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Gimme those double digits.

alysonoholic
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I arrived home last night to find the bed frame I had ordered basically blocking the entrance to my apartment. It's usually impossible to get DHL and FedEx deliveries because I live in a secured building and they typically attempt delivery while I am at work. I normally have to have them try at least once so I can tell them to hold it at their delivery center which is a ways south of the city and completely inconvenient to me. Considering this box weighed 70 pounds and had at least a foot on me in height, I wasn't too thrilled with that prospect. After maneuvering through my door and dragging it into my apartment I took a small break and then slapped it together, all by mahself. I feel so grown up having a bed frame again!

It was another great distraction to keep my hands and mind busy during the first few days of my "quit." I am now at 9 days of not smoking and looking forward to hitting my "double digit" 10 day milestone. I'm keeping myself occupied and it's almost crazy how much more I can get done when I'm not spending a ton of my free time killing myself with cigarettes. I'm kicking butt(s.)

How are you staying busy, EXers?

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This is actually my third wind on becomeanex.org - in February 2013 I quit for over 6 months before relapsing and realizing I was going to have to start all over again. And then that happened again. So, I'm back here to get at it. I've tried quitting so many times now it's not even that funny. I had basically been smoking since I was 13 (so, 25 years now) and was tired of letting something so stupid and expensive run my life to the extent that it did. In general, I am a pretty healthy person. I work out regularly, I eat well most of the time..it just seemed ridiculous to keep subjecting myself to being stinky and ultimately sick. I know cigarettes don't actually bring anything positive to my life, it was just hard to think of a future that didn't include the habits I had built around them. But now that I am 38 I am determined to live a healthy, well-balanced life and take more time to enjoy my home, my friends, my 2 cats, my city and a life free of cigarettes.