I decided to make this change in my life on Monday, 11/21 after having a hard time breathing since coming down with bronchitis right after Biketober Fest. I was sick for a month but once I started feeling human again my lungs did not.
I decided to sign into the Florida quit smoking website and created an acct with my "Quit Date" being 12/20, I just pushed a button on the calender. I took my mother in law to the store later that morning and picked up a Sunday paper for the coupons, low and behold a $10.00 off coupon was there for the gum. If that wasn't a sign there will never be one. I ran back to the store got the gum, some straws and Crystal Light stuff to flavor the water. I read that I should drink a lot of water through straws and that will help the hand to mouth urge.
When my husband got home from work that nite I told him my plan, that after this carton was gone I wasn't going to buy anymore. We looked at our remaining packs and decided we would quit when they were gone, estimating that day to be Friday.
We have both been smoke free since Friday and have our hard candy supply (sugarless and fully leaded). The urges were quiet for me Friday nite, I was only up a few more hours. When I woke on Saturday morning I grabbed my coffee and proceeded to the screen porch which has been my habit since June. Steve had the tv on but I was so not comfortable out there, I went back inside and fed the cats. I changed my first AM routine.
I spent a lot of time on the webcoach site then we got on the bike and stopped at our hangout for a couple beers, really had no major urges until after dinner. I stayed in the living room most of the nite with my oldest cat crawling all over me while watching Home Alone 2. You see, this time of year I spend most of my home time outside, I guess my kitty misses me.
Today has been a different story. The new routine was blown out of the water and I got super edgy went to login to my web coach site and it was not working. By 9:30 I threw on some shorts and stormed out to the shed, grabbed the mower and cut the front lawn. I then ate my lunch while still trying to access the site with no luck. I tried a new site where somehow I goofed and it thought I smoked today. I sent them a polite email telling them their site is making my urges worse and I won't be back.
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only edgy one right now so here I am back on the screen porch writing to my new blog to keep myself busy. I want to win this war against nicotine, I want to breath better, not age before my time and be healthy. I've made up my mind to be "Quit".
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