I hope all the philip morris factories get destroyed by meteors. It's been a little over a week and a half since I last smoked. This time has been easier than all of my other previous attempts to quit. Thanks to the pain of getting my wisdom teeth yanked, the first few days I really didn't feel like lighting up and I had the vicodin to take my mind off of smoking. Pain and drugs, those are fairly good substitutes.
I think my husband and I are really done with cigarettes this time. Usually we quit, then we're good till we get stressed out or mad and find that we can't calm down or destress. We haven't been like that this time. We've been replacing cigarettes with excercise and it's working well. Besides being completely addicted, I really enjoyed smoking. Some people are addicted but they hate the habit and everything about it. I liked the actual act of smoking, and depending on the brand, I even liked the smell and taste. Before we quit, my husband and I were smoking Marlboro smooth, some newish brand. The cigarettes smelled exactly like girl scout thin mint cookies. So unfair, to make something so bad for you seem so good.
I've had a long relationship with cigarettes when I think back. I grew up in Richmond, VA -home to a philip morris factory. In fact, I remember a school field trip where went to philip morris to tour the factory. At the end of watching how they make cigarettes we got pens with the philip morris log on them and the teachers got to choose between pens and a mini-pack of cigarettes. My first pack of cigerettes were free. At the time the legal age to buy cigarettes was 16 and magazines used to frequently carry coupons for free packs of cigarettes. I was a an occasional "social smoker" for a long time. It wasn't til sometime in my twenties that I realized I had gone from ocassionaly smoking to full time got to smoke at least a half pack a day. And it's been a complete love/hate relationship ever since.
Why so single out Philip Morris? Many reasons. I was familiar with their brands from elementary school, thanks to their free "educational tours". Also, the last time we quit, I blame them and our weak wills for starting up again. A week after we quit smoking, my husband had to go out of town for a week for work. As fate would have it, he was being sent to the Philp Morris headquarters. I told him I'm sure it would be ok. He works with computers, it's not like he was going to be surrounded by cigarettes. I was so wrong. The lab he was working in turned out to be a "smoking lab". It was a total smoker's utopia. He resisted the first couple days before he broke down. So for those reasons and coutless dollars wasted on cigarettes, they can go screw themselves.
I think my husband and I are really done with cigarettes this time. Usually we quit, then we're good till we get stressed out or mad and find that we can't calm down or destress. We haven't been like that this time. We've been replacing cigarettes with excercise and it's working well. Besides being completely addicted, I really enjoyed smoking. Some people are addicted but they hate the habit and everything about it. I liked the actual act of smoking, and depending on the brand, I even liked the smell and taste. Before we quit, my husband and I were smoking Marlboro smooth, some newish brand. The cigarettes smelled exactly like girl scout thin mint cookies. So unfair, to make something so bad for you seem so good.
I've had a long relationship with cigarettes when I think back. I grew up in Richmond, VA -home to a philip morris factory. In fact, I remember a school field trip where went to philip morris to tour the factory. At the end of watching how they make cigarettes we got pens with the philip morris log on them and the teachers got to choose between pens and a mini-pack of cigarettes. My first pack of cigerettes were free. At the time the legal age to buy cigarettes was 16 and magazines used to frequently carry coupons for free packs of cigarettes. I was a an occasional "social smoker" for a long time. It wasn't til sometime in my twenties that I realized I had gone from ocassionaly smoking to full time got to smoke at least a half pack a day. And it's been a complete love/hate relationship ever since.
Why so single out Philip Morris? Many reasons. I was familiar with their brands from elementary school, thanks to their free "educational tours". Also, the last time we quit, I blame them and our weak wills for starting up again. A week after we quit smoking, my husband had to go out of town for a week for work. As fate would have it, he was being sent to the Philp Morris headquarters. I told him I'm sure it would be ok. He works with computers, it's not like he was going to be surrounded by cigarettes. I was so wrong. The lab he was working in turned out to be a "smoking lab". It was a total smoker's utopia. He resisted the first couple days before he broke down. So for those reasons and coutless dollars wasted on cigarettes, they can go screw themselves.