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Day 1.

Today is day one. i usually get up in the morning turn the kettle on make a coffee and go sit on my balcony for a smoke before i have a shower to get ready for work by the time i have left the house ive usually had 3 cigarettes.
This morning "saturday 15/12/11" i got up, got straight in the shower put my first patch on and got ready for work. i got driven to work this morning because there was track work so that made it easier "not sitting at the station waiting for the train so i want to light up a cigarette."
i got to work had breakfast just before i started so i didnt have time to have a smoke before work "smoking after u eat'.
By this stage i still hadnt had a smoke or a coffee, i had juice instead. By 11am i realised i wasnt functioning properly so i got one of the girl to go get me a short black from the coffee shop, so i wasnt drinking a full coffee as i only drink coffee when iam smoking.
Lunch time came around and thats when my first real craving hit me... i asked one of the girls for a cigarette and she refused to give me one "now iam so glad she didnt." i got through the morning and lunch and my first real craving without a smoke hip "hip hooray!"
I went to the chemist for some advice this afternoon as i felt the patch wasnt doing what i thought it would... i was still craving really bad by now, so they suggested using the inhaler when the cravings are bad. So thats what i did.... they fixed the craving a bit but other then that everytime i thought of a smoke i grabed my bottle of water and had a drink. i have drunk more water today then i have in my whole life. im not one to drink water but 1 concern i have is putting on weigh so water/ salad "good food" exercise after work to tier me out even more so i want to go to bed earlier is going to be my method.
I didnt know how well i was going to go today because im a hairdresser and it was saturday... Meaning the most stressful day of the week for me. But....................................................
its a 11pm and i made it! I made the whole bloody day without even one cigarette! Hip Hip Hooray! I look forward to stating my success story tomoz night about my 2nd day as a non smoker!
Good night non smoker! =D

Hi bex-quit. How was day 2? Not having a smoke for one day is an achievement! Huge in fact. Well done. Look forward to your next post.