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Days Without a Cigarette: 81.56875Days Without Nicotine: 24.56875Dollars Saved: $345.81Time Saved: 115 hours, 33 minutes I can’t say for certain that I’ve gone a whole day at this point without thinking about cigarettes, because realizing you’ve gone the whole day without thinking about something forces you to think about that thing. So, by necessity, ifContinue reading “Day Eighty Two”

Days Without a Cigarette: 71.702777 Days Without Nicotine: 14.702777 Dollars Saved: $291.81 Time Saved: 101 hours, 35 minutes When I was living in New York, I had a friend that moved to the west coast. He was a smoker when he left, but he quit shortly thereafter. Or at least that was his claim. ButContinue reading “Day Seventy Two”

Days Without a Cigarette: 62.74791667 Days Without Nicotine: 5.74791667Dollars Saved: $232.41 Time Saved: 88 hours, 55 minutes I can’t decide if I’ve got another gauntlet to pass through this weekend, or if I’ve got a victory lap to take. This weekend we’ve got a live show in LA, so I’ve gotta fly across the countryContinue reading “Day Sixty Three”

Days Without a Cigarette: 56.80208333 Days Without Nicotine: 0.34375* Dollars Saved: $194.61 Time Saved: 80 hours, 28 minutes As of today, that second ticker starts moving. Days without nicotine? No longer zero. Sort of. On the advice of Melissa, I actually left the patch from yesterday on today, so some trace amount of nicotine isContinue reading “Day Fifty Seven”

Days Without a Cigarette: 54.5708333 Days Without Nicotine: 0 Dollars Saved: $178.41 Time Saved: 77 hours, 19 minutes Here I sit, closing in on the eighth week, desperately nervous about the milestone that stands ahead of me. My patches are an eight week program. I’m hours away from the part of this ordeal where IContinue reading “Day Fifty Five”

Days Without a Cigarette: 51.6875 Days Without Nicotine: 0 Dollars Saved: $162.21 Time Saved: 73 hours, 14 minutes They say that you can’t quit smoking if you don’t really want to. And I suppose that’s true, but mostly because it’s tautological. The act of quitting smoking (at least as near as I can tell) isContinue reading “Day Fifty Two”

Days Without a Cigarette: 49.88958333 Days Without Nicotine: 0 Dollars Saved: $150.41 Time Saved: 70 hours, 41 minutes I feel like an asshole every time people ask me about the benefits of quitting. I’m not trying to be petulant about it, but you’d never guess that from my answers. People ask “have you noticed thatContinue reading “Day Fifty”

Days Without a Cigarette: 46.97222 Days Without Nicotine: 0 Dollars Saved: $128.81 Time Saved: 66 hours, 32 minutes It wouldn’t be right to say that I miss smoking cigarettes and it certainly wouldn’t be accurate to say that I want to go back to smoking. But I kind of want to want to go backContinue reading “Day Forty Seven”

Days Without a Cigarette: 43.547222 Days Without Nicotine: 0 Dollars Saved: $112.61 Time Saved: 61 hours, 42 minutes I passed over several milestones a couple days ago that I didn’t even bother to mention on the blog. Six weeks without a cigarette, 1000 hours without a cigarette (thanks to Jeff for pointing that one out),Continue reading “Day Forty Four”

Days Without a Cigarette: 41.89375 Days Without Nicotine: 0 Dollars Saved: $101.81 Time Saved: 59 hours, 21 minutes I still take cigarette breaks and I have no intention of giving that up. The way I figure it, if I could carve ten minutes out of every ninety to give myself cancer six weeks ago, prettyContinue reading “Day Forty Two”