It is day 3 smoke free. OMG I never thought i would see this day. I knew I was dependent on cigs, but I had no idea. I have to relearn how to do just about everything. Everything from eating, driving and even just sitting is wrenching. I have replaced my smokes with gum.. bubble gum, minty gum, spicy gum, nicotine gum, and even chocolate gum! Everywhere that i kept a pack of cigs, there is now a pack of gum. My coworkers, even my smoking coworkers are very supportive of my efforts. Anyone who smokes knows that quitting is the hardest thing to do.
At first I thought that since I quit drugs a while back, quitting smoking would be no problem. I was sooo wrong! It's even harder in my opinion. I have a choice about having drugs around me. But I can't help it if a complete stranger is smoking and walks past me. The lady who sits across from me at work, she smokes and I can smell the delicious aroma all day. This is the worst of all!

All I can say to all my friends who still smoke, join the quitting circle with Brooke, Sarah, Mike and I. It's nice having any of them to call when I really want a cig. We are in this together. The first thing you have to do when you are quiting anything, is remove yourself from the situation. And second, find some support. When I was quiting drugs, I had to remove myself from everyone who enabled me and i joined an anonymous group. Well, obviously, i am not joining smokers anonymous. Mainly bc I'm not sure if even a group exists. But I have my quitters circle. We joined together, worked out a plan and stay in contact all day. It's pretty great! We are thinking about taking up knitting. and the gym?... but we shall see about that lol
Anyway, wish us all luck!

And so i never have to ask Brooke what this song is called again,

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