Now for the 3 month mark. A lot of non-smokers report a bluesy feeling, a sense of general malaise. Quitting is no longer new, it's been incorporated into our daily routines and we have experienced the hours and sometimes day or two without even thinking about smoking. We've been on a non-smoking high. That's the point where the demon is going to try to seduce us back into her stinking and lethal lair. We now have the tools to kick her to the curb but it occurs to us that we really are not going to smoke ever again, smoking is not an option. We embrace this concept in our newly retrained non-smoking brains but there's still that residual part of us that is really pissed off that we can't have even a puff if we want to remain smoke free. These blues do pass, normally it takes about a week so if you're going to pamper yourself and do a reward for not smoking, this is a great time to reinforce your quit with something special and just for you. Once this passes (and it will, I promise) the peace that comes with not smoking begins to settle in. It's not an overnight event, but an awareness of being comfortable in a non-smoking skin begins to happen. You begin to look back on your journey to freedom and realize you truly have travelled some distance and NOTHING will make you want to go through those first few hellish weeks ever again. I told you a while ago that quitting smoking was not an event, it was a process. It's also an amazing learning experience as we let go of an addiction that takes everything from us and begin to embrace new behaviour patterns which consequently bring to us new awareness and new confidences. The physical changes that come with not smoking are terrific but for me it's the spiritual growth that just keeps happening as I become more empowered that will keep me on this non-smoking path and reaching out to others who want to seek this path keeps my own quit strong.