Today marks ninety-one days of not smoking cigarettes. It’s definitely not easy road to travel, but I know it’s for my ultimate good. I had rolled up over 150 days back in December, but an emotionally-charged event occurred in my life and I succumbed to the urge to pick up again. I smoked a pack a day sixty-eight days, but once again gained the resolve to stop once more.
I’m still using nicotine lozenges to take care of those cravings and I realize I need to get those out of the way as well. But I figure I had to start somewhere and anything was better than inhaling all that smoke and all the other chemicals contained in cigarettes.
I do from time-to-time consider lighting up again. It’s not really what I would call a craving. I see someone, usually these days outside, and they are taking the last puffs off their cigarette before coming inside or smoking outside their car before reentering. I can imagine that’s me and have the illusion of enjoying every puff of that cigarette. But it’s just a passing train of thought and as of yet, hasn’t led me to go back to my old ways.
I’m taking it one day at a time and at least I know for the past ninety-some days there are 1800+ cigarettes that I haven’t smoked and I consider that to be a good thing – a life-saving thing.
David Lee
David Lee 