What I Know About Quitting Smoking
That sounds totally selfish and really it is. I mean smoking IS selfish so quitting smoking has to be doubly selfish.
Not Smoking 1101 Days and Counting
I was asked to update what was going on with my smoking or lack of, my health and what is going on with me. So here goes. It has been 1101 days since my last cigarette. Or 157 weeks and 2 days. Or 26,424 hours. Or 1,585,440 minutes. But who’s counting. How is it going for me? Goodly. Most of…
Help I Am Turning Into A Critical Nazi Ex-Smoker
I just returned from a rather long road trip. Most of the trip was purposeful with timelines and obligatory family visits. One of those “hurry we have to be here for breakfast there or this event” kind of trips. The driving to get there was the best part of that section of the trip. I love the journey, the destinations…
Non Smoker? Ex Smoker? or Quitting Smoking?
So, it seems, according to some friends, that I am a non-smoker. I am working on my fifth month smoke free. It is weird. I still see myself as a someone who is trying to quit smoke. I do not yet think i am ready to call myself a non smoker. My friends who still smoke seem to be the…
Not Smoking 120+ days and Crazier Than Ever.
It has been a little over 110 days are four months since I have had a cigarette. In some respects it seems a lot longer, in others doesn’t seem like a week has gone by. The physical cravings are a lot less, although I am still using the mini lozenges. The urges had diminished a lot. There are lingering ones,…
Not Smoking, Walking and the Right Tools
Yep, I am still a non smoker. 100+ days. I have not used the patch in several weeks, but I am using the lozenges. I am still not ready to give them up. They are like my little nicotine security blanket. I do not use them often, but i do find that when I am tired or a little stressed…
Non Smoker for 90 days and now I am running (well not really)
I have managed to not smoke for 90 days. I am no longer using the patches. I had stepped down to the lightest one available and honestly kept forgetting to put them on. After a couple of days of that, I decided that I did not need them. Takes a while but I can catch on. I am using the…
Non-Smoking 60 Days
Where I work there are two people who smoke. I guess, that is a fallacious statement. There are others who are employed there who smoke, but today I am concerned with only two of them. They both engage in behavior that I recognize. I have not been a non-smoker so long that I have forgotten what it was like! Only…
Smoke Free 53 Days
This last week I went ahead and stepped down, again, with the nicotine patches. If you read the instructions and if I listened to the gal who gave the stop smoking seminar 53 days ago, I am doing it all wrong. I am changing patches too fast. I would probably tell you that the best you can do is to follow the…
Smoke Free 45 Days
45 days. That is amazing. I have 45 days of not smoking. I, me, the chick who smoked two packs a day and sometimes more, goes a whole 45 days of not smoking on a voluntary basis. I do not necessarily have 45 days on not WANTING to smoke but I have not given in. I do believe that my…
