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A few thoughts on cigarettes (SF day 16)

Catharsis through writing! It’s smokefree day 16, and here are my thoughts: When you quit smoking, what you really miss are not the actual cigarettes, it’s rather certain moments. Sitting in bars with people smoking left and right is not the problem, at least not after a week

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And here we are again

Ever since I started to neglect my SmokeFree Category on here, I’ve had the feeling I should pick up writing for it again. Well, Ladies and Gentleman, this is the day I’ve been waiting for: Smoke-free, once again. After the last try, which lasted a mere 7 months,

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On crazy ideas pt.II

Well, it’s time to once again elaborate on crazy ideas. Diligent and faithful readers of my blog will remember my venture into the world of extreme sports a few months back. It was then that I made the decision that running as a form of exercise was totally unsuitable

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Smoker's Brokers or How To Spend Money

Today it’s exactly ten weeks of non-smoking for me. Meaning that in a mere two weeks I can boast with being smokefree for one quarter of a year. Which sounds really quite impressive, especially if you mumble the “quarter of” (that’s an invention my mother came up with

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The printer predicament

If I had had to visualize my mood during most of the day today, it would have looked like that: Why would my mood have looked like a makeshift ashtray? Because I was trying to get a printer shared over our small network, expecting it to be a piece of

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Coffee and cigarettes

Great, now they’re selling my coffee in cigarette ads.

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SF, day 18

Well, I guess it’s time for another update on my non-smoking ways. I can say with some certainty that during these 18 days, about half of the nights were filled with dreams about smoking a cigarette. Interestingly though, I don’t think about smoking much during the day. Sure,

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Batch update

Well, it’s time for a little batch update, as I’ve got a few things to say, but each of these are too small to warrant a separate posting. So, here goes: I’m back in Vienna, and it’s great. Not much has changed around here, only that

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SF, day 4

Well, thank you all for the kind words of support, pity and glee. I’m very much set on keeping my non-smoking ways, and I guess from now on it’ll be easier than ever. Although I’m still missing my cigarettes terribly, I believe I’m tending towards something

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SF, day 3

It’s well into the third day of my life as a non-smoker. I’ve found out that my love for smoking is based on some rather solid reasoning. Here goes: Nicotine is an upper. In the morning, I need nicotine as much as I need coffee. I noticed the

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SF, day 2

I quit smoking two days ago. I know it’s a sensible thing to do, but believe me, it’s killing me. It’s not really that I crave the nicotine that much. That was yesterday. No, it’s breaking my heart. I love smoking so much, giving it all