IT'S TIME!

154 days ago I smoked my last cancer stick. Now let me be honest, I don't think I really wanted to quit at the time but I was so sick and tired of hearing my husband complain about the smell and how I picked the worst times to light up. Not to mention my daughter begging me to quit and heartbreaking in itself. The only thing I can remember myself thinking before I made the decision was how tired I was of having to smoke as soon as I left work, the taste the nasty things left in my mouth and goin… Continue

Day 1 of my quit is still a very vivid memory for me. I was excited to get started, scared to death that I wouldn't be able to do it and determined that I was going to stick with it this time. I remember searching the internet a few weeks before my quit date for some guidance and understanding from someone like me. I remember thinking how hard this was going to be, it was going to kill me to quit. Then I found this website and remember thinking that it was impossible that there were so many peop… Continue

I'm on day 77 and was curious what was going on with my body since I quit smoking, so I found the following information and thought I would share with all my quitters here. When I quit and wrote my 1st blog it was a shock on how long I had been smoking, 15 years, it didn't seem like it should be long, but it was. So after reading this information I knew another 15 years wasn't to far from now. We are doing a body good by quitting and it will show, just be patient. In 20 minutes your blood press… Continue

International Coastal Cleanup: Slogging through sand and mud along an estimated 17,000 miles of coastline, Cleanup volunteers bagged up 11,439,086 million pieces of trash, from cigarette butts to grocery bags to fast-food wrappers. They removed more than 400 pounds of debris for every mile of beach cleaned. The number 1 item that are beaches are littered with is cigarette butts, it makes up 28% of the litter (3,216,991 butts recorded). http://www.oceanconservancy.org/site/PageServer?pagename=… Continue

So I have 62 days under my belt and I almost let something stupid here at work cause me to cave. Yes I know, nothing can cause me to do, it’s my choice but I was so close today. We had our meeting this morning to go over what we were going to discuss with the employees about the lack of raises they will be handing out this year. Some other things happened and I just got worked up over the bullsh*t I was hearing. After the meeting I went to someone that smokes and asked them to give me a smoke, s… Continue