How I Quit Smoking

Today is the day. Not the day that I become a non-smoker but the first day that I will be a non-smoking smoker.

Why do we associate smoking with pleasure and relaxation? Does it really help you to concentrate?

Getting through the first week is always a tough thing. I actually find any time period divisible by 3 to be tough...

October 1 - Running the Gauntlet.

I never knew what a challenge it would be just to leave the office. As a smoker I never gave a second thought to lighting up outside the office door. Now that I am trying to quit getting out of the office is a totally different experience.

I guess that I am coming to my senses so to speak. Yesterday I could smell the smoke from the woman two cars ahead of me.

Smell is just one of the senses that is coming back to me. Not all of these are good.

Finally the coughing is starting to give way. I was really starting to get worried.

I will start exercising when I quit smoking. How many times did I tell myself that?

Lots of people will actualy tell you the opposite - use exercise as a tool to help motivate you to quit!

I bet that you are wondering why it has been so long since there was a diary entry. Well to be honest - I thought that I had better quit smoking again before writing another entry!