OMG! Is The Brain Retraining Finally Starting to WORK-!

Hiya Quitters,quit smoking now,Even though I felt like emotional crap today (i.e., volatile and melancholy),quit smoking, for the first time since quitting I actually felt the emotions themselves, rather than feeling an "I need to smoke" feeling -- then having to go through the "halt sequence" to identify whatever it was I was actually feeling (and then find out that yes, it was a "bad" emotion which I always used to respond to immediately by lighting up).Those emotional Triggers that have been plaguing me for the last month and a half or so, the ones that made me so battle weary from these inexplicable "I need to smoke" feelings which I had to decipher through them to discover what exactly it is I'm feeling which made me "want" to smoke, and then repeatedly tell myself "No, Lena, you do NOT smoke anymore when you're sad [or whichever emotion it is]" and "Smoking won't make it go away so just deal with it."But today I just felt the raw emotions, no smoking Triggers. Unfortunately the emotions were pretty raw -- I was back to crying several times in a day like the Emotional Rollercoaster of the beginning phase of my quit (i.e., Day 9 to around 3rd month).Hey Old Phartes, I need you to tell me -- is this progress, as in I did enough emotional identity chasing and brain training and that's what I needed to do to beat those inexplicable emotional Triggers? Is this normal for someone who's at the 6 months quit point?Thanks,~Lena