Day 10!

Just a quick update on the no-smoking 'sitchee-ation':

I am indeed on Day 10, while hubby is on Day 9. Every morning I wake up and practically my first thought is "I'm a non-smoker! Yay, me!"

My sense of smell is still improving greatly, but I still don't notice my sense of taste changing much yet.

I still have occasional moments where I long desperately to say to my husband "We could have just one!" but I bite my tongue and ignore that fleeting craving. It's usually gone in 2 minutes or less.

Still have a bit of cough, but it's much less and is usually restricted to when I'm prone. I was very worried about it but read somewhere that sometimes it takes months to get rid of. I worry mostly because when I quit before, it didn't take that long to get rid of the cough. But I remind myself that when I quit before:
1) I was much younger and
2) I hadn't chain-smoked for three solid decades before stopping.

I am also happy to report that the incredible urge to shove food in my mouth didn't last too long, only about 3 or 4 days. I'm pretty much eating normally...or rather normally for me. Which is still way too much junk, but one vice at a time, right?

I have also come to the conclusion that once a smoker, always a smoker, even if you quit.  My belief is that we do not become non-smokers. We are former smokers. There's a big difference and you former smokers out there know exactly what I mean.  It's similar to alcoholism in that we can control the craving for a cigarette, and forget about it for hours, days, weeks at a time.  But I don't know that it ever exactly leaves us entirely. But I also believe that we can do exactly what we choose to do.  And if you CHOOSE to stop smoking, drinking, eating junk, playing the lottery, whatever...you WILL be successful.  Having a hotline to God in the form of prayer doesn't hurt either!

Till next time,

"Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of." ~ Bethany Hamilton