Still, no smokes!

HAH! Still no smoking and it's coming up on my fourth anniversary of nicotine freedom!

Interesting... those green Newport signs still trigger me (mildly) sometimes. Whatever chemicals are in those... they're powerfully addictive.

So very lucky

Interesting. No smokes needed, life is hard sometimes, even sad... but still, no smokes.

And the house just sold after 10 months on the market.

Reasons to celebrate. Reasons to breathe easier.

Still not smoking: the NicoTroll will not prevail!

Whuff!!!

1352 days, 12 hours, 22 minutes and 48 seconds smoke free.

47338 cigarettes not smoked.

12 months, 1 day, 14 hours of your life saved.

Your quit date: 1/22/2007 10:00:00 PM

Dreams with Chantix

It occurred to me yesterday:

The dreams I had when I was taking Chantix (to help me quit smoking) were REALLY VIVID. Not necessarily nightmares, not necessarily wonderful dreams, not necessarily pleasant or unpleasant.

The dreams were like this:
I had 3D technicolor dreams directed by Tim Burton.

:-)

1219 Days with no nicotine. And I still really don't want any! Grrrowwrrf

Still no smokes or any kind of nicotine. Yay. How fortunate for Panthera Tigris Americanus Gigantus.

1219 days, 12 hours, 41 minutes and 32 seconds smoke free.
42683 cigarettes not smoked.
10 months, 26 days, 1 hour of your life saved.
Your quit date: 1/22/2007 10:00:00 PM

Whuff!!! 1158 days, no smokes!

Just thought I'd post my stats. If I can get this far (NEWPORT 100s! Those things were Nicotine-Zilla! From teenage to my forties!) you can!

1158 days, 14 hours, 28 minutes and 38 seconds smoke free.
40551 cigarettes not smoked.
10 months, 9 days, 18 hours of your life saved.
Your quit date: 1/22/2007 10:00:00 PM

Again, if I can do this, you can!

Have courage.

Light, Life, Love, and Kindness.

Operate based on love and kindness. The world will thank you for it.

Here we are in March of 2010. No Smokes, weight is OK

It's been a long time. Just more than 3 years and 2 months...

It seems, in some ways, that I never smoked. Time's blurring capability has made it such that smoking is just an old nightmare, and old dream... a dream that can be forgotten.

Last night, after a night out taking my daughter to the movies (Alice in Wonderland! how cool!), we walked from the theater after about 10 P.M. Someone was smoking outside and I caught whiffs of freshly-lit cigarette smoke. It smelled sort of faintly good from a great distance - like the sound of an old friend's voice. Then, my non-smoking mind took over and thought, "Naw. You don't need that. It will taste nasty and feel bad. Besides, who wants to break open that old chestnut anyway?"

As I got closer to the smoker and her cigarette, the smell became noxious. My mind then reminded me that it really is nasty, and that the nicotine demon really isn't my friend: it is my MORTAL enemy.

Still not smoking.

Life is very much renewing. A bright Flower now grows in the Garden of my life. My children are finally on the mend. I am making progress towards a better life.

And I still don't want to smoke. Really. I might have one on my 125th birthday... yeah, that's it!

Still not smoking, day 1110

On November 1, 2009 my first wife died a sad death and left her children without their birth mother. The beginning of a lifetime of recovery...

My world changed very much that day. It has been very different ever since.

And yet, I still don't smoke. I don't want to smoke, either. Even the day when the police stood in my doorway and said "We're sorry,. Your wife has passed" ... I did not want a cigarette.

If I can walk through that fire without nicotine. So can you.

1110 days, 13 hours, 13 minutes and 5 seconds smoke free.
38869 cigarettes not smoked.
9 months, 26 days, 21 hours of your life saved.
Your quit date: 1/22/2007 10:00:00 PM