The Journey Begins...

So I registered on the site just over a week ago and had planned to write something then which never eventuated. It's been an interesting last week to say the least. Currently on day 2.

About my smoking.I started smoking at what I guess would be considered a late age, 18, and have been smoking now for nearly 12 years. My parents both smoked, though my father stopped about 10 or so years ago. I have attempted to stop 3 times that I can remember but the longest I lasted was 5 days. Prior to now though I've never really wanted to give it up.

The reasons for quitting.The obvious financial and health benefits mostly.I hate walking up the stairs out of the train station and feeling myself more out of breath than I know I should be. Financially, $10 per day saving if I don't smoke is a pretty big incentive. Especially considering that works out to approximately 75% more savings toward my holiday next April.

The week before.Last week I decided my last cigarette was going to be this Friday (11th Oct). I told a few people my plan, but have kept relatively quiet about it for now. I had bought myself the Nicorette Quickmist as a backup in case I needed it.Over the last week though I was nervous and anxious about the impending quit date. I actually found myself smoking more in the last week than I previously had. It was almost to the point that I was making myself feel ill I was so nervous. Add to this that the work week was relatively stressful too and it made for a tough time.Friday night I had a number of beers and smoked like a chimney. 

The first days.So Saturday morning I woke up feeling slightly worse for wear. Now I'm not sure about other people but for me this is a good thing, I can't stand smoking when I'm even slightly hung-over.Never-the-less Saturday was hard. I did have left-over smokes from the week (couldn't get through them) and I found lighting one up and just standing outside with it helped. Did this 4 times throughout the day. Had the quickmist for the cravings which I used twice through the day.Sunday though has been a much better day for me. I've found a few things to keep me busy but at the time of writing this the few times through the day I've felt like a smoke, all I've done is go and find something else to do, have a mint, drink a glass of water. I haven't even used the Quickmist today which I'm happy about.

I know there's going to be rough days ahead, but I'm sure I'll fight my way through.