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).

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