In one month!

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in reference to this post...

I'M STILL CLEAN!

Some stats:

- I stopped smoking on March 28th 2011
- Haven't smoked for 239 days
- I have not smoked (at the average rythm I used to smoke when I quit) 8,365.28 cigarettes
- I have saved (at the price and brand I used to smoke) 1,568.50€
- At 6 minutes per cigarette, I would have spent 34 days, 20 hours and 30 minutes smoking
- If statistics are to be believed, I have now 65.48% less chance of dying from a heart disease than a smoker.
- Again, if statistics are to believed, I am 13.1% on my way to equal the risk of having lung cancer, to that of a person who has never smoked.

Otherwise, I feel terribly well that I stopped smoking, and thankfully (apart from the first horrible days) I don't miss it a little bit.

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I haven't smoked for 9 full days. That's after smoking almost 2 packs a day (avg. 35 cigarettes/day) for almost 17 years. It's being hard, but definitely not impossible, and every day seems easier than the last one... so far I've "not" smoked 315 cigarettes, and already saved almost 60€ (in less than 2 weeks!).

My breathing feels quite better, I don't cough half of what I used to, and everything seems to taste and smell better... after these 9 days, I hate thinking that I actually smelled like those who I can smell now (and didn't before). My clothes don't stink by the end of the day, and I generally feel better (except the harder withdrawal moments, which make me feel like shit... but I know that's the nicotine addiction playing games with my mind, so I just fight it over a few minutes and everything gets back to normal).

After a few attempts of quitting smoking in the past (most of which didn't last for over 12/24 hours), I was already thinking of getting pills or anything, but I decided to give it a last chance on my own... I realized something: I quit smoking everytime I finished a cigarette... it was all a matter of not lighting up another one... and so I haven't :-)

Let's hope this time I'm not stupid enough to go back to smoking... the disadvantages of smoking are way too obvious, and the advantages are far from clear to me right now.

Regards!

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Orange Juice + Honey + Drugs + Tissues

Hate being sick :(

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