Today is the first day of the rest of my life, but it’s strangely, just another day as a non-smoker. I have stopped taking Chantix. I have fallen off the wagon and cheated. But the urge to smoke is now so minuscule, I feel it’s safe to consider myself a non-smoker today.
Let’s do the numbers!
55
The number of days since my “last smoke” on April 14th, 2010.
24
The number of cigarettes I’ve had since then. (4) bummed off friends over Hammars weekend, and a (20) in the pack I bought the following weekend during my trip to El Mirage on assignment for Gearbox Magazine.
0.48
The average number of smokes I have had per day since April 14th.
97.6%
The reduction in the amount of cigarettes I smoke on a daily basis since April 13th.
$385
Ballpark cost of what I would have spent on smokes in the last 55 days had I not quit.
What’s the surest sign you’re no longer a smoker? When you’re waiting for someone to finish a cigarette so you can leave for breakfast, someone else lights up, and you find yourself thinking“Great. Let’s all just keep smoking. That’s more important than breakfast anyway.”
I have become the snarky, ex-smoker. I still want one, which is really weird, but they annoy me more than anything else.
Thank you, Pfizer, for the super-effective drug. (And if this post looks funky, its because its via Blackberry and WP app._
In the glovebox:
Working Credo
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