If I tell you´ve I´ve remained celibate for the last 30 days in order to avoid a trigger, have I made it sufficiently clear which cigarette I enjoyed the most? lol.
I´m addressing my trigger situations one by one. I´ve stayed out of the pub for the last month which is quite a sacrifice for me. I love watching live sporting events in my local but I´m just not ready to have smoke blown in my face yet. I enjoy a cold beer too much to consider an alcohol free future, plus I love the social aspect of the pub so its something I´m going to have to come to terms with sooner or later. Last weekend I bought myself a six pack from the supermarket and enjoyed a few cold cans on Saturday evening. I munched on peanuts and sunflower seeds to keep my fingers occupied and I passed this basic test with flying colours. I´ll do that for a few more weekends in an effort to weaken the bond between smoking and drinking. With any luck I´ll trick my brain into accepting that cold beer does not equal chain-smoking.
My after lunch cigarette with a coffee was about the only other cigarette I enjoyed on a regular basis. A large reason for giving up was that I simply wasn´t enjoying smoking anymore. My wife and I actually had our quit date set for August 31st, but we were so fed up with smoking we brought it forward a week. I can say with a certain amount of conviction that I´m not missing the rest at all. I used to chain smoke on the drive to work and I really thought doing that "smokeless" was going to be tough. But I told myself that I can´t smoke on a plane, on a bus or in a taxi, so let´s imagine all forms of transport are now smoke free, and it wasn´t as tough as I thought.
Good thread. I think at times I try to block out that I ever smoked, which somehow seems wrong. This is quite good therapy, I did smoke, I did enjoy it once, now I´ve grown up a bit.
Have a great day everyone!
Steve
My Milage:My Quit Date: 8/24/2009
Smoke-Free Days: 30
Cigarettes Not Smoked: 1,050
Amount Saved: �157.50
Life Gained:Days: 4
Hrs: 7
Mins: 16
Seconds: 27
