quit smoking, again

No more patches! Made it through a new kind of “day 1”! :) (Now to make it through the holidays…)

Monday it’ll just be me again. :)

One more week of patches by my calculations. I wish I felt steadier, but I guess I’m mostly running on willpower now anyway. (The 7mg patches probably aren’t carrying me very far.)

It’s been almost 8 weeks. I still think about it sometimes unfortunately, but I’ve been able to stave if off by just reminding myself that it never makes me feel as good as I think it will. I’m glad to be where I’m at. I’ve also taken on a tangible fitness goal which helps keep me focussed I think.

Step 3 patches start tomorrow! Two more weeks and I’ll be off the nicotine! (Kinda scary! – I’ve been here before, about this same time last year…)

Start’s this weekend! (Ironically, I’ve been wanting to smoke more in recent days – maybe related to holiday stuff, but I didn’t cave. Still truckin’.

Doing pretty well. Still haven’t smoked, but sometimes I think about it and wish I was. :( I’m trying to keep in mind that those sentimental thoughts do pass and that I’d hate to have to start over again. I certainly don’t want to go back to a lifestyle of smoking.

Going to buy another round of Step 2 patches tonight, then it will be time for Step 3 and done!

Today is my first day with the Step 2 patches. So far, so good. Yay! I have a handful of these left over from the last time I tried to quit smoking. I’ll need to go get a new box of them this weekend though. The end of the patch road is in sight I think…

...as of today. I have one more high-juice patch and then I’m dropping to the mediums. I still think of smoking once in awhile, but generally it’s first thing in the morning before I have my patch on. lol I don’t missing smoking hugely at this point, and there are a lot of benefits to not smoking. For one, I’m glad I’m not always looking for my next opportunity. I seem to be getting more done too.