in the first place. NOT smoking is the only answer. Be patient. Be steadfast. Be optimistic. Don`t smoke.
Smoking always, always makes quitting harder… and not smoking always makes it easier. Cravings… are a sign that your quit is working. They are a symptom that your body and mind are trying to find equilibrium again. Never be alarmed or discouraged because cravings hit you all of a sudden… that is what is supposed to happen as you detox, and start shedding the addiction. It is clear evidence of progress, whether it is day 1 or day 157.
I frequently see posts desperately looking for advice for something to get rid of these withdrawals… drink huge amounts of water… take extra vitamins… try homeopathic remedies… but the truth is that IF you shift your mind, then you do not need anything. Stop thinking of withdrawals as a desperate need to smoke, and instead start to see them as cleansing moments that, while uncomfortable, are very effective at healing. Shift your focus, and your attitude, and the way you interpret things.
After all, that`s what is going on… your body is simply convulsing against the poison you have forced upon it. Withdrawals and cravings do not have to be a sign of trouble, because they are really a sign of progress. See them that way and you will endure them with far greater ease than if you try to fight them, or fret over them…
The breakthrough comes… not when you stop craving, but when you stop seeing smoking as a solution to the cravings. It happens when you come to the conclusion that smoking (rather than NOT smoking) is the source of your misery. At that point you will start to see the withdrawals quite differently… no longer as a desperate need to be filled… but as a side effect of smoking, as damage to you caused by years of smoking.
Because this yearning to smoke is no different from other effects of smoking… it is damage, plain and simple, just like shortness of breath, or poor circulation, or gum disease. And, as with all smoking damage, the only hope you have of ever reversing it is by NOT smoking. So when you feel that craving to smoke, try to see it for the damage that it is, rather than any deprivation of your needs. That urge to smoke does not necessarily mean that YOU want to smoke. It is not a natural and voluntary reaction… it is involuntary and a by-product of the addiction. It is an effect, a symptom. It does not need to be satisfied.
Once you see this, quitting no longer feels like burden… not smoking will actually feel like therapy, like you finally ARE doing something to counteract this burden, like you are in control again… And that shift of perspective is a huge breakthrough that can finally turn the tables in your favor. Gummer
Early steps 
still having random thoughts and cravings but nothing serious.
And vice versa, I’m inspired by yours! 
Nice!! What a pretty number. Look at you go Sis. It seems like yesterday you started this no nicotine journey. That year went by fast for me anyway but I’m the one that’s vaping.
Heeey, that’s awesome 
I’ve been smoking 2-3 cigars a day for 3 years now, not sure how that relates to packs of cigs a day and I also quit smoking weed (smoked for 1 1/2) 6 days ago. I’m a mess, depressed, loss of appetite, like not eating anything these past two days. I was working out, eating healthy and actually lost 15lbs of water weight. I was doing all of this and I still feel depressed. I didn’t realize how much of a fucking asshole I am to my dogs and my 8 year old. This fucking sucks guys.