I would have written about this at the time but Bitsy and Duncan had taken over my chair…

Still doing well. This is the third “wake-up” since the treatment and I still have not “reached” for the cigarettes and lighter.

I have tried several different methods to quit smoking before. One (many years ago) was a little machine that you would press a button every time you had a cigarette for a certain period of time, then it would start telling you when to have a cigarette. It was supposed to slowly wean you off cigarettes altogether. Didn’t work for anyone in my family.

I’ve tried the patch, gums, regular cold turkey (hey, I quit every single night! – until I woke up, of course).

This has worked.

Ace of Trump is skeptical of this treatment. He says he thinks it’s a placebo effect.

Eye Doc,

I can’t tell you if my endorphin levels have increased or not. I don’t have access to (or knowledge of) whatever I need to check the levels. But this is working. Cravings are minimal. Withdrawal symptoms are minimal to non-existent. I was smoking right up until the treatment in the afternoon on Monday.

Placebo or not, I’m one happy ex-smoker right now. And so are my family.

kimsch

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Smoke Free?

Don Surber came up with a shortlist of really good, common sense, rules for blogging. Check them out here.

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.