Oh, keeping diet and dropping smoking at once is hard. And when you are stressed, more problems are likely to occur, you have a bad condition and troubles seem worse. Great to hear that you are ok and keeping!
I would like to say I also come here to vent. I don't want to write a lot about good things that are still happening to me, because when I am happy, I don't need support and my internal life doesn't need venting.
When I quit the first time, I gained 66 pounds, returned to smoking again and losing this weight for several years. Well, I'm still on the nicotine vaping, but I started again with the war and hope to drop when I move away (or the war ends).