The Diary Game || 30.06 Quitting smoking

I decided to quit smoking. Again. It will be the 200th time I'm trying, but I do have a hope now it will work.

I started to smoke in a very young age. I was stupid, wanted to do something rebellious maybe thought that I'll get some respect. I got unfresh breath instead. It was 18 years ago and since then I'm paying for my silly mistake.

Smoking cost a lot of money, health, makes me smell bad, is not eco friendly, gives me a lot of stress and causes troubles for everyone in around. I know quitting is possible because I already quit once for two years. Unfortunately then I started to smoke again - I was so sure I'm not addicted any more that I thought it's okay to smoke once for a while in a company. It wasn't.

I bought some gums with the nicotine, informed family members that for a while I might be the pain in the ass even more than usually and... started my battle.

Some people don't have any problems with quitting, I am not one of them though. When I'm addicted, my body and my mind reacts very strongly for the deficit of the substance I desire. Luckily I drink very little of alcohol (maybe twice or three times per year; very "not-Polish" style - sorry motherland), don't take any drugs (well, I like sugar - does it count?), so my only issue are cigarettes.

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First day is behind me. Stats looks like that:

N° of smoked cigarettes	3 (good, usually is at least 10)
N° of chewed gums	5
N° of thoughts about destroying the universe	500

It will affect my productivity, because I will be too focused to not murder everyone in around and it will literally make me the orca, because I'm eating a lot to calm down, but it's all worth it.
If you are a smoker, quit with me. We can support each others, complain about the world together and chew the nicotine gums simuntanisly on Skype. Quitting together should be a bit easier.

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Steemit

Post should be about quitting smoking mostly, but I'd like to share with you what did I write in the last two days. Maybe some of that posts will be interesting for you:

If you want to read about my relatives from 1880 until now, listen to the story about the angry grand grand grandfather and the chair which pass from one generation to another (ring would be more practical, but what can I do?) - read this post

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If you want to participate in my mini contest to promote steemit, check this post. There are 15 STEEM of rewards and you don't even have to write the post. Comment is enough.

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If you want to read about my favourite writers, discover who inspired authors of Futurama to make the cartoon or who predicted the Internet in the 50's, read this post.

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If you want to know about my biggest passion, travelling, if you need a tip how to find the perfect place to sleep in the tent or you want to read what travelling can teach us all, read this post.

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If you are a LGBTQIA+ person, especially in one of the homophobic countries, if you need any support, read this post

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If you want to read about my future plans related to this platform, read this post.

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If you enjoy some nice photos, you can check one of my two publications for the photo contests: first presents some sculptures of Pablo Picasso from BOZAR Museum exhibition and is with some extra information about this artist, second presents volcano Osorno in Chile and describes in few words power of the nature in that part of the world.

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That are my last two days on Steemit. As you can see, I spent a lot of time on the platform and tried to create an original and high quality content. Hope you'll enjoy it.

Thanks for reading,
@papi.mati