I just wanted to update my supporters on quitting smoking how I am doing...
5 days, 1 hour, 19 minutes and 14 seconds smoke free.
152 cigarettes not smoked.
$38.63 and 1 day, 3 hours of your life saved.
Your quit date: 5/10/2007 8:30:00 AM
Well, I had to take a few days away from the computer to really just concentrate on not having a cigarette... I am on day 6 and not even one puff taken. I am feeling pretty good, but I am having a very difficult time sleeping at night.. The Chantix is really helping keep me from becoming a monster and killing someone just because I wanted a cigarette.
I have been doing some knitting and crocheting to keep my hands busy, and when the urge to have a smoke is really bad, I start munching on pretzels and that seems to satisfy my hand to mouth addiction.. Being on day 6 gives me great knowledge that I have done some great work and that I do not need that cigarette.. . This is thel ongest I have been without a cigarette since I started smoking some 20 years ago, so I really do think this time I am well on my way to being an ex-smoker.. I just have to get through hell and heck weeks (the first 2 weeks) and I will feel much better about myself..
Now, why does time have to seem soo slow and does not go by quicker?...lol
Thank you all for supporting me and giving me words of encourgement..
The saying I like the best is that I am one puff away from a pack a day.. meaning I cannot have even one puff of a cigarette to make quitting successful.
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A friend of mine would take the money he saved and place it into a large glass jar, so he could see how much he was saving, and watch it grow each day. While saving money wasn't his motivation for quitting, it did give him some extra incentive when he needed it. He has been smoke-free for 7 years now, and feels 10 years younger...and a wee bit richer too!
Good Luck!
Sissy.. I do not have to personally count it, I use the gadget on Q-net to do this.. and yes it has actually helped me to see what I am saving and that if I even take one puff, that I have to start all those stats over from the beginning...
I need to try again.
When I quit I realized how much time I had been wasting by smoking, more than anything. I even saved all of the money I was not spending in a glass jar and bought a vacation.
Keep on!
Where did you get those figures?
I wonder...
Are you using that new medication for quitting Chantix?
Yes I am using Chantix... I do not think I could have quit without it...
btw... I was just talking to someone on the phone. . I could hear them smoking, and it did not give me any cravings to smoke.. yahoo...
Michelle.. I hated the smell of smoking before I even quit... yes I could smell it and it is awful...
Jennifer.. Come on and Quit with me...
Be proud of yourself.
You are so right about no reason to take even one puff... I always think of "one puff away from a pack a day."