Giving Up Smoking

9 months without a cig, I can’t believe it. For the first time in over 40 years I’ve gone more than 3 or 4 months without a cigarette and I can tell the difference in myself.

I haven’t got much to add to my diary this month it’s been a good one. I recovered from the chest infection that I had last month and feel much better. I do still get odd mornings when I wake up coughing, my throat is dry and my mouth tastes horrible. I reckon that’s still the gunge coming up out of my lungs.

Even though it’s been a cold winter it’s been the least painful as far as my Reynards disease problem is concerned for a number of years. That tells me that my circulation has improved. My teeth and gums have stopped hurting so hopefully the damage caused by smoking is reversing or at the least not getting any worse. So everything is good and hopefully it will stay that way.

My total savings now taking into account the cost of patches and e-cigs is now at least £800. I’ve already used the savings to put towards a new Sony Viao laptop, it looks a lot better than a stack of cigarette packets that I would have gone through doesn’t it? I haven’t decided what I’m going to treat myself next with saved cigarette money. I’ve been thinking about getting a guitar and learning how to play it, or maybe even put it towards a holiday.

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If you have previously read my stop smoking diary you will know that I used electronic cigarettes to help me to quit. I heard this week that the British government are now considering banning e-cigs yet they allow the killer tobacco cigarettes to stay on sale. Please sign the petition at http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/ecigarettes/