Hard to believe that it's been 9 days since I last checked in! My quit day is still 2 days away on Friday. I'm sooo looking forward to it! When I joined BecomeanEX, I did so because I wanted to quit smoking. I did the excersizes, tracked cigarette's, figured out my triggers, earned some badges, met some friends, joined some groups, etc....... And then I read the book, The Easy Way to Stop Smoking. WOW!! It really opened my eyes to what smoking really is. I learned about Nicotine, I learned about withdrawls, I learned about addiction, and I learned that I'm a drug addict! A Nicotine Junkie!! It helped me realize that I'm not giving anything up! Because if you "give something up", there had to be value in it in the first place! I'm simply not going to smoke after Thursday night. I'm actually looking forward to that first and subsequent "pang" of .......what's the word I'm looking for?? I'm looking forward to that uncomfortable empty feeling you get when you ridding your body of Nicotine. You know the one. The one that makes you lie to yourself, One puff, One won't hurt, I'll quit tomorrow, I'm rewarding myself, yada, yada, yada! Someone posted recently, "You're a puff away from a pack a day". There's so much truth to that!! Here's another thing I learned......In my lifetime, I spent in the ballpark of $62,000 on Marlboro Lights!! Ouch! How many better things could I have done with that! Anyway, I'm back! Like it or not you'll be seeing my blogs more often than every 9 days!
Dunwitit Out!!
