You may (or may not) have noticed a distinct lack of morning posts over the last four days or so. I made a decision last week and on Monday I lay down the gauntlet so to speak and have been attempting to give up the mighty weed known as tobacco.

Armed with my trusty inhalator I have entered the fray, though I have to admit to the odd slide into a quick puff or two, I am finding that I want them less and less, they make me feel nauseated and dizzy and instead of perservering til it goes away, I put it out and dont bother, I want to do this and I know that I wont if I dont do it this way.

The inhalator as opposed to patches, the reason I chose it that way apart from the fact that I have tried patches and failed is that patches release nicotine slowly into your bloodstream over 24 hours, you then have the problem of weaning off the patches, so it is like a twelve week process, it only takes nicotine 4 days to remove its presence from your body, the rest of the craving issues are down to behavioural problems, the lighting of the cig, the times you had them, e.g. after meals, first thing in a morning. The inhalator uses nicotine cartridges that you place inside, when your craving for nicotine is at its highest you simply place in mouth and take a drag, much like you would with a cigarette, the amount you inhale is down to you and how hard you suck (behave boys!!)

This way you are combatting both sets of craving issues at the same time, behavioural and chemical, and to be honest a lot of the time just placing it in the mouth the same as the ciggy takes away the craving itself without actully taking any nicotine in.

Finding things to do is always going to be an issue, especially if you are out of work as I am, going out for walks is fine, but not when it is pouring it down with rain and a gale force wind blowing, so I have been trying to find all sorts of things to occupy myself with, omg isn't fcebook boring!! Parts of my family have just become addicted to it, well the games on it, zoo and cafe and farm, I have had a little play over the past couple of days, but I have to say, I would rather level my Druid! :))

So this is the reason that I have been AWOL, I wanted to give it a try before announcing it to the world, hopefully by this time next week there will be no slides back to the odd puff here and there and I will be smoke free :)

Have a good day :wave: