Thursday, 3. April 2008, 03:46:24
Haven't posted in a while for several reasons I won't get into, but I'm experiencing a loss in my life now and have to write about it.
We're gathered here to mourn today the passing of a part of my life.........tobacco, I met the plant in rolled and smokable form over fifteen years ago, befriended it as if it was a conscious individual. As we do with our conscious friends... if we discover and come to a deep disagreement, divorces occur. In my divorce from the cigarette, I get my life and the cigarette gets to live in another smoker's life. Also, any life that the cigarette has taken, is kept by the cigarette, unless my body decides to sue......
I've smoked cigarettes for the past fifteen or so years. I'm thirty this year and started smoking everyday beginning when I was fifteen, and smoked some before but not everyday. I did take three months off from smoking when going through boot camp but then started right back up (2004). I've thought about quitting ever since I started but couldn't bring myself to it.
For the past three years I've smoked Natural American Spirits cigarettes (http://www.nascigs.com/). I went to their site to get a coupon this past Sunday afternoon. After signing up, I noticed a link titled "Quit Smoking". A page with the following information appeared:
"If you want to quit smoking, below are links to various quit smoking resources you might find helpful.
airspace.bc.ca
www.aarc.org
www.angelfire.com/sc/quitsmoking
www.ash.org
www.ashaust.org.au
www.ashline.org
www.beatbutts.com
www.cdc.gov/tobacco/quit/quittip.htm
www.cigno.com
www.cleanbreak.com
www.crafe-away.co.uk
www.doh.wa.gov/tobacco
www.ezquit.com
www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/NEW00408.html
www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1997/797_smoke.html
www.habitrol.com
www.healthy-miss.org
www.kickbuttsday.org
www.lungusa.org/tobacco/index.html
www.multiplan.com/healthwell/wellness/smoking.cfm
www.nicorette.com
www.nicotrol.com
www.no-smoke.org
www.oncolink.com
www.oxygen.org.au"
www.phase-out.com
www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/19980707bquit4.asp
www.pride.org
www.quit.org.au
www.quitnet.com
www.quitnow.info.au
www.quitsmoking.com
www.quitsmokingsupport.com
www.smoke-away.com
www.smokefreeindiana.org
www.smokefreekids.com/smoke.htm
www.smokefreemd.org
www.smokenders.com
www.stopsmoking.com
www.tobaccofacts.org
www.tobaccofree.com
www.tobaccofreekids.org
www.unhooked.org
www.unr.edu/homepage/shubinsk/smoke.html
www.vanceromane.com/stopsmoking.htm
www.weeklywarning.com
www.youthtobacco.com
www.zyban.com
AWESOME! It was if someone just gave me a for sure guide to quit smoking! The above site's contain all the information needed to quit smoking! One link that is missing here but got me really going was found on one of the above pages; it is
http://www.whyquit.com.I smoked my last cigarette at 11pm CST March 30, 2008. Currently, it has been 71 hours and 15 minutes since I last had a cigarette.
The first day, Monday, I was shaking all day. I went to McDonald's and dropped my tray with hamburger, fries and coke all over the floor; although it was cleaned in less than a minute, I felt like my world began to cave around me.
By Tuesday evening, I was feeling like I had seriously lost a close family member or a friend. Good grief, I teared up.
I've been living the past three days feeling as though I am starving. Withdrawals are terrible and I know if I don't get through it, I will have to go through it again in the future.
I used to love smoking, really love it, it's so sad it's so harmful, or else I wouldn't kick it to the curb like this...
I still have not had a cigarette. It's really hurt my social life. I don't get out like anymore like I was; it's the last thing that I would have thought was going to happen!
WIDGETIZE