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Maybe I'm a Unicorn - Part Dos

ingenuenlove
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Maybe I’m a unicorn – Part Dos

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Let’s fast forward. We’ll zoom by the parts of smoking and ashing outside my bedroom window in secret -gallop past the part when I finally sat down with my mom and lit my first one in front of her while watching Law and Order. Slink by the shadowy and shameful months when I was pregnant and smoking in the back of the restaurant so no one would see me full bellied and knowingly feeding my unborn child every single carcinogen puff after puff. We will hit 90mph careening through cemeteries and hotel rooms, hiding in bathrooms at work-blowing smoke into a flushing toilet praying to God or Goddess that no one smelled the cigarette. I’ll cantor you through the many miles I walked away from work-when it became a punishable offense (up to termination) if one came in smelling like a cigarette, in the rain-through the freezing snow, no coat-so no one would wonder why I was wearing a coat in the middle of my shift-out to my car to inhale 2-3 cigarettes in record time and hose down in cologne – to walk many miles back to resume my day.

Those parts of my previous life I will ignore. Why, you may ask? Well because you’re reading this to find out about how I may or may not be a unicorn not everything I did up until my transformation.

What is a unicorn? Definition search states:

  1. u-ni·corn

[ˈyo͞onəˌkôrn]

NOUN

unicorns (plural noun)

  1. a mythical animal typically represented as a horse with a single straight horn projecting from its forehead.

 

Okay – perhaps I am not a Literal unicorn. Perhaps my experience with quitting 42 days ago is more figurative than literal –but we will get to that part soon enough…

…Stay tuned for the exciting continuation on our next episode of

★·.·´¯`·.·★ ᴍᴀʏʙᴇ ɪ'ᴍ Unicorn★·.·´¯`·.·★

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18 Comments
JonesCarpeDiem

43 And On To 44! 

ingenuenlove
Member

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atticus18
Member

I am new. Does that mean you have gone 43 days without smoking?

CommunityAdmin
Community Manager
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atticus18 wrote:

I am new. Does that mean you have gone 43 days without smoking?

Nope that is ingenuenlove 's DOF (Days of Freedom) not JonesCarpeDiem‌. He's been quit since Jan 2 2007 I think. You can see quit date by hovering over the username and go to the person's (jonescarp's in this case) quit stats to see their DOF stacked.

Mark
EX Community Manager

atticus18
Member

Thank you. I'll get the hang of this.

ingenuenlove
Member

Yes

ingenuenlove
Member

well not me...I am at 42

JonesCarpeDiem

So is today 43?

Giulia
Member

I sure am glad I missed having to hide smoking from my workplaces.  Doesn't sound like fun at all!  Looking forward to the next installment.

ingenuenlove
Member

42d 2h 15m

(Gotta love Quit Tracker)

ingenuenlove
Member

It wasn't. But now I have loads of time on my hands to work..LOL!

elvan
Member

Congratulations, the unicorn analogy is wonderful...so are the images of you running to your car, coat less, to smoke as fast possible and then dousing yourself in perfume or blowing smoke down a toilet..hahahaha.  Not smoking really benefit us AND employers...we are healthier and they get the benefit of the increased productivity.  

I will be looking forward to the next installment.

Welcome to EX,

Ellen

elvan
Member

Welcome to EX...we are all here to help you and to encourage you.  It gets easier the more time you put behind you smoke free,

Ellen

ingenuenlove
Member

Thank you Ellen for the welcome.

Running off to smoke wasn't fun- but it was what I did to satisfy that urge. Now I just have to sort out the carbohydrate addiction I have and everything will be square

MMM Donuts!!.

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Kimshine
Member

Congratulations on your 42 DOF. I'm with you on the carbs. That's next!

elvan
Member

ingenuenlove Yeah, I had/have that carb addiction too, I just try to balance it out with healthy foods, it's not easy.  Believe me, I did things just as crazy as running to the car without a coat on...I would run out in back of my house and hide behind some sheds and smoke as fast as I could and then stumble back to the house looking like a drunk because I was getting all of that nicotine at one time and probably very little oxygen.  

Stick with us, we'll get you through...you are currently in No Man's Land....you might want to read this blog written by JonesCarpeDiem‌ https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/groups/best-of-ex/blog/2011/05/24/no-mans-land-days-30-to130-appr...   You can never be too prepared or too educated when it comes to this addiction.

Ellen

CommunityAdmin
Community Manager
Community Manager

Since this is the second installment and others might not have seen the first.  Adding a link in: https://excommunity.becomeanex.org/people/ingenuenlove/blog/2018/03/23/maybe-im-a-unicorn-part-one  It is in the "related content" area at the bottom of the page but this ensures others see it.

Mark
EX Community Manager

About the Author
Mother, wife, painter, reader, writer, friend, foe, gardener, puddle jumper, fairy, kitten wrangler and oh-so much more. But here...here I am a former smoker--how fricking cool is that