Secret Tips

Now I've been smoke-free for three months, one week, 21 hours, 19 minutes and 26 seconds. 3915 cigarettes not smoked, saving £1,011.73. Life saved: 1 week, 6 days, 14 hours, 15 minutes.

Mystery Dude asked me do I have any tips?

I don't want to be a big old Negativio but I don't really.

The thing is, forget all that propaganda shite about what a liberating time smoking cessation is. It doesn't seem to have been a time for joy and celebration, relishing the new potency of your healthy bod etc etc.

It has been a time of grim endurance. Even now after 3 months I want a fag almost all the time. There is a sort of pleasure in noticing how much suffering I've endured.

Sounds like I'm being sarky, but I'm not, there's a tip after all. Enjoy the fact that you have endured suffering. Think about the people who love you, which I'm sure in your case MD is quite a gang. So you have given them the best gift by taking steps to avoid death, even though it hurt and inconvenienced you massively. Even though it made you into a fat mentalist. Even though you can't sleep and when you do everything feels wrong and bleak when you wake up. Even though life is now confusing and different.

So you did all that - for them, and you. That would make you a hero wouldn't it? xx