I am currently on Day 16, I could lie and say that everything past day 3 is easy, but we all know that is not the truth. I have had my good days and I have had my bad days. I think that is the hard part about quitting, some days I feel like I am making progress and then the next day I feel like I am back on day 2 or 3 in terms of craves or irritability. I know this will get better, it will just take some time. I can say ont thing for sure, I remain quit today
I've experienced exactly the same thing. Some claim that day 3 was the worst for them, but for me, I can honestly say day 21 was every bit as bad as day 3.
Also, it
seems logical that every day ought to be better than the previous one. But that's not how it worked for me. And from reading intro's and talking to other's here that's not how it works for most. The bad days' begin get farther and farther apart after a while, but when I have a bad day, it's was almost as if I was on day 1 all over again. (I went out and bought some fake dip last week. I haven't had a day like that in weeks, but after a couple of days I felt good again.)
Read the
Quitting Pendulum in wastepanel's intro
single/?p=1460007t=1007167. To me this is a perfect analogy of the ups and downs of Quitting. Another great analogy, is of an upward bound roller coaster, a quote I got from Kingnothing, that pefectly explains the way the last 367 days have been for me: "The roller coaster has many more ups and downs in store for you..., but the intensity starts to mellow out.... Just keep pushing through ODAAT and the general trend will continue upward. -KingNothing"
Hang in there, it won't get better as fast as you'd like it to.... but it does get better. A lot better!