I’m really doing okay. I’ve been thinking about cigarettes all day, but I haven’t felt a real need for one.

This is pretty amazing to me as this is technically cold turkey and there isn’t any medication involved at all. No extra nicotine, no patches, no gums, no anti-depressant medications.

I’m drinking a lot of water and my sinuses are draining so I’m going through a lot of tissues.

I feel like I could have a cigarette, but then I think about the fact that I paid to have this treatment and it would be completely wasted…

I think this will work, but, again, it’s only 24 hours.

To be continued….

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It’s now day 450!

Cao’s Blog has more and a nifty photoshop…

I hope so. I went today to have a cold laser treatment for stopping smoking. I haven’t had a cigarette since about 1:45 this afternoon, just before my 2:00 appointment. It is now 8:00 pm, so I’ve gone over 6 hours and I’m doing okay so far.

The treatment was cold laser accupuncture/pressure at various points in both my ears, 3 points on my head, both sides of my nose, several spots on my hands and on my knees.

The stimulations are supposed to jump start the organs so they will start to detoxify. I need to drink a lot of water, which will be good for me and should help the oral fixation part of stopping smoking…

I am still craving cigarettes, but not as often as yesterday (when I was actually following through on the desire to smoke) and the craving seems to be going away rather quickly when the craving is not met.

I’ll keep you posted on my progress.

24 Hours Post Treatment
48 Hours Plus

Hot Air.

Go see the first post.

Here’s my boys looking out the window, watching the world go by…

to replace Scott McClellan – at Fraters Libertas.

Scrappleface reports that Rush Limbaugh doesn’t want to take a pay cut…

The dems will take credit for [tag]Scott McClellan[/tag]’s resignation. After all they “told” President Bush to shake up the White House Staff and Andy Card’s already been replaced by Josh Bolten.

Fox News is reporting that [tag]Tony Snow[/tag] is on the shortlist along with Dan Senor and Torie Clark.

I think Tony’d make a terrific Press Secretary. The dems probably not. I mean, Tony’s a {gasp!} conservative!

More at :
Ankle Biting Pundits
Blackfive
PoliPundit
NRO’s Media Blog
Michelle Malkin
Newsbusters
Outside the Beltway
Powerline
Gateway Pundit
Wizbang!
Roger L Simon

Update: Here’s the Scott McClellan – David Gregory exchange over Dick Cheney from February 14th.

Welcome Real Clear Politics Readers! Please have a look around.

100 years ago today.

My family had relatives visiting in San Francisco that day. The story in the family is that they were okay, they didn’t even get hurt. They found a napkin from a hotel, wrote a letter on it to the family in Iowa, addressed it and put it in a mail box. The post office delivered the napkin even though it had no postage on it.

Rich at The Capitol Fax Blog has a terrific round-up.

Last night’s episode of King of the Hill included a dig at the Grey Lady…

Ian caught it. Go see it. Laugh.