This one report really says more then any episode of "The Daily Show" I have ever seen. I am happy to see a news anchor really speak the truth and call the president out for all the stuff that is going on. You should really take a look at it. And I am putting it right here on my blog so that you don't have to follow any links to get to it.

Hope you enjoyed the show. Maybe it will give you hope or open your eyes. Either way, I have done my good deed for the day.

more funny pictures

You should go and check the rest of them out.

Today is day 9, I should have quit on day 8. I am still smoking but I am putting more time between smokes, at least while my husband is around because he has quit in expectation of me quitting again.

I feel like I don't have an option except to quit this time. I don't want to put him thru my smoking again. I feel like I was the reason that he started smoking again after a year of being quit. I don't want to do that to him again.

Gotta Go, made a deal with the devil. Almost bedtime anyway.

Good night

Still, I do not feel any pressure about the up coming quit day. I guess it's because it isn't such a final feeling this time. This is really good for me.

I am also hoping that by Saturday these pills will kick in and I will feel happy to let go of my cigarettes. I really want to quit this time too. That could also be helping with this event.

I will update you again on Saturday, I will keep a count of how many cigarettes I smoke after that. I am willing to except that I am going to have a few, I have been smoking for 16 years, it's going to be hard to just quit.

I signed up for the "Get Quit" support program. According to the site I should be getting calls from the site on a daily basis for the first month or so. Then the calls get further apart up until the 12th week.

The big thing that I have noticed is that I am not nervous like I have been in the past about quitting. Anyone that has been around me when I have tried to quit in the past knows that I get extremely nervous when the quit date gets near. For some reason I can't handle the stress of a quit day. But with this stuff, I haven't even thought about it.

With today's dose I didn't notice any side effects and I am really not feeling stressed about the idea of giving up my smokes next week, which is usually a problem for me.

I doubt that I will be posting about it everyday, but I will try to keep up on the progress or lack of. I have to say though that in my research of the drug, I couldn't find anything on the internet about people not quitting using it.

If you want to check it out for yourself you can go to Chantix.com to get lots more information. The key thing to know is that it has a much higher rate of success then other drugs, 44% actually.

I have been wondering for some time now, why there is no cent key on a keyboard. Admittedly you don't need it as often these day because how many things do you really need to notate with the cent symbol and it's pretty easy to just type "cents"

For those of you who really want to know, it's really simple on a mac just type OPT+$ to get a ¢ symbol. On a PC you need to type more then you do to just type "cent or cents" but here it is ALT+0162 to get the ¢ symbol.

Hope that helps!

I have been a smoker since I was about 14. I
have been at least a pack a day smoker since then and more recently I
have been at least a 2 pack a day smoker. It just keeps getting worse
with time.

My health is really bad too. I have a Thyroid
problem, Arthritis, Lupus, Bi-Polar, Insomnia, bad lungs, coughing,
high cholesterol and even trouble with my immune system. For myself and
my family I need to quit. It's really the best thing that I can do for
myself.

Why do I want to quit? Maybe I should make a list.

• I am sick of being sick all of the time
• I want to live longer
• I want to spend more time with my family
• I hate smelling like cigarettes
• My room and clothes smell like smoke no matter what I do
• I am coughing a lot, that would end
• My husband would quit again too and I wouldn't feel guilty about smoking while he quit
• I want to live longer
• Cancer runs in my family, and it would reduce my risk
• I could actually wear perfume and the like
• I would be able to breath better
• I would be able to taste food better
• I would overall be happier and proud of myself for doing it finally
• We would have more money (about$330 per month)
• We would be able to do more
• I would reduce the risk of having heart or lung diseases
• My kids would be less likely to start smoking
• I
  could have a nice fresh scent around my house and I can wash all of my
  clothes on my quit day and never have to worry about smelling bad again
• I think that I would make more friends if I could quit smoking
• I would really like to go swimming in the local indoor pool for health reasons and smoking has kept me from doing that
• I want to be able to go out to eat and not have to sneak out for a smoke, the same for movies.

• Because I have a lot of stress in my life and it seems that smoking helps me to cope with all the things that stress me out.
• I like the feeling of smoking, which is why I would smoke the nicotine free cigarettes if they still have them (at Rite Aid) while on Chantix, until I can handle dealing with the physical addiction
• Because
  the first cigarette that I smoked was on the day that my grandfather
  died and it makes me remember him, even though it is such a stupid
  thing to say
• It is relaxing in the morning, after I eat and especially after sex. Nothing else could ever compare to a cigarette after sex.
• I smoke a lot when I am alone. I hate being alone, so I will have to start venturing out of the house to do something each day
• Smoking is always there for me when I am depressed
• All of my friends smoke and I fit in with them
• I
  find it very hard to quit, I have tired about 4 times to quit and I
  haven't made it more then 4 days without going back to smoking
• It keeps me from gaining too much weight. Really...I would eat so much more if I didn't smoke

• Get Okay from Shrink
• Get RX from my doctor
• Take the pills for a week before my quit date (October 2007)
• Smoke the Nicotine Free cigrettes for as long as I have too
• Continue with pills until 12 th week
• If I still have not quit within the first 12 weeks, get another 12 week supply
• Finally quit
  
• Use the money that we would spend on smokes on a family vacation
• Spend an entire weekend washing all of my clothes, blankets, floors and spraying a cleaner on everything. Getting all of the smoke smell out of all of my clothes and house
  

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Now that they are here, it is the laughter that is getting to me. should I be enjoying my friends today? Should I just act like i forgot today? Should I put on a fake smile and just walk dead through the whole night? I don't want to, but I don't want to tell them there is a problem either.

I guess I will get my happy face and pretend I can laugh with the rest of them, hell maybe it will make itself real before the day is over. I just need to take some time here and there just to remember and then move on. I hope they don't notice what I am doing.

Gotta go my alone time is over. Wipe the tears and get back to the real world.

This is a very interesting thing that I thought I would share with you.

I recently asked my aunt if I could have a small amount of his ashes because it was something that I have wanted to ask her for since the day of his funeral, I just didn't know how to ask it. I finally asked for it as a birthday present. I would have really loved to get one of those diamonds made of ashes but it cost quite a bit of money for just the stone, you have to go elsewhere to have the ring actually made.