downfall of civilization

I haven’t updated lately, even though I’ve had stuff to report, mainly because I haven’t had the time and/or the energy to write up a post. Even now, I would really rather be headed to bed, but I want to get this all put down on paper (as it were) just so I can […]

I’m not really in the mood to write any kind of in-depth, well, anything, so here are some talking points:

Tuesday evening marked four months of not smoking. For those really counting, that’s seventeen weeks. Yes, I’m very proud of myself.
I was hoping to spend this holiday (if you can call it that; we […]

The subject of this post is referring to two things.
First off, the more obvious of the two: I’m still smoke free. I say that because it’s April 2nd, and it’s three months since I quit smoking. And I haven’t had one since. According to QuitMeter, it’s been almost thirteen weeks. In […]

It may be a little stupid due to the whole 30-day/31-day/28-day month thing, but tonight marks two full calendar months without a cigarette. It was officially eight weeks (56 days) on Monday night, but this is the numerical line of two months.
Time quit: 8 weeks, 3 days, 1 hour, 44 minutes
Cigarettes not smoked: 708 […]

Time Quit: 5 weeks, 6 days
You read that right: 42 days since I had a cigarette. According to QuitMeter, I have not smoked almost 500 cigarettes and I’ve saved over a hundred and twenty bucks.
Probably the biggest change I’ve noticed in the last month has to be my sense of smell. I’m picking […]

Time Quit: 3 weeks, 1 day, 15 hours, 30 minutes
It takes twenty-one days to break a habit, or so I’m told. I officially quit at 9pm on January 2nd, which makes me past the 21-day mark. And that’s a really good feeling. I feel good that I’ve stuck with it; I feel […]

Time quit: 1 week, 4 days, 1 hour, 32 minutes since 2-Jan-2006 21:00:00.
That’s over eleven days. And it was almost cut short on Wednesday night. Went to another Trivia Night at the bar, and I was pretty damn close to having a cigarette. I know now that I wouldn’t have, even if […]

This is as much for my own benefit and to remind me of what it is I’m trying to do as it is to share with other people.
This is what the American Cancer Society lists as the health benefits of quitting:
20 minutes after quitting: Your blood pressure drops to a level close to that before […]

I had a pretty rough time last night. Not sure why, but I think it probably had something to do with it being the end of the week and everything.
As of this moment, I have officially gone 4 days, 17 hours without a cigarette. According to QuitMeter, I have not smoked 65 cigarettes […]