Journal 1

I'm Debbie, and I'm a chain smoker, but today is January the first. I'm going to give it an honest effort to quit smoking. So far I've done pretty good. It's about 7:30 in the morning and usually I need a couple of cigarettes and a diet coke to get my day going. And I felt like that this morning, real groggy and that I couldn't really wake up, so I did pour a diet coke. But I had some miniature cigars that were filtered and I only had a couple puffs of that. And that's all I needed and I didn't need any more nicotine.

Well I went ahead and took my shower and I put on the patch. So today I'm wearing the patch all day, and I really don't feel sorry for myself or think I can't do it. I really have the feeling that I can do it. I'm really positive about it. I have hard candy and gum, a calendar, a journal. I bought a pack of menthol cigarettes because I can't stand menthol cigarettes if I have to have something in my hand to smoke. I'm real positive. I think I can do it.