January 6, 2002
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ARGH! I quit smoking this morning at 6am. I slapped a nicotine patch on.
Let me tell you - nicotine patches are for wimp ass smokers. If any ex-smoker tells you that using the patch helped them enormously - tell them they musta been smoking banana peels then. Or were so-called 'social smokers' who light up when they drink and then wave the bloody ciggie around like a punctuation mark.
I was a real smoker. Since I was 17. 20+ a day. Smoked through colds, flu, and various other secretory ailments. This fucking thing might as well be a stick on Elmo Tattoo for all the good it's doing.
Right, off to terrorise some staff - I am at work today. I thought it would be better to inflict pain and misery on people I don't give two shits about than my actual family.
(and the thought of being trapped inside with a whiny toddler and no cigs makes me nervous. Very nervous. Antony Hopkins in Psycho nervous)
Comments (2)
Oh gosh, you weren't too hard on them, were you (your co-workers)?
It's tough to quit, but totally worth it. You go through a lot emotionally, that's for sure.
I quit smoking 9 years, 3 months, and 2 weeks ago. I know the exact date. Oct. 25, 1992. Cold turkey--didn't try the patch. I was 26 years old at the time, and couldn't walk up stairs or any good distance without collapsing in exhaustion.
My lung capacity was not good. Now, I guess my lungs are all pink and fresh again.
Good luck with quitting. Just take it one hour and day at a time. Just think every time you want a cigarette, put it off 10 minutes, then another 10 minutes, then an hour, and so on. Before you know it, you'll only think of a cigarette 50 times a day instead of 500!
Aw. thanks Lilli - tho I figure I'll be 90 before my lungs are pink and fresh again.
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