Stopping smoking Feb 28th (Page 6)

you know, that smell still gets me, sometimes I get a book from the library and when I open it, it's obviously just been read by a smoker and I just gag on the smell.  I can't read it.  Your progress so far has been really inspirational and I really admire your resolve, keep at it mate, you're doing a stonking job.

WEEK 2!!!  Howzit goin'???

impressively large; exciting; used by glider pilots to describe excellent weather conditions
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stonking 

 another example of two nations divided by a common language, hehe

Thank you daisy for the vocab lesson again. 

2 weeks down.  A lifetime to go.

Last year, I smoked and drank up to two days before my sprint, and I suffered, particularly on the run. I smoked a pack and drank a sixer the night before the dress rehearsal, and finished it in less time than the actual event. This year, I decided it had come to the point that I had to choose between cigarettes and triathlons.

If I can manage to quit this year, I will have been a smoker for fewer years than I was a non-smoker, but since those non-smoking years were in a house with two chain smokers, they may not count anyway.

Today is day three for me. I'm taking chantix, or as I call it, my "ticket to f-ed up dream theater." Seriously, until I stared the Chantix, I might remember a dream once a month. I now have crazy dreams nightly, and wake up to tell my wife about them. Then I wake up again, and realize that I only dreamt that I woke and told her. When I hit the snooze button, I have another whacky mini-dream in those delicious nine minutes.

Craving's haven't been bad, but today is my first rest day, so we shall see. I made certain to stock the house with fruits and veggies of all kinds to use for snacking.

Congrats, to you, Brian Saling4.

wooot wooot!! Awesome job!

I won't ever understand the craving and could say "how sad" in a sarcastic way, but the point is that you are doing something that is very hard to do, and I am happy that you decided to take that big step and that it's going relatively well for you!

I'm at about 5.8 days now. The cilia in my lungs are starting to grow back and throw back the 16 years of tar I buried them under. Tonight's run, though painfully short, was painful by the end, and I don't even want to talk about this morning's swim. As you said, one day at a time.

Glad we are three. Does this qualify as a support group now?