day 79

The Chantix website stopped asking me if I took my medicine today.  Its my three month mark (according to them).  But it IS 79 days since I've had a cig...woo hoo!  I'm not out of the evil grip of nicotine though, I think about smoking every day, every day I reason with myself.  And then its another day under my belt.  I wonder if it will ever go away?  I think I need a cigarette for the dumbest reasons too.  Of course if I smoked, I wouldn't be having so much pain.  If I had a cigarette, I could be practicing lunges on the stairs in the garage.  Truth is, if I smoked, it would be a distraction from the pain, but it wouldn't cure it, and I'd just be mad at myself for smoking.  And there is no reason I can't do lunges on the stairs to our basement.  Its the nicotine talking to me...I wish it would STOP.  So far I'm stronger.  Go Karen.

I've lost 22 pounds since my surgery!  I was so bummed that I had gained it during radiation and the first month after I quit smoking...but its off again.  Woo hoo

I can do stairs.  Woo hoo

Ok enough woohooing...fading fast.