Jan 26 2008
Still not smoking…
Updates?
I’m still not smoking (thats about 9 days) and doing ok. No immediate concerns that I’ll be falling off the wagon, am concerned about my teeth as I seem to have replaced the oral activity with mints and am consuming them at an alarming rate. Am now worried about giving up the mints and may need help with that.
Also signed up for Driven to Quit and with a little luck could win a car for my efforts. More finger crossing follows.
yeah, I’m still on the mints after a year. my dentist is of the opinion that mints are less damaging than smokes however. go figure.
Outasite, way to go! High mint consumption sounds like a small price to pay…
Halls cough drops were my crutch. Still pop one before every run.
The good news about being smoke free for 9 days is what I like to hear. It gets much easier from here, by the way.
Dave: Handy aren’t they? I grabbed a bag the first day I quit and seemed to go through this escalation every time I wanted to smoke;
1) take deep breath, mentally walk through re-assembly procedure for M1 rifle (particularly those fiddly bits in the feed system). If cravings persist then;
2) take one english mint, try to prevent self from “crunching” it, concentrate on sucking it to nothingness;
3) repeat as needed. Do not smoke.
-GRIN-
KD: Thanks! Agreed. Especially as I am now a pack of mints every three days guy (at $1.49 per bag it’s still a lot cheaper than smoking).
Greg: Ayup.. quitting I have done my fair share of. The first week has always been the worst (except for Zyban), previous efforts have traditionally folded on days 4 or 5 (or non-starters that folded on Day 1 or 2).
The cigars/cigarillos seem to have had a much smaller nicotine content as this time withdrawl seems almost exclusively psychological. I went to some pains over the last few months to break established “smoke” times (ie after dinner, during the drive to work, after coffee etc etc) so that these habits would be a little disrupted when it came time to quit.
As it is, I’m doing my best to think of myself as a “non-smoker”. I have no intention of going back.
Just go with it and consume the sugar mints. I think Sorbitol and Aspartame are gross; Too much and the trots trot in.
Erik,
You’re up to 2 non-smoking weeks, aren’t you? Keep going!
Keep up the good work! The Mrs and I are gonna quit soon, never fun, never easy.
Good luck!
If you win a car for quitting smoking and all I got was fat, I’m gonna have words with God when I get to the pearlly gates…
Greg, God wants you to walk so you won’t get fat. The car is an evil thing…
“Greg, God wants you to walk so you won’t get fat.”
God wants his chosen people outta Egypt, so he sends Moses, a burning bush and parts the Red Sea. Me, he wants to be thin, so he sends Erik a Caddy, me a cheeseburger with all the fixings and a pair of running shoes?
I swear to, well, him, does this guy know how to use e-mail? You know, a simple e-mail from Jehova@Heaven.rlg ? “Dear Greg, no more cheeseburgers, hit a treadmill and for the love of all things holy, stop touching yourself when you think nobody is looking!”