I'm bumping up this post to get rid of the spam that is being put on the front page---- 🙂
At the beginning of my quit I used to think about all the wonderful things about smoking. Now more and more I think about how much smoking really took away from my daily life. I'm at 113 days today, and I am so proud of myself. But don't worry, I'm not cocky...I realize that I need to gaurd my days, I need to becareful.
Sometimes I wonder how I got anything done when I was smoking.
Looking back, I used to spend approx. 5 minutes per cig. outside. So you figure I smoked about 15 a day, so I lost 75 minutes everyday!!!! That is just unreal when you do the math.
At my old job we used to close at 6pm but there was stuff to do and I couldn't ever leave till 6:30pm at the earliest. I can remember how flustered and annoyed I would get when things would take longer. Because I needed to go so I could smoke!! By that time I hadn't had a smoke in 4 or 5 hours. So I used to just end up leaving stuff for the next day, then the next morning I wondered why I was always so bogged down with crap that needed to get done ASAP.
When my phone would ring I would hurry up and answer it then grab my smokes and run outside. God forbid I have a conversation on the telephone without smoking. Now when I'm on the phone I find myself walking around the house straightening things up, much more productive then parking my butt outside.
Now I realize that cigarettes were the boss of me.
Today I am the boss of me 🙂
