Quit Smoking Day 1 - Sleep

So, I'm biting the bullet and finally giving up the cigs today. And it wasn't even a premediated though either, it was just a decision I finally came to whilst have a cigarette just before I left work at 5.

I don't know why either, but everytime I've tried to quit and have put some thought into it, it's always ended in failure, so maybe the brute force tactic might work, who knows.

So before I made that life altering decision I had to do work from 9 - 5 which was awful. I had to do a new site, and had built the template from the design's I'd be given, only to realise that the content didn't match the design at all and I had to rip my work apart and start again in order to get some kind of perceptable navigation running across the site. The joys or not getting a spec, or a badly written one. Sometimes the latter is worse than the former.

Anyway I get through work, then decide to give up the fags on the spot and ultimately end up home, where I while away the non-smoking hours watching tv and eating fish and chips. But the time I get to go to bed it's been 5 hours since my last cig, long enough to have a craving, but not long enough to do anything about it. So I figure that if I now go to sleep for 8 hours or so I'll have gotten over some of the habit cravings you initially have to deal with - so thats what I do.

Its now been 20 minutes + since I stopped smoking:
My blood pressure and my pulse rate has returned to normal

What this means
Raised blood pressure and high pulse rate both put strain on your heart, increasing your risk of a heart attack. The minute you stop your risk is reduced.

Posted by Abi on the September 23, 2005 10:06 PM