Have your friendships changed since you stopped smoking-

Dancer's post "Everything feels less certain when things change" got me to thinking. I'm curious how you handle being with smoking friends now that you've quit. Right now, I realize it's only been 10 days, but I don't want to be around people who smoke. Our friends are pretty much half smokers, half not. To be honest,quit smoking now, I don't feel like being around anyone at all right now. We entertain a lot and everyone who smokes goes outside so it really isn't a problem for me to just not go outside. At least it shouldn't be, should it? For some reason,stop smoking, I'm scared of something. Will I not be me anymore? I haven't told any of my friends that I quit. Except for my daughter and my husband no one in my family knows I quit. And no one in my family smokes - they would be doing cartwheels if they knew! Another weekend is coming up and I'm kind of dreading it, someone will want to get together for a bar-be-que or go out to dinner or something and I will probably make some lame excuse instead of being honest. This isn't an S.O.S., not even close. I really don't want to smoke, I just feel like I don't know how to handle a social situation (which is not like me at all). And the holidays are coming up - just dandy! Ok, I'm finished rambling on and on. Any insight or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.