Day 12 - Nicotine Free

I want to thank all my followers here on Blogspot.  Ok, I want to thank my one follower.  You've been wonderful!

I know, I know it's hard to leave a comment.  Ok people here is how you do it:

• Create a free google account
• Come back here and post the comment
• Where it says Comment As chose your Google ID
• Click on the Post Comment button

Seriously, I know I have more supporters than my one blogspot follower.  I was just giving ya'll a hard time.  I do appreciate everyone's support.  Not sure I could have gotten this far without everyone.

Walked through my first large group of smokers today.  Was a tad confused about it all.  The whole time I was walking towards my car I could smell it.  Wow does it carry a long way.  Part of me was thinking that smells kinda bad the other part was thinking mmmmmmmmmm a cigarette.  Ok, honestly I was thinking that I should have been thinking mmmmmmm a cigarette.  In reality I wasn't thinking that all.  I kept thinking I SHOULD want that cigarette, I SHOULD want that cigarette and I'll be darned.  I didn't want that cigarette.

All in all I'd say a pretty good day, don't you agree?

Interesting Facts:  

Each year, more successful ex-users quit cold turkey than by all other methods combined. Their common thread? No nicotine, just one hour, challenge and day at a time. The common element among all who relapsed? A puff of nicotine.

Trapped between nicotine's two-hour elimination half-life and a gradually escalating need to smoke harder or more, the dependent smoker faces five primary recovery hurdles: (1) appreciation for where they now find themselves, (2) reclaiming their hijacked dopamine pathways, (3) breaking and extinguishing smoking cues, (4) abandoning smoking rationalizations, and (5) relapse prevention.

Smoking Joke of the Day:

Isn’t having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool?       

Day 12:

I have now stopped smoking for 1 week, 4 days, 22 hours, 32 minutes, 13 seconds.  At 5 minutes per cigarette I have increased my life expectancy by 22 hours, 52 minutes, 59 seconds.

Cigarettes Not Smoked:  272

Money Saved: $81.80

Future Value of Invested Savings: $172.91

In My Lifetime:

Number of cigarettes I have smoked:	251,850
Total amount I have spent on cigarettes:	$75,555.00
Forgone interest earnings on money spent:	$99,115.28
Total cost of my past smoking:	$174,670.28