Category Archives: smoking

You quit smoking New Year’s Eve. And you are thinking about caving. It’s been hard. Like math. It’s cool. People made out of a lot tougher shit than you folded like lawn chairs way before now. I mean, I had … Continue reading →

All kinds of mile stones around here. 30 mile week, 100 mile month, and now 1 year smoke free. On July 2nd, 2007 at 10:18 pm, I put out my last cigarette and went to bed. I haven’t smoked since. … Continue reading →

Yesterday sucked. Long story. Anyway I totally forgot that it was my 6th month of being smoke free. Even when life gives you lemons, you should still stay smoke free. Stay strong!

I worked from 8 am Thursday until around 2 pm Friday. I was, and still am to a degree, exhausted. In the wee hours of Friday morning I was looking out the window of the office at the cold snowy … Continue reading →

For the last (almost) 5 months I have been getting regular updates from a cessation support site. I stopped really reading them a while ago, and then, this morning I finally unsubscribed. That has to be some sort of milestone … Continue reading →

It’s been 4 months since I had a smoke. July 2nd, 2007 10:18 pm, I snubbed my last cigarette. It’s crazy. Before I stopped again, I forgot what it was like to have quit. Like most things in this world, … Continue reading →

Over at MaggiesMind she is discussing the process of going from being a smoker to a non-smoker. She touches on a salient point, namely: I’m not sure that I’ll ever feel quite the same as someone who was never a … Continue reading →

Just wanted to check in with anyone who is interested. Today is the 100th day in a row I won’t smoke. I still want to smoke, and that can be depressing. The depressing part comes from having incontrovertible empirical data … Continue reading →

Here it is, 80 days since I had a cigarette. Normally I would have been getting ready to go off the Chantix sometime in the next 10 days. However I basically only took that for a month. I started taking … Continue reading →