So I’m just sitting here at my computer where I quite often indulge in a half a pack of cigarettes a day. So what else can I do? Drink beer … gnaw on celery sticks? Chew on pens? Hmm …. I was cleaning out my purse earlier when I was on the phone with someone and decided it was time to clean out the tobacco remnants sitting along the bottom of my purse. Every time I go to the store by my house and buy a pack of cigarettes I get a free lighter. This is what I find when I don’t clean my purse out for a month:
That is what was in my purse. Who in the world has 17 lighters in their purse at any given time? That would be me. And there are more. I have lighters everywhere. I decided if nobody claims them I’m putting them in a bag and taking them back to the friendly Indian man at the convenience store tomorrow. He may get a laugh out of it. He’s also going to have to get used to not already having my cigarettes and complimentary lighter on the counter for me already when I go to check out after filling up on his freshly made coffee … and my new favorite food, Samosas. He makes them homemade and brings them into the store everyday. They are tasty. I have to resist though. I really don’t want to put on the 10-20 pounds that quitters tend to do. Anyways, if you want my lighters you better claim them soon or I’m just going to pay for my coffee for the next few months by trading in lighters. 😛
Bear with me. I’ll probably update 96 times a day for the next few weeks until I get this quitting thing licked.
Be prepared! Whenever I quit smoking, I could start smelling the scent of cigarette smoke from a mile away and through closed doors. I can smell it on people when they walk into the office, even if they haven’t been smoking recently. I used to always think people who said they could smell cigarettes on you or in a room (even when no one was smoking) were lying, but I seriously just couldn’t smell that scent while I was a smoker. Now I’m like a bloodhound for cigarette smokers!
I like to lick quitters too! That’s what you said right?
Haha, I meant “licked” as in “defeated” however if you really want to lick me, I guess thats cool. Better than being punched or kicked! Well I can’t smell anything. It has been three days now. I thought my apartment would really be bothering me, but the only thing that is stinky is my purse. I come home after not being here all day and it smells fine. Maybe it takes longer. Maybe my smelling mechanism is broken.