Still going. Proud. No need for a new year's resolution. It's still tempting. I've gone
1 year and 2 weeks since I've quit smoking.
Check out this Tobacco Free Florida site. It's helping spread awareness. There's a YouTube video in there with some scary facts, check it out.
For shits and giggles I decided to count one more time and today marks 16 weeks. Thats 112 days. Imagine I would have smoked on average 5 cigarettes a day. That would add up to 560 cigarettes since I've quit. I would have needed to buy 28 packs to fulfill this quantity. At an average of $4 a pack, I have thus far saved $112.
More importantly, they say that each cigarette that you smoke is an hour of your life that you have removed. I'm not sure how truthful that is, but if its correct that means I have saved 560 hours. Thats 23 days of my life.
No matter how much money I make or save, I can never make up time. If the correlation is each cigarette is one minute, then thats 560 minutes which is almost 9.5 hours. Thats still a good chunk of time.
This is extremely encouraging. My weight has not suffered either. They say you eat more. I still weigh the same. Maybe the working out ha to do with it. Anyhow, this is just a journal entry for myself. A reminder.
59 is a special number. In binary it is read as 110111. It starts with my favorite number 5 and is followed by a perfect square, 9 (3 x 3).
Today is a Wednesday. The hump of the week as they call it. I had a dream last night where i was in some stop motion cartoon smoking cigarettes. The dream then cuts to where I see myself on a silkscreen positive and someone pressed me onto a shirt. I was put to dry and my point of view from the drying rack was absolutely claustrophobic. Then I was removed and saw many versions of me in different colors and all I remember thinking was that I wanted to have a cafe con leche and tostada one more time. It was strange. I woke up feeling guilty.
It is now 59 days since I've quit smoking. Wikipedia said some cool stuff about 59 and when I read it I was prompted to write this post. Here it is:
Acknowledged: Fifty-nine is the 17th smallest prime number. The next is sixty-one, with which it comprises a twin prime. 59 is an irregular prime, a safe prime and the 14th supersingular prime. It is an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the form 3n − 1. Since 15! + 1 is divisible by 59 but 59 is not one more than a multiple of 15, 59 is a Pillai prime.
blah. i'm the only one counting at this point. i still get congrats. i was even asked if I thought i'd relapse and consider to stop drinking as well. not to sure how realistic that would be. i may be coming down with a cold or something. weather is 63 degrees and cloudy with scattered showers. i have no milk or OJ in the fridge. i need to remedy this.
body feels good anyhow, thanks for asking. however this isn't victory. maybe at 12 weeks I'll celebrate. i wonder when I'll stop counting, posting, or letting the world know how long its been. we shall see.
Thats right. Five weeks, smoke free. Feels good. I'm not complacent with five weeks anyhow. During moments of anxiety I feel a minor craving. They happen rarely and the craving power is low. Exercise is helping. Good diet is helping.
3 weeks.
Despite life's trap doors, pits of death, and other miscellaneous booby traps I've managed to hurdle the nicotine escape route for 21 days. I find counting the days encouraging and confidence nourishing.
So I'm on my 10th day of being nicotine and tobacco free. This is good. I'm happy to say that I feel more agile and support a day of higher energy than usual. One of the bullets in the masterplan is to physically propagate myself as similar to Spiderman as possible. I think I'm directionally accurate on achieving this.
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