Stellar job Kev!! 
Hi everyone. Kev dropping in again. Finally got a break in the hectic work schedule. Tomorrow we drive to cornwall for a weeks holiday. Today I have off to pack. In theory, I celebrate 1 year of being smokefree on Saturday. Why do I say 'in theory'? Well I haven't quite got the hang of predicting I will make it :)
Absolutely certain I would not have made it without the help of the SSC. Its the people that make this site. I didn't actually expect anything. Part of it was to show my mum that I could make 2 weeks. The positive support shocked me to the core and got me through the worst times of my life. Safe to say I was (and still am) an extreme addict. I can understand why a lot of extreme addicts don't make it past a couple of days as it was a very sharp drop from being a happy (but secretly not so happy about his addiction) to being a full blown wreck. It takes a lot of positivity to get someone past that point.
So I consider myself very lucky in that I had some top notch positive posters who were quitting around me.
How else did I make it? Well I quit pubs and drinking. Smoking and pubs were so interlinked that everytime I went to a pub, I'd reach for a cigarette. I engrossed myself in everything else I could. Especially music, chess, computers and mobile phones. It's good to keep yourself occupied.
There is an element of luck in all this too. The decidedly rubbish weather means I have less of a desire to go outside and smoke. I also consider this the last roll of my non-smoking dice as should I light up, I doubt I will ever want to go through this again. This gives me a strong desire to put as much effort as possible into this quit.
Each day I fluke this non smoking thing, is an amazing day, and a good one.
Btw, I am not going anywhere anytime soon and will be posting when work allows.
A BIG 365 days (-2) THANK YOU, to all my SSC friends old and new.
HUGS
from
Kev
