Smokers’ corner – Nicorette Inhalator

Bottom of the class
With Mark seemingly doing brilliantly in his attempts to quit smoking, I’m doing increasingly less well. Since the last article, where I decided to also go cold turkey, things have got worse and I have had the odd sly cigarette more often.

After months and months of trying to fight it, it appears that I am now addicted to olives. Yes, you heard – olives. It’s starting to take over and is dominating my thoughts more and more often.

With this in mind I have decided to start again, but this time instead of using the Nicorette flippantly, or ignoring it completely, I have decided to go over the top with help and use all of the non-smoking paraphernalia I can get my hands on.

Being the sort of person who has never been known for their will power and with my friends become increasingly irritated with listening to me talking about quitting, only to see me smoking a few hours later, I have decided that it’s probably best if I get serious help.

I have purchased a load more Nicorette stuff and got my hands on a copy of the infamous Allen Carr Stop Smoking book. I’ve also dug out some old DVDs that the NHS sent me whilst I was at uni and agreed to see a non-smoking psychologist that Lynda has arranged for me to go too.

I’m hoping that all of this will then be enough to get me back on track and make things a bit easier. If anyone knows of anything else that I can use alongside all of these, get in touch.

The new addiction
Whilst all of this has been going on over the last few weeks and I have smoked less, I have worryingly started a new addiction. I’ve always thought I had an addictive personality but it seems as soon as I’ve decided to get up one thing, my body has tried to replace it with a new addiction straight away.

After months and months of trying to fight it, it appears that I am now addicted to olives. Yes, you heard – olives. It’s starting to take over and is dominating my thoughts more and more often.

If I go a few hours without having some, all I can think about is where to get my next fix from. If I’m at work, I start planning the quickest way to get too Katsouri’s on lunch so I can get some green olives stuffed with feta cheese before they run out.Fortunately this addiction is slightly healthier than my smoking one, however I’m a bit concerned that if I carry on, I’ll start causing a scene when I can’t find them in the supermarket. I’ll probably have to get an olive dealer soon enough.

Anyway, hopefully by the next time this article comes around I will be able to report to you with a success story, until then if you see me in the supermarket searching for olives, stay out of my way.