Archive for the 'Smoking Cessation' Category



Monday, Monday

Published on January 26, 2009

Can’t trust that day. I thought I was ready to go back. Sure needed to stop burning “Paid Time Off” sitting on my butt at home and wheezing. So today, I went to work, sat there and wheezed. I was OK for quite a while but by mid-afternoon, I was ready to take a nap, […]


18 months anniversary

Published on September 26, 2008

I started smoking when I was 13, thinking it would impress other kids on how grown up I was.   (I used my lunch money to buy them)  (or I swiped some of my mother’s cigarettes, on the sly)  See already how mature I was?   In those days, just about everyone smoked.  My parents did, their […]


An anniversary of sorts

Published on June 27, 2008

Yesterday was the 26th. Of June. 15 months. After a lifetime as a smoker, I now, finally, consider myself a NON-smoker. It’s taken me 15 months to get here. I used medication recommended by my doctor, followed the directions for increasing the dosage over the first week, and quit on the 8th day. Jim’s birthday. […]