Stop Smoking

Mondays always suck. The phones are busier and people forget things. Woo hoo! Twice on Day Fifteen I had a strong urge to go have a cigarette. Two more times they popped into my head just out of habit; whenever I leave work on my lunch break and whenever I leave my apartment to go back to work, I would have a cigarette. I would, that is, when I was a smoker. I hadn’t been going back to the apt. for lunch since I was a smoker, so the notion of the habit was still there. I didn’t do anything about it, of course. I mean, we did break up.

Day Sixteen went really well. I didn’t have any urges and no habitual thoughts. Smokes did pop into my mind a couple times, but that was because I brushed against the patch or showed it to someone. I also thought about them after lunch. Not out of habit or craving, but out of my sense of pride that tomorrow will be two weeks with no cigarettes. Double Woo Hoo!

One of my coworkers started the patch today. I’m very proud of him. He’s a pretty heavy smoker and this is a big step. He seems like one of those people who genuinely enjoys cigarettes and would have no problem smoking them for the rest of his life. Like I said, I’m very proud of him. Now I will have someone to compare patch scars with.