Adieu cigarillos
Posted by Lauren | Under Random Thoughts with 920 views Sunday Jan 7, 2007I did not make any retarded New Year’s resolution to quit smoking but I’m going to quit smoking anyway, if not for good then perhaps for a few months. Why? Because breathing has become amazingly difficult during the past few days. I have no intentions of dying young or getting hospitalized for asthma with only six weeks of college left.
From at least a pack a day to nothing at all–it’s going to be a huge shock to my system. It’s my second day without cigarettes and I can feel the lack-of-nicotine-bitchiness kicking in already. The only thought in my mind right now is that if I don’t have a cigarette soon, I will scratch someone’s eyes out. Ugh. A friend of mine told me that Mercury sells nicotine gum, which I shall probably buy just so I don’t end up snapping at random people and losing friends out of sheer grouchiness.
I’m amazed at my willpower and self-control though. I went to Bo’s at Katipunan today to get some studying done but because the tables were so low inside, I sat out on the balcony where the smoking area is. I still had some cigarettes with me and despite the fact that my readings were amazingly long and difficult, I did not touch my pack at all. Yay. :D I hope I can keep this up. It’s going to be hard since 99% of my friends smoke and we usually hang out at smoking areas at school and coffee shops. Perhaps I’ll talk to them about that tomorrow.
A warning though, another effect of stopping the habit is also chronic respiratory problems (phlegm and mucus) on the first couple of months.
I’ve stopped for more than a year already and looking back it wasn’t really that hard. 99% of my friends and workmates do smoke so it was really challenging but not difficult.
Good luck!
Hi lauren. Whatever happen to the good girl I’ve come to admire whenever I would read your journals 10 years ago or something. I still read your old entries because I think you’re best writings are found there. I didn’t think you of all would have piercings and smoke nicotine factory so to speak. Wow. I don’t thin you’re rebel but maybe I’m suprised. A pack a day? I bet 10 years ago you’d have said something bitchy about people smoking so much. I remember an entry you made where in you were at a clubhouse and you wrote about your hair smelling nicotine and like your digusted. Heh. I guess it’s really different now. Well..however you are now I still admire you because you’re a smart ass witty intellectual girl. You inspired me to have my own journal 10 years ago too.
Stay cool.
When I was 10 I didn’t know my elbow from my ass. :P But thanks.
like yea, what happened?