March 8, 20179 yr Author Not long now!!!..I'll be waiting at the bar.. One more day...let the fun begin...
March 8, 20179 yr Put a bag over your head. It does nothing to make time go faster but it does make you better looking
March 8, 20179 yr The countdown has shifted from days to hours. I'm ready to go! One more day you filthy bastard!
March 8, 20179 yr Reminisce for a moment here - why March 9th as your quit day? There was no significance in my choosing March 9. I had been thinking about quitting for months. It was going to be a January 1 quit...that didn't work out. There were several false starts in early 2016. I'm an addict and every time I looked for an excuse to smoke, I found one. Finally, the combination of smoking, procrastination, and self-loathing got to be a bit much and I decided it was time to either quit or resign myself to the fact that I was going to be a smoker until it killed me. I had a decision to make, as my grandfather liked to say: "shit or get off the pot". A year-ago today I decided March 9 would be the day. It was either quit or commit to a life of smoking. I smoked all day on March 8, 2016...even more than usual. For an idea of how obsessive-compulsive I can be, I stepped out on my back deck at 11:50 p.m. I smoked one quickly, then lit another. And at 11:59 p.m. on March 8 I took two more long drags and extinguished it. It all seems so stupid now, but made perfect sense at the time.
March 8, 20179 yr Haha ... yeah; when you look back now seems odd I bet but at the time it was like "OMG I might never smoke again?" like that was a bad thing lol. Good job buddy! Great work. You should be really proud :good3:
March 8, 20179 yr Author There was no significance in my choosing March 9. I had been thinking about quitting for months. It was going to be a January 1 quit...that didn't work out. There were several false starts in early 2016. I'm an addict and every time I looked for an excuse to smoke, I found one. Finally, the combination of smoking, procrastination, and self-loathing got to be a bit much and I decided it was time to either quit or resign myself to the fact that I was going to be a smoker until it killed me. I had a decision to make, as my grandfather liked to say: "shit or get off the pot". A year-ago today I decided March 9 would be the day. It was either quit or commit to a life of smoking. I smoked all day on March 8, 2016...even more than usual. For an idea of how obsessive-compulsive I can be, I stepped out on my back deck at 11:50 p.m. I smoked one quickly, then lit another. And at 11:59 p.m. on March 8 I took two more long drags and extinguished it. It all seems so stupid now, but made perfect sense at the time. And then you found us.....magic...xxx
March 8, 20179 yr Haha ... yeah; when you look back now seems odd I bet but at the time it was like "OMG I might never smoke again?" like that was a bad thing lol. Good job buddy! Great work. You should be really proud :good3: I certainly didn't enjoy smoking anymore yet there was some fear about not "getting to smoke" anymore. Addiction and reason don't live in the same neighborhood. And then you found us.....magic...xxx
March 9, 20179 yr Sooo exciting for you...nearly there mate. Here's to your forever quit from this addiction x
March 9, 20179 yr It's after midnight so I'm first on the congrats on making it to the Lido. .... CONGRATS !!!!!! :)
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