Ok, so barring cheating/slip-ups, I quit a little over a week ago.
If we count slip-ups/cheats, then the official date is one week ago. See, I count the point that I stopped buying cigarettes as my “quit date,” because, to me, the distinction between whether or not I am a smoker is made when I decided to stop/start buying cigarettes.
No, that doesn’t make any more sense now that I typed the above sentence.
Anyway, Thursday is the last day I used the patch, because it was making my arms feel really weird (i had a few pains and i was getting a pins and needles sensation). Suprisingly, I wasn’t feelign *too* bad on Friday, just a little groggy and irritable towards the early evening, around five. I think that was because was also having a shitty day, and we have a tendency to be extra bitchy together if we are both in pissy moods.
My goal for next week is to keep pounding back bottles of water all week. I’ve had a bottle of multi-vitamins sitting at my desk at work and have been pretty good about taking them again. Last Thursday, I bought some calcium supplements and over the weekend, I got some A & D supplements and a B complex vitamin, since my multi doesn’t quite cover all those bases.
Last week, Gay Best Friend told me that nicotine leeches calcium from your bones when it is exiting your system! Gross! I’m glad I started taking my vitamins last week. (I hardly get any dairy products into my system – it’s normally the occasional glass of milk or whatever cheese covered lunch/dinner I eat.) I’ve also brought one of my toothbrushes & some toothpaste into work so I can brush my teeth after breakfast & lunch. (Matt told me some kind of goofy stuff about nicotine coming out through your gums? teeth, maybe? Well, anyway, it causes the craving you get to smoke immediately after a meal.)
I’m contemplating getting a degree in accounting. I’m not completely certain about this, though. First, I have to start out by getting a PC (which, oddly enough, my parents offered to buy for me….I wonder what the string is on this one) and then save the money (no problem, my dad would rather see me pay for school than pay them back immediately). Then I will have to look into the wonderful world of online courses.
I have to go back to cleaning/laundry/organizer/blah blah. I feel really good and can’t wait until seeing how much better I feel next week (after more of the nicotine/tar is out of my system). 
7 responses so far ↓
1 chrissmari // Jun 1, 2003 at 10:07
man.. i kept teling my boyfriend “i didn’t start smoking again because i’ve not bought my own cigs in like 2 years”
and he just looked at me cock-eyed as i took another drag.
but it’s been since may 9th so
2 ex_idolatry841 // Jun 1, 2003 at 10:08
OMG DUDE TAKE CLASSES AT DREXEL OR TEMPLE!!!!!!!! (depending, of course, on where I decide to enroll my ass…but Temple needs to get back to me NOWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!)
3 drunkenatheist // Jun 1, 2003 at 10:33
see, there’s just one problem with that
good schools don’t exactly say “YES!” to people who have themselves a Good Enough Diploma. hahaha
i’m forced to take core classes at community until i can transfer
4 drunkenatheist // Jun 1, 2003 at 10:35
hahahahaha
that sounds like something i would say. lol
i envy fuckers who can be social smokers, because i honestly loooooooooove to smoke. i just know that if i smoked “just one” again, it would turn into just one pack. heh. i have an ex who was able to do the social smoker thing and i would get so pissed at him when he claimed it was “so easy” to quit…i’d be like, “umm, dude, i smoke a pack – a pack and a half every freakin day. you don’t.”
5 ex_idolatry841 // Jun 1, 2003 at 10:38
WELL DO IT HOBAG!!!!!!!! AND GET ON AIM IVE GOT BIG NEWS BITCH!
6 techieguru // Jun 1, 2003 at 13:18
Three cheers for quitting!!!!!
7 drunkenatheist // Jun 1, 2003 at 13:19
thank you!!!
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