Nicotine for Breakfast??

[james41]

Then I'll say  79 happy Nicotine/smoke Free days.

I used to wake up and jump out of bed and grab a cigarette first thing. Now I  just wake up and turn over and go back to sleep if I want , I work 3-11 so I can, or just enjoy laying there thinking what I'm going to do on that particular day. I remember discussing  smoking once when I was in my 20's with a lady who sortave socially smoked, and she said don't ever light a cigarette before eating in the morning because the first thing your body absorbs for the day is poison. I never forgot that and when, on rare occasions it even enters my mind upon rising I think well not poison  any more and wonder is she still trying to fool people into thinking she can "comfortably" pick em up and put em down without problems,, As we all now know with the expert info out there that there is no such thing as a non-craving occasional smoker or we would all smoke just a couple a day ,,, and we could, but our thoughts would be dominated by thoughts of wanting a cigarette.

So today I'm so happy and thankful I don't smoke and get up and poison my system with a breakfast of Nicotine.

I'm not dwelling, am very happy and it's because I DECIDED to be happy with that decision to not smoke.

Please talk to yourself about it, let your misery go, be happy as you want to be, you can do it,,, If this old 2 pack a day for over 36 years Ex can do it and be happy about it just about anybody can.

Thanks for all you wonderful insightful blogs

James

[aztec]

smoking is just afleeting thot, it's not an option, I just go do something and check the Halt thing out in my head.

thanks for writing and happily hanging in there. You're an inspiration!

Aztec

[sweety]

you ae such an inspiation.  My fav smoke is still the am.  Im still smoking after several attempts to quit, but Weds ismy new date.  Wish me luck.  I'll keep in touch.

Hugs  sonya

[sheri10]

79 days, WOW!!  And I'm proud of my 20 : )  Keep up the attitude, James, you are amazing....

[hwc]

I had two big surprises when I quit.

The first was how pink my fingers looked within a day and how my hands and feet don't get cold anymore.

The second was my shock at what it is like to wake up in the morning without the effects of having poisoned myself all day the day before. I used to think that's the way all people felt when they woke up in the morning -- like death warmed over until sucking down a couple of cigarettes and two cups of coffee. Now, I realize I was just waking up poisoned and hammered from inhaling insecticide and carbon monoxide all day. It's an amazing thing to wake up and be more or less wide awake from the get go.

It's all part of what they mean by freedom from life as a nicotine junkie. It takes so much willpower to be a nicotine addict. You have to really want to be a drug addict to put up with that much hardship, waking up every day feeling poisoned. Looking back on it now, it just seems so crazy.

[Breakinchains]

  When I used to smoke, I would wake up in the morning, and I would want a smoke so bad I couldn't get back to sleep. I had to get up and have my poison. Now, if I choose, I can roll over and go back to sleep no problem, lol. Just one example of how living without smokes is actually far less stressful than smoking.