ITS TIME FOR A BLOG.

My capacity to blog is diminishing. I think it goes along with my diminishing urge for a cigarette. I still want to blog and I dont want to smoke so here I am with another update. The 10th February was my last cigarette and it was my last puff on one as well. I am not sure Shirl the girl believes me as a couple of times she has asked me if I have a stash somewhere to which I usually bark at her for thinking or suggesting such a thing. I guess after 34 years she would know I dont usually follow through on many things I said I would.
I see the counter is rolling along well now that 45 days have since elapsed.Wow- keep up the good work.
I seem to be spending alot more time inside these days and it usually means sitting in front of the computer. Thank god for the VW hobby and a little bit of work to keep me sane otherwise I would be sitting outside on the lounge twiddling my fingers and toes. I want to get out on the golf course again so that will be my target to get to golf once a week after my birthday next month. Bank to hotmail or maybe Ebay.

I KNOW WHAT PEOPLE MEAN

It was Thursday night and I was out to dinner in Sydney with a couple of VW mates on the restaurant balcony enjoying a pizza and talking some business when all of a sudden this odour passed my nostrils at a very slow speed. I thought "thats a cigarette" and I then made a visual confirmation seeing the guy at the next table smoking. The smell was really bad and I must have screwed up my face a little only to have the two guys I was sitting with say " thats what they always smell like" but of course they would have never said anything directly I had been smoking at the table. Now I have some idea what tobacco smells like to a non smoker and all I can say is that it aint something I would put my nose into for pleasure. Maybe its taken me 5 weeks to start and appreciate that a couple of my senses are starting to get to where they should have been all the time.
I guess I have to now adopt the same attitude as many people and not say anything about the perple around me who choose to smoke.. I certainly will not ever become a pissed off ex smoker who tries to take things out on the world. Pity they could not find the Champix tablets. Tuesday is week 6 so I am looking forward to it. I see the daily counter is coming down quickly- ,the daughter better start saving up some pennies.
PS. Thanks to all commentees for the responses. I love having a read.

THE JURY MUST STILL BE OUT

WHAT..... No judgements.....is no one prepared to make a call just in case I bite their heads off ?

Apart from that I am feeling fine and have today, hit WEEK #5 without the nicotene. Well done to me. I think I am finally starting to feel it. Today, the Rogan Josh tasted like Rojan Josh should taste.
Onwards and upwards.....

AS DAYS GO BY......

When you are young you always think that time goes quickly and that you cannot wait until later on in life (read-retirement) when people tell you that you will have so much time to yourself to do whatever you want. Let me make a formal announcement- THEY ALL LIE. When we get older and retire the days are cut by 25% and reduced to only 18 hours each instead of the accepted 24 hours per day- the rationale for this is that we tend to do things slower as we get older( three hours lost) we tend to sleep longer or take nanny naps ( two hours lost) and the final hour is spent trying to remember what we did for the last 12 hours. All in all, time flies when you are retired ,to a point where you cannot afford to sit and read something for an hour because this is an hour that you will never get back in your life going forward. Giving up smoking is similar in that all I wanted to do before was to have another ciggy. Ciggies always meant going outside of the house and sitting down (mainly on the infamous lounge-see previous comments) and just relaxing. Without the desire to have a cigarette I find now I dont have any desire to go outside the house and I spent hours and hours more on the computer doing things like these blogs. Its like a kid who wants to spend time in his room with the XBox or similar. One becomes more insular and more capable of not leaving the house.

Am I sounding more agitated,contankerous and pissed off with things generally?. Are these tablets finally giving me problems with some well documented side affects? Did I get out of bed on the wrong side this morning or maybe I am just letting of some steam. I will let others judge.

TIME IS MOVING SO FAST

Just noticed that I last had a blog on Saturday and its already Thursday. During that period I reached a significant milestone- four weeks, one month , 1/12th of my first year smoke free. Its not getting any harder at the moment and I am convinced that these tablets are really impacting the receptors in the brain. Keep up the good work.
Made friends with the lounge again today and actually sat there whilst enjoing my morning cup of coffee and raisin toast. Been up and back to Sydney for a few days work and again found little difficulty in driving whilst refraining from sucking on a ciggy.

WEEKENDS ARE FOR GARAGE SALES

Its Saturday morning and the Sat Nav is being fired up so we can go and look at garage sales where I usually sit in the car and wait until the missess has inspected anything and everything and has purchased more crap for the house. It used to be sit and wait in the car and have a cigarette or two. Now it is more pleasant sitting in the car which does not smell of tobacco. Went fishing again today for 3 hours.
The score 1 fish , no cigarettes, no sugarless lollies.
Its getting easier and easier.
Keep the comments coming, they are really supportive. And I promise- no more orange undies.

THREE WEEKS AND STILL COUNTING

Yesterday was the end of week 3 and time is really sarting to move along. Have been away in Melbourne for the past 4 days hence the lack of new blogs.
Was delighted to see the comments coming thick and fast, it is really supportive and encouraging.
Driving 9 hours in the car was not nearly as bad as I had believed however sugarless mints were playing an important role in managing the desires. The return trip was easier still.
For the benefit so some I can confess that the orange reg grundies had seen better days and were moved into the garage to come back as wipes( almost a pun) for the removal of engine oil for the motor vehicle.
No other issues with these Champix tablets from what I can see.
Have posted a comment myself to see if it helps others to record a comment