So my quit date is April 25. I am having Lasik surgery this day, and I want to go completely smoke free from this day on. The hardest part will be my morning coffee, and also having a beer in the evenings. I greatly enjoy laying on the beach after work having a drink in one hand and a smoke in the other. It has always felt very relaxing to me. These habits are what I need to break, in addition to "going out" when I am at work or at home with my roomate. It seems like so many people in my life smoke, and for the most part, I smoke to be social.
I have been a part-time smoker since I was 12 years old. I started as a smoker to rebel against my parents. Even today, as I am 28 years old, I sometimes think I still do it out of rebellion. My ex-girlfriend hated smoking, so I would always try to sneak a smoke. It seems like if someone doesn't want me to do something, that activity becomes more attractive to me. I know I can quit completely, as I go for a few days here and there without a ciggarette all the time, but the minute that someone asks me to go outside for a smoke, I "have" to have one.
For about 5 years of my life, I smoked almost a pack a day. For the past 3 or 4 years, I smoke between 5 and 10 ciggarettes a day, with some days not smoking any at all, and other days when I am out drinkign smoking a lot more.
Anyway, that was a long story about my smoking habits. Anyone else planning for the 25th?
