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Sanity -> RE: One year-no cigarettes (9/27/2007 7:19:22 AM)
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When I was born, my Mom had smoked through her pregnancy (hey, it was the 1960's). I was then raised in a cloud of smoke until I started burning my own cigarettes when I was about ten, and so I've been hooked on nicotine all my life until I quit an January 15th of this year.
I caught a bad flu, which made cigarettes taste like shit. Kind of the same method you used to quit, in a way. It works, it's effective. I had been trying to quit for over twenty years before, but I wasn't even tempted to smoke again for about two months after that flu. But then, after that initial two months, I started to obsess over the idea of smoking again. Those very extreme obsessive / compulsive feelings lasted for about five months, but I muddied through it mostly by telling myself that I control my destiny until I smoke that first hit but that after that, the cigarettes would control me.
Congratulations on your year, I'm looking forward to mine. I already feel a lot better, and I can climb sixteen stories of stairs (about 200 feet) in under six minutes now. It's great - and I owe it all to a bad flu.
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