Call Me A Quitter (It's a compliment)

Most of you know that I have been working toward healthier living. I changed my eating habits to keep my blood sugar stable and in doing so I lost a lot of weight. I knew there was only one more big change to make and last fall I decided I was ready..... well ready to think about quitting anyway.

I work in retail. In my mind it would be stupid to try to quit smoking right when the busiest, most stressful part of the year was just beginning. I would quit after the holidays. Along comes January. Well I couldn't quit in January. That would be like making a new years resolution and everyone knows new years resolutions don't work. By the time March rolled around I knew I was out of excuses. It was time to get serious. I actually wrote down the information hanging on the wall in the break room about the quit for life program on a postit and stuck it to my computer monitor.  https://www.quitnow.net/Program/  

I think it was the beginning of April when I first went online to see what the program entailed. I got a little freaked out and went out for a cigarette. It took another week before I actually signed up. Turns out it wasn't so scary after all. (I did have to smoke while I waited for a call from my quit coach.) My quit coach asked me some questions and gave me some info to help me start my quit plan. We set a tentative quit date of May 1st. The actual quit date would be determined by when I started my Chantix because you can smoke during the first seven days while it builds up in your system.

I had my Dr. appointment on Thursday. She wrote me a prescription and I figured I would fill it on Friday. I knew I needed to wait until my direct deposit had gone in because I was not sure how much this was going to cost me. I found out on Friday that this will cost me $85 a month. No problem I spend about $90 a month on cigarettes so I will save five dollars a month. The pharmacy didn't have any Chantix on hand though so that meant I  could not pick it up until today.

  I was so excited to finally have my prescription that I had to take a picture of it. I take the first pill in the morning. That means my official quit date is May 8, 2012