http://soangry.net/stopsmoking My seven year struggle with trying to quit. Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:36:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I made it one year without smoking! Today marks the first anniversary of my last cigarette. Actually, I'm celebrating my first leap year without smoking. It has been a long road, but I'm so glad I decided to quit and am very proud that I stayed smoke-free for this long. Like ... http://soangry.net/stopsmoking/2008/03/14/one-year/ It's not a resolution or anything, but the lady and I joined a gym on January 5. She found that her employer struck a deal with Lifestyle Fitness that would give her a considerable discount. We went for a free workout and ended up signing up with the Premier package. The ... http://soangry.net/stopsmoking/2008/03/08/the-gym/ It has been eleven months since my last cigarette! I don't miss it much. There are a few times when it feels like I want one socially. But I don't miss the smell and the taste at all. I can smell a smoker or a cigarette from a mile away ... http://soangry.net/stopsmoking/2008/02/14/eleven-month-update/ Step three for me is getting into health. This is not the same as quitting smoking or working out or staying away from fast food: it's a combination of all of them. One of the reasons I quit smoking in the first place was to begin exercising again. I started reading ... http://soangry.net/stopsmoking/2008/02/12/step-three-the-abs-diet/ I can't believe it has been eight months since my last cigarette. I can't believe the changes in my life since that time, either. In one of my first posts after I decided to go on the patch, I noted how out of shape and terrible I looked. I still look ... http://soangry.net/stopsmoking/2007/11/13/day-17-november-13-2007/ 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 ... http://soangry.net/stopsmoking/2007/03/27/the-patch-days-15-and-16/ Here's a few of the interesting facts Committed Quitters provided me based on how much I smoked. 596: Dollars saved per year based on your previous daily cigarette consumption multiplied by the price per pack and by 365 days. 12: Days spent per year based on your previous daily cigarette consumption times ... http://soangry.net/stopsmoking/2007/03/26/committed-quitters-statistics/ One of the suggestions on Committed Quitters is to write a break-up letter to Cigarettes. Since almost no one writes letters anymore, here is a hypothetical e-mail I would send to Cigarettes if they were web-saavy. Perhaps in the future, I'll write letters to others, like cigarette companies, and thank ... http://soangry.net/stopsmoking/2007/03/25/saying-goodbye-to-cigarettes/ One week down, seven to go. Monday and Tuesday are always rough. We're so busy at work, catching up from the weekend and getting slammed on the phones. The stress level is always high, especially when a lot of people seem to completely forget how to do their jobs on Saturday ... http://soangry.net/stopsmoking/2007/03/25/the-patch-days-8-14/ I went to visit the lady back in her home town on Day Six. She was there recuperating and I figured she could use some company. Plus it got me mad style points with the fam. ;-) We pretty much hung out Saturday, watched the tourney, and ate some great Chinese. ... http://soangry.net/stopsmoking/2007/03/18/the-patch-day-6-7/