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Two Years Approaches by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking In about three weeks, I will have gone two years without a cigarette, cigar or nicotine of any kind! Two years. Wow! The battle over nicotine is now officially over. I ... Read on »
10,000 Cigarettes by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking Some time in the next 12 hours or so, I will reach the point where I have forgone 10,000 cigarettes! That is a pretty awesome milestone right there. Other than that, being a ... Read on »
One Year Without Nicotine! by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking Well, I did it!  Last week on January 7th, I passed the one-year mark since i quit smoking.  One orbit around the sun without a pack-a-day addiction weighing on my mind ever ... Read on »
A Year Approaches! by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking It's been three months since I have posted anything here.  Quite frankly, I'm not sure what else to post about.  My 11 month anniversary came and went without me even notici ... Read on »
Another Month by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking Yesterday, I made it 3/4 of a year without smoking anything! I feel great, physically. I've been riding my bike to work. I've begun to lose weight and not smoking is not re ... Read on »
A Mini Test...Passed...! by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking This evening, I went over to my friend's place -- where we do all of our homebrewing. It's also a place that I've smoked a lot of cigarettes and drank a lot of beer. I ... Read on »
Feeling OK... by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking Again, while walking my dog, I had the strongest of my cravings. Today, it hit me harder than yesterday. It was a much more intense urge to smoke. I had a brief moment ... Read on »
Morning Number 2... by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking (36 hours in) I slept MUCH better last night than I did the night before. However, I woke up feeling a really strong urge to have a cigarette. After a grapefru ... Read on »
Sloooow Day... by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking (20 hours in) This afternoon was painfully slow... Noon to 4:30 seemed like a whole freakin' day. I've stayed strong and am happy to have gotten through that t ... Read on »
Space Shot... by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking By the time I got out to the woods to walk my dog, I was feeling thoroughly cotton-headed. For the first 1/4 mile or so, I felt a bit like I was high, which isn't entire ... Read on »
Morning 1... by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking (12 hours in) I tossed and turned for a while before getting up this morning. I was listlessly thinking about this new course I've set out for myself. There's ... Read on »
A final thought for the night... by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking Over the past couple years, I talked myself out of trying to quit smoking because I live alone. I always felt that I wouldn't be up to the task to do this myself and kee ... Read on »
The Last One by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking Well, I just finished my last cigarette. To dissuade myself from scrounging around for a half-smoked butt, I emptied out my old, trusty jar o' butts into the same bag I ... Read on »
And so it begins... by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking ...Well, it doesn't really begin here. I'm about to quit smoking. I bought my last pack of American Spirit Mediums on Saturday and am down to two cigarettes. Both will ... Read on »
Morning of Day 9... by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking Not too much to report this morning. I did wake up with a bit of a headache, though. I still have it. It's not a major thing. Just a little pain over my right eye. I ... Read on »
A Bit of Smoking Math... by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking Don't know why I started thinking about this, but I decided to grab a calculator and figure it out. Let's say an American Spirit takes, on average, seven minutes ... Read on »
Morning of Day Eight... by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking Week two has begun and I feel great, this morning. I really dig the morning coffee again. Each day, I am increasingly amazed that I am going through this proces ... Read on »
I DID IT! by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking That was a quick two hours! I made it a week! Reading back over posts from the first three days, it is amazing that I was counting off hours and 72 seemed like ... Read on »
Glory Week Is Two Hours Away... by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking ... From Being Over! And then week two begins... Dang!!! To celebrate, I'm drinking a homebrew and catching up on things that have piled up a bit as I ... Read on »
12 Hours to Go... by Nate H. Posted in: Blog Posts in Quit smoking ...To One Smoke-Free Week!!! I'm a little confused about why I've felt so lousy the last couple of nights, and I haven't had the wherewithal do a ton of resea ... Read on »