It’s been about 2 weeks since I’ve decided to quit smoking; however, I suffered a minor setback this week and smoked a 1.5 packs. I fell off the wagon. Unfortunately, I’ll have to start from square one again today, 1/17/05.
Got off with a good start and did 2.06 miles on my elliptical trainer doing 50 minutes straight without stopping. The last 30 minutes were easy. It’s the first 20 that are hard. Hint: watch a movie while exercising, the time flies by!
Anonymous
January 18, 2005 at 1:01 pm
I’m glad you are trying again after falling off the wagon. I too quit smoking on 1/1/05 after almost 20 years. I’ve had 1 cigarette in the past 2 weeks, nearly 3. So hang in there and don’t give up!
-Mark in Sacramento CA
SamWillC
January 20, 2005 at 6:17 am
I’m always giving up and failing. But I keep trying and will eventually succeed! Read Allen Carrs book ‘The Easy Way to Stop Smoking’. It’s very useful.
SamWillC
chovy
January 20, 2005 at 7:51 am
I’ll have to look it up.
Arthur
January 30, 2005 at 2:49 pm
The guy recommending the book must not have read it since he says he failed so many times!
I got your blogsite from “Unofficialnicanon” when you posted there. I am Nicanot8300, and I sent you a reply to your post. Hope things are doing well — why are you trying to stop smoking?
I tried many times before I got into this program, and now I have been stopped for over 4 1/2 years. I’ll see if my “stats” come across here.
(Arthur – Free and Healing for Four Years, Five Months, Twenty Eight Days, 5 Hours and 49 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 341 Days and 22 Hours, by avoiding the use of 98475 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me $14,496.01.)
Yep, they made it!
Keep at it kiddo! Best wishes. Arthur
chovy
February 1, 2005 at 12:51 am
Haa…I’ll have to tell Sam that (he’s a member on two of my forums).
(Arthur – Free and Healing for Four Years, Five Months, Twenty Eight Days, 5 Hours and 49 Minutes, while extending my life expectancy 341 Days and 22 Hours, by avoiding the use of 98475 nicotine delivery devices that would have cost me $14,496.01.)
God damn you smoked a lot didn’t you? :-D
4.5 years of not smoking, and you’ve already saved almost a year of your life? That’s crazy!!