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Quitting Smoking Again – Week 16: Am I There Yet?

Just a brief update for those following along with me on this stopping smoking journey. It’s been 4 months without a cigarette and I remain certain I’ll continue to be a non-smoker. I can honestly say that not only don’t I want to smoke, but I no longer feel the need.
Surprising perhaps, at least to [...]

Quitting Smoking Again – Week 10: A New Year

What’s really cool at this new year is I’ve now got about 10 weeks – 2 ½ months worth of success behind my goal of being a non-smoker by 2008. I can’t say my New Years resolution was to quit smoking, but having blown that resolution so many times before, I’m definitely feeling good at [...]

Quitting Smoking Again – Week 6: Getting Cocky

The interesting thing now is that I really don’t think about “not smoking” all that much. In fact somewhere around a month in I noticed that smoking isn’t all consuming anymore. I don’t mean quitting has been agonizing or hard, in fact quite the contrary.
One of the things I did was change focus from that [...]

Quitting Smoking Again – Day 20: Making Money

Pushing right up against the big 3 week hurdle – it happens tomorrow. According to many stop smoking programs,  reaching this point is significant for all sorts of reasons. It’s like if you make it this far, there’s no turning back.
For me, it’s like every day is a milestone. For sure that’s the case during early days. [...]

Quitting Smoking Again – Day 6: On my own

Okay it’s almost been a week. I can’t say I don’t think about having a smoke, because truth is I think of it a lot. But I believe that’s because its been such an ingrained part of life for so long, that it’s going to take quite some time before it starts receding in conscious [...]

Quitting Smoking Again – Day 1: Will it take this time?

Yes, again! The last time was 2 weeks ago, and it lasted a whole day and a half.
But here we go once more – cold turkey. For the record, this pack+ a day habit has spanned well over 35 years, and I’ve actually “quit” many times – once for about a year.
Decided I’d do the [...]