I am bound and determined to rock this. I have been unhealthy long enough. Restarting C25K the day the Dr clears me. Do it with me?

I get the urge every now and then but I tell myself it will pass quickly. I chew on a plastic straw for a few minutes until it’s gone.

Felt good not to have to chew gum yesterday. I’ve always got a stick of gum going so I don’t have cigarette breath. Didn’t need any yesterday. Working on 48 hours now.

I did quit yesterday, though, and I’m doing okay. Best news is that DH quit, too! That’s a major thing for him!

I came up with a weight-loss, stop smoking, save money, get to Hawaii plan that I’m following to try to get me back on track. Hope it will work.

At any rate, I’m gearing up!

Three million dollar trailer…crazy, isn’t it?

I am taking it as a sign that your QS date of 8/16 is the same as my surgery date! We will recover, reload and get smoking hot & healthy!

I quit last year June and did really well whenever I was at work or with others, even people who smoked, but it just killed me to come home to a house full of smokers. My son and DH promised to only smoke outside on the porch but that only lasted about two weeks and then they were back to smoking in the house, right in front of my face.

I was still hanging in there until DH got me a “present” over spring break. One of those smokeless cigarettes. We were in Vegas and, EVERYONE smokes in Vegas. I was irritated with him for chain smoking in the hotel room and he brought me a beer and handed me a smokeless cigarette. He said he had bought it for the plane trip and it gave you the pleasure of smoking without the nicotine. So I tried it and I kind of enjoyed it but, after a couple of days, I was REALLY craving a cigarette and I decided to smoke “just for the few days we were in Vegas”. You know how that goes. We got home and I was already hooked again.

I’ve since found out that smokeless cigarettes have nicotine! I would NEVER have used one if I’d known. I feel like I was sabotaged although DH swears he didn’t know they had nicotine.

So I’ll be quitting tomorrow, too. And this time, I’m not letting ANYONE smoke in the house and I won’t be using any smokeless cigarettes, patches or gum.

It’s funny…I never crave a cigarette at work because I don’t think it’s right for a teacher to run outside and sneak a smoke and then write up a kid for doing the same thing. I haven’t smoked at work for more than ten years and never even think about it but the minute I leave the building and get in my car, I light up and smoke all evening through to the next morning when I leave for work again.

So we’ll go on this journey together, girlfriend. I’m going to put $5.00 per day in a new savings account for spending money in Hawaii. I figure that should give me about $1,500 in spending money. DH, who smokes three packs a day could really rack up the bucks if he quits!