Today didn’t go quite as easy as yesterday. I smoked my first around 10:15 – about an hour after I got to work. Around noon I tried my first piece of Nicorette, which at least gave me something to focus on as I tried to avoid chewing constantly (didn’t work – still got a little dizzy). I figured I would be smart today and wait to smoke after eating lunch. I didn’t finish eating ’till around 1, so I just figured, “let’s see how long I can coast” and I chewed some regular gum. We finished deploying a large update to a major application around 2, so I figured it was time. It had been almost four hours, and I needed to step away from work-things for a few minutes after getting that update deployed. Celebratory cigarette = #2 for the day.
Late afternoon was tricky. I had another piece of Nicorette around 4:30, and figured I’d try to make it to 6 before smoking again. That was a pretty looooong 90 minutes. I got there, though, and had smoke #3 right at 6. I left the office a few minutes before 7, came home and ate, cleaned the kitchen up, blah, blah, blah. I had my last-of-the-day smoke at 10, which puts my total for the day at a very respectable 4.
Let’s re-cap:
- average day for the last 14 years = 18-22 cigarettes
- yesterday = 7 cigarettes + 0 pieces of Nicorette
- today = 4 cigarettes + 2 pieces of Nicorette
I think I’ll hold at 4 cigarettes / day for tomorrow. Today was a little too sketchy to push it further just yet. Plus, the weekend’s coming…there will be drinking…Ughh…