Booooooring .......

So am I the most boring non-smoker you've met or what?!? i thought this blog was going to be chock full of posts for a long time! But no, here I am, 8 weeks later ... still not smoking .... still having weird dreams .... but with nothing else of note to talk about. I'm actually back up to where I was when I started but that's ok b/c I'm not tipping the scales 20lbs heavier, so that's good! And I still have strange thoughts of smoking still at times .... I had two in about 3 minutes the other day, it was odd!

So just about 2 months ... in three, I get dinner and I'll be able to really taste and enjoy it! The guys who promised me dinner keep telling me that they're taking me to either McDonalds or Burger King .... but I know they'll think of something slightly better .....

Thanks again to everyone for your love and support! It's really helped me tremendously through this (no so) difficult time!

Motivation

As motivating as my quitmeter is ... 776 cigarettes not smoked, $203.70 (approx) saved ... yesterday was the kind of day where I missed smoking. Just because of the type of day it was ... I found myself wishing for one a number of times not for the nocotine but the routine of it. A day, cooped up inside, cooking, cleaning ... not smoking.

It definitely still hits me at odd times like that .... but 776 cigarettes not smoked, $203.70 saved

One Month

One month and one day ago I quit smoking ... yahoo!

Thank you everyone for helping me to get through the first month =) And GO ME !!!!!! hahahaha

More dreams

I'm starting to get really annoyed with the dreams I have about smoking ... they're just freaky and I wake up feeling guilty even though I shouldn't

But on the upside ... we had our family reunion this past weekend and I found myself outside with my cousin, her husband and father while they were having a smoke .... at one point I found myself on the receiving end of a facefull of smoke and was ok with it.

Happy Anniversary Gramma Mare!

Congratulations on 5 years of being a non-smoker Gramma Mare!!!!! You are an inspiration to me and because of you, I know that I too can beat this!!!

Thank you!!

Mini-Vaca

So I made it through my first vacation, albeit a mini one, without having a smoke. One of my big concerns is summer ... granted when it's summer, it will have been quite a long time since I'd have had a smoke but there's something about summer and smoking. Don't ask ...

So when I headed to Boca Raton/Ft Lauderdale/Miami this past weekend I'll admit ... I was a little nervous. But I made it .... tons of outside time, a few drinks, people smoking around me and the beach and I made it through without so much as a drag.

Saturday I might have just been way too stinkin' hot to smoke ... it was 85 while Bridget and I walked around South Beach and here trying not to stare at all the beautiful people.

Cigarettes not smoked = 397 (truthfully, probably more including a vacation)
Money Saved = $105

And tomorrow is 3 weeks!

Dreams

I know I've mentioned that I've had a few dreams about smoking in the last week and a half and I've heard that it's pretty common. And I've also read that you tend to cough quite a bit for the first few weeks/months after you quit ... your body's cleaning itself out and getting rid of all the nasty. Ok ... I get that too, so noted.

But when I wake up in the morning after having had a dream about buying a pack of butts just so that I could smoke one and I have a worse smoker's cough than I had the night before .... that's just WEIRD!