Day 1

Yesterday I started to seriously TRY to stop smoking. I quit a few times before, for about 3 days 2 times and 2 days another time. 1 time that I quit was when I was training students to drive semi.

It wasn't to bad at first, I was chewing the Nicorette gum and for those 3 days I had no urges at all, none. I just kept chewing the gum and worked on not thinking about smoking. All was good. I even felt better than I had in years. But as I said, I was training students to drive semi, and my Trucker Brothers that have ever trained stundents before can tell you that it is not an easy job to do.

  My student kept missing exits and it finaly got to me and when we hit the truckstop for fuel I left him to fill the truck by himself, bought 3 packs of smokes and had 4 of them gone before we got back on the road again. To this day he is the only student I keep in touch with and Tina and I have spent July 4th with him and his family up near the Mackinaw Bridge.

 Any way, I have been thinking about quiting for a long time now and yesterday was kind of rough. I did good till around 11:30pm or so, I only had 5 cigarettes. From then til now, 13. I don't really remember what made me want to smoke more. I kept chewing my gum and really didn't have bad urges or any thing like that.

  Maybe it was "force of habit", I'm not sure. But I am sure that I want to kick the habit of smoking, and I wish I had never started. I started in 9th grade because of peer presure, and I think that smoking was 1 of the dumbest things I have ever done.

  Some people can stop cold turkey, but some can't. I am one of those that can't. So if anyone reading this used to smoke, and you have stopped, maybe you can throw some hints and tips my way. A lot of support from former smokers and those that never have smoked would be nice as well.

 I'll try to post my progress every day, but I work odd hours and some times I don't have the time to get on here and for the past 2 weeks or so I haven't been able to log on for some reason.

 Wish me luck, it's going to be hard