Wow, I’m bad at this - keeping up with my blogging responsibilities, that is. On the quitting smoking thing, I’m still a rock star. I hit the one-month-tobacco-free mark yesterday, in fact!
But with less and less frequent cravings, come fewer impulses to talk about them. I’ve come up with a solution – I’ll be turning my attention to writing about things that are happening because I’m having fewer cravings: things like, oh, I don’t know… being able to smell well-done grilled-cheese sandwiches before they become burned grilled-cheese sandwiches. And I’m also committing to responding to any and all comments between posts, so bring them on!
I am VERY excited at having made it a whole month without a smoke… especially after having jolted awake quite a few times in the past four weeks convinced I'd blown it because I'd just had a cigarette – in my sleep! Now, this is different than the other sleep- and smoking-related issues I was having around week one. This is one for anyone who’s into dream analysis - I keep dreaming that I’m smoking! It takes a minute or two upon waking for the relief to sweep in over A/ still being tobacco-free, and B/ never having been prone to sleepwalking!
Not that I should be surprised… I haven’t worked in broadcasting for more than 4 years, and I still have work-dream s where I’m sitting in the news booth; the new intro goes off, and I look down to realize I’m holding a magazine or grocery store flyer instead of a newscast. I wake from those nightmares in a cold sweat after having tried (and failed) to make the disclaimers at the bottom of the advertisements sound like legitimate news stories. But I digress…
Now that the pesky cravings have largely disappeared, and I’m not so concerned that talking about smoking will lead me back to smoking… I invite you to help turn this project into a conversation. Got advice? Got questions? Got answers? I’d love to hear them…
Contrats EC! A Month is a huge accomplishment! As for the dreams, I've been there; the strange bit is that I used to dream about smoking before I had ever touched a cigarette.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like everyone is being really supportive, but (just to be devil's advocate) what will you do when someone is not and lights up a cigarette while you're standing there? (jerks are everywhere).
Wow, that is weird... dreaming about it without having done it. Although -- I've had the odd dream where I can fly... so maybe it's not that strange.
ReplyDeleteI AM getting a LOT of support - Trevor's even taken it outside. But if anyone decidesd to be a jerk about it and light up in front of me, well -- apparently that's why I have legs!! And a face, with which I will scowl at them before walking away.