thought you might wanna know.

[zenravn]

guess i should say that as of about 330pm today i have been 7 days without smoking or any other tobacco like thing. i guess its good. it reaaly sucks. suppose i'll keep it up. i haven't gone 24 hours without something since 1999. that is all.

Comments

[vandala]

Wow. Congrats, man. Thats big news. Addiction is a bitch. I'm three months (on the 10th) without sleeping pills after an eight year addiction. Ouch.

*Back pats* Keep up the good work! =)

[zenravn]

thanks. yeah i know some sleeping pill peeps, theres almost nothing worse than nights of no sleep... that'd be rough. keep it up.

[vandala]

Been sleeping for shite lately, but I'm doing what I can. Not smoking must be a killer though. Thank God I only smoke when I drink. *winks*

[zenravn]

well truthfully, me too, slowing/quitting the drinking needs to be next. thank god i sleep.

[ibeamee]

Yay! Celebrate with a drink! You deserve it.

[zenravn]

constantly. i have even managed to stay away while drinking at parties and such, though i can't stay out on the porch for more than a minute before i have to run away.

[ibeamee]

[zenravn]

that looks about right.

[fizgig3]

ohhh, so proud of you! It is really hard and sometimes takes sooo many attempts. I found that after a month it got 3000 times easier. I know it seems like a long time but when you get there you will feel amazing about yourself! yeah, yeah, yeah! If you need and encouragement just write in your journal and let me know! And yeah, drinking kinda got a lot less when the quitting smoking thing happened. (I think my body likes being healthy)

[zenravn]

yeah the only other time i made it past one day i made it a month and a half and made a stupid slip up. now since i know i can't make those and get away with it i think i'll be ok.... thanks for the support.

[_reprimanda_]

i'm 2 months away from a full year!! it's tough, but so worth it. congrats!! the first week is the toughest. then it just gets easier to just say no!

[zenravn]

dammit it better get easier. i think one of the main things i'm interested in seeing is that if i know i can quit this, i wonder what else i can will myself to do. (not normally a highly willed/motivated person)....

[_reprimanda_]

yes, yes... it's weird how things that are really bad for you are easier to do than to quit.

like people and drugs and food and drinking. ahhh..haa.

[zenravn]

everything good about life is bad for you. except trees.

[kosmokos]

yay! go jake.

how are you going about this? are you using any prescribed method, like trade-offs or self-rewards?

[zenravn]

zyban, extra money, massive guilt, chewing gum, heavy drinking. pretty much it. no time for rewards this semester.

[kosmokos]

here's some of bryan's famous unsolicited advice: as a reward you could calculate the amount that you would ordinarily spend on cigarettes and then go blow it at the end of the month on something that is purely pleasurable: massage, loose women, comic books, heroin... a road trip.

[zenravn]

yeah, i kind of am i guess. at least i notice there's more money floating around, i buy groceries instead of smokes....and instead of 40%, 40%, 20% smokes, booze and food, i'm now up to 60% booze, 40% food (by cost, not volume) getting there. i like your unsolicited advice. hey did you know that there are all these beautiful women in bellingham? who'da guessed. a roadtrip sounds fabulous but hopefully by the summer i'll have gotten my recent drinking antics down to a repectable level so you can introduce me to all of them.