Author Archives: Noah Lugeons

Days Without a Cigarette: 40.5680555 Days Without Nicotine: 0 Dollars Saved: $91.01 Time Saved: 57 hours, 28 minutes Today, I was reminded once more to stop bragging about all these unhatched chickens I have. Over the last few days I’ve been pretty impressed by how infrequently I’ve wanted a smoke. Yesterday, I didn’t really thinkContinue reading “Day Forty One”

Days Without a Cigarette: 38.5458333 Days Without Nicotine: 0 Dollars Saved: $119.16 Time Saved: 54 hours, 36 minutes It wouldn’t be accurate to say that I miss being a smoker, but it also wouldn’t be accurate to say that I don’t. I think I hit on the right analogy last night, but maybe you haveContinue reading “Day Thirty Nine”

Days Without a Cigarette: 35.369444 Days Without Nicotine: 0 Dollars Saved: $102.96 Time Saved: 50 hours, 6 minutes When I was seventeen years old, my brother spent a year as an exchange student in Japan. A couple of weeks before we was scheduled to ship out, somebody noticed some problem with his paperwork and becauseContinue reading “Day Thirty Six”

Days Without a Cigarette: 34.58333Days Without Nicotine: 0Dollars Saved: $92.16Time Saved: 49 hours I know this is going to sound silly, but I’m surprised that being a nonsmoker isn’t a bigger part of my life. I still have three or four cravings a day, but most of them are pleasantly evanescent. I’ll randomly think “IContinue reading “Day Thirty Five”

Days Without a Cigarette: 29. 77569444 Days Without Nicotine: 0 Dollars Saved: $65.16 Time Saved: 42 hours, 10 minutes The decreasing frequency of these posts is probably a good thing. The fact that I have less and less to say about quitting is a good sign that I’m not thinking about it as often. SinceContinue reading “Day Thirty”

Days Without a Cigarette: 26.62986111 Days Without Nicotine: 0 Dollars Saved: $43.56 (bought another box of patches) Time Saved: 37 hours, 43 minutes The cravings are getting worse. I noticed that a few days ago, and it seemed to defy logic. A cursory examination of the logic suggested that the further away I got fromContinue reading “Day Twenty Seven”

Days Without a Cigarette: 24.66597222 Days Without Nicotine: 0 Dollars Saved: $72.25 Time Saved: 34 hours, 56 minutes I got a tough lesson today in just how little progress I’ve really made. They say these patches are water proof and that you can wear them overnight and they’ll stick. And sometimes they’re right. But otherContinue reading “Day Twenty Five”

Days Without a Cigarette: 23.6041666Days Without Nicotine: 0 Dollars Saved: $66.85 Time Saved: 33 hours, 26 minutes Today’s been a rough one and it’s gonna get rougher. I feel like I’ve moved into a new phase of quitting . I’d say I ‘leveled up’ to keep with the video game analogy I’ve been using upContinue reading “Day Twenty Four”

Days Without a Cigarette: 22.9375 Days Without Nicotine: 0 Dollars Saved: $61.45 Time Saved: 32 hours, 30 minutes Edit: There are some bad and misleading arguments in this post. After I posted it, a reader followed up and set me straight on a lot of the stuff I said here. I’m keeping the post hereContinue reading “Day Twenty Three”

Days Without a Cigarette: 21.7041666 Days Without Nicotine: 0 Dollars Saved: $56.02 Time Saved: 31 hours, 45 minutes A friend of mine in Australia reached out the other day to congratulate me and to comment on this blog. Apparently he’s been following along and was pretty taken aback by the “Dollars Saved” portion of myContinue reading “Day Twenty Two”