stop smoking

I’ve done this, I’ve stopped smoking, it’ll be 2 months now, I’m going to mark this one done and create a new goal, stay a non smoker :-) I think this goal will be more appropriate and positive.

Good luck to everyone with this goal :-)

I went out with bf, dancing, which I enjoy but it’s later than I normally stay up so I get over tired, and I go outside w bf when he has a cigarette, and everyone else is smoking too. The thought did cross my mind to have one… thankfully I didn’t. I value being a non soker too much to let this addiction grab hold of me again!!

Today I am grateful that I do no smoke!! I don’t have cravings, I don’t smell, I’m not coughing my guts up the whole time, I have more energy, I don’t ruin my car by smoking in it, I’m not posioning my body, I am loving myself !! :-)

yipidee dooda- yipedeyaa!! :-)

and I’m very proud of myself !!

I just check in on this goal every few days, as a positive affirmation, I know how hard it really is to stay a non smoker, I’ve been a non smoker for 6 months, 2 years and then nearly 6 years… now it’s been over a month!!! I am determined not to give control of my life over to nicotine again yuk!! And think those tobacco companies were controlling my life!! Ha!! Not no more :-)

I really feel like a non smoker again which is wonderful!!!

I was able to explain how I felt to my bf when I was kissing him and he stopped me to say he needed a cigarette, he said he was only joking but still it spoiled the moment. I was able to tell him I felt hurt, without getting angry about it which was great :-)

I think me stopping has contributing to me splitting up with my bf. It’s not the main reason.

When I don’t smoke I don’t want to breathe other people’s smoke either, this caused tension. Although he was good about not smoking near me generally, there were times when his wanting to have a cigarette came before our relationship which wasn’t good :( Any way, as upset as I am I am happy that I am still a non smoker!! yeeeha! :-)

i have a tickly cough today which is caused from the additives in the sweets I ate earlier :( will be stopping sweets too soon :)

I’m still a non smoker :-))))))))))))))))))))))))))
yipeeee!!!!!!

wrote this in response to someone’s entry and :-)

I loved your comment, it’s so nice of you to share your own inner dialogue, mine is often somewhat similar, which is probably why reading your entry made me smile :-)

I’ve recently stopped smoking (4 weeks). for me here are some of the things i enjoy most about not smoking:
tobacco companies are no longer controlling choices i make

my nicotine addiction is no longer in control of me

i don’t need to rush outside for a quick smoke when i’m waiting for something and risk loosing my place and have to start waiting all over again (i really hate waiting/)

i like knowing that today i’m not poisoning myself :-)

i am loving myself by not smoking
i’m a free person:-)

I don’t need to smoke when i feel stressed (which actually in reality used to make me more stressed)

i don’t get stressed when i can’t have a cigarette :-)

My breath doesn’t smell like shit!

My clothes don’t smell like an ashtray
i can’t burn the seat of my car with my cigarette any more

My lungs are now finding it easier to do their job of keeping me alive :-)

i think most of all it’s the freedom i have i don’t “need” to have a cigarette any more :-)

good luck with your goal

p.s- i hope i didn’t sound too sanctimonious, and that you start talking to yourself again, you seem like a nice person, i’m sure you’ll miss out on some great conversations if you don’t talk to yourself again :-)

I’m a non smoker today :-)
yesterday the thought crossed my mind to have a cigarette, and i relaced it with the happy thought that I don’t smoke :-)
very very happy about this.
i’m feeling very low about everything at the moment because my hand is preventing me doing so many things. right now the idea of smoking a cigarette is an appealing one, but i know the reality of it isn’t, it’ll taste yuk and i’ll just be hooked back into the addiction again which is the last thing i want!!

it’ll be 4 weeks in 4 days that i’m a non smoker :) i like being a non smoker :)