Once again I’ve jumped on the Smoking Cessation Wagon. For almost 9 years, I’ve been a smoker. As a kid and a teenager I hated the smell and even the sight of Cigarettes…

…Unfortunately, somewhere down the road I became addicted to the bastards. I’ve stopped smoking a million times it seems. But this time is truly different. I’ve really lost the whole ‘I need a smoke’ feeling. I hang out at my sisters house quite often and she’s a chain smoker. While I’m there I never even think about smoking. It smells nasty and reminds me of the nasty feelings and taste… not to mention the smell it leaves on your clothes. Even waking up in the morning and still smelling it!

Well, luckily, I’ve quit at the right time, apparently. I feel great. I don’t have the physical ‘great feelings’ yet but that all comes in time, I’m sure. It’s been 2 weeks and mentally I feel great, which is a great difference I was looking for. My ultimate goal is to be able to go jogging for one mile straight by June, 2007. It sounds so miniscule but unfortunately I have a hard enough time walking that far sometimes lol… maybe not but definately jogging! I can’t jog for more than 30 seconds anymore.

It’s hard to even play sports with my nephews without losing my breath… My nephews are probably the biggest reason I quit in the first place. I know my oldest Nephew will be excited to see me not smoking. Hopefully it will allow me to do alot more in life… it sucks to talk about “playing sports when I was younger” and now I can’t do anything anymore. So I will push myself, slowly but surely, until I can Jog for atleast one mile per day…

Also, I have only drank beer 2 times in the past year and one time was only 3 beers. That has helped me quite a bit as well.