37 days

I have not smoked for 37 days according to my "Get Quit" website and it told me that I have saved $74. Reckon if I hadn't had to pay for this "quit smoke" medicine I would have saved that much but as I did pay for it instead of my insurance company, I have at least saved $37 . . . and will save more, as time marches on.

There might have been a day or two on vacation that I would have smoked if I had had a cigarette but I didn't -- so I didn't! I am still clean!

Work related

Guess what! After pushing hard for two weeks and working overtime, I am CAUGHT UP at work! I even got my filing done and everything else -- except one last piece of mail that came in at quitting time.

Boy, that is a good feeling. It does not happen often at DHS and it will only last a week because while I am gone, the applications will still come in, the mail will arrive and the clients will call.

For one week though, I will put it all out of mind, enjoy my vacation and believe that I am "caught up"!

Reformed smoker

oh no! it is happening! when my sister quit smoking, she became almost obnoxious about smokers -- tried to tell me this and that and you'll be this and that, and blah, blah, blah! I wouldn't listen.

Now, although I have not said one word to a smoker (can hardly find one of those species anymore!) I see cigarette butts on the ground and think -- "what are you thinking, you smoker!" (mainly, honestly, I am thinking about the littering -- not the smoking.)

I smelled cigarette smoke today on my walk at break and it didn't really smell good. Didn't smell bad either. It didn't entice me.

3 weeks done

I'm only posting so as to keep track. Maybe I should just plan on tracking by the month now. I will always remember I quit on Linda's birthday and smoked my last one on Mary's so maybe the less said about it the better.

Anyway, still just taking 1/2 pill morning and evening and imagine it will be soon that I forget an evening dose. So, onward! One day at a time.

Week Three

September 6, 2007: 1 week, 6 days and 23 hours . . . but who's counting? Worrying (already!) about quitting the prescription in 9 weeks, I have started cutting my second, evening, pill in half just to see if I am okay with that. I have only taken half the second dose for three days now and have noticed no difference. Now I need to get my courage up to cut the morning pill in half.

It is fixing to storm here (I hope). The thunder rumbles closer and I see flashes of lightening off to the west. I am hoping for a good thunderstorm. Ah yes, here comes the rain.

September 10, 2007: have cut my morning pill in half the last two mornings so I am down to one pill, just divided into morning and evening. Last night, had a family thing come up and had to drive an hour and a half and, while driving, kept reminding myself that just a month ago, in the same situation, I would have been smoking every 30 minutes. So, I just sort of mourned the passing of the cigarette. Wasn't tempted to stop and buy any. Nothing like that.