I so want a cigarette right now.  Actually, it’s been like this all morning.  I’ve been approximately 46 hours without any cigarette (since 5 PM on Monday evening) and have heard from various sucessful ex-smokers that the first 72 hours are the hardest.  Most of the ex-smokers who have sucessfully quit say if you can make it past that 72 hour mark without breaking down and sneaking a cigarette, then you have such a better chance of quitting for good.  What I don’t remember them mentioning is that temptation launches a full-on assault during this crucial 72 hours.

Now for the ultimate irony.  Monday about two hours after I slapped the first nicotine patch on my arm, I received a phone call from a survey place at the mall calling me in to do…a cigarette smoking survey!  This particular survey pays $140 for two weeks of trying various cigarettes, with the unmarked packs of cigarettes being provided free.  Talk about a TRUE test of how serious I am in this quitting smoking idea!

I have a physics test this evening…and I really hate physics LOL  I also have homework due in 3 hours, which I have actually done 1/3 of (I am a horrible procrastinator…but I can only break one bad habit at a time!).  So I’ll be crawling underneath some paper and the physics book until after the test tonight.

So, to give y’all some fun stuff to read, here’s a few interesting blog posts from around the M-Network:

• Avoid Going into Debt When Disaster Strikes from Lynnae at Being Frugal
• Financial Peer Pressure, Stop the Influence! by glblguy at Gather Little By Little
• Spiders and Savings by Plonkee of Plonkee Money
• Review of Brett Wilder’s The Quiet Millionaire by Pinyo at Moolonamy
• Reflections on Our Recent Credit Card Balance Surfing by PaidTwice at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…
• Behold the Power of the Pawn at DoughRoller for his excellent chess series
• This is the Funniest One Yet by Single Guy at Single Guy Money, about phishing scam/spam
• How to Budget Using ING Direct by Bob at Christian PF.
• Brian at Financial Dominance seems to have redesigned his blog then gone on vacation LOL

Enjoy the latest articles from the M-Network…I will NOT be enjoying physics homework, the physics test, or these long hours of no smoking a cigarette!