My first week has been exciting.
I started my quit by smoking. I had 1 pack left the day before the 20th of this month. I got home, and about an hour before bed I still had about 5 cigarettes in the pack of full flavor cheap cigarettes I bought weekly. I smoked ALL 5 of those cigarettes in that hour. While I was doing that, I cleaned my car out, scrubbed out the ashtrays in the car, cleaned the windows... and sprayed it down with some cool "Smoke eliminator" (zepp makes it, and it DOES work). I through away ALL my ashtrays. I found ever last empty pack, cartoon, etc and threw it away. All butts were tossed. Then I sprayed the Smoke eliminator on in the car again until it looked as if it were a cheech and chong movie prop and closed the door.
I chain smoked those 5 nasty cigarettes, and celebrated the last one for what it was... My last cigarette ever. Then I tossed it, pulled my lighter out of my pocket, and off to bed.
I had taken day 1 off, mostly due to the fact that my daughter was getting her tonsils removed. I thought this was a good day not only because I didn't have to work, but because I wanted to be around for my daughter instead of hiding outside the hospital smelling myself up then coming back to a woozy daughter smelling horrid. Best time I've EVER had in a hospital that I know of. I didn't have to dart out the door being inconsiderate of who needs me. Before this, I pretended to care, but Number 1 wasn't my family... or me... it was the cigarette. Today I had the control over that. I left the hosiptal and we went home to watch movies since both my eldest daughter and I needed something to pass time and not think of our pain. Of coarse... she still doesn't know I quit mostly to avoid pressure from her, so this day it was all about her in her mind. I liked it like that too, I thought less about my own 'stupid' problems because of this. I was ready for day #2!
The next day I had a plan. I drove my truck instead of the car. I don't smoke there because mostly the truck is used to haul the RV... with my wife and 2 kids inside. This made day 2 "no smoking in car" a breeze! It also let that smoke eliminator stuff set in real nice too in my normal commuter. I didn't tell my smoker co-worker at all either, just passed off the normal "breaks"