I am no longer a smoker!

Hey all

Although happy to help my sister in law out and take children on, there has been a part of me that has missed what Paul and I had hoped would be an amazing opportunity to work on our health and fitness. 

So, this week, I decided I would work on something very important, my smoking.

A bit about my vice, I started smoking at about 10 years old, stopped for two years because of a school switch, then started and never stopped from 14. I have been on 20 a day since I was about seventeen. I am now 45.

Last October, my sister gave me an amazon voucher for my birthday. I used that voucher to buy a book, details of said book shortly, to help me to stop smoking.

Stopping smoking has always been on my agenda.

When I started my healthy journey nearly a year ago, I assumed my quitting the old fags wouldn’t happen until, and only if, I managed to succeed in losing weight.

But as I got fitter and healthier, I realised I actually wanted to give up smoking. It isn’t just the weight that was stopping me getting up arduous hills, it’s the fags!

Well, that was my healthiest point, since then, there has been xmas stress, death and supporting my dear, newly widowed friend, and covid. My health and fitness is nowhere near as good as then… but it will be, and better 😊

So this week, with freedom from neices for a few days, I wanted to do something that would be huge boost and benefit for my health.

For 2 days I read this book, and yesterday afternoon I had my last ciggie.

Based on previous quitting attempts, I expected to be climbing the walls and pulling my hair out, I am not!

Yes, I keep thinking “I want a fag”, but it’s just a thought, the empty feeling lasts a minute, if that, and I’m good again. And when I get that thought I also tell myself “I do not want a fag, if I did I wouldn’t have wasted my time reading that book”.

When asking Paul if I’ve been grumpy he says I’ve been a bit tetchy, but nothing else.

So this post isn’t about me being self congratulatory, I am one day in, as each hour passes I assume I’m becoming less hooked, but plenty (including past mes) give up and end up smoking again.

The purpose of this post is to tell anyone else who is thinking about quitting, to do it! Buy the book, have an open mind.

Quitting smoking this time has been extraordinarily easy! As I feel right now, I will never be a smoker again. And I have not suffered… AT ALL these last 26 odd hours!