I admire your resolve! Hope the doc has some suggestions for feeling better. Is swimming an option for you? I find it's the only time I feel completely free of aches and pains.

Congratulations - hard to believe it's already been 100 days!

Hope you get to feeling better soon 🙂

Way to go girl. take deep breaths. Doesnt that feel good now?

Congratulations! We are all rooting for you. Keep up the good work.

Wish I could go swimming but no pools near me. My breathing is fine so yes it does feel good. The elevator at work is broken so had to climb 5 flights of stairs. It was hard but I did it!

It's times like these when you should do something totally drastic. Something you've never done before. Take a leap! What have you always wanted to do, that you didn't try before because you were scared?

It can distract you from all that's going on.

I wish you the best. It's a fun way to accomplish both things. No more smoking and __________whatever you choose.

Congratulations on reaching 100 days smoke free. Keep up the good work!

Way to go! You are a warrior. I'm sorry you aren't reaping the benefits with boundless energy, but you may very well get there too. Let's hope your doctor has a suggestion for you. If you managed breaking that long time habit with only 5 additional pounds you really were doing all the right things. Be proud of your accomplishment. At 100 days I think it's time to dye your hair blue or do something remarkable to mark the occasion, you deserve the attention 😁

Congratulations on your first 100 days! I have no insight into why you’re tired, but glad you will be seeking your doctor’s advice there. Sometimes your bloodwork might give insights as to a vitamin deficiency that can help. I think you’re in the right track, no matter what, and the slight weight gain is to be expected. Give it a little time. You didn’t say how old you are, but peri-menopause and menopause can set in and our bodies react in different ways (including weight gain). So don’t rule that out, which is unrelated to smoking cessation.

With the hot weather, it’s hard for anyone to be outside, even walking, so hopefully you can do more this fall. You will get there!

The doctor should be very impressed with your resolve in beating that dangerous addiction. Please let us know the outcome of your visit.

When I quit smoking my thyroid tanked. You should have it checked. Congratulations on 100 days!!!

Thanks everyone for cheering me on. I'm turning 63 next month and smoked over 40 years. Outside playing I have what is called smokers flu. All different symptoms but I got the fatigue and aching body. I'll update again next week

Keep up the good work. I am so impressed.

Happy dance!

Thanks for posting your progress. It's great to hear good news!

Congratulations on this great accomplishment. As I think I shared, I stopped smoking numerous times, and sometimes for over a year and then regressed. It's now been probably about 30 ish years so I think I'm good. I do absolutely recall the not feeling quite right, bloated, anxious, etc and it does pass.

My big advice is that no matter what you do, do not EVER think you can just have one cigarette because you're no longer at risk. Speaking for myself that was a hard lesson to learn but I now am convinced that even as distasteful as it is now to me, and how uncool it is now, if I had one cigarette I would be back buying a pack and then a carton.

Keep up the great work.

Thank you all. I have no desire to go back and being around other smokers doesn't bother me. I'm going to dr Wednesday for check up so I'll update you then.

Congratulations on your success! However, just to say, I'm more impressed with those who never got into the habit. My dad, numerous relatives and other adults were smokers during my childhood and teenage years, which, I suppose somewhat oddly, kept me away from it. I've always considered it to be vile and gnasty. Dad quit when his health problems began but it was of course already too late. Aortic and popliteal aneurysms. Colon cancer. Osteoprosis. He had eight vertebral fractures, three vertebroplasties. The surgeon on the last one said a hammer is typically needed to drive in the needle but dad's vertebra was so soft he could push it in. A colovesical fistula (stool in the bladder) led to the end, which I believe resulted from effects of the colon resection and brachytherapy for prostate cancer.

I’m so impressed, Karen! My dh had a heck of a time quitting for good and it was miserable for all of us. He gets regular chest x-rays to make sure the smoking effects haven’t caught up with him now.

Congratulations! you should be proud of yourself! i quit for good back in 1983, haven’t had one since. I enjoyed smoking but once I quit I didn’t want to take a chance of having just one. My brother quit at 50 years old. He was a heavier smoker than me but he did it. He’s 73 now. Keep up the good work, it’s well worth it.

My doctor has had me get a chest lung xray every year and each one was always clear

Lucky I guess