Although I do feel like complete crap. Lightheaded, upset stomach, tired as all hell, and can't concentrate. I play on an APA pool league where I'm ranked as a 5, but should be a 6. Tonight I was beaten by a 3. Ouch.

The cravings are difficult to describe. At best, it feels like I get this mental image that the smoking abstinence will be over soon and I can have a cig, but that isn't gonna happen. I think that the best way to get over it is to not think that way. So far, my strategy has been to just pretend like I never smoked. I'm trying disassociate smoking with any activities that I commonly smoked while doing. Driving, working on the computer, working on my remodeling project, etc., etc. I hope that once I get it through my head that a cigarette is no longer coming when I get into the car, that I'll be able to move on.

Oh yeah...can't sleep for shit, either. Even though I feel exhausted, I tossed and turned all last night, and I feel like I've got hot flashes. Did I say that my brain just doesn't seem to be working right. It's been getting difficult to concentrate and my mind wanders more easily than usual. I've found myself having to go back and read what I just wrote (within the same sentence) to make sure I'm being coherent.

Haven't cheated. No smoking since 7am yesterday. Although, when I went to pick up my pool cues today, I caught a whiff of the door man's cigarette and it still smells good. Looking forward to a time when it doesn't.