You may as well start those office pools now! I’m not talking about the Super Bowl, but if you follow me on twitter you may have seen a tweet I made about 3 hours ago.
That was about 15 minutes before I actually smoked that last cigarette. No way was I going cold turkey, I have some of those commit lozenges. I just put one in my mouth before sitting down to write this.
The last time I attempted to quit, and did quit for about 3 months was about a decade ago. I made it by using the patch, which is in a way similar to how these lozenges work. Except those patches dosed you all day long, and started out with steps and stepped you down to a certain level of milligrams your body had dosed into you daily. The bad thing is once you step off the patch after week 12 – my urges caved within 6 days. Talk about a learning experience I wasn’t prepared for.
With these, you can at least control when you take one. The box says to start out with at least 9 of these daily. We shall see if I can take 9 of these a day. It says mint flavored, but it’s not like sucking on a breath mint. I just found that out the hard way – and yes, I did RTFM the booklet! Now I know why! The more you accidentally swallow the melting lozenge, the worse your heart burn becomes. So I’m following the manual, flipping it side to side in my mouth.
While you took the moment to read this, you should hop over to my earlier Lookery FSOTW post I did this morning. Much better reading, and more informative – especially the ending of the post where I list out all of our cool services!
Speaking of Lookery, I guess I should embed my stats for this month so far while I think about it:
If you look at December 2008 stats, you can see a slight shift in my loyal 6 readers I have on this blog. :)
Technically Speaking, tomorrow is the first full day I won’t have a smoke (today I just finished up what I had left; and yes, I have been cutting back over the past few weeks). 12 weeks from tomorrow, January 28th is – April 22nd, 2009. The key of course as learned from above is not only making it to April 22nd, but making it past April 29th and beyond. So make sure you factor all of that information into your office pools as you create them. Wish me luck, as I after smoking for longer than I want to admit, it’s time I really kicked the habit this time!