2 weeks!!!

And I am very proud of myself, this is the longest I have lasted, (apart from when I found out I was pregnant with my eldest, then I quit for 7 years!) without having a sneaky cig and never letting on!
There are times when I have forgotten I ever smoked and times when I would almost kill for one. Habit is an amazing thing, finishing off my assignment I wondered what I was missing and realised it was a congratulatory smoke! That was hard to overcome but I got there in the end. I have a sneaky suspicion I will always have a niggly notion for one the rest of my days.
I have noticed I have put weight on, I have a voracious appetite and apparently this is because food tastes so much better. I can't honestly say it does but I do know I seem to be hungry all the time. Hubby reckons that is better than smoking but it will need to be knocked on the head at some point, after all I am going to be Mother of the Bride next year !
It really is all about keeping busy and so I have been finding plenty of things to do, the garden has had a go over, new planters seeded and a new bbq bought ( back to food again...sigh). I have devoured books like they are going out of fashion ( better than food I guess) and my present read is 880 pages long.
On the downside I have had a rotten cold that I think my grandson kindly gave me last Friday when I was babysitting. Sunday night I felt under the weather and at Uni on Monday I struggled, felt miserable and had a hard job staying awake on the train home. No sleep at all that night as I was feeling more miserable by the minute. Work was not an option so I lay sick for a few days in bed , it must have been a deadly strain of man flu as anyone who knows me knows I do not do the lying in bed bit! Today thankfully I feel much better but still have a chesty cough which again I am led to believe is all the gunge coming up from my lungs after quitting...charming!
I am loving the fact the house and myself no longer smells of stale smoke, it was the one thing I positively hated about smoking even if I loved all the rest!

14 days, 3 hours, 38 minutes, 58 seconds smoke free and £98 saved ( well spent on other things!)